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ImpactGenie

Co-Founder

Kill the Dinosaur

Helping mission-driven founders in launching & growing new business opportunities.

Founder

Airborn

We’re on a mission to support and fund impact driven startup founders.
Rome wasn’t built in a day… expected to launch soon

Co-Founder & Venture Partner

ClimateCamp - hiring!

Decarbonising the food industry and its supply chains by making it easier for companies & their suppliers to exchange carbon data.

Member of The Board of Advisors

Dripl

Venture Coach

Aquafin

New Business Developer - Riothermie

switchrs

Switchrs is a multidisciplinary innovation collective that focuses on social-circular economy.

At switchrs we believe in sustainability as a positive story. That's why our focus is on designing positive impact. We make, show, facilitate and talk about things that regenerate our planet, society and economy.

bundl

Long term collaboration as a Strategy Designer for the Bundl team and its network of clients.

(*) via Kill the Dinosaur

Sr. Corporate Venture Builder (*)

Thea Swing

Thea swing is a design product that gives children with a disability the chance to experience swinging in a safe way, mountable on any classic swing! To swing in a free, safe and comfortable way; that's what the Thea swing stands for.

www.theaswing.com

Co-founder

Launching Impactful Micro-Businesses 🌱🌎 I Venture Building👷 I Circular Economy ♻️ I AI for Good 🤖 I Angel Investing 💸

I’m not a productivity guru.
I’ve launched 10+ ventures, started 100+ side projects, and abandoned at least as many.

Like many creative generalists, I live between sticky notes, Notion docs, WhatsApp reminders, and new startup ideas that always feel more exciting than the last.

So I’m doing what I do best: building for the mess I live in.

For the next 30 days, I’m building a micro-SaaS focused on one core challenge:
Helping creative generalists (like me) stay focused without feeling boxed in.

I’ll be building and sharing in public.

Follow me for transparent updates, lessons learned, and real progress from someone who’s deep in the chaos (and finally doing something about it).

Ghent Slush'D

Uniting Belgium’s startup and business ecosystem at Ghent Slush’D to drive innovation and growth through one of the biggest startup events in the country.

Marketing Team

De Verjoengers

De Verjoengers is the new youth council of Diest. Here we are working on developing and implementing youth council 2.0.

President

Vesta Events

Vesta Events was an agency that organized six events in Diest to foster community connections across the city.

hub.brussels 

- Assist Belgian companies in their export ambitions to Sweden
- Conduct a market study to map the Swedish technology business ecosystem
- Organizing a creative session and writing a script
- Attend trade fairs and conferences

International trade

Chappie Snacks

Chappie Snacks was a website that imported snacks from America and Asia and sold them within the Benelux.

OHNE -natuurlijk onverpakt-

Internship at OHNE with 3 assignments:
1. Perform an innovation scan/audit on the organization
2. Facilitate brainstorming
3. Work out project around return system with glass jars

Innovation Manager

My mission as a student entrepreneur is to drive tangible, positive change on both social 🫂 and ecological 🌱 fronts. I aspire to create innovative and sustainable solutions that not only benefit businesses but also make a meaningful impact on our planet and society. 🌍

I’d love to connect with like minded spirits! 📥

Jarne Verstraete

You can’t out-hustle biology!

Pizza/ramen $4-a-day diet.
No time to exercise.
“Sleep is for losers, I need to grind.”

…
These are some of the dumbest ideas in startup world (& beyond!).

A startup is just a bunch of brains trying to create valuable output.
Bad inputs = bad outputs.

Luckily, more people are waking up to this.
But it still shocks me how few people actually have a consistent biorhythm, hit their nutritional needs, and exercise regularly.

Let alone all three combined!! 
This is almost as rare as a unicorn in Flanders. 🫣

I’ll keep choosing the boring fundamentals every single day.

Recruiters aren’t the problem, their workload is.

Great recruiters do extremely important work. They are the connecting layer between companies and talent.

The USP of human recruiters is a deep-dive into the candidate: getting to know their personality and deciding company-candidate fit.

Screening CV’s and endless “Is this candidate even relevant?” qualification calls = NOT the best use of their time.

Yet most recruiters today spend a good chunk of time doing exactly this.

They can have far more impact if we give them the tools that free them from the work that shouldn’t be on their plate in the first place.

What part of your hiring process drains the most time today? 🤔

We reject people because they’re bad at writing about themselves.

That’s essentially what CV-first hiring does.

Great candidates slip through the cracks. 
Average ones with polished resumes move forward.

Not because they’re better… 
but because they’re better at telling a story on paper.

We’re actively working on better ways to look beyond the CV.
And it’s good to see others (like Izzy Claerhout (She/They)) doing the same.

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