Boris Bogaert
Tech Entrepreneur, Keynote Speaker, and Co-founder Pitchdrive in Europe
Love new technologies and innovations, and I’m even more fascinated in creating a business around it and make it marketable. "Get me talking about startup growth, funding, and company culture, and I'm buzzing
In 2012 we co-founded two SAAS startups and one scale-up in the same journey Cardwise, Xpenditure and Rydoo , all innovative products for managing expenses digitally and used by millions of people around the globe. We exited the company successfully to Sodexo Group (EURONEXT:SDXOF) in March 2017. The extraordinary company culture we’ve created during that period makes me most proud. The right company values have blessed me in this life and rewarded me with a sense of accomplishment and a confidence that people can break rules and make things work for the better.
Therefore, in 2020, I followed my dream after identifying a significant gap in larger (pre)seed investments in Europe and co-founded Pitchdrive with my former shareholders.
Pitchdrive is a data & entrepreneur driven early stage startup engine containing different funds. The last fund of 50 M € was closed in June 2024 bringing the total almost to 100 M € under management. Together with a group of vetted tech entrepreneurs we're mentoring our portfolio startups towards their next tipping points like big sales deals, pivots, next rounds , exits,...
Before that, I pioneered in the internet & mobile tech sector and also joined Massive Media (publishers of Netlog & TWOO) in 2007, a leading European on-line community that was acquired by IACI (NASDAQ:IACI) in 2012.