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Dirk Van Quaquebeke

Managing Partner at BEENEXT

Singapore

Overview 

Dirk Van Quaquebeke is the Managing Partner at BEENEXT in Singapore, with a focus on investing in various sectors such as Travel, MarketingTech, and FinTech. His career highlights include leading investments in companies like Netbank and Toddle at Series A stages and playing a significant role in the growth and development of startups through his expertise in venture capital and corporate development.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Partner

    2015 - Current

    Managing Partner at BEENEXT, a venture capital fund focused on investing early stage technology startups in India, Southeast Asia, Japan, and USA. Read an extract of my investment track record in the above bio.

  • Managing Partner & Co Founder

    2011 - 2022

    At Alps Ventures Pte Ltd & GmbH we built great companies from the ground up. Until the end of 2015, we have invested in and/or built more than a dozen businesses. I had founding & interim CEO roles at Kochabo - Austria's leading online supermarket (2011-2012 - merged with Marleyspoon and IPO USD 150m), Clusterhaus - a European leader in co-working spaces (2012-2013 - exit), Duriana - a leading c2c marketplace in SEA (2013-2014 - exit). Further announced investments or incubations include: Doctorpage (exit), Falcon Digital Agency, Zebramo, Okiela and a handful non disclosed investments.

  • Partner & Portfolio Founder

    2010 - 2011

    Co-founded and helped build brandmile.com (India) - http://bit.ly/2oRKb2U.

  • Investment Manager

    2008 - 2010

    Investing in smart grid, solar, water companies with focus cleantech. learned load about cleantech industry and players, business plan assessment in capital intensive industries, term sheets, long docs, valuation, cap tables, PE due dilligence, working with founders for longterm. Participated in 3 investments and one IPO preparation. 2x silent board member.

  • Associate

    2007 - 2008

    Investing in $100-1bn real estate deals encompassing project finance, debt structuring and complex real estate portfolio turn arounds. We assessed >100 deals and did 2 with a combined value of EUR 2bn.

  • Global Graduate Program

    2006 - 2007

    Kicked off my career in banking London doing discretionary investing in Global Asset Management and Hedge Fund Group

DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.

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