Dirk Van Quaquebeke
Managing Partner at BEENEXT
Singapore
Overview
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.
Education
MSc.
2004 - 2006
CEMS Master
2005 - 2006
BSc.
2000 - 2003