Benny V.

Co-founder at Collibra

📍 Belgium🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2023
Operator-angel🌍 Belgium
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Board Member
Dec 2023
We enable businesses to combine their sensitive data and build better AI without compromising confidentiality and privacy.
Advisor - Investor
Sep 2022
At Raito, we believe you should not have to balance data access management with innovation. Our cloud-based solution creates the observability, collaboration and automation for data teams to manage data access at scale across all databases and dashboards. Our customers choose Raito to share their data without having to worry about unauthorized access.
Adviser - Investor
Jul 2022
Say goodbye to data issues and hello to trust with Soda, the data quality platform built for the modern data stack. Our mission is simple: to help data teams catch, prevent, and resolve data issues before they wreak havoc downstream. With Soda, you can embed powerful data quality checks right into your data stack and systems. Ensure that the data you deliver is accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. And thanks to SodaGPT, our groundbreaking generative AI for data quality, creating production-ready checks has never been easier. Simply ask Soda in plain English, and it will translate your queries into SodaCL, a user-friendly language for data quality. Join the over 100 data-driven organizations worldwide, including HelloFresh, Group 1001, Lululemon, Panasonic, Zefr, and Zendesk, who rely on Soda to power their data quality. From preventing bad data merges to aligning with data consumers and integrating seamlessly into your data stack, Soda will enable your team to test and deliver data that everyone can trust.
Advisor - Investor
Jul 2022
TechWolf is the #1 AI and data layer for workforce transformation. Use accurate, AI-driven skill data for strategic workforce planning, internal mobility and skills-based hiring and learning. ------- Large enterprises are in the middle of a massive workforce shift. Big transformations are complex and impact your talent strategy: workforce planning feels like a gamble, internal mobility needs fixing, and hiring and learning have to become more skills-based. Its never been more urgent to gain insight into the skills you have, the skills you need, and how to manage the gap in between. Thats where we come in. TechWolf is an AI-driven solution focused on one mission: delivering deep insights and reliable skills data for big companies like yours. We’re a data layer that integrates perfectly into your existing HR tech stack. Were invisible and interfaceless. We tap into numerous data sources and live in the background to unlock and activate skill data where they matter the most. With smarter, data-backed business decisions, TechWolf helps you revolutionize how you manage your most valuable asset—people. Lets talk skills.
Experience · 5 entries
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Investments (4)
Founder (1)
Board (1)
2023
Board Member
Dec 2023
We enable businesses to combine their sensitive data and build better AI without compromising confidentiality and privacy.
2022
Advisor - Investor
Sep 2022
At Raito, we believe you should not have to balance data access management with innovation. Our cloud-based solution creates the observability, collaboration and automation for data teams to manage data access at scale across all databases and dashboards. Our customers choose Raito to share their data without having to worry about unauthorized access.
Adviser - Investor
Jul 2022
Say goodbye to data issues and hello to trust with Soda, the data quality platform built for the modern data stack. Our mission is simple: to help data teams catch, prevent, and resolve data issues before they wreak havoc downstream. With Soda, you can embed powerful data quality checks right into your data stack and systems. Ensure that the data you deliver is accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. And thanks to SodaGPT, our groundbreaking generative AI for data quality, creating production-ready checks has never been easier. Simply ask Soda in plain English, and it will translate your queries into SodaCL, a user-friendly language for data quality. Join the over 100 data-driven organizations worldwide, including HelloFresh, Group 1001, Lululemon, Panasonic, Zefr, and Zendesk, who rely on Soda to power their data quality. From preventing bad data merges to aligning with data consumers and integrating seamlessly into your data stack, Soda will enable your team to test and deliver data that everyone can trust.
Advisor - Investor
Jul 2022
TechWolf is the #1 AI and data layer for workforce transformation. Use accurate, AI-driven skill data for strategic workforce planning, internal mobility and skills-based hiring and learning. ------- Large enterprises are in the middle of a massive workforce shift. Big transformations are complex and impact your talent strategy: workforce planning feels like a gamble, internal mobility needs fixing, and hiring and learning have to become more skills-based. Its never been more urgent to gain insight into the skills you have, the skills you need, and how to manage the gap in between. Thats where we come in. TechWolf is an AI-driven solution focused on one mission: delivering deep insights and reliable skills data for big companies like yours. We’re a data layer that integrates perfectly into your existing HR tech stack. Were invisible and interfaceless. We tap into numerous data sources and live in the background to unlock and activate skill data where they matter the most. With smarter, data-backed business decisions, TechWolf helps you revolutionize how you manage your most valuable asset—people. Lets talk skills.
2015
SVP Worldwide Sales - Cofounder
Dec 2015
Collibra frees your data from the constraints of silos by unifying data and AI governance across your entire ecosystem, regardless of source or compute engine, for ultimate flexibility in how you manage data. Our Collibra Platform gives you automated visibility, control and tracing from input through output, and it automates documentation and data traceability for AI use cases to power speed, data observability and safety. Our semantic graph enriches data context with every use, and our intuitive UX brings technical and business users into the fold to access and steward data. Accelerate and strengthen every data and AI use case when everyone in your organization can trust, comply and consume. Headquartered in New York City and Brussels, Collibra partners with over 700 of the worlds most innovative companies. Our co-founders, Felix Van de Maele and Stijn Christiaens, had a vision to help organizations maximize the value of their data. Today, Collibra is making that vision a reality.
Investment activity
2022–2023 · 4 investments
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