Eric Van Der Maten

Advisor for founders, management, boards, investors | Strategy, AI, M&A, Funding, Growth | Partner @ Essential Advisors | Non-Executive roles

📍 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 31 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2019
Operator-angel🌍 Netherlands
9
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2
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31y
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Board Observer
Sep 2019
ENPICOM is an innovative bioinformatics software engineering company delivering ground-breaking products and customized solutions to decode the immune system and improve human health. With a diverse team of over 25 professionals, we serve customers from all over the world, from academic research centers doing basic research related to the immune system to biotech and global pharmaceutical companies focusing on the discovery and development of novel immunotherapies and vaccines. For more details visit www.enpicom.com
Board Observer
Sep 2017
aiCommerce is the new era in which Artificial Intelligence helps online companies move away from traditional rules-based tools for customer journey personalization to self-learning strategic solutions. Micro-managing business rules across all channels in order to achieve your business goals and at the same time provide a relevant and seamless customer journey is not only expensive, it’s impossible. REXai offers an AI-as-a-Service solutions platform that can scale a both ends: The ability to interpret the intent of your visitors through their behavioural data in real-time while aligning with your set business goals when autononomously predicting which items or content to show across the entire customer journey. For more info, check us out on www.REX.ai
Board Observer
Feb 2015
EclecticIQ is a global provider of threat intelligence technology and services that empower customers to neutralize critical cyber threats to their business. Guided by our values — being curious, bold, accountable, and collaborative — we help security teams make smarter, faster decisions with dynamic solutions that reduce complexity and streamline threat detection and response. From our AI-embedded threat intelligence platform to our browser extension, our products improve workflows, reduce analyst fatigue, and mitigate cyber risk. Headquartered in Amsterdam, our teams in Europe, North America, and APAC serve the most targeted organizations, including governments and the world’s largest enterprises.
Board Observer
Nov 2014
Iristrace’s mission is to help great brands deliver on their promise. Iristrace enables enterprises to better manage their business risks with flexible control frames for their operations that can easily be changed as processes evolve. By subscribing to its SaaS platform, teams can collaborate better on quality and brand standards, on compliance programs and on safety procedures. They can also use the platform to react faster to exceptions and incidents. With Iristrace, business experts without IT knowledge easily design and roll out their controls across their organisation in a record time. They can determine themselves whether controls are scheduled automatically, triggered by events or used in self-service. Iristrace makes data collection, consolidation, analysis and reporting much simpler. Data can come from team members themselves directly from their mobile app, from suppliers, from other systems or from IoT devices. With the Iristrace mobile app, employees become much more agile, while management and subject matter experts receive real time information on their tablet or desktop through the Iristrace platform. Customers save time and money by moving away from their disparate traditional tools and methods such as email, messenger, spreadsheets and slide decks or even pen and paper that many companies still use today. Tedious tasks such as chasing for information and reporting are greatly simplified. The benefits include a faster implementation of strategy, better staff and supplier engagement on the company’s objectives, improved compliance, shorter learning cycles, lower costs and a far superior customer experience as a result. Tens of leading companies in sectors such as retail, fashion, hospitality and automotive are benefitting from Iristrace’s platform to mitigate risks and benchmark their multiple business locations. Iristrace helps turning business risks into business value.
Private & Syndicated Investor
Oct 2014
Cybersecurity Investment Fund specializes in investments in cybersecurity companies. The fund invests in companies that develop and commercialise new cybersecurity products or services.
Investor (acquired by LogmeIn)
Apr 2014
Nanorep is now part of the Bold360 family. Bold360 ai combines Nanorep's groundbreaking intelligence and smart routing technology with Bold360's intuitive omni-channel interface for agent-assisted interactions. With Bold360 ai, you can immediately improve your customer's experience and deliver the fastest time-to-value using artificial intelligence and digital self-service. Visit Bold360.com to learn more.
Board Observer (acquired By Emerce)
Feb 2014
Live on Demand creates great events powered by inspiring communities in technology, design and education. We believe in connecting people online and offline through their shared love for inspiration and live events. Live on Demand events consistently get high ratings in customer satisfaction and NPS.
early stageEvents Services
Private & Syndicated Investor
Jan 2006
early stage
Co-founder | Investor | Mainland Seqouia Group / Program & Innovation Manager
Jan 1995
Devoteam is a leading consulting firm focused on digital strategy, tech platforms, data and cybersecurity. By combining creativity, tech, and data insights, we empower our customers to transform their business and unlock the future. With 25 years’ experience and more than 10,000 employees across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Devoteam promotes responsible tech for people and works to create better change. Creative tech for Better Change
Experience · 13 entries
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Investments (8)
Founder (2)
Board (5)
2024
Partner
Jun 2024
Essential provides strategic guidance for businesses in need of significant transformation or pursuing a path of robust growth. We team up with company leaders, founders and key stakeholders seeking guidance and smart, practical advice to move forward. A trusted team with a unique edge: we are not just advisors, we have been in your shoes. With over 30 years of experience in starting and growing businesses, each of our partners knows what it takes to succeed. We dont just talk the talk; we (have) walk(ed) the walk! Providing critical advice and tailor-made digital strategies, together we breathe new life into companies that have hit a plateau, want to seize new opportunities, or need to cross hurdles to get to a next level. We challenge ourselves to turn your potential into performance – together, we are Essential.
2022
Corporate Development, Tech & Partner Alliances
Apr 2022
UbiOps is a ModelOps platform that enables data analytics teams to run, manage and scale AI and machine learning workloads on both GPUs and CPUs. From training to inferencing jobs, UbiOps helps AI researchers and data specialists to very quickly turn their data science workloads into robust and secure microservices. This without requiring knowledge to set up Cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.
2019
Board Observer
Sep 2019
ENPICOM is an innovative bioinformatics software engineering company delivering ground-breaking products and customized solutions to decode the immune system and improve human health. With a diverse team of over 25 professionals, we serve customers from all over the world, from academic research centers doing basic research related to the immune system to biotech and global pharmaceutical companies focusing on the discovery and development of novel immunotherapies and vaccines. For more details visit www.enpicom.com
2018
Managing Partner
May 2018
Arches Capital is a fast-growing group of business angels that is bridging the gap between Venture Capitalist (VCs) and how angels operate today, by joining the best of both worlds for our members. Our community strives to bring superior deal flow, professional knowledge and lower risk profile to our participating angel investors. We further distinguish ourselves in the way profits are generated and shared, and how our angels interact with their investees (the startups) and with each other. For this we are building the leading platform of actively engaged business angels that know how to operate and manage their investments in a professional and standardized manner. Operate like a VC, be an Angel We source, select and invest like a VC; We engage, care and inspire as the angel we are. We believe that by bundling smart capital (combine funding with real business knowledge and experience) with true engagement (actively working together to achieve rapid growth), we are able to ignite early stage companies on their path to success. Arches Capital invests in early stage and scaling companies. We differentiate itself from angel syndicates or funds by supporting the next growth stage as well: we aim to lead or contribute to follow-on investments of our successful portfolio companies. For general info or angel membership info please contact: info@arches.capital. For companies that seek funding: please check our website (http://arches.capital) for our preferences and prerequisites, and send your request, pitch deck and/or business plan to: fundme@arches.capital.
2017
Board Observer
Sep 2017
aiCommerce is the new era in which Artificial Intelligence helps online companies move away from traditional rules-based tools for customer journey personalization to self-learning strategic solutions. Micro-managing business rules across all channels in order to achieve your business goals and at the same time provide a relevant and seamless customer journey is not only expensive, it’s impossible. REXai offers an AI-as-a-Service solutions platform that can scale a both ends: The ability to interpret the intent of your visitors through their behavioural data in real-time while aligning with your set business goals when autononomously predicting which items or content to show across the entire customer journey. For more info, check us out on www.REX.ai
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