ian Z.

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📍 Netherlands🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024
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Oct 2024
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Investor
Jul 2024
App for a new generation of ⚽️ coaches and players. On a mission to democratise pro level sportstech for youth and amateur teams. Track, manage and share your game.
Investor
Feb 2023
IMAGIN.studio: Data-driven Car Image Solutions for the Automotive Industry Introducing a true game-changer that is shifting gears in the world of automotive. IMAGIN.studio - a true disrupter in automotive image technology - is reshaping the landscape with its remarkable data-driven car imagery solution. Providing services in more than 100 countries globally. IMAGIN.studio provides real-time car images and animations through our cutting-edge platform to international clients like LeasePlan, Carwow, and international banks. Leveraging the power of data, we seamlessly deliver real-time car visuals via our Content Delivery Network (CDN). Our integrated solution enables businesses to effortlessly showcase their latest inventory, from new models to custom configurations and special editions. By automating image updates, our platform streamlines operations, enhances conversion rates, and delivers an exceptional browsing experience. Experience the power of IMAGIN.studio’s data-driven car image solutions trusted by industry leaders, learn more about our innovative services and empower your business in the digital automotive landscape.
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Sep 2022
Create, sign, and manage documents in one central, collaborative platform. We simplify document management; saving you time and money. Your teams use compliant templates, stay ahead of deadlines, and get approvals and signatures effortlessly.
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Mar 2022
Tiqets connects travelers with instant, last-minute, mobile tickets to top museums and attractions all over the world. We’re on a mission to make culture more accessible. We remove all friction to get more people more frequently into both hidden gems and the top museums and attractions. From our start in 2014, we have helped millions of people discover and embrace cultural experiences across the globe with instant, last-minute and mobile tickets. We’re proud to be the world’s most trusted museums and attractions ticketing platform on Trustpilot. Tiqets was founded by four experienced Dutch entrepreneurs who’d experienced the struggles of traveling first-hand. People had to wait in long lines to access top venues and couldn’t get tickets to popular attractions at the last minute -- discouraging people from trying to experience culture in the first place. In 2014, these entrepreneurs had an innovative idea: to use the phones people have in their pockets to speed up the entrance process. Now, people use Tiqets to easily discover, buy, and access museums and attractions across the globe.
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Dec 2020
Red Kubes has terminated all of its services as of May 9 2024 after Otomi has been acquired by Akamai Technologies.
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Aug 2019
Our predictive AI models provide smart insights for clever marketers and designers. So you can focus less on opinions, and more on better content.
Investor
Nov 2017
Were on a journey to empower our customers so they reach the sweet spot of optimal pricing and customer experience on their own online channel. Convious is an end-to-end sales & marketing platform powered by Artificial Intelligence that drives online traffic, delivers the best customer experience, and implements dynamic pricing in real time.
Shareholder
May 2015
GYRO center is a service organisation offering datacenter solutions consisting of, but not limited to, floorspace in controlled environments (including power connections, cooling, security systems and regulations), ICT consulting and development. In 2009 GYRO center opened her own privately owned datacenter with 11000sq. ft floorspace. GYRO center is part of the ReasonNet Holding B.V..
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Dec 2012
PastBook is on a mission to help people preserve and relive their photos, which are nowadays scattered between social networks and smartphones. We offer the most frictionless experience to create a beautiful photo products, in just one-click. PastBook’s Intelligent Instant Photo Book platform automatically and intelligently selects the best photos from the designated source and it instantly arranges them into a beautiful photo product, like a photo book, cards, posters, calendars - printed and shipped worldwide thanks to PastBook global printing network. Founded in 2012 in Amsterdam, as part of RockStart Accelerator, PastBook has been named one of the ‘Hottest startup’s in Europe” by Wired, awarded as “Top 5 Fastest Growing Tech Companies” by TheNextWeb (Tech5) and nominated as “Rising Star” by Deloitte in 2016 and then listed in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in 2019 and 2020. It has also been featured by Facebook as a Success Story multiple times.
Investor and advisor
Sep 2012
On April 18, 2017, Oracle announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wercker. The transaction has closed. Wercker empowers organizations and their development teams to achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) goals with micro-services and Docker. This is brought to life through Wercker’s container-centric and cloud-native automation platform comprised of their local command line interface (CLI), online SaaS platform and API. Oracle and Wercker share the view that developers greatly benefit from focusing on building great products and applications. Oracle is building a leading IaaS and PaaS platform as the foundation for a new generation of cloud computing. A leading cloud needs great tooling and adding Wercker’s container lifecycle management to Oracle’s Cloud provides engineering teams with the developer experience they deserve to build, launch and scale their applications. Together, Oracle and Wercker will democratize developer tooling for the modern cloud.
Experience · 15 entries
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2025
CEO & Co-founder
Apr 2025
Building the AI control layer that lets enterprises unleash generative AI without the existential dread. The problem were solving: Every company wants AI superpowers. Every CIO has nightmares about data leaks. Were the peace treaty between innovation and security.
2024
Investor
Oct 2024
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Investor
Jul 2024
App for a new generation of ⚽️ coaches and players. On a mission to democratise pro level sportstech for youth and amateur teams. Track, manage and share your game.
2023
Investor
Feb 2023
IMAGIN.studio: Data-driven Car Image Solutions for the Automotive Industry Introducing a true game-changer that is shifting gears in the world of automotive. IMAGIN.studio - a true disrupter in automotive image technology - is reshaping the landscape with its remarkable data-driven car imagery solution. Providing services in more than 100 countries globally. IMAGIN.studio provides real-time car images and animations through our cutting-edge platform to international clients like LeasePlan, Carwow, and international banks. Leveraging the power of data, we seamlessly deliver real-time car visuals via our Content Delivery Network (CDN). Our integrated solution enables businesses to effortlessly showcase their latest inventory, from new models to custom configurations and special editions. By automating image updates, our platform streamlines operations, enhances conversion rates, and delivers an exceptional browsing experience. Experience the power of IMAGIN.studio’s data-driven car image solutions trusted by industry leaders, learn more about our innovative services and empower your business in the digital automotive landscape.
2022
MD within Accenture the Netherlands
Sep 2022
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation-led company serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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