Laurens Eckelboom

Growth & People Leader | CEO | President | CRO

📍 Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
2020
Vend Park is a unified technology and operations company transforming how commercial real estate owners manage and monetize parking. By combining agentic AI with a world-class operations team, Vend automates day-to-day management, eliminates inefficiencies, and unlocks revenue trapped in outdated, fragmented systems and operating processes. Designed to meet each property where it is, Vend replaces the legacy two-vendor model with a single, integrated solution that consolidates technology, operations, and data. The result is a streamlined parking operation that drives NOI, reduces operating costs, and delivers a premium experience tenants and guests actually enjoy. From office towers and mixed-use properties to healthcare facilities, hotels, university campuses, event venues, and airports, Vend turns parking into a strategic lever for property value creation—backed by real-time intelligence, seamless automation, and measurable financial impact.
Board Member
2018
Water damage is costing insurance companies and property owners $11 Billion dollars annually. Most properties do not have adequate technology to tackle the tricky ways in which water threatens the stability of life for owners and occupants. Kairos created a patented water technology system that is designed from the ground up to tackle the threat of water damage and utility waste from virtually any source using advanced wireless sensors and smart water meters that feature an automatic shutoff valve. By utilizing our cutting-edge platform, clients will feel more secure about the condition of their property at any given moment with real time insight and control by minimizing exposure to catastrophic losses from sources of water. We manufacture cloud-connected water meters and smart sensors that produce critical data to help commercial and residential property owners to prevent billions in water damage caused by leaks. Our system also enables better water conservation and management overall. With analytics from the connected meters and sensors, we can use machine learning to better guide our customer's in how they use water on a daily basis. Our technology is cordless and wireless, with the capability to process critical data at the edge even without an internet connection. We have a long IoT innovation roadmap with our primary focus on everything water. If you'd like more info, please email us: info@kairoswater.io
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2020
Board Member
2020
Vend Park is a unified technology and operations company transforming how commercial real estate owners manage and monetize parking. By combining agentic AI with a world-class operations team, Vend automates day-to-day management, eliminates inefficiencies, and unlocks revenue trapped in outdated, fragmented systems and operating processes. Designed to meet each property where it is, Vend replaces the legacy two-vendor model with a single, integrated solution that consolidates technology, operations, and data. The result is a streamlined parking operation that drives NOI, reduces operating costs, and delivers a premium experience tenants and guests actually enjoy. From office towers and mixed-use properties to healthcare facilities, hotels, university campuses, event venues, and airports, Vend turns parking into a strategic lever for property value creation—backed by real-time intelligence, seamless automation, and measurable financial impact.
2018
Board Member
2018
Water damage is costing insurance companies and property owners $11 Billion dollars annually. Most properties do not have adequate technology to tackle the tricky ways in which water threatens the stability of life for owners and occupants. Kairos created a patented water technology system that is designed from the ground up to tackle the threat of water damage and utility waste from virtually any source using advanced wireless sensors and smart water meters that feature an automatic shutoff valve. By utilizing our cutting-edge platform, clients will feel more secure about the condition of their property at any given moment with real time insight and control by minimizing exposure to catastrophic losses from sources of water. We manufacture cloud-connected water meters and smart sensors that produce critical data to help commercial and residential property owners to prevent billions in water damage caused by leaks. Our system also enables better water conservation and management overall. With analytics from the connected meters and sensors, we can use machine learning to better guide our customer's in how they use water on a daily basis. Our technology is cordless and wireless, with the capability to process critical data at the edge even without an internet connection. We have a long IoT innovation roadmap with our primary focus on everything water. If you'd like more info, please email us: info@kairoswater.io
Advisory Board Member
2018
Water damage is costing insurance companies and property owners $11 Billion dollars annually. Most properties do not have adequate technology to tackle the tricky ways in which water threatens the stability of life for owners and occupants. Kairos created a patented water technology system that is designed from the ground up to tackle the threat of water damage and utility waste from virtually any source using advanced wireless sensors and smart water meters that feature an automatic shutoff valve. By utilizing our cutting-edge platform, clients will feel more secure about the condition of their property at any given moment with real time insight and control by minimizing exposure to catastrophic losses from sources of water. We manufacture cloud-connected water meters and smart sensors that produce critical data to help commercial and residential property owners to prevent billions in water damage caused by leaks. Our system also enables better water conservation and management overall. With analytics from the connected meters and sensors, we can use machine learning to better guide our customer's in how they use water on a daily basis. Our technology is cordless and wireless, with the capability to process critical data at the edge even without an internet connection. We have a long IoT innovation roadmap with our primary focus on everything water. If you'd like more info, please email us: info@kairoswater.io