Lourens Ruigrok

GTM strategy and M&A

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2021
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Observer
Mar 2021
Based in the cloud, Brytlyt offers the world’s first all-in-one serverless platform that brings in-database AI to GPU-accelerated analytics and visualisation. We aim to empower the next generation of data scientists and decision makers across several major sectors: telecoms, finance, oil & gas, logistics, genomics, retail and more. Instant insight and effortless deep learning are at the core of what we do. We don’t think that it should take hours to query a complex dataset, and it shouldn't take the best part of your week to train an intuitive AI model. We also think that maintaining your models after deployment should be as straightforward as possible. Brytlyt can help you dive into deep learning and manage MLOps more effectively than ever before. Or, it can just add some power to your existing visualisations to bring insight, instantly. With our platform, you can retrieve invaluable insights from your data in milliseconds.
Board Observer
Jul 2019
Twinco "cracked the supply chain finance code" - by finally providing a solution that includes Purchase Order financing. We combine technology and privileged access to data to assess performance risk, allowing us to fund both small and large suppliers across the world, from the moment they receive a purchase order until final invoice payment. It is a unique model that significantly reduces financing costs and improves supply reliability, with benefits for both suppliers and buyers. Twinco has already funded millions of purchase orders for suppliers of European corporates. Small and medium sized companies located in Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong SAR, Pakistan, South Korea, Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia and Bulgaria were able to leverage on the strength of their commercial relationships to reduce costs and increase sales. Many more are signing up, from all around the world. However, we are just starting... We will continue to grow until we truly transform the way global production is financed. Our mission is clear: to give producers all over the world access to affordable working capital, fostering competitive global production networks and empowering companies to be the motor of inclusive growth and improved livelihoods.
Board Observer
Jun 2019
Purely Capital is revolutionising payments for the entertainment industry. Using breakthrough technology we are reinventing the entire financial reporting, payments and receivables processes to benefit all stakeholders.
Board Observer
Sep 2018
PerfOps is a analytics platform that provides vast insight into global network performance of the leading service providers. We provide high quality data that can be used for competitive intelligence, diagnosing issues, and identifying bottlenecks in the network. Our big data platform ingest billions of metrics from hundreds of locations around the world, than processes the data and streams it to our dashboard or customer endpoint, all in real time. The company was founded by a team of experts with years of experience in building global networks and highly distributed applications. Our team built the hugely popular jsDelivr, the first open source CDN in the world. And our team also built DNSPerf and CDNPerf, the DNS and CDN performance benchmarking services used by thousands of companies around the world.
Board Observer
Jun 2018
Wij vinden dat iedereen de beste hypotheek verdient! Het gaat tenslotte om veel geld en jouw thuis. Onze hypotheekadviseurs gebruiken geen moeilijke woorden of ingewikkelde termen. In jouw dashboard zie jij alles wat zij zien: iedere bank, elke rente en alle voorwaarden. Hierdoor zit jij zelf aan de knoppen en begrijp jij ons hypotheekadvies zó goed, dat je het kunt navertellen. Ons advies is dé combinatie van mens en machine, rekenkracht en inlevingsvermogen. Of je nu meer ruimte zoekt in vierkante meters, of in je maandlasten. Een onbezorgd gevoel en de beste keuze: je fixt het samen met Frits.
Board Observer
Jun 2018
The rich get richer, and small businesses get poor trade financing. Until now. We founded Supply Finance with a simple mission: give Europes small businesses the same financing tools as the big guys, and then stand back and watch the magic happen. For too long, we felt, has the power that comes with decent financing been limited to large corporates. Thoughtful application of trade finance can turbo-charge importing, manufacturing, distributing and selling. Why not make these tools available to all? We have built a state-of-the-art system, backed by industrial-grade operations, processing, and capital to bring trade finance to companies of all sizes. To make it all happen, we are partnering with a number of best-in-class trade finance companies across Europe, and helping them to expand their offerings and to deliver great services and product to small businesses in their backyards.
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2024
Head of Growth and M&A
Sep 2024
At Nomupay, were all about making global payments simple. Since 2021, we’ve been on a mission to remove complexity and help businesses expand without limits. Operating across Asia, EMEA and Europe, we’ve built a seamless, all-in-one payment solution. From pay-ins and payouts to acquiring, our platform fits every business model - whether youre an e-commerce merchant, a marketplace or something in between. Today, we power global growth for 1,500+ merchants with a dedicated team of 230+ innovators. Payments shouldn’t be holding your business back. Were here to simplify, streamline and enable global commerce - one payment at a time.
2021
Board Observer
Mar 2021
Based in the cloud, Brytlyt offers the world’s first all-in-one serverless platform that brings in-database AI to GPU-accelerated analytics and visualisation. We aim to empower the next generation of data scientists and decision makers across several major sectors: telecoms, finance, oil & gas, logistics, genomics, retail and more. Instant insight and effortless deep learning are at the core of what we do. We don’t think that it should take hours to query a complex dataset, and it shouldn't take the best part of your week to train an intuitive AI model. We also think that maintaining your models after deployment should be as straightforward as possible. Brytlyt can help you dive into deep learning and manage MLOps more effectively than ever before. Or, it can just add some power to your existing visualisations to bring insight, instantly. With our platform, you can retrieve invaluable insights from your data in milliseconds.
2019
Board Observer
Jul 2019
Twinco "cracked the supply chain finance code" - by finally providing a solution that includes Purchase Order financing. We combine technology and privileged access to data to assess performance risk, allowing us to fund both small and large suppliers across the world, from the moment they receive a purchase order until final invoice payment. It is a unique model that significantly reduces financing costs and improves supply reliability, with benefits for both suppliers and buyers. Twinco has already funded millions of purchase orders for suppliers of European corporates. Small and medium sized companies located in Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong SAR, Pakistan, South Korea, Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia and Bulgaria were able to leverage on the strength of their commercial relationships to reduce costs and increase sales. Many more are signing up, from all around the world. However, we are just starting... We will continue to grow until we truly transform the way global production is financed. Our mission is clear: to give producers all over the world access to affordable working capital, fostering competitive global production networks and empowering companies to be the motor of inclusive growth and improved livelihoods.
Board Observer
Jun 2019
Purely Capital is revolutionising payments for the entertainment industry. Using breakthrough technology we are reinventing the entire financial reporting, payments and receivables processes to benefit all stakeholders.
2018
Board Observer
Sep 2018
PerfOps is a analytics platform that provides vast insight into global network performance of the leading service providers. We provide high quality data that can be used for competitive intelligence, diagnosing issues, and identifying bottlenecks in the network. Our big data platform ingest billions of metrics from hundreds of locations around the world, than processes the data and streams it to our dashboard or customer endpoint, all in real time. The company was founded by a team of experts with years of experience in building global networks and highly distributed applications. Our team built the hugely popular jsDelivr, the first open source CDN in the world. And our team also built DNSPerf and CDNPerf, the DNS and CDN performance benchmarking services used by thousands of companies around the world.
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