Olivier Van Duüren

Public Speaker ✔ Trend Sensemaker ✔ Executive Whisperer ✔ Innovator ✔ Author ✔ Former Microsoft Exec ✔ founder The Dualarity & Visual Senseformers

📍 Koksijde, Flemish Region, Belgium🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Feb 2021
Swoove Studios is an entertainment software company at the intersection of storytelling and 3D Animation. We build products that empower anyone to express themselves with 3D animation. Our products are designed to expand the creativity of our users in unexpected new and fun ways. We have developed a real-time, 3D-animation creation platform for mobile using our proprietary technology. The Swoove app offers a set of easy-to-use features and AI tools that empower anyone to create 3D animation stories, and share these online as short-form video. It caters to all levels of expertise, from beginners to seasoned creators. We make easy-to-create, good looking 3D animation available to all! Whats your story? Create. Animate. Share. Lets Swoove! http://www.swoove.com
Board Member Avail - Jont Venture between Torfs and 9.5 Ventures
Oct 2018
Avail is a social shopping app. Our goal is simple: bring together individuals with an outspoken, creative or inspiring sense of style. By letting them curate their own selection of items, which they choose from exciting, small and independent brands featured on Avail, the platform has quickly become an inspiring fashion community. Curators and independent fashion brands form the cornerstones for an online community that allows fashion enthusiasts to inspire and be inspired by others with a similar passion. Download the app on the App Store & on Google Play. Avail is a joint venture between a Venture Capital firm and a leading Belgian retailer.
early stageRetail
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Aug 2017
Ninepointfive invests from two flagship funds. Each of the funds have the mission to make Europe’s traditional industries more digital and green. One: Accelerating digitisation of the Industrial Value Chain. Tidal: Propelling the energy transition in Maritime, Ports and Offshore
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Feb 2021
Swoove Studios is an entertainment software company at the intersection of storytelling and 3D Animation. We build products that empower anyone to express themselves with 3D animation. Our products are designed to expand the creativity of our users in unexpected new and fun ways. We have developed a real-time, 3D-animation creation platform for mobile using our proprietary technology. The Swoove app offers a set of easy-to-use features and AI tools that empower anyone to create 3D animation stories, and share these online as short-form video. It caters to all levels of expertise, from beginners to seasoned creators. We make easy-to-create, good looking 3D animation available to all! Whats your story? Create. Animate. Share. Lets Swoove! http://www.swoove.com
2018
Board Member Avail - Jont Venture between Torfs and 9.5 Ventures
Oct 2018
Avail is a social shopping app. Our goal is simple: bring together individuals with an outspoken, creative or inspiring sense of style. By letting them curate their own selection of items, which they choose from exciting, small and independent brands featured on Avail, the platform has quickly become an inspiring fashion community. Curators and independent fashion brands form the cornerstones for an online community that allows fashion enthusiasts to inspire and be inspired by others with a similar passion. Download the app on the App Store & on Google Play. Avail is a joint venture between a Venture Capital firm and a leading Belgian retailer.
early stageRetail
Visual Senseformer
Partner
Sep 2018
Advisory Board Member The Park Playground, JV between Telenet and 9.5 Ventures
Jun 2018
The Park is an entertainment playground to enjoy with your friends, family or colleagues. Visit one of our locations in the real world and walk onto a lifelike set that reacts to your every move. It’s technology that takes you places. Longing for new adventures with friends or family? Ready to be immersed and wondered in out-of-the-ordinary worlds? Treat yourself and your friends with an escape into virtual reality and create your very own story! Choose from 5 different adventures: Find out who’s sabotaging your mission in New Zealand in De Mol, hunt for zombies in The Hallow, dismantle a bomb, free hostages as part of a Swat team, or walk over lava and free K3 in Egypt. Tickets on booking.theparkplayground.com The Park, Explore the Impossible
2017
Co-Founder
Sep 2017
TRANSFORMING WHILE PERFORMING How organisations can find their North Star and get everyone to act in days, not months. Kristof and Olivier each respectively worked twenty plus years for the headquarters of global technology giants and industry pioneers Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft. They know first-hand the pains of working in organisations that are constantly transforming. As independent entrepreneurs they currently advise start-ups and organisations in all major industries around the world. We came to realise the old methods of building plans to Transform while Performing are simply not sufficient. To maximise our impact we founded the Visual Senseformers to help companies find their future North Star, build their strategic plan and get everyone to act in days, not months. We do this through coaching, keynotes, workshops and events unleashing the Power of 3: inspiration, visualisation and co-creation. Our new book "Transforming while Performing - How organisations can find their North Star and get everyone to act in days, not months", can be ordered on www.visualsenseformers.com.
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