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Renier Lemmens

PhD (how AI changes the role of the board) Student at Bayes Business School - Chairman - Former CEO

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated November 2026💼 3 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Senior Advisor AI investments
Dec 2024
DataVolt is a leading innovator in state-of-the-art and sustainable data center solutions, empowering businesses across the globe to connect, collaborate, and grow in todays data-driven world. Our solutions, driven by security, sustainability, scalability, and reliability, facilitate digital transformation for our clients, amplifying operational efficiency and enabling them to contribute meaningfully to a sustainable digital future. With strategically positioned operations in Riyadh, Dubai, and California, we offer businesses the robust digital infrastructure necessary to succeed in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. We strive to redefine the future of data centers through groundbreaking innovation, unmatched sustainability, and unwavering trust, shaping the digital infrastructure that powers success.
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2025
Senior Advisor
Feb 2025
1957 Ventures is the FinTech venture builder transforming Saudi Arabias financial landscape. Backed by Riyad Bank, to fuel innovation that drives progress towards Vision 2030 and the Financial Sector Development Program.
2024
Senior Advisor AI Investments and Strategy
Dec 2024
Vision Invest is a leading Saudi Arabian development and investment holding company at the forefront of Public and Private Sector Partnerships in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Cooperation Council and beyond. Since 2002, Vision Invest has nurtured synergetic partnerships with leading local, regional, and global partners and refined a boutique investment model, anchored by the entrepreneurial spirit of our people, to deliver sustainable value to our clients through impact investments. Today, guided by Vision 2030, the Kingdom has embarked on a dynamic and transformative plan with a renewed focus on sustainability, delivering world class infrastructure, diversifying the economy, localizing best-in class technology, creating added-value employment opportunities, and increasing the role of the Saudi Private Sector. As echoed by our Chairman Mr. Mohammad Abunayyan, “recognising the opportunities presented by the dynamic and future-oriented Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, and the Kingdoms fast-paced advancement, we rebranded in 2018 as Vision Invest with the aim to contribute our part to realising this Vision in the Kingdom and across all communities where we invest.”. Our identity is not just a name. It is the essence of our operating model as captured in our Core Values, DNA, and entrepreneurial spirit. Vision Invest is proud of the diverse portfolio of holdings it has developed together with its clients and partners, across a wide range of vital sectors including power generation, water desalination, industrial gases, logistics, transportation, district cooling, wastewater treatment, energy efficiency and social infrastructure. We look forward to continuing our path of high impact investments that drive value for our clients, partners, shareholders, stakeholders, and communities.
Senior Advisor AI investments
Dec 2024
DataVolt is a leading innovator in state-of-the-art and sustainable data center solutions, empowering businesses across the globe to connect, collaborate, and grow in todays data-driven world. Our solutions, driven by security, sustainability, scalability, and reliability, facilitate digital transformation for our clients, amplifying operational efficiency and enabling them to contribute meaningfully to a sustainable digital future. With strategically positioned operations in Riyadh, Dubai, and California, we offer businesses the robust digital infrastructure necessary to succeed in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. We strive to redefine the future of data centers through groundbreaking innovation, unmatched sustainability, and unwavering trust, shaping the digital infrastructure that powers success.
Mentor
Oct 2024
Endeavor is the leading global network of, by, and for high-impact entrepreneurs innovating Elsewhere. We support 3,000+ high-growth, high-impact entrepreneurs across 50+ markets.
2019
Venture Partner
May 2019
DN Capital is a global early stage and growth capital investor focused on Seed, Series A and select series B investments in fintech, SaaS, digital media, e-commerce, marketplaces, mobile applications and software companies. The firm was founded in 2000 and has operations in London, Berlin and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’s previous funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (worlds largest used car marketplaces), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit). The professionals at DN Capital bring over 75 years of private equity experience to their investments, and actively work with portfolio companies to steward their growth through the various stages of development. Additional information about the firm and its portfolio companies can be found at http://www.dncapital.com.
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