Thomas Depuydt

Managing Partner at Smartfin

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 17 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Board Member
Jan 2026
Better business banking for entrepreneurs.
Board Member
Sep 2025
AI is rapidly changing the world. Creative engineers are developing new AI innovations every day, driven by the availability of powerful and affordable infrastructure and tremendous innovation in AI software capabilities. We want to bring intelligence closer to the source, enabling real-time, efficient, and sustainable AI solutions worldwide. We believe in processing data locally, right where it’s harvested. We want to make AI accessible and impactful in real-world scenarios, breaking free from the limitations of the cloud. It’s about empowering engineers to go beyond traditional paradigms and bring AI to life where it matters most.
 The future generation of engineers needs to think outside the cloud.
Board Observer
Jan 2025
Powering resilient, sovereign, and future-ready cloud operations. emma is a next-generation cloud management platform built to give organizations full control over their multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures — from hyperscalers to EU regional clouds and AI-optimized infrastructure. With emma, you can deploy, manage, and optimize your entire cloud ecosystem from a single, unified interface. emma combines deep infrastructure visibility with AI-driven automation and cost governance (FinOps) — enabling teams to scale faster, stay compliant, and maintain sovereignty over their data. Whether you’re running mission-critical workloads across environments or seeking more predictable cloud economics, emma helps you stay resilient, sovereign, and future-proof. We’re a proud Series A company backed by leading venture capital firms, including Smartfin, RTP Global, CircleRock Capital, and AltaIR Capital—partners who share our vision of an open, intelligent, and connected cloud future.
Board Member
Sep 2023
CrazyGames is a browser games platform on which over 250,000,000 instant gameplays take place every month. Were helping HTML5 games to achieve a global reach and best-in-class revenues by providing publishing and monetization tools to hundreds of game developers.
late stageComputer Games
Board Member
Mar 2023
Timefold in an intelligent scheduling optimization platform that helps software developers and IT teams build and operate complex workforce management systems at scale. As scheduling complexity grows, rule-based approaches and legacy components struggle with performance, maintainability, and trust. Timefold integrates into existing software stacks via APIs, providing a transparent optimization layer purpose-built for constraint-heavy scheduling problems. Engineering teams retain full control over constraints and evolution, while operations teams gain schedules they can understand and trust. The result is faster delivery, lower total cost of ownership, and scheduling systems that remain reliable as complexity increases.
Board Member
Jul 2021
Willow is a social media solution made for small businesses and independent entrepreneurs. Small businesses need to build an audience on social media to reach (new) customers, attract and retain employees, and build a brand. That's where Willow comes in. With our social media experts and a powerful yet easy tool to bring structure to your social media efforts, we make sure you hit all the right notes on your channels. Get a free consultation or start a free demo today at www.willow.co
Board Observer
Jan 2021
BrightAnalytics is the most intuitive, reliable and fast platform for consolidated reporting of financial and operational data. With BrightAnalytics you always have clear and accurate management reports at your fingertips, from the entire organization - cross divisions, cross operations and cross entities. Set up and connected in no time and familiar from day one, BrightAnalytics automates complex consolidated reporting and provides you with a most user-friendly interface to give full transparency to management, stakeholders and even the entire organization in real-time. Request your live demo via https://www.brightanalytics.eu/en/contact
Board Observer
Oct 2020
Hello, we are Zivver. Zivver is the effortless, smart, secure, digital communications platform, powering the next generation of secure communications. With the hyper acceleration of digital transformation, regulatory reforms and hybrid work, we all need a modern secure communications platform that is highly usable, empowering secure work with maximum effectiveness and minimal disruption. We’ve re-imagined secure communications, pioneering a solution from the ground up – a secure system that is frictionless with unparalleled encryption. We’re empowering people and enterprises, transforming the way people think, act and communicate – mitigating errors and semantically tailoring security levels as required. We call it effortless, smart security.
Board Member
Mar 2020
Founded in 2011, Roamler provides businesses with B2B crowd-based solutions, answering the call of companies for efficiency with widespread, on-demand professionals and individuals. These 'Roamlers' are recruited, trained, and organized according to their skills, experience, and location, and then matched to 'tasks'. Roamler is the European leader in crowd-supported field-marketing activities, performing tasks for the biggest FMCG manufacturers, consumer brands, PCGs, and retail chains. Since 2016, Roamler is also active in crowd-supported technical solutions such as installations, service and repairs, executed by a network of certified professionals spread across the Netherlands, the UK and Germany. In 2018, Roamler launched the first-ever venture to increase flexibility and efficiency in the home care and healthcare industries, by leveraging the power of a large network of professional caregivers active across the Netherlands. In 2020, Roamler received a 20M euros funding from Endeit Capital, Smartfin and Achmea Innovation Fund and ranked among the top three fastest-growing scale-ups in Europe. In March 2021, Roamler acquired Datlinq, data company specialized in foodservice and food retail data, with the purpose of enabling its clients to build a fully data-driven route- to- market also in the out-of-home channel. In October 2021, through its Retail division, Roamler has acquired Mobeye, strong French player in crowd-supported field marketing services for businesses; with the goal of further expanding its commercial proposition to FMCGs and retailers, while consolidating a leadership position also in the French market. Sign up to our monthly newsletter to receive the latest insights, innovations, and opportunities when it comes to flexible resourcing for businesses! https://campaign.roamler.com/newsletter
Board Observer
Feb 2020
"Akinon is a global software development company that provides state-of-the-art omnichannel solutions for the top retail brands worldwide. With more than 20 years of retail industry experience and the support of a large team of highly skilled software developers, Akinon has created a set of Cloud-based Omnichannel Applications that brings a disruptive innovation to the retail industry and offers a true Omnichannel experience. Founded in 2016, Akinon has been operating globally with the offices in London, Dubai, Athens and Istanbul.
Board Member
Feb 2020
THEO Technologies, now a part of Dolby OptiView, empowers sports, media and entertainment companies to deliver live streaming experiences that not only captivate audiences but also enhance monetization. With configurable latency and server-guided ad insertion (SGAI), you can optimize the viewer experience and unlock new revenue opportunities. Plus, our cross-platform video player ensures high-quality playback anywhere, anytime. Dolby OptiView helps you engage more and earn more—effortlessly. Our mission is to create immersive, video experiences that invite everyone to engage and interact across various devices, turning each moment into a truly captivating experience.
Board Member
Mar 2019
We help restaurants and retail brands scale faster and more profitably. By simplifying every step, from first-party digital experiences to third-party platform optimization, orders are fulfilled reliably. Our AI-powered, API-first platform streamlines operations across delivery, dine-in, and take-out. Over 80,000 businesses trust Deliverect’s platform and suite of products to power their front-of-house and back-of-house. Available in 52 markets worldwide, Deliverect works with restaurants of all sizes and leading food brands like Taco Bell, Burger King, and Unilever.
early stageHospitality
Board Member
Jan 2018
Silverfin is the cloud platform that makes accountancy firms more successful. It improves the efficiency, competitiveness and profitability of compliance services, and powers the development and delivery of advisory services. Silverfin takes financial data directly from client systems and hosts it securely in a single cloud Structured Data Hub. Then templates standardise, and automate, accounting workflows and use the data hub to make compliance easy, fast, and accurate. But that’s only half the story. Leading firms use Silverfin to power their advisory services too. Looking at data and trends, right across the client portfolio is easy and automatic alerts warn of risks or identify opportunities to give advice, or sell additional services. We call this connected accounting and our customers tell us Silverfin has made their day-to-day business better and given them the data, tools, and time, they need to deliver the advisory services and insights their clients really value.
Board Member
Sep 2017
Embed white-labeled dashboards in your SaaS application or portal. Cumul.io's powerful embedded analytics platform lets you build interactive dashboards with simple drag & drop, and integrate them in your own application in just a few lines of code. Offer new insights to your users and let them take action immediately, right within your own application!
Board Observer
Sep 2014
Limecraft is a cloud-based video collaboration platform for professional video and film production. Offering turn-key solutions for scripted and unscripted entertainment, archiving, subtitling and localisation. Using Artificial Intelligence to improve people's jobs, not to make them redundant. Producers use Limecraft to increase productivity and cut the turnaround time. Post-production facilities and broadcasters use Limecraft Flow to create a private cloud experience that seamlessly integrates their existing storage and media asset management services. More information via https://www.limecraft.com
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2026
Board Member
Jan 2026
Better business banking for entrepreneurs.
2025
Board Member
Sep 2025
AI is rapidly changing the world. Creative engineers are developing new AI innovations every day, driven by the availability of powerful and affordable infrastructure and tremendous innovation in AI software capabilities. We want to bring intelligence closer to the source, enabling real-time, efficient, and sustainable AI solutions worldwide. We believe in processing data locally, right where it’s harvested. We want to make AI accessible and impactful in real-world scenarios, breaking free from the limitations of the cloud. It’s about empowering engineers to go beyond traditional paradigms and bring AI to life where it matters most.
 The future generation of engineers needs to think outside the cloud.
Board Observer
Jan 2025
Powering resilient, sovereign, and future-ready cloud operations. emma is a next-generation cloud management platform built to give organizations full control over their multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures — from hyperscalers to EU regional clouds and AI-optimized infrastructure. With emma, you can deploy, manage, and optimize your entire cloud ecosystem from a single, unified interface. emma combines deep infrastructure visibility with AI-driven automation and cost governance (FinOps) — enabling teams to scale faster, stay compliant, and maintain sovereignty over their data. Whether you’re running mission-critical workloads across environments or seeking more predictable cloud economics, emma helps you stay resilient, sovereign, and future-proof. We’re a proud Series A company backed by leading venture capital firms, including Smartfin, RTP Global, CircleRock Capital, and AltaIR Capital—partners who share our vision of an open, intelligent, and connected cloud future.
2023
Board Member
Sep 2023
CrazyGames is a browser games platform on which over 250,000,000 instant gameplays take place every month. Were helping HTML5 games to achieve a global reach and best-in-class revenues by providing publishing and monetization tools to hundreds of game developers.
late stageComputer Games
Board Member
Mar 2023
Timefold in an intelligent scheduling optimization platform that helps software developers and IT teams build and operate complex workforce management systems at scale. As scheduling complexity grows, rule-based approaches and legacy components struggle with performance, maintainability, and trust. Timefold integrates into existing software stacks via APIs, providing a transparent optimization layer purpose-built for constraint-heavy scheduling problems. Engineering teams retain full control over constraints and evolution, while operations teams gain schedules they can understand and trust. The result is faster delivery, lower total cost of ownership, and scheduling systems that remain reliable as complexity increases.
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