Ben Verwaayen
General Partner @ Keen Venture Partners
London, United Kingdom
Ben Verwaayen is a Series B investor at Keen Venture Partners in London focused on Software and Analytics. Ben is a Partner at Keen Venture Partners. He has held numerous executive positions at leading telecommunications and technology providers. Previously, Ben was Chief Executive Officer of BT Group PLC and Alcatel-Lucent. He has also served as President of KPN Telecom and Vice-Chairman of Lucent Technologies. He is currently Chairman of the Boardof Renewi and on the Board of Directors of Akamai and OFCOM. Ben is an Officer of the order Orange-Nassau, Honorary Knight of the British Empire (KBE) and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. He has a master's degree in law and international politics from the University of Utrecht.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Industries Ben Verwaayen invests in
Stages Ben Verwaayen invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 1 (50%)
- Analytics 1 (50%)
- Simulation 1 (50%)
- Machine Learning 1 (50%)
- Enterprise Software 1 (50%)
Stage
- Series B 1 (50%)
- Series C 1 (50%)
Investments
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| Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.The high-performance computing cloud platform delivers intelligent computing for digital R&D and enables more than 300 customers from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises to accelerate design cycles and time tomarket. Rescale gives research scientists and engineers the ability to run their simulation and artificial intelligence workloads on the cloud provider of their choice, using specialized hardware architectures and software templates optimized for their use cases, without any set-up or maintenance. Investors such as Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, Data Collective, ITV Ventures, Jump Capital, and M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Quiet Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Translink Capital, Two Roads Group, Y Combinator, Hitachi Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Republic Labs, and Samsung Catalyst Fund backs Rescale.In 2011, Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie headquartered the company in San Francisco, California. | $55M / Series C / Nov 23, 2021 | ||
| Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.The high-performance computing cloud platform delivers intelligent computing for digital R&D and enables more than 300 customers from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises to accelerate design cycles and time tomarket. Rescale gives research scientists and engineers the ability to run their simulation and artificial intelligence workloads on the cloud provider of their choice, using specialized hardware architectures and software templates optimized for their use cases, without any set-up or maintenance. Investors such as Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, Data Collective, ITV Ventures, Jump Capital, and M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Quiet Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Translink Capital, Two Roads Group, Y Combinator, Hitachi Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Republic Labs, and Samsung Catalyst Fund backs Rescale.In 2011, Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie headquartered the company in San Francisco, California. | $32M / Series B / Jul 24, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About Keen Venture Partners
Keen Venture Partners is a radically human venture capital firm that invests in fast-growing European scale-ups at the Series A and Series B stages
Keen Venture Partners Contacts
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Ben Verwaayen
General Partner
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Briehan Burke
Principal
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Giuseppe Lacerenza
Partner
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Robert Verwaayen
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Alexander Ribbink
General Partner
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What does Ben Verwaayen invest in?
Ben Verwaayen invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Simulation startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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