# Ben Verwaayen

> Ben Verwaayen is a Series B investor at Keen Venture Partners backing Software and Analytics. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Keen Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keen-venture-partners-2)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-verwaayen-bb9336151/

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Analytics | 1 | 50% |
| Simulation | 1 | 50% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 50% |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 50% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 1 | 50% |
| Series C | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rescale | 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 | 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 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Initialized Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/initialized-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Trajectory Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trajectory-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dvc-0bf1) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fort Ross Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fortross-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gopher Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gopher-asset-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Keen Venture Partners

VC Fund · Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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

5 contacts available at Keen Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Verwaayen | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-verwaayen |
| Briehan Burke | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/briehan-burke |
| Giuseppe Lacerenza | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giuseppe-lacerenza |
| Robert Verwaayen | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-verwaaijen |
| Alexander Ribbink | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-ribbink |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### When did Ben Verwaayen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ben Verwaayen closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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