# Rick van Boekel

> Rick van Boekel is a Series A investor at Airbridge Equity Partners backing Software and SaaS. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Airbridge Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airbridge-equity-partners)
- Location: Den Haag, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 90%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickvanboekel
- Website: https://airbridge.nl

Rick van Boekel is a Series A investor at Airbridge Equity Partners in Den Haag focused on Software and SaaS. Current: - Co-founder & Partner @ Airbridge Equity Partners - Non-executive board member at portfolio companies Past: - Executive Board Member and shareholder at Incubeta Holdings LTD - CEO DQ&A Media Group - Supervisory board member iBood.com - CEO Lead Generation Ventures (European Directories) - Chief Commercial Officer De TelefoongidsBV (European Directories) - Chief Commercial Officer ECI BV / Bertelsmann AG - Co-founder Net Ventures (Venture Capital, seed-stage) - Founder and CEO of BOL.COM Benelux - Business architect at KPN Multimedia - Marketing & Sales Director of PLANET INTERNET - Database marketing consultant at O&M Dataconsult

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 50% |
| SaaS | 3 | 30% |
| Analytics | 3 | 30% |
| Market Research | 3 | 30% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 60% |
| Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 4 | 40% |
| Czech Republic | 2 | 20% |
| Poland | 1 | 10% |
| Germany | 1 | 10% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 10% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Celebratix | Celebratix is a blockchain-based ticketing firm. It provides a secure and simple ticketing system based on blockchain technology, so consumers do not need to deal with bitcoin. | $2.6M | Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Passbolt | Passbolt is an open source password manager designed for the needs of Agile and DevOps teams. It is better because it is: highly collaborative, interoperable (Open API), open source, based on standards (PGP). Passbolt can be used in the cloud or on-prem for maximum data ownership. | $8M | Series A | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Apideck | Apideck helps B2B SaaS companies scale their integration strategy using Unified APIs. Apideck's single Unified API allows engineering teams to build integrations at a fraction of the time and focus on building their product instead. | $7.5M | Series A | Nov 20, 2024 |  |
| Behavio | Behavio is a SaaS platform that provides behavioral insights on how to maximize advertising performance. It is developed by Behavio Labs, a tech and research company that focuses on customers' subconscious thoughts and motivations. The company is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, its North American division is located in San Francisco. | $2.4M | Seed | May 20, 2024 |  |
| delphai | Our market intelligence software allows users to make sense of their company’s strengths and expand their business through intuitive big data analytics. Explore innovation ecosystems, discover emerging technologies, or profile individual companies to scout for new partners. Whether it’s competitive intelligence, investment planning, R&Droadmapping, or business expansion, delphai allows you to generate the insights you need to make the next move. | $4.2M | Series A | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| We Are Eves | We Are Eves is the first beauty platform with honest product reviews from real people. For comparison purposes, we are the TripAdvisor/ or Vivino of the beauty industry. We Are Eves is an independent community with >100,000 members and nearly 4 million active users in NL, BE, DE,FR,UK.We believe it is time for a new perspective onbeauty. Every day people are bombarded by marketing campaigns with fake images and empty beauty promises. It is time for less filters and more honesty.Our business model is B2B. We secured strong partnerships with leading beauty companies like L’Oreal, Coty, LVMH, Shiseido group, Unilever, etc.Nominated for “Coolest Dutch Brand”, Challenger50 2022 - MT/Sprout, Best Start-up 2021 by Dutch Media Network, the Best Platform Start-up of the Netherlands | $2.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| BOTS | RevenYOU is the marketplace for trading algorithms, users will have access to forex, stocks and crypto trading algorithms through an easy to use app called BOTS. Think of RevenYOU as the Spotify among trading apps. Instead of choosing a song, the user chooses a bot and enjoys it.76% of all trade in the world is already done by smart-tradingalgorithms. Yet, as of right now, big companies hold all the key’s when it comes to hiring quants and using the newest technology to create the best algorithms . RevenYOU is ready to bring high-end algorithm trading to the rest of the world.Financial returns through Artificial Intelligence.RevenYOU has build the biggest and most accessible trading platform for trading-bots, ever. | $13M | Series A | Dec 21, 2021 |  |
| Survicate | Survicate is an all-in-one customer feedback tool focused on SMB. It offers 5 solutions: targeted website surveys, user-initiated feedback widgets, one-click email surveys, NPS email surveys, questionnaires. With just one tool, you can collect customer feedback across all digital touchpoints. Use collected insights to decrease churn, improvecustomer loyalty, and address customers’ needs more precisely. | $2.4M | Series A | Jul 20, 2021 |  |
| Smartlook | Smartlook is a behavior analytics company that records users on websites and in mobile apps.Smartlook is a qualitative analytics solution for websites and mobile apps helping over 200,000 businesses of all sizes and industries answer the "whys" behind their users' actions. Eliminate the guesswork and discover real, actionablereasons.With a unique feature set, Smartlook finally gives you a way to understand user behavior at the micro level. Always-on visitor recordings show you what every last visitor does on your website or app, while automatic event tracking lets you know how (and how often) your visitors do specific things. You can then build conversion funnels to see your conversion rates as well as uncover why people are churning. Heatmaps for websites give you mass data about where most people click, scroll, hover, and otherwise interact with your pages.Smartlook started in 2016 with web analytics and branched into mobile app analytics in 2018. Ranked within the Top 100 Software Products in the 2019 G2 Crowd Awards, Smartlook services customers like O2, Miele, Hyundai, and Kiwi.com. It can also record games developed in the Unity engine. | $3.6M | Series A | Dec 09, 2020 |  |
| Roam.ai | Developers from startups to large enterprises use our SDK and APIs to build accurate and efficient location-aware apps. | $549K | Seed |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bondi Capital S.A.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bondi-capital-s-a) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Carricha Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carricha-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Carrick Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carrick-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dedicated](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dedicated-e84b) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Digital Tech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-tech-fund-a23b) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HearstLab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hearstlab-36b3) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Airbridge Equity Partners

VC Fund · Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Airbridge Equity Partners is a Venture Capital that focuses on scalable, technology-driven companies in the digital landscape. Its capital and expertise comes in the form of early-stage and growth-stage equity, follow-on expansion capital, or venture debt, offering the ability to service a full CAP table over time. Airbridge approach is to matchexperienced entrepreneurs with the founding teams, inject early stage and growth capital, and provide hands-on support from the Airbridge Equity Partners team.

1 contacts available at Airbridge Equity Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rick van Boekel | Co-founder & partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rick-van-boekel |

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## FAQ

### What does Rick van Boekel invest in?

Rick van Boekel invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Rick van Boekel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rick van Boekel closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 10 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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