The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Sofie Baeten, Martin De Prycker, Jean Van Nuwenborg, managing partners, QBIC
Sofie Baeten, Martin De Prycker and Jean Van Nuwenborg are the managing partners of Qbic, a multi-university venture fund that backs spinouts from its partners, which for Qbic II include Antwerp, Ghent, Liège and Hasselt universities, as well as Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Vito, Imec and seven hospitals.
Launched in December 2016, Qbic II has €58.9m ($68.5m) under management. Qbic I was created in 2012 with €40.7m in funding and has 18 portfolio companies.
Baeten previously worked for Baekeland Fonds II, the university venture fund of University of Ghent from 2006 to 2008 before joining Qbic two years ago.
De Prycker has had an illustrious career in the corporate world, including chief technology officer at telecoms equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, and CEO of visualisation technology company Barco and silicon photonics company Caliopa. He joined Qbic in 2012.
Van Nuwenborg was a fund manager at Theodorus, Université libre de Bruxelles’ investment fund, for more than 15 years before joining Qbic in January 2017.
