Ilse Wouters

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Angel Investor at Independent | ex-BlaBlaCar

Independent
Brussels, Belgium · CET (UTC+1)
13+ years experience
ETH Zurich
English, Dutch, French
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Overview

16 years around startups; now investing in AI applications. Previously an operator for 11 years before investing. Before that: BlaBlaCar and Wolt.

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  • Founders building in AI applications
  • Advice on AI applications
  • Working sessions on venture capital
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Skills
applied MLventure capitalproductboard work
InvestingLooking to invest
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Investing in Series B AI applications founders across Europe

Cheque size
$100k-$500k
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
AI applications
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Typically lead or co-lead. We reply to every founder.

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Office hours for founders preparing a seed round: AI applications and board work

Topics
AI applications, board work, venture capital
Format
Calls
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Engineers moving into leadership

16 years of AI applications. One call a month or async reviews.

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Experience

  1. Angel Investor
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Independent · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Brussels, Belgium
    • Led or co-led 21 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
  2. Consultant
    Oct 2020 - Sep 2023
    BlaBlaCar · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Brussels, Belgium
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $118 million.
  3. Associate Partner
    Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
    Wolt · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Brussels, Belgium
    • Wrote the applied ML service that now handles 56 million requests a day.
    • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 20% in two quarters.
  4. Consultant
    Jan 2016 - Apr 2018
    Google · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Brussels, Belgium
    • Ran commercial diligence on 7 deals.
  5. Associate Partner
    Sep 2013 - Jan 2016
    TotalEnergies · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Brussels, Belgium
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 26% in two quarters.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 17 a week to 1.

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Education

  1. ETH Zurich
    MSc, Business Administration
    2011 - 2013
  2. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Business Administration
    2006 - 2010

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