Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten is a Dutch serial internet entrepreneur who started his first company, V3 Redirect Services, in 1997. In 1999, V3 was sold to Fortunecity.com which was about to go public on the Neuer Markt.

In 2003, Boris started a Wi-Fi Hotspot operator in the Netherlands, HubHop, and started installing Wi-Fi Access Points in bars, hotels and other public places. Eight months after incorporating the company, 51% of HubHop was sold to KPN, followed by the remaining 49% after another 6 months.

Boris is one of the three founders of The Next Web Conference, Blog and Incubator.

Boris is also a shareholder/advisor in Wakoopa, Twones and feest.je three Dutch web start-ups and co-founded PressDoc and TwitterCounter.

Recent Milestones
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten added a position as Founder at TwitterCounter. (5/1/08)

Posted 12/15/09 at 3:15am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten added a position as Founder at PressDoc.

Posted 9/25/09 at 1:26am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten added to PressDoc.

Posted 12/15/09 at 3:15am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten added a position as Shareholder/Advisor at Wakoopa.

Posted 6/10/10 at 5:12am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten added a position as Shareholder/Advisor at feest.je.

Posted 6/7/10 at 11:16pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten added a position as Supervisory Board at Twones.

Posted 12/9/08 at 3:07pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten added a position as Founder at The Next Web.

Posted 9/5/08 at 1:01am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten added a position as Founder, developer at TwitterCounter.

Posted 8/13/08 at 11:45am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten added a position as Founder at Fleck.

Posted 2/5/08 at 2:43pm