Primary Job Title Venture Partner Primary Organization 
LeanSquare
Location Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Roald has been an entrepreneur most of the past 25 years. He’s been involved as co-founder, shareholder, and board member in a handful of companies that have done video streaming, mobile messaging, ebooks, elearning, Big Data, and business applications. He has raised an aggregate $18M of venture funding, including one failure, one exit. For the
past three years, Roald has been a Venture Partner for LeanSquare, a tech seed fund based in Liège, Belgium. He has a keen focus on “Deep Tech”, including AI, AR/VR, blockchain, and IoT. In the past 10 years, Roald spent considerable time coaching startups as part of several accelerators and incubators, including: Microsoft Innovation Center (Belgium), Nest’Up, StarTech, VentureLab, BeCentral, French Tech Culture, YunusSB (Tunisia), and MG Seed (Brazil).
He co-founded BeCentral, a large space devoted to digital skills located above Brussels Central Station, home to 40 startups, advocacy groups, and training centers including Google Atelier.
