Curvo
Founded by Yoran Brondsema, Curvo offers Belgian and European retail investors a straightforward way to invest in diversified index funds through a mobile-first experience. The platform manages portfolios built on low-cost ETFs, handles automatic rebalancing, and removes the complexity that typically discourages retail investors from getting started with index investing.
Curvo targets the large population of Europeans who have savings sitting in low-yield bank accounts and want a better long-term option but are not willing to spend time managing individual stocks or choosing funds themselves.
The company operates under appropriate financial regulatory supervision for the Belgian market and positions itself in the growing European robo-advisory and passive investment category.
Key People
Yoran Brondsema - CTO & Co-Founder
In the media3
Yoran Brondsema discusses how he co-founded Sutori, an online education platform, and is now building Curvo, an index investing platform designed to make index investing accessible to people in Belgium and beyond. He explains how to use backtesting to analyze portfolio performance using historical data and demonstrates what returns and volatility investors can expect from different portfolios. He also shares his personal journey from studying computer science and embedded systems to becoming an entrepreneur who works roughly one day per week while pursuing passive investing strategies.
Yoran Brondsema discusses his book "The Hammock Investor" (De Hangmatbelegger), which promotes passive investing for people with limited time, arguing that successful investing does not require constantly following financial news or actively picking stocks. He explains how the book came about when a publisher approached him after discovering his startup Curvo, which makes investing accessible to young people, and how he decided to co-author the book with Tim rather than having two similar books released simultaneously in the small Dutch-speaking market.