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Bert De Brabandere

Bert De Brabandere is co-founder and CTO of Segments.ai, the Leuven-based AI data labeling platform that became the first Belgian Y Combinator startup (W21) and was acquired by Uber in 2025.

Bert De Brabandere co-founded Segments.ai with Otto Debals in Leuven. Both founders hold PhDs from KU Leuven, grounding the company in academic-grade computer vision research. As CTO, Bert led the technical development of the annotation and data labeling platform.

Segments.ai was admitted to Y Combinator's Winter 2021 cohort, the first Belgian company to do so. The company was subsequently acquired by Uber in 2025.

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Education
  • ETH Zürich#100schoolElectrical Engineering and Information Technology2011 - 2012
  • KU Leuven#1schoolMaster of Science (MSc), Electrical Engineering2008 - 2013
  • KU Leuven#1schoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science2008 - 2011
  • Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-LourdescollegeHigh school2002 - 2008

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