Geert Moernaut

TLDR

Geert Moernaut is the founder of Lansweeper, the Merelbeke-based IT asset management platform that raised EUR 130M from Insight Partners and serves 28,000+ customers worldwide.

Overview

Geert founded Lansweeper in 2004 in Merelbeke, Belgium, initially as a freeware IT inventory scanner for Windows networks. The product enabled automated detection and cataloging of hardware, software, and user data without requiring agents on endpoints, a capability enterprises found deeply useful at scale.

Over two decades, Lansweeper evolved from an IT inventory tool into a full technology asset intelligence platform supporting IT, OT, IoT, and cloud asset management. The company raised EUR 130M from Insight Partners, with Dovesco as co-investor. Lansweeper serves over 28,000 customers including Mercedes, Carlsberg, Nestle, IBM, and Samsung, and monitors 80M+ connected devices. Current CEO is Dave Goossens, who joined in 2019.

Career Highlights

• Founded Lansweeper in 2004, grew it from a freeware tool to a EUR 130M-backed enterprise platform
• Built the company to 28,000+ enterprise customers across 80M+ monitored devices
• Lansweeper is consistently cited as one of Belgium's stronger bootstrap-to-scale-up stories

Connections

Geert's company is headquartered in Merelbeke near Ghent, in the same cluster as other Flemish scale-ups. Lansweeper and Luzmo have a technology partnership, reflecting the broader Flemish B2B SaaS network.