Vincent Smedt

Vincent Smedt is co-founder and chief executive of kliq-ai, a role he has held since April 2026. He is based in Antwerp. He has also been a manager at TERYA since March 2023 and a startup mentor at Start it @KBC since January 2020.

Between November 2021 and April 2026 he was entrepreneur in residence at VIXO, and from July 2022 to January 2023 he was a product owner at KPMG Belgium. He advised Voka - Kamer van Koophandel Limburg on its charter for sustainable entrepreneurship from September 2020 to June 2022. He founded HYGINN | reinventing hygiene in May 2018 and remained there until December 2022, co-founded Astrobot in 2016, and founded EDMIRE | circular design in February 2010, staying until July 2022. He began his career as a product design intern at Smart Design - Barcelona in 2008.

Smedt completed a master's in product development at the University of Antwerp in 2008, with an Erasmus period in product design at Politecnico di Milano, followed by postgraduate study in corporate identity strategy and management at Elisava School of Design and Engineering. He later studied business sustainability management at the University of Cambridge and finance at Syntra Antwerpen en Vlaams Brabant. His stated areas of expertise include new business ventures, product launch, product innovation, business strategy and product development.