Overview
Frederic Szikora is co-founder and chief operating officer of Novutech, a company he co-founded in May 2019. He is based in Brussels. Since November 2019 he has been a lauréat of Réseau Entreprendre Bruxelles.
Before founding Novutech, he spent close to five years at Deloitte, from September 2014 to April 2019, as a senior consultant working on NetSuite Cloud ERP. Earlier he was an accounting analyst at UPS on a temporary replacement contract in 2014, and a financial analyst at Rexel Holdings USA, Corp. on an international internship from October 2013 to April 2014. He completed an internship at Umicore in financial and credit management in early 2013, and led a project at the student organisation LSM Conseil between 2011 and 2012.
Szikora holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in business engineering from the Université catholique de Louvain and the Louvain School of Management, and spent an exchange period at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella studying business economics. In 2016 he obtained a certificate in business controlling from Ichec Brussels Management School.
Career history
In the news
- This is Novutech. Those are the Novutechos. And we are just getting started. Every face in this video is someone who chose to build with us. 65 people across 8 countries, more motivated than ever to help European scale-ups run their finance operations better — with NetSuite, AI, and the right finance tech stack tools. The best team we have ever had. And the best is ahead 🔥
- Ericeira, Portugal 🇵🇹. 65 Novutechos. The Atlantic behind us. 🌊 Every year we bring the whole team together. Because some things only happen when you are together for real. 7 years of themes. Growth. Execution. Efficiency. Synergy. Innovation. Systems. This year the question changed. Not "how much did we do?" — but "what difference did we actually make?". The client does not remember how many hours we billed. They remember what changed. "We configured the module" is not a story. "We cut your close from 10 days to 4" is. That is
- Back to school. But ours is a bit different this year 🇪🇸 New country. New school. New language. Five of us starting from zero in Valencia, Spain — the kids, Jennifer Hubert, and me. Two years ago this was just a crazy idea. Today it is real. People asked: why leave Belgium when everything works? That is exactly why. When everything works, you stop questioning. Comfort becomes the default. And default is not a life strategy. We wanted something different. Not more. Different. A life we chose on purpose, not one we ended up
- Sunday morning. A WhatsApp group of startup founders. Someone asks: "What is your favorite CRM?" The answers say everything about where we are heading: "I built my own with Lovable." "We coded our own solution on top of an open-source database." "Custom code for ops, only invoicing on a standard tool." Nobody answered Salesforce. Nobody answered HubSpot. Two years ago, these founders would have spent weeks comparing SaaS products. Today they spend an afternoon building exactly what they need. The barrier between "I need a tool" and
- Software is dead. Long live service. PayFit now does payroll for its clients. Qonto became an accountant. Anthropic pairs its models with real engineers to deliver results. Same pattern everywhere. The tool alone is not enough anymore. Turns out people do not want a login. They want their problem solved. AI just made it possible to do that at scale. Sequoia sees it clearly: the next $1B company will be a software company that looks like a services company. The next wave will not be built by the best software. It will be built by
- Yesterday we brought our entire tech team back to Belgium for one day. Not for a training. Not for a conference. For a hackathon 🎯 3 teams. Real Jira tickets and projects. Real client problems. Deployed to production by end of day. The rule was simple: no one writes code alone anymore. Dust reads the ticket, drafts the spec, reviews the output. Cursor writes the code, runs the tests and deploys the solution. The developer steers, approves, and validates. From code writer to system architect. That is the shift. Andrej Karpathy
- The finish line is never the real goal 🎯 In trail, nobody cares about your time. What stays with you is the hill where you almost stopped — and didn't. Building a company has the same moments. There is always a next target. A next milestone. A next thing to chase. The ones who last are not the fastest. They are the ones who found a rhythm they can keep for years. The race is never against others. It is against the part of you that wants to give up. And the best finish lines? You never cross them alone 🏔️ 📸 8 hours of running.
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