Overview
Jonas Dhaenens is Co-Founder & Board member at Pitchdrive[1]. Dhaenels serves as Founder & President of team.blue[3], a position held since July 2022 following a prior role as Founder & Group CEO from June 2019 to July 2022[4]. Beyond team.blue, Dhaenels holds multiple investment and board positions, including Investor and Board Member at Maxus Capital[5], Founding Partner and Board Member at AMAVI Capital[7], Investor and Board member at SmartFin Capital[9], and Investor and Board Member at WinWinner[10]. Dhaenels is also Co-Founder of Wintercircus Ghent[8]. Educational background includes a degree in Commercial Sciences from HOGENT[12] and completion of the KMO Challenge at Vlerick Business School[11].
Profile introduction
Founder and President of team.blue – Empowering Europe’s Digital Entrepreneurs Jonas Dhaenens is a self-made entrepreneur who founded Combell at just 16 years old, driven by a passion to make the internet more accessible to small businesses. Bootstrapped in 1999 out of Belgium, Combell has since grown into team.blue — a leading European platform empowering over 3.3 million entrepreneurs and organizations to succeed online. Throughout his career, Jonas has combined founder energy with strategic vision, leading 200+ M&A transactions across Europe. Under his leadership, team.blue has evolved f…
Career history
- Founder & PresidentJul 2022 to presentteam.blue
- Founder & Group CEOJun 2019 to Jul 2022team.blue
- Investor and Board MemberNov 2022 to presentMaxus Capital
- Co-Founder & Board memberJan 2019 to presentPitchdrive
- Founding Partner and Board MemberJan 2020 to presentAMAVI Capital
- Co-FounderMay 2024 to presentWintercircus Ghent
- Investor and Board memberJul 2015 to presentSmartFin Capital
- Investor and Board MemberSep 2018 to presentWinWinner
- FounderCombell
Education
KMO Challenge2007 - 2007Vlerick Business School
Commercial Sciences2000 - 2001HOGENT
In the news
- Combell, delaware & imec bundelen krachten voor meer controle over AI ++ Drie Belgische spelers slaan de handen in elkaar om bedrijven meer grip te geven op hun AI-kosten, databeveiliging en infrastructuur. Met de European Sovereign AI Cloud (ESAI) willen Combell, delaware BeLux en imec een Europees alternatief ontwikkelen voor de grote Amerikaanse AI-platformen. De aanleiding? Het AI-gebruik groeit sneller dan de controle erop. Bijna de helft van de werknemers die met generatieve AI werken , doen dat met een persoonlijk
- Team.blue verlengt lening, maar betaalt meer renteHet Belgische techbedrijf Team.blue heeft 1,1 miljard euro aan schuld verlengd tot 2032. De rente ligt hoger dan in een eerder plan, maar volgens topman Jonas Dhaenens koopt het bedrijf zo zekerheid op lange termijn.
De Tijd ICT · 26 Oct 2026
- In case you missed the announcement video: we raised €4M in seed funding! 🚀 The news has had some time to sink in since last week, but we wanted to post an official announcement in which we take a moment to look at the people who made it happen. The Spotable team. 💙 Every feature, every customer conversation and every late night got us here. Thank you all for the hard work and dedication. And a special thanks to The Harbour for hosting, and to our investors of course! ✨ Jonas Dhaenens ✨ Christophe Morbee ✨ Hilde
- Two of our founders are in Las Vegas. One stayed home in Belgium. Guess who wanted a "normal" funding announcement. (He lost.) Spotable has raised €4 million in seed funding! 🎉 In September 2024, Sebastien Vandendriessche, Julie Dumoulin, and Pieter-Jan Philips started building software for roofers. Fast forward to today: a team of 30, 350 customers, over 10 million m² of roof. And €4 million in the bank to go further. So where do the chips go? 🏛️ To Europe, starting with France and Germany. 🗽 To the US, our biggest venture. ✨ To
- Jonas Dhaenens stapt in ondernemersnetwerk We Love SaaSDe bekende internetondernemer Jonas Dhaenens (team.blue) neemt een minderheidsbelang in het Nederlandse bedrijf achter We Love SaaS, een community van ondernemers die gespecialiseerd zijn in cloudsoftware.
- An AI agent that only builds your website solves half a problem. Small businesses run on Canva, HubSpot, Google Ads and a spreadsheet nobody wants to maintain. Macaly now plugs into 20+ of those apps, so the agent uses your real brand assets, pushes form submissions straight into your sheet and your CRM, and builds live dashboards that update on their own. I think the winners in SMB AI will not be the ones generating the most output. They will be the ones connected to the tools the business already uses. Good work by the Macaly
- Every business owner I meet wants to know one thing about their marketing. Is it working, and what now. Metricool just built an agent that answers both. Glad to have them in the team.blue family 🤗
- Quentin Bordage is right, and I would take it one step further. Your martech stack is not a compliance question anymore. It is a resilience question. Jurisdiction, data access and continuity now sit at board level. This is exactly why Kolsquare | B Corp™ is part of team.blue, together with Metricool for social media management, Windsor.ai for marketing data and attribution, and Leadinfo for converting website visitors into leads. Four European companies covering the full marketing loop, from reach to revenue, built for European rules
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