Overview
Jonathan co-founded DataCamp in 2013 alongside Dieter De Mesmaeker and Martijn Theuwissen while based in Belgium. He holds a PhD in financial econometrics from KU Leuven. Under his leadership, DataCamp grew to over 10 million learners, more than 200,000 subscribers, and $50M+ in ARR, making it one of Belgium's largest SaaS success stories in the education space.
He moved to New York City to scale the company globally. In recent years he has also become active as an angel investor, backing startups at the intersection of data and education.
Career Highlights
- Co-founded DataCamp in 2013 in Belgium, scaled to global market leadership in data science education
- Led the company to 10M+ learners and 2,500+ enterprise clients including major corporations worldwide
- Angel investor in education and data-focused startups
Career history
In the news
- Explaining how the AI tutor actually works with Yusuf Saber in interview by Kim Isenberg and @peterthum from Superintelligence. Link to full interview in the comments. There were 10M+ hours of learning on DataCamp last year, and our goal is to shift all of it to the AI Tutor. This creates massive opportunities and challenges. Top 10 things we cover: 1. The importance of open weight models in an educational context: open vs frontier, not in theory but in the context of helping millions of learners. 2. How we're thinking about
- Explaining how the AI tutor actually works with Yusuf Saber in interview by Kim Isenberg and Peter Thum from Superintelligence. Link to full interview in the comments. There were 10M+ hours of learning on DataCamp last year, and our goal is to shift all of it to the AI Tutor. This creates massive opportunities and challenges. Top 10 things we cover: 1. The importance of open weight models in an educational context: open vs frontier, not in theory but in the context of helping millions of learners. 2. How we're thinking about
- It’s a great time to be an AI Engineer! Job postings for data/AI roles are up +80% YoY. Thanks for hosting me etn.
- AI skills are the bottleneck for most enterprises right now. So this is a milestone worth celebrating: DataCamp is now available in Japanese, and excited to partner with FPT Software to bring practical AI skills to enterprises across Japan. Together, we'll deliver end-to-end AI workforce transformation, from strategy and training through to implementation, with localized support for our Japanese customers and co-developed initiatives to strengthen AI literacy nationwide. Japan first, with South Korea and ASEAN to follow. Huge
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