Overview
Jules Uyttenbroeck co-founded booq with Gijs Kriger and Stephen Huang. The company describes him as the operator of the team, running the business alongside the FDD specialist and the engineer. The founding trio launched the platform on the back of more than fifteen years of combined experience in financial due diligence and private equity.
Before booq he worked as Senior Investment Associate at CNBB Equity Partners, a Benelux software-focused private equity firm founded in 2007 by Arco van Nieuwland (co-founder of Exact and Yuki) and Lucas Brentjens (former CEO of Exact, co-founder of Yuki). He served as Board Observer at portfolio companies Yoda and Spotler Group. He is a CFA Charterholder (issued April 2026) and holds the Bloomberg Market Concepts certificate. He graduated from Vlerick Business School in 2020-2021 magna cum laude. He is based in the Antwerp metropolitan area and works in Dutch, English, and French.
Career history
In the news
- Read how our co-founder Gijs Kriger joined EIGHT ADVISORY five years ago for its entrepreneurship mentality, learned FDD from the best and decided to become an entrepreneur himself at booq. His goal: bringing innovation to the outdated processes of the Transaction Services world he knows so well. Read more: https://lnkd.in/enmVptr9 Jules Uyttenbroeck Stephen Huang Jeff Somers Start it Accelerate | @KBC VLAIO - Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship #booq #Fintech #FDD #Mergers #Acquisitions #Startup #Belgium #StartitKBC
- We're hiring AGAIN 🚀 ! It's been a few months since Jeff joined us as a founding engineer to build the financial data infrastructure for M&A. Entirely of his own accord and with absolutely no pressure from any of us 🔫, he asked if he could share a few words about the experience so far. "Working at booq has been amazing. Jules, Gijs and Stephen are amazing. The learning curve is amazing. The product is amazing. And I'm having sooo much fun!!" – Jeff (probably) Five "amazing"s when we only asked for three. That's the kind of
- We’re in London this week! 🇬🇧 We’ll be meeting prospects, catching up with our UK network, drinking Guinness and enjoying some Sunday roast. If you work in M&A here and want to know more about what we’ve built, we'd be happy to buy you a coffee and hear how you run diligence today. Drop any of us a message and see how booq improves your workflow! Jules Uyttenbroeck Stephen Huang Jeff Somers Gijs Kriger Start it Accelerate | @KBC VLAIO - Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- We've rebranded (for the occasion) 😉 With booq, we'll be at the Odoo Experience later this week showcasing how we plug Odoo data straight into your financial due diligence workflow. Curious to see how it works? Swing by Hall 7, Start-up Zone 3, booth SV8 and we'll show you live. FYI: Don't worry, normal branding returns after the event. Jules Uyttenbroeck Stephen Huang Gijs Kriger Jeff Somers Start it Accelerate | @KBC VLAIO - Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Using Claude chat to build a databook in financial due diligence or corporate finance? Fair, check out our 𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 first. Using Claude Skills, for example, is way more efficient. But make sure you’re aware of the cons. Since our incorporation, we’ve talked to hundreds of parties in the M&A world: FDD providers, corporate finance boutiques, private equity funds. It’s very clear that everyone is in full discovery and adoption mode when it comes to the use of AI tools in their workflows. Companies now know AI is
- In our new blog series 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫, we share our experiences from the field and explain what drove us to found booq. Today we’re starting with the story of our first founder Jules Uyttenbroeck. After five years on the buy-side, Jules saw first-hand how much of M&A still runs on fragmented financial data, Excel, VDRs and endless follow-up. The frustrating part to him was that the underlying financial data is already fully digital. Yet every transaction still involves exporting this data into spreadsheets,
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