Overview
Veelaert is a former Cybersecurity advisor who co-founded XFA in September 2021 with Gijs Van Laer. The company is based in Antwerp and closed a EUR 1.5M seed round in December 2025, led by ScaleFund and Curiosity, with participation from PMV and Seeder Fund.
As CEO of XFA, Veelaert leads commercial and product direction on a device-security product for unmanaged personal, freelancer, and BYOD devices that fall outside classic MDM deployments. The product enforces Zero Trust device posture without invasive controls on personal hardware.
Career history
In the news
- Amazing milestone to get selected by a globally trusted brand such as Mastercard . Looking forward to work together with the Mastercard Lighthouse team to scale XFA’s technology across Europe. Special thanks to Morgane and Piera for kickstarting this adventure!
- I'm not going to say who, but somebody in our team is very addicted to AI... (🙋♂️)
- Fun culture fact of XFA: Every Thursday the team take turns to bake and bring cake to the office. 🍰 It's not the main reason we like coming to the office, but it's up there.
- Got to spend a day with Anthropic's Claude team! My takeaways from the sessions: - "Engineer every problem." Automate away the overhead, not only in product but in sales, finance, support, hiring, legal, reporting, ... . Taking it off the table in every role lets your team focus on what they're uniquely good at. - "Let's graduate from chat." Managing 20 sessions and chatting with agents in real time hurts the brain. Now that everybody can code, Anthropic sees teams build custom dashboards and tools for each process, tailored to
- It's one of our metrics to make sure users don't get blocked on their next login. Showing the right information, at the right time, in a clear overview - really makes the difference. More to come.
- AI is changing everything. Can you make something people remember? We’d love to meet you.
- NO NOT IN 3D!Note to self: don’t ask to “print my badge pls” without detailed instructions that normal paper is fine. Thx Philippe, we know you have a 3D printer 🙃 Anyway, see you at Vivatech in Paris 🇫🇷
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