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
- Securing the laptops, phones, tablets of every team member remains a critical point that many organizations (even the big ones) are struggling with. Devices are not just what allows your team to do work or where they might process/download some sensitive documents. These devices now all have stored credentials to 'act' like us as we go about our work - because nobody likes to type their password 100x a day - even more when some AI prompts are going at it in the background. Some thoughts (with limited information) on how this
- No time to Password 🔑😎 By making your laptop or phone a key that it's you signing in - we're removing the need for passwords (that can be guessed or stolen) and awkward authenticator apps on phones. All that, while also checking if your laptop, tablet or phone is safe to use for work. Available today for both free an paid accounts.
- XFA now works as an identity behind Google Workspace. Google Workspace customers can now have device security verification on any Google Workspace app using this new type of integration, and for non-Google apps you do not need 'custom SSO'-functionality anymore. Also - fully "passwordless" - since we'll know it's you when you're coming from a secure device linked to you. Included in both free and paid plans.
- Your chance to hear Gijs’ take on the future of identity 🗓️
- To solve the BYOD coverage problem, it’s essential to make sure that anybody, from anywhere can just fix their security issues and sign-in. No IT team needed. Continuous effort from the team to get this experience as frictionless as possible!
- Most common question I get asked: "Is XFA an antivirus?" - No it's not! XFA verifies and helps at every login to get every security setting correct, for every user, from anywhere, no matter who bought the device. Do you want a specific fancy antivirus on every device? We've got ya covered ;-)
- Traditional centralized IT doesn't scale. The main challenge holding companies back from 100% security coverage on every devices used for work is operations and the people factor (choice, privacy, ...) Creating an amazing user experience so users self-verify & secure their devices is central to allow companies to enforce a standard on any device, from anywhere. At XFA we tirelessly focus on every click take away any barrier for organisations to get their employees, contractors secure.
- 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!
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