# Niels Bessemans - Full Context for AI Agents > This file provides comprehensive context about Niels Bessemans for AI agents. > Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia > Last updated: 2026-07-13 ## Identity - Name: Niels Bessemans - Role: Co-Founder & CEO - Company: Optiflux - Location: Holsbeek, Belgium - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niels-bessemans ## About Niels Bessemans is co-founder and CEO of Optiflux, a company he co-founded in February 2021. He is based in Holsbeek. Before that, he worked at KU Leuven, where he was a postdoctoral researcher from January 2018 to July 2021 and, from March 2018 to July 2021, held a VLAIO innovation mandate as innovation manager. From August 2013 to February 2018 he held a PhD fellowship from IWT, and in July 2013 he had a student job at the Flanders Centre of Postharvest Technology. He studied at KU Leuven, completing a bachelor's degree in bioscience engineering with a focus on biosystems engineering in 2011 and a Master of Science in Bioscience Engineering in 2013, followed by a PhD in bioscience engineering in 2018. He took the MBA Bootcamp at Flanders Business School in 2017 and 2018 and a postgraduate programme in corporate finance at KU Leuven in 2018 and 2019. ## Related Pages Agents can crawl these for connected context: - [company] Optiflux: https://techwiki.ai/companies/optiflux/llms.txt ## Recent News - [2026-07-09] ๐—” ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—น๐˜‚๐˜…! ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŒ We're proud to announce that Optiflux has raised โ‚ฌ2.5 million to accelerateโ€ฆ (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/niels-bessemans_optiflux-raised-25m-activity-7480979106554257409-Ks7M) - [2026-06-25] ๐Ÿš€ ๐–๐ข๐ฃ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ž๐ข๐ž๐ง, ๐ž๐ง ๐๐š๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ฃ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ž ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ณ๐จ๐ž๐ค ๐ง๐š๐š๐ซ ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ง๐ข๐ž๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐š! Bij Optiflux zijn weโ€ฆ (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/niels-bessemans_vacature-installatie-en-service-engineer-activity-7475894797858213889-_dlX) - [2026-06-25] ๐Ÿ ๐•๐š๐ง๐๐š๐š๐  ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฃ๐ž ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ƒรฉ ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐  ๐ข๐ง ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž! ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Ben je vandaag op Dรฉ Perendag?โ€ฆ (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/niels-bessemans_optiflux-perendag-peren-activity-7475832249712619521-urMZ) ## How to Reach - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niels-bessemans - Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/niels-bessemans/llms.txt - Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/niels-bessemans/llms-full.txt --- Generated by TechWiki.ai | The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia To claim and maintain this page: https://techwiki.ai/claim