Overview
Quentin Nickmans is the Belgian co-founder of Hexa, the startup studio previously known as eFounders. He co-founded the studio in 2011 alongside French entrepreneur Thibaud Elziere, after studying Finance and Business Administration at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. The studio operates across Brussels and Paris and by 2022 had launched over 40 startups, created around 2,800 jobs, raised 700 million EUR, and reached a portfolio valuation of 5 billion EUR. The studio rebranded from eFounders to Hexa in 2022.
Career history
- EducationSolvay Brussels School of Economics and ManagementFinance and Business Administration
- Co-founded eFounders (now Hexa) with Thibaud Elziere2011
- Portfolio investmentsEquify, PartnerStack, Yousign, Upflow, Spendesk, Foxintelligence, Station, Sliteamong others
- FounderHexa
In the news
- Avec les années, j’ai dû admettre une chose : j’ai longtemps sous-estimé l’importance du rôle de CFO dans une boite. Mettez un excellent CFO à côté d’un excellent entrepreneur et vous obtenez une potion magique 🧪. Maintenant que j’ai compris ça, je ne peux plus m’en passer :) Nous cherchons le prochain CFO de Hexa. CFO n’est peut-être même pas forcément le terme idéal pour ce poste tellement il est singulier, on a mis Directeur Financier. Hexa est aujourd’hui construit autour de trois activités : 1) Start, où nous créons des
- I discovered The IPEM conference about a year ago. Although we have been in the private equity market with Hexa for the last 15 years, it is only recently that we developed the Hexa Scale strategy involving much more financial means, which made me discover this conference, thanks to Arnaud de Follin. I'm delighted to be a speaker at the Emerging Managers conference organized by Sagard, thank you Emmanuelle Genin for making this happen. Wednesday 9th @ 2PM - Sagard Emerging Manager Summit (Summit room 3 or 4 tbc) And of course,
- B2B still runs on invoices that don't get paid. 💸 Upflow has spent 8 years fixing that: accounts receivable, chasing cash, getting invoices actually paid. Today they stop selling a tool and name the category: Financial Relationship Management. New brand, new site, AI agents 🤖 on top doing the job ! Everyone is bolting agents onto old software. Upflow rebuilt the ground first. 🔨 I've watched this climb for years. I just joined the board, next to Alex Louisy. One of the best-positioned companies in the Hexa portfolio to take
- I like this one by Clay - be responsible with AI writing. #1 All ideas and sentences need to be yours #2 You think while you write #3 A good piece : more time spent on crafting than reading it #4 Shorter is better
- Bart De Wever wrote the most honest book on 🇪🇺 Europe (and Belgium) and it's right to win I've read. I finished 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒑é𝒓𝒊𝒕é in 24 hours, on vacation. Rare for a book by a sitting Prime Minister. No party bashing. No slogans. Just history — Singapore, the US, China — showing how nations that got rich did it by creating wealth first, then redistributing it. Not the other way around. His core thesis: 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥.
- I'm so glad Thibault CHASSAGNE joins me as Senior Partner, after a decade building Virtuo into one of Europe's top mobility companies. Thibault follows Augustin, who joined me to initiate Hexa Scale and is working hard on Veevart and Filiz to grow them to the next level of success. Same pattern as when I partnered on Youtrust, the deal with whom the Hexa Scale story all started. 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫-𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, that barbarian word, but it says it all. Not classic PE. People who've actually built something, joining to unlock
- Yousign is now live with its rebrand from Yousign We partnered with Luc P. and Antoine Louiset in 2019, when Yousign was a French e-signature challenger taking on DocuSign. Revenue went from €2M to €40M+, mainly under the leadership of Alban Sayag. Canyon got acquired. Thousands of businesses across Europe 🇪🇺 now trust their services. This one also happens to be the first story behind what became Hexa Scale: backing existing companies instead of only launching new ones, and unlock their growth. The name change isn't
- I need to learn to celebrate. 15 years building Hexa. Plenty of bad decisions, plenty of failures. But even more wins I never stopped to enjoy. My relentlessness is the failure here. Working on it. This week I got to celebrate Mathilde Collin receiving a French recognition for (ao) what she's built with Front — real human moments, sincere speeches, music that actually moved the room. Let's celebrate Mathilde (and Laurent Perrin) properly. Impact like that deserves more than a scroll-by.
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