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
- Avis à mon réseau d'entrepreneuses et entrepreneurs, il y a un truc de malade à faire ici. Si j'avais quelques cheveux en plus et quelques cheveux gris en moins, j'aurais aimé creuser la question... go go go 🚀 Hexa Thibaud Elziere Quentin Nickmans
- 2nd essai de post 😅 Il y a deux ans, j’ai failli m’associer avec Alexandre Ducoeur Martins chez Hexa Scale. On s’est tout de suite bien entendus, mais on n’a finalement pas franchi la ligne d’arrivée ensemble. Alexandre a alors fait ce que font les entrepreneurs : il a relancé quelque chose de neuf, dans l’immobilier, le monde qu’il connaît et qu’il aime le plus. Il m’a proposé d’investir. Honnêtement ? Je n’avais pas tout à fait saisi l’opportunité. Mais mon beau-frère et ami Nicolas Péterbroeck, expert en immobilier, était
- Most PE investors watch software companies change. We change them, as co-founders joining their journey. That’s the opportunity right now. AI is changing how niche and vertical software creates value. The investors who win will be the ones who can pick a company and build it after the deal. Being an operator-investor today is the best seat in the game. And Hexa Scale is the best place on earth to take it. After Youtrust, Veevart and Filiz, we’re picking up speed. So we’re hiring two 2️⃣ investment profiles in Paris: → Investment
- I became an LP by accident. I lost my parents early and inherited the family's private equity allocation. Our private bank (no commission on this) curated the funds. Brand names you'd all recognize. Their new platform now shows the aggregate for 6 of my 35+ funds (excl. Hexa and affiliates). The most "conservative" ones: top European brands in buyout and secondaries. → Net IRR: 8.6% (before tax) → DPI: 0.41x → TVPI: 1.36x Half of the value sits in 2016–2020 vintages. For buyout and secondaries, that's no longer early days. Not a
- 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
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