# Stéphane Ronse - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Stéphane Ronse for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-07-31

## Identity
- Name: Stéphane Ronse
- Role: Founder & CEO
- Company: Foodbag
- Location: Belgium

## Expertise
- bootstrapping
- mergers-acquisitions
- scaling
- governance
- belgian-tech-ecosystem
- angel-investing

## About
TLDR

Stéphane Ronse is Founder & CEO at Foodbag.

Background

Stéphane Ronse tells the story of founding Foodbag in 2014 with €200 on his savings account, a self-built WordPress site and recipes photographed in his own kitchen, growing it into Belgium's largest local meal-box service delivering to 13,000 households weekly. He walks through each funding step: two operationally involved business angels (~€150,000), the merger with competitor Smartmat financed by family fund Korys, the cash-funded 100% acquisition of 15gram, and Colruyt Group's direct entry (Korys and Colruyt now hold 82% together). He stresses lessons like 'schoenmaker blijf bij je leest' (outsource what you're not good at), staying open with competitors, keeping a frugal mindset after raising money, and calculated naivety as a founder trait  -  comparing entrepreneurship to climbing a fog-covered Mount Everest where not seeing the summit is what lets you start. He also discusses the failed Rayon online-supermarket experiment and his current angel investing.

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Appears alongside

Andy Coomans (https://techwiki.ai/people/andy-coomans/llms.txt)

Talks about

Bootstrapping (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/bootstrapping/llms.txt) · M&A (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/mergers-acquisitions/llms.txt) · Scaling (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/scaling/llms.txt) · Governance & boards (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/governance/llms.txt) · Belgian tech ecosystem (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/belgian-tech-ecosystem/llms.txt) · Angel Investing (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/angel-investing/llms.txt) · Corporate venturing (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/corporate-venturing/llms.txt) · E-commerce (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/e-commerce/llms.txt) · Entrepreneurship (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/entrepreneurship/llms.txt) · Fundraising (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/fundraising/llms.txt)

From public interviews and talks · updated 2026-08-01.
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## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [person] Andy Coomans: https://techwiki.ai/people/andy-coomans/llms.txt
- [concept] Bootstrapping: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/bootstrapping/llms.txt
- [concept] M&A: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/mergers-acquisitions/llms.txt
- [concept] Scaling: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/scaling/llms.txt
- [concept] Governance & boards: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/governance/llms.txt
- [concept] Belgian tech ecosystem: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/belgian-tech-ecosystem/llms.txt
- [concept] Angel Investing: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/angel-investing/llms.txt
- [concept] Corporate venturing: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/corporate-venturing/llms.txt
- [concept] E-commerce: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/e-commerce/llms.txt
- [concept] Entrepreneurship: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/entrepreneurship/llms.txt
- [concept] Fundraising: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/fundraising/llms.txt
- [company] Smartmat: https://techwiki.ai/companies/smartmat/llms.txt
- [company] Korys: https://techwiki.ai/companies/korys/llms.txt

## How to Reach
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/stephane-ronse/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/stephane-ronse/llms-full.txt

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