Overview
Tijl Coenen is a co-founder of fyndera, a role he has held since September 2025, and is based in Brussels. Since January 2026 he has also been a go-to-market advisor at Inku. He co-founded Tectonic in December 2023, holding that role until December 2024, and has been with Tectonic again since January 2025.
Before that, Coenen worked at Deliverect, where he was a partner manager from July 2022 and then market lead for DACH from June 2023 until April 2024. Earlier in 2022 he worked in machine learning at Brainjar, and from June 2020 to August 2021 he was in strategic partner management at tink.
He studied applied economics at KU Leuven, completing a bachelor's degree in 2018 and a master's degree in business economics with a focus on entrepreneurship in 2019, followed by an advanced master's in artificial intelligence in 2022. He also studied business and managerial economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and spent an exchange in applied economics at the Université de Montréal.
Career history
In the news
- I didn't think we would hit this year's targets. Not because I don't believe in our team, but because we keep adding more work for the same amount of people, and hey, it's gotta break sometime. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The team outdid themselves this year, smashing every goal we set at the start of the year once more. 👉 A hackathon across 7 cities with 1.000+ applications 👉 380+ applications for the pitching competition, 60% international, €300K CLA prize money 👉 1.500+ attendees: top funds, top founders, top enterprises, top speakers ( Roeland
- T-8 days until we're ready to rock again! Tectonic is taking another step up this year so time to build the #1 place for European builders. Step up you say? 👉 First edition of the hackathon with close to 1.000 registrations across 6 cities. 👉 300K prize for the winners of this year's pitching competition, 400+ applications of which 60%+ international 👉 Speaker lineup with legendary funds (Balderton, Seedcamp, HV) and founders ( Bar Winkler, Dieter De Mesmaeker) 👉 (Finally) taking the afterparty serious with Technotonic on October
- Proud of the Tectonic team for stepping up! There's no other pitching competition in the country that offers this type of exposure or cash prize from top funds like 100IN, Baseline Community + Fund, & ScaleFund. The message to to all startups that are serious is simple: Hit that apply button! 🚀
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