Overview
Toon Vanagt is a serial entrepreneur who has been building startups since 1999. A commercial engineer from VUB with a specialisation in business informatics, he co-founded Casius.com in 2000 and then built a portfolio of Belgian data and legal platforms including data.be, lex.be, and e-invoice.be. He served as Managing Partner of data.be from 2012. He co-founded Betacowork coworking space and BeCentral, the Brussels digital campus. He also co-founded Fintech Belgium and is a co-founder of Startups.be.
Career history
- Co-founded Casius.com2000as CTO
- Managing Partner2012data.be
- Managing Partner, lex.be; Chairman, Open Knowledge Belgium; Co-founder, Fintech Belgium2015
- Co-founded Betacowork and BeCentral2017
- Co-founderStartups.be
- FounderBeCentral
- Foundere-invoice
In the news
- Always nice when a fellow Peppol provider such as Dokapi offers the opportunity to openly discuss the challenges in our industry. Thanks, Andy Bunarto for the conversation. In a healthy market competitors strengthen & challenge each other. I’m convinced that transparency, resilience and interoperability benefit our entire Peppol ecosystem. After all, visibility builds trust for providers and their customers alike. How do you track the performance and SLA of your Peppol provider? Feel free to check your provider or Peppol traction
- 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗻’𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀? In this interview, our co-founder Toon Vanagt raises an important question: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲-𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀, 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆? E-invoicing is rapidly becoming critical infrastructure for companies. Once a business depends on Peppol
- How resilient are your invoicing processes, really? Every organization wants a robust Peppol infrastructure, but how well does it perform when circumstances change? Your technology landscape evolves: solution providers are acquired, change strategy or simply stop their service. Digital sovereignty means to make sure your business keeps operating. At Dokapi, we believe a healthy Peppol ecosystem is built on trust, interoperability and resilience. Dependencies should be transparent, alternatives should remain available and business
- How resilient are your invoicing processes, really? Every organization wants a robust Peppol infrastructure, but how well does it perform when circumstances change? Your technology landscape evolves: solution providers are acquired, change strategy or simply stop their service. Digital sovereignty means to make sure your business keeps operating. At Dokapi, we believe a healthy Peppol ecosystem is built on trust, interoperability and resilience. Dependencies should be transparent, alternatives should remain available and business
- Book reveal in Brussels on Sunday! If you’re in Brussels on Sunday (11 AM) and interested in AI, entrepreneurship and what it now takes to build something people actually want, I’d love to see you at Passa Porta Bookshop in the city centre. I will present Audience First with a short reading, some lively debate and drinks afterwards. Co-author Olivier Verbeke will be present too to join the conversation. AI can now build software solutions and platforms in hours. The harder question is: who are you building for? 👉 Please register
- Fourteen people registered for AI Weekend. All fourteen showed up. Everyone came with real questions and wanted answers they could use, not a general introduction to AI. On Saturday morning, Toon Vanagt started working through the canvas with the participants: twenty questions about their own business. Before lunch, Dr. Pierre-Nicolas Schwab and his son Pierre-Raffaele Schwab talked about their own experience with AI in their businesses. Both are Betacowork members; Pierre-Nicolas runs the market research agency IntoTheMinds, and
- If you are attending Munich’s Bits & Pretzels and want to catch up, send me a direct message.
- The countdown to the Digital Finance Summit is officially on! We are thrilled to announce the first batch of confirmed speakers who will be taking the stage at the Digital Finance Summit on 3rd December, with more names coming soon: • Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque – European Commission • Salim Benhoussa – Keytrade Bank • Christopher Franskin – DKV Bank • Toon Vanagt – Data.be / FinTech Belgium Pro-tip: Don’t wait to secure your spot. Get your Early Bird Ticket today (and save nearly €100!): https://lnkd.in/eZncjizE #DFS26
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