Hendrik Keeris
TLDR
Hendrik Keeris co-founded Bizzy with Steve Declercq in 2021, building it into a platform used by 150,000+ professionals monthly to look up European company data, with a EUR 4M raise funding its AI Sales Agent rollout.
Overview
Hendrik Keeris co-founded Bizzy alongside Steve Declercq in 2021, after developing the concept at Vlerick Business School. Bizzy started as a market intelligence tool combining, analyzing, and presenting company data to help sales professionals spend less time searching for prospects and more time building relationships.
The founding insight was simple: salespeople lose too much time on research instead of selling. Bizzy aggregated Belgian and eventually UK company data into a searchable platform. By 2023, more than 150,000 professionals per month were using Bizzy to look up companies.
Bizzy raised EUR 800K in seed funding and later secured a EUR 4M round to fund the build-out of Bizzy's AI Sales Agent, powered by a database of over 34 million European businesses and 76 million professional contacts. The platform has evolved from a market intelligence focus toward automating entire go-to-market processes for both sales and marketing teams.
Nicolas Van Eenaeme's StarApps studio is a key backer and enabler in Bizzy's growth. The company is part of the broader Ghent serial entrepreneur ecosystem.
Career History
- Co-Founder & CEO at Bizzy (2021 - present), B2B sales intelligence and AI sales automation platform
Education
- Master in Financial Management, Vlerick Business School
About
Hendrik built Bizzy from the observation that B2B sales is still too manual. His product-market fit thesis centered on eliminating the research burden from salespeople's workflows. The pivot toward AI Sales Agents is a natural extension of that founding vision into the agentic AI wave.
LinkedIn Voice
Posting style: Active on themes of sales automation, AI in B2B, and ecosystem updates. 8 posts in the batch-3 data set.
Key themes: AI sales agents, company intelligence, B2B go-to-market
Notes
Close connection to Nicolas Van Eenaeme and the StarApps venture studio network. Bizzy's trajectory from search tool to AI agent platform mirrors several similar Belgian B2B SaaS pivots in 2024-2026.