Entrepreneur-in-residence

We are very excited that two very successful and experienced people have joined Rockstart to provide our 10 teams with coaching on a daily basis. We’d like to take a moment to present them to you here.

Sebastiaan Hooft (Entrepreneur in residence)

Serial entrepreneur and advisor

A pioneer in the Dutch internet retailing starting in 2003, Hooft built a string of successful internet, fashion and media firms that engineered ground-breaking e-commerce in The Netherlands. Hooft advised leading venture capital firms on their internet investments and worked on a director level at a successful venture listed in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Since 2011 Hooft focused his skills on charity and serves on advisory boards of growing companies.

Hooft is a guru in operational efficiency and specializes in helping startups find focus, raise funding and in a later stage, exit their company.

Joris van Heukelom (Expert in Residence)

CoFounder MakerStreet, Chairman IAB

Currently Partner in MakerStreet, Joris was one of the first to kick of a start-up related long term initiative in the Netherlands in 2011. Joris has got a decade of digital knowledge, amongst others as CEO at Sanoma Digital, and will be a source of information towards the Rockstart-entrepreneurs concerning product development, how to work out the ideal pitch and smart ‘ to-market’ -strategies.

Joris also has deep inside knowledge on the workings of large corporations and can help the startups on how to establish partnerships and do sales with big companies.