Gonnissen had spent two and a half years as manager of corporate venturing at Bekaert before leaving last month for a university venturing fund.
Danny Gonnissen (pictured), former head of Belgium-based industrials company Bekaert’s corporate venturing unit, has re-emerged as investment partner at QBIC Venture Partners, manager of the €30m ($40m) university venturing fund in the region.
Ghent University (UGent) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), in collaboration with the University of Antwerp, set up the inter-university seed capital fund earlier in the month. The fund will also support industrial spinouts if they are based on substantial cooperation with the universities.
Gonnissen had…
