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ir@forward.onePaul backs industrial tech founders who build with commercial reality from day one, and scale toward category-defining exits.
Before co-founding FORWARD.one, Paul spent his career at Kempen & Co (now Van Lanschot Kempen), working across both M&A and capital markets. He helped expand the firm’s local Dutch operation into a European investment banking franchise. This gave him a front-row seat to competitive market environments and high-stakes execution.
I look for teams who build with customers, validate fast, and understand that commercialization is the operating system. Market discipline shapes everything: product, price, and ultimately exit potential according to Paul.
Paul focuses on the beating heart of Europe’s industrial economy: advanced hardware, semiconductor innovation, and energy-system transformation. He gravitates to technologies that solve real industrial pain points and can convert engineering excellence into predictable commercial traction.
What he looks for are teams who build with customers, validate fast, and understand that commercialization is the operating system. Market discipline shapes everything: product, price, and ultimately exit potential according to Paul.
Paul embodies FORWARD.one’s stance as Europe’s most commercially oriented industrial tech VC. He pushes teams to anchor their technology in revenue-credible strategies, build scalable sales motions early, and prepares investors and founders, from day one for institutional follow-on capital.
In Paul’s worldview, the market is always right, and the best founders listen early, adjust fast, and scale sustainably and decisively
The journey of entrepreneurship is a rocky road that demands a lot from founders. I am grateful to be working with intelligent and driven people.
