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David Waroquier

CEO of SHIPSTA, Venture Capital, Operations, Board Member and Start-Up Advisor

Luxembourg

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

early stage investor
Technology investments
Russia
Investments
Private Equity
Start-ups
Venture Capital
Executive Management
Due Diligence
Business Strategy
Portfolio Management
Team Leadership
Mergers
Project Finance
Financial Analysis
Early Stage
Business Valuation
Strategic Planning
Mergers & Acquisitions
Investor Relations

Education

Work Experience

2020 - 2024

  • CEO

    2020 - 2024

    SHIPSTA is a European market leader in the field of LogTech and provides an end-to-end logistics digital procurement platform. SHIPSTA addresses the full value chain of procurement in the industry, from spot buying to most complex tendering, offering integrated modules like rate management, freight calculator, rate search, document management or advanced analytics, all this across all mode of transportation, Sea, Air, Road freight and more.

2019 - 2022

  • Board Member

    2019 - 2022

    Yva.ai is a secure and ethical predictive analytics platform which analyzes the digital behavior of employees and provides insights that improve retention rate and business performance. Yva.ai taps into the corporate digital footprint of employees’ activities, and uses Deep Learning methods pre-trained on company’s historical data to predict employee turnover and generate significant HR-related insights. Yva.ai platform predicts resignations of key employees with extremely high 86% accuracy (tested on “blind” cross-validation tests), detects and anticipates employee burn-out conditions, provides organizational network analysis (ONA) and real time scientifically tested engagement metrics.

2018 - 2022

  • Board Advisor

    2018 - 2022

    Flo Health is a developer of Flo, the fastest growing AI-driven women’s health app that encompasses solutions for girls and women at every stage of their life (start of menstruation, cycle tracking, preparation for conception, pregnancy, early motherhood, menopause). With 100 million users around the Globe, Flo prioritizes safety and keeps a sharp focus on being the most trusted digital source for women's health information. Flo intensively uses Data Science and AI to deliver the most personalized content and services available.

2015 - 2022

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2022

    SynerScope, the next generation platform that provides analytics solutions to help discover critical insights from massive amounts of data, including dark data, and turning it into useful information and insights. SynerScope combines Scientific Visualization Technologies (MRI scanner), ultrafast predictive analytics and machine learning on top of its proprietary enterprise data navigation, -search and -linking.

2018 - 2020

  • Board Member

    2018 - 2020

    DreamTeam, the ultimate eSports team building, analytics and skill-growing platform, now available for CS:GO and League Of Legends

  • Operating Partner

    2006 - 2020

    Mangrove Capital Partners is specializing in early stage technology investments . Mangrove’s mission is to help turn visions into realities by providing financing, thoughtful advice, relevant experience and deep industry relationships to our portfolio companies as a means to drive capital appreciation for our investors.

RedPoints

2016 - 2019

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2019

    Based in Barcelona, RedPoints technology is designed to detect counterfeit goods being sold online, such as sportswear and designer handbags, automating the sending of cease and desist requests to speed up the process of removing fake goods from sale.

2008 - 2018

  • Board Member

    2008 - 2018

2013 - 2016

  • Board Member

    2013 - 2016

SecureWave

2004 - 2006

  • Operations Manager

    2004 - 2006