YD

Yann Decroos

VC and PE at Calista

Luxembourg

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Private Equity

    2024

    Direct & fund investments

  • Venture Capital Investor

    2019 - 2023

    Early stage Venture Capital fund, covering Europe and Israel. Early backer of 5 unicorns: Skype, Wix, WalkMe, K Health and TBOL.

2019 - 2023

  • Mentor

    2019 - 2023

    Mentor to participants: Provided training, 1-1 mentoring and led workshops (50+ attendees) on dealflow analysis.

2017 - 2018

  • Customer Success Manager

    2017 - 2018

    Social intelligence platform (SaaS) providing AI-powered listening and analytics across all media types. High growth tech startup that grew from 100 to 250+ employees while I was there. • Managed own 25 clients: Increased revenue by up- and cross selling accounts, built social listening and benchmarking dashboards, onboarded new clients, personal client churn rate of 0% • Implementation of sentiment analysis: Built emotion, product and issue filters in back-end using Python to apply to results • Consulted clients from varying industries and transformed their online strategy by improving their social listening capabilities (often from scratch)

2016 - 2016

  • Consultant Funds Banking

    2016 - 2016

2016 - 2016

  • Corporate Finance Intern

    2016 - 2016

2015 - 2015

  • Consulting Intern

    2015 - 2015

  • Trading Intern Financial Markets

    2014 - 2014

2012 - 2014

  • Co Founder

    2012 - 2014

    • A company creating high quality aluminium cases for the iPhone • Finalist of the national entrepreneurial competition (Young Entreprise)

2013 - 2013

  • Financial Communication Intern

    2013 - 2013