The Syndicate One Podcast

Europe's regulators put everything online in the name of transparency, but it's scattered across a dozen sites and formats, and no human team can keep up with the flood of information. That's how regulation turned into a hidden market. Pepijn Mores spent years pushing new ideas inside ING, Amazon, and Accenture, building AI for EU projects back when GPT-2 was still rough, before leaping with Chris...

What if your AI interviewers are pulling better answers than your human team, just because people aren't worried about being judged? Filip Schouwenaars has been building in AI since 2013, back when it was neither cool nor easy. He was DataCamp's first hire, rose to VP of Engineering, then moved to ML research at VITO. In January 2026, he joined Conveo, a Y Combinator S24-backed AI research platfor...

Spentys had customers walk out to build their own thing. Six months later, they showed up again. So what does that really say about the whole 'vibe coding' threat to SaaS? Louis-Philippe Broze co-founded Spentys in Brussels while still in his master's. He'd just wrapped a full-time internship at Wooclap. Now he's on Forbes 30 Under 30, and Spentys has 24 people split between Brussels and Georgia....

"To ship our first prototype, I had to show up unannounced at our Serbian dev agency's door. Today? I'd vibe code the whole thing."  Alexis Eggermont co-founded Accountable. If you're a freelancer in Belgium or Germany, you probably know it. Visma owns it now, but Alexis has been with Syndicate One since day one. He sat down with Robin Wauters and walked through eight years of building from zero....

 "Today is a good time to build - just make sure you understand the direction the market is heading before you start." In this episode, we sit down with Tanguy Goretti, CTO at HEXA, to unpack the new reality of the tech ecosystem. Drawing from his experience, Tanguy shares what he has learned, what he would do differently, and why he has never been more optimistic about what lies ahead for Europea...

Robin Wauters sat down with @Séverine Nolf on the Syndicate One podcast.  "Every day building my own company is so many learnings. I really don't see it as a risk." 📍 Speed is the one structural advantage startups have over incumbents. Séverine's rule: be a first adopter in everything, without exception. 🔄 On being a female founder across tech, finance and consulting: she does not dwell on the b...

Robin Wauters sat down with @Sebastien Deletaille on the Syndicate One podcast "I like the idea that with few people, you can build something that scales and impacts millions." 📍 Great teams on the wrong market go nowhere. Sebastien watched sharper engineers than him get outpaced by someone on a better wave. Market choice, he argues, is what separates the top league from the rest. 🔄 On picking i...

Robin Wauters sat down with Laurent Hublet on the Syndicate One podcast: "I have 1,200 days to deliver impact. My focus is making the best out of every one of them." 📍 Laurent Hublet got a call on a Friday the 13th and had an hour to decide whether to become Brussels Minister for Economy, Employment and Digital Economy. He called his wife from a client call and said yes. 🔄 Six weeks later, his t...

Serge Morel, co-founder and CTO at Powernaut, is reinventing how energy systems work from Wintercircus (where else?). He talks us through: 🚀 Getting top talents to join and work toward the bigger purpose 🌎 How remote hiring helps bring diversity into a (local) bubble 📌 How growth also comes from product breadth, ... and more!

Kimia Namadchi, co-founder and CEO of CurveCatch, joined Robin Wauters on our podcast and unpacked: 📌 How CurveCatch identified and now tackles a massively overlooked problem: the fact that around 80% of bra-wearers may be wearing the wrong size, and why the solution lies in data and better guidance. ☺️ How CurveCatch evolved from supporting their family-run brick-and-mortar bra shops into a (ver...

How Donna is reinventing the CRM experience for field sales reps globally with AI at the core, out of Belgium 🚀.

Vincent Declercq, co-founder and CEO at Dalton, sits down with Robin Wauters and shares what is like to pivot to an entirely new startup with the same co-founder and bring AI to one of the first product of the internet, the website 🚀. 

Out of Ghent’s Wintercircus, Jurimesh is quietly reinventing legal due diligence for legal teams far beyond Belgium. Jorrit Willaert shares their trajectory with Robin Wauters here. 

Syndicate One is on a mission to elevate the 🇧🇪 tech ecosystem. Our very own Robin Wauters tells you why, and how, we do it 🚀.

Constantin Claes, co-founder at FirstMovers, sits down with Robin Wauters to tell us more about why early operators matter in building startups, and how to inspire young talents to choose startups over more traditional career paths 💪.

Listen to Thor Gutierrez, co-founder and CEO at Sirona Technologies, recounting how he left Silicon Valley and Tesla to maximize marginal impact - i.e. solve climate change by building machines that remove CO2 from the air, in Belgium. 

Tune in to Marie Martens sharing the journey of Tally, that began with “we can do better than what exists” and transformed into a hyper-growth, fully bootstrapped success 🚀.

Aikido Security is a perfect example of the ecosystem flywheel in motion.   But how do you go from “scratching your own itch” to building a hyper-growth company?  Roeland Delrue, the co-founder and COO of Aikido Security, takes us through the ins and outs of that journey.