AI · CLIMATE · DEEP TECH
25 years building AI · 100+ AI audits · 1000+ decks reviewed · 25+ investments
Co-founder of Deeploy and Enjins. Built and supervised ML and AI teams across HealthTech, ClimateTech and Mobility for 25 years.
Early-stage portfolio across Climate and AI — backing founders with genuine technology depth. From pre-seed to Series A.
Building something real? Let's talk →1000+ pitchdecks. One pattern: most AI claims don't hold up. I built a tool to verify them — founder background, AI depth, tech reality. One report.
Analyse a pitchdeck →A portfolio of founders with real technology depth — across sectors and stages.
Latest portfolio updates, press, and longer essays on AI and climate — showing the 4 top items of 45 published posts (featured, then draft previews, then optional rank, then newest first). View all posts & news for the full list.
Seven conclusions from 262 pitch decks and seven learnings on expert feedback that increases the real value of AI — scoped loops from VCs, founders, and operators that compound into 101+ reusable diligence rules.
Two decades building AI, and I was still running a multi-agent pipeline with governance on only two of the three lines. How Deeploy's three-lines-of-defence model — and the MCP Server that finally activated the first line — moved control to where it has the most leverage: the input, before the first agent runs.
Dutch energytech startup and Why Commit Capital portfolio company Eddy Grid raised €7.5 million after nearly 900% revenue growth — while staying cash-flow positive.
The wrapper epidemic didn't end — it just learned a new word.
Bastiaan van de Rakt
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