Stephan Akerboom

Entrepreneur and Angel Investor
About

A Small Introduction from Me

I started my career as a sales manager in the real estate industry. There I managed large portfolios in vastly competitive markets such as the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Switzerland. However, my passion for the financial world had soon taken me on the path of becoming a full-time, self-supporting business investor.

Since then, I have gained a solid background in numerous business initiatives around the world. I manage two investment groups in the Netherlands and take an active part in wealth management programs at Credit Suisse. Also, I manage to feed my hunger for traveling and experiencing different cuisines with business trips to the UAE and Asia markets as a real estate consultant.

The little free time I have, I spent with my family, cooking, playing sports with the kids, or capturing glimpses of the universe through the lenses of my camera.

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My Business Philosophy

Stepping on substantial experience and using a vast network of connections to implement a clear and shared business vision is what makes me a good business partner.

Experience
Experience

I have a solid background in the business world, with tens of successful projects behind my back and strong financial expertise.

Connections
Connections

Throughout my business ventures, I established numerous business relationships around Europe and Asia, which benefit the tech start-ups I invest in.

Vision
Vision

Establishing a clear and robust vision, shared across all stakeholders is what makes my business ventures successful in the long run.

START-UPS

Tech Start-ups

Let’s Scale-Up the Market

One of my latest investment projects introduced me to the enormous potential, vast expertise, and encouraging business environment of the tech industry. The potential immediately hooked me. Thus, I decided to start investing in it and helping ambitious tech-startups scale up from local to international markets.

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Investment requirements

I believe in and am looking for start-ups that are in their post-accelerator period, have knowledge about their market, a strategy to penetrate it, and an adequate financial plan in hand. To know more about my investment criteria, please go through the requirements below.

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Investment checklist

Management Team
  • Proven track record of leading successful projects

  • High proactivity and inspiring business commitment

  • Openness to receiving advice and feedback from angel investors

Market Opportunity
  • Unique or highly competitive product/service

  • Identified market segment with proven demand

  • Projected large and growing spending in the service/product category

Go-to-Market Strategy
  • Clear and structured Business Model

  • Strategy to penetrate the market

Financials
  • Logical revenue plans based on market state

  • Financial plan taking in mind revenue shortfalls

  • Adequate gross margins and cash positions

Proceeds Usage
  • To expedite key goals and milestones

  • To increase the company’s market value

  • To strengthen market positioning or capture an analyzed opportunity

Growth Potential
  • Readiness to scale up

  • Growth plan

Competition
  • Identified market competitors

  • Analyzed entry barriers

  • Differentiation strategy – competitive advantage

Technology
  • First-to-market ideas are prioritized over improvements of standard products/services

  • I’m interested only in technologies with commercialization capacity

Exit Strategy
  • I seek high return on investment, due to the high risk of failure in early-stage ventures

  • Realistic exit strategy – how will you, me, and other investors extract financial gains

  • Operational strategy, involving specific steps to achieve exit

Projects

Featured Business Ventures

Secure Group is an international mobile security solution provider located in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Their product line consists of secure devices, applications, and enterprise mobility management solutions, developed in-house, for encrypted mobile communication.

The company has a partner network that spans across five continents to help them in the fight of keeping the world’s most valuable resource, data, safe.

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Contacts

Contacts

Phone:
+31652480941
Email:
stephan@scacapital.tech
Address:
"Tintyava" 13Б, fl. 6,
1113 g.k. Iztok, Sofia

Get in touch

I’m inspired by the limitations technology breaks each day and eager to discuss your role in the disruptive innovation revolution. Don’t be shy, if you have a business idea you believe in, write me right away to scale it up!