Sabine VanderLinden

Activate Innovation Ecosystems | Tech Ambassador | Founder of Alchemy Crew Ventures + Scouting for Growth | Chair, Board Member, Advisor | Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow-Bayes Business School

I don't just talk about innovation, AI, workforce or digital transformation— I build the bridges that make things real.

As Founder & Venture-Client Partner of Alchemy Crew Ventures, I run global R&D + Adoption Labs that connect Fortune 500 insurers and corporates with the most brilliant tech ventures on the planet. Think of us as the “fast lane” between startup brilliance and enterprise adoption. My themes include FinTech/ InsurTech and deploying AI at scale responsibly. 

What this looks like in numbers:
📍 Accelerated 160+ ventures and sourced 55,000+ startups worldwide
📍 Invested in 35+ early stage startups
📍 Delivered exits like FitSense → Zurich (2018), MyFutureNow → L&G (2019), and Tia Tech → Sapiens (2020)
📍 Created Insurer-led Acceleration and Scaleup programs that turned pilot purgatory into scalable commercial success

But the real story? I help founders land their first million-dollar client, build authentic personal brands, and help corporates cut through the noise to adopt tech that drives real growth.

My world revolves around:
📍 Venture Clienting 2.0 & Corporate Innovation Frameworks
📍 AI (ethics, adoption, emerging risks)
📍 Climate Resilience, Risk Futures & Sustainability Transformation
📍 The Future of Work (where humans + tech thrive together)

Beyond Alchemy Crew:
📍 Co-editor of the bestselling INSURTECH Book
📍 Wrote forewords for the Future of Insurance and Momentum
📍 Lecturer on Corporate Venturing at Bayes Business School
📍 Board + advisory roles across VCs, Scaleups (The CareVoice), foundations (Women to Watch), standards (ACORD Solutions) & global insurers
📍 Top 10 Business Podcast "Scouting for Growth" 
📍 Recognized with 10+ awards, including Most Influential CEO – Insurance Corporate Ventures (2024/2025)

My channels beyond LinkedIn:
x.com: @SabineVdL
instagram: @sabinevdlofficial
Medium: @sabine_vdl
Podcast: Scouting for Growth and Beyond Tech Frontiers
Newsletter: alchemycrew.ventures

What drives me?
Creating value where others see friction.
Turning hype into measurable outcomes.
And making sure technology becomes a force for good, not just another buzzword.

Award List (10+): Insurance Times-Tech & Innovation Awards Winner (2018), Grant Thornton-Face of a Vibrant Economy (2018), Business Insurance-Women to Watch Honoree (2019), Corporate Vision-Venture Validation Firm of the Year (2021), Finalist Women in Insurance Perseverance Award (2021), Awarded Perseverant Company to Watch in (2021), ACORD Awards (2020/2023), Most Influential CEO-Insurance Corporate Ventures (2024/2025).

Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer & Venture Partner

Delivering venture labs that accelerate, industrialize and democratize the way tech ventures engage with corporations. These labs apply acceleration, co-creation, and commercialization techniques to de-risk the way insurers and financial institutions collaborate, grow, and scale their venture-led growth initiatives.

Also, systematizing for a select group of growth ventures the way their engagement with corporations.

You can find out more 👉🏽 https://alchemycrew.com/

DLTG fund

- Forming & Creating a new concept of Venture Capital 2.0 -> structured, automated & reliable on large scale
- Negotiating with partner Ecosystem of Accelerators, Venture Capital Funds and LP's
- Creating an Investment Thesis, financial models & process blueprints
- Negotiating government support

General Partner

IndigiLabs

- Helped over 50 startups with fundraising, MVP builds and Product Strategy
- Served various interim roles as CEO, CTO, CSO and COO
- Build global remote teams in all corners of the world, with over 300 world-class players found and trained.

Created a fully automated opportunities generation engine processing 960+ million monthly web crawls and follow up RPA automation in search of opportunities.

Created a 95% automated RPA sales lead engine that processes over 360 daily conversations about startup fundraising, growth, or investment.

Managing Partner & Founder

Dirk Struan Ltd

Partner | Wealth Manager at Multi Family Office

Managing Partner

Heaven Protocol

- Helped to form an overall strategy for full Metaverse project.
- Lead strategic investors negotiations.
- Left the project thanks to difference of opinion on its required leadership

Executive Producer

RUR University

Head Of Research And Development

Doublon.IO

Completed the product roadmap and continued with an ongoing engagement on strategic management.

Helped to build a solid business case, product roadmap, and 12-month plan which led to a seed investment of €1.8 million.

Collaborated with the entire C-board team on the definition of digital marketing strategy aligned to the team's go-to-market plan.

Fintech and Regtech platform for worldwide payments using blockchain technology.

Chief Technology Officer

Simplifate

Performed several niche sector researches and business models simulations to understand hidden inefficiencies in the Europe Europe B2B Enterprise Software market.

Built from scratch an interesting go-to-market plan and full company projection. The company was bootstrapped with minimum seed investment to $3 million in total revenue in 21 months.

Created new business models for our products and joint venture products with partners extensively as well.

Created a brand new team of 26 developers and provided leadership to that team.

Oversaw complete financial, operations, technology, and personnel planning.

Successfully launched several high tech products in SaaS vertical and cooperated on more significant deals with major regional players.

CEO & Founder

Angel Ventures Group

Led a small team for product growth with a focus on user acquisition.

Managed two outsourced DevOps teams. They were introduced and trained in Agile.

Performed market analysis using primary and secondary research methodologies to build an evolving product roadmap. Managed funding and government negotiations.

Created full company business plans, negotiated with investors and secured 2M $ funding.

CTO & Co Founder

Hewlett-Packard

-	Main responsibility for full Business Portfolio of HPE in CEE region
-	Build and lead of extended teams with focus on new service offerings creation, market direction vision and acting as company growth enabler.
-	Introducing DevOps, Cloud Microservices, Green House, Smart Grid & Knowledge Economy visions to major clients, forming their 3 to 10 year strategy  
-	Taking projects through full lifecycle, Idea Development, Selection Process, Sales, Approval, Execution and hand over to operations
-	Vision Leader: Propagating new style of IT vision within the region, presenting & forming strategies with Alliance partners (Gartner, IDC, Sitecore, Mobile Iron, Microsoft, i.e.)

CEE Enterprise Services Business Development Manager

-	Delivery manager for multinational clients within EMEA region.
-	Responsible for all phases of deal, pre-sales, bid process, delivery, operations. 
-	Leader of organization consisting 150 employees, responsible for several operational & project teams within 20 countries.
-	Ownership for capacity and capability management on accounts, creation and promotion of improvement programs.

Account Delivery Manager EMEA

-	Main responsibility for EUC, Cloud Strategy, Green House & Cross Functional Towers 
-	Taking projects through full lifecycle, Bid Mgmt., Sales, Global SOAR, Execution and hand over to operations 
-	More than 60 projects in 20 countries, competing with all major outsourcing players, multi vendor space integration initiatives,  
-	Outlining solution architecture descriptions to customer executives, business sponsor’s, internal sales representatives and Service delivery managers in EMEA.
-	Performing functional analysis of customer requirements.
-	Developing transition documents.
-	Representing company on solution workshops with worldwide architects and sign off meetings with executive staff.

EMEA Enterprise Solution Architect

CEE GFS Operational Lead

Managing team for due diligence and technical vision scenario in four CEE countries for major clients.

CEE Technical Discovery Team Leader

Managing Partner VC Fund 2.0 | Family Office | CxO | Technology Polymath | Entrepreneur twitter.com/Skzites

I am a seasoned C-level executive, entrepreneur, and technology enthusiast with over 20 years of experience in delivering value and impact across various domains and industries. I have worked with both Fortune 500 and startup companies worldwide, applying my expertise in RegTech, FinTech, MadTech, DLT, and Blockchain to solve complex business challenges and create innovative solutions.

As a General Partner at DLTG fund, I am forming and creating a new concept of Venture Capital 2.0, which is structured, automated, and reliable on a large scale. I am also a Partner and Wealth Manager at a Multi Family Office, where I provide strategic and financial advice to high-net-worth individuals and families. My mission is to help entrepreneurs and investors achieve their goals and visions, by offering them insights, opportunities, and support. I am always curiously learning anything new and looking around the corner to apply it.

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