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/

AICharm

We enhance AI's understanding of emotions by analyzing five input channels (audio, video, text, brainwaves, wearable device data) and improving its expression of emotions. We enhance audio content, video representation of the digital avatar, articulation, facial expressions, and infuse emotions and personalities for more meaningful emotional expression.

Chief Executive Officer

Ads 3.0

MetaForest

150k$ sales in 2 month
partnership with 5 NFT companies

MindBalance

30+ team, have 3 grants, first neuroscience app for teenagers

BoostTheBusiness

Corporate courses to increase stress resistance and employee productivity. Based on biohacking

Founder

Silvo

• Co-founder of the project
• Management of a team of 3 development managers
• Negotiations with customers and suppliers
• Creation of TK project
• Creation and automation of BP
• Product development, management of programmers and designers

DNK Biohacking

• Co-founder of the project
• Management a team of 15 employees (sales managers, designers, developers, marketers)
• Negotiations with customers and potential partners
• Participation in the creation of TK for the project
• Creating a project from 0
• Creation and automation of BP
• CRM setup
• Participation in the creation of content for lessons in the online school (content and video production)
• Packaging and creating sales materials and scripts for sales managers

Head Of Development

Bookingflot

Joyme

• Co-founder of the project
• Management of a team of 20 employes
• Negotiations with customers and suppliers
• Creating an advertising company for the service
• Creation of TK and architecture of the Joyme.ru platform
• Recruitment and hiring of staff (programmers, managers, personal assistants)

Exploring startups, innovation, and future! Join me as we delve into the dynamic world of Fintech, AI, edtech, blockchain, and gaming. 
I'm the CEO of AICharm, where we infuse emotional intelligence into AI. 
A futurist and advocate for well-being, I've dedicated 1456 days to meditation. 
Let's venture together towards success and transformation!

Short: 5 startups, 1 exit
AI, EQ, Well-being, Futurologist

My main strength is to look 5-15 years into the future and see trends. I spoke about blockchain in 2005, contemplated the impact of AI in 2015, and now I'm talking about automation, societal change, and ecology.

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