Sander Peltenburg

I've been actively engaged in the Dutch startup ecosystem for over a decade, driven by a deep passion for startup innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly in the agri-food and tech sectors. Additionally, I work with Founders on their personal resiliency. For six and a half years, I served as the founder and CEO of Krekerij, a company dedicated to transforming people's perceptions of crickets and grasshoppers by making tasty and enticing products for the food service industry. We collaborated with researchers at Wageningen University to develop our proprietary processing techniques for creating insect-based meat products. Additionally, we secured funding to scale up these processes in our own FSSC-22000 certified production facility. This allowed us to distribute our products on a large scale to the sustainable food service industry through wholesalers. Currently, I'm part of Seedblink, one of Europe's fastest-growing tech investment platforms. Here, my role involves assisting Dutch startup founders with their funding rounds and helping them tap into a vast network of European tech investors.