Robin Franken

Robin Franken is a Senior Investment Manager at BOM Brabant Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Brabant Development Agency, based in the Brabant region of the Netherlands. He initially began his professional career working in accounting and corporate finance before officially transitioning into the venture capital sector at the end of 2016. In his current capacity, Franken specializes in early-stage software investments, specifically targeting pre-seed and seed-stage startups utilizing software-as-a-service, marketplace, or hybrid business models. His notable portfolio activity includes participating in the €7 million seed funding round for the global print platform Cloudprinter.com, and he actively engages with the broader software investment community through industry events like SaaStock USA. Franken currently focuses on evaluating unit economics and scaling dynamics for regional technology ventures operating across climate-neutral energy, sustainable food systems, and digital health.