Merel Kraaijenbrink
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Merel is the Chief Operations Officer at Dealflow.eu, where she drives collaboration across the team to ensure startups, investors, and corporates receive top-tier support and bridge all players in the VC ecosystem to drive European Innovation forward.
Before joining Dealflow.eu, Merel was an investor at No Such Ventures, a Dutch VC firm, where she led activities across Southern Europe. She also brings firsthand entrepreneurial experience, having been a founder herself. Passionate about advancing the venture ecosystem, Merel co-founded Women in VC Portugal and co-authored a landmark report on corporate venturing with the European Innovation Council (EIC) and Erasmus University.
Europe doesn’t need to be Silicon Valley to lead in innovation
I spent three days inside one of the more deliberate experiments in corporate innovation running in Europe right…
September 25, 2026