Xander Van Der Heijden

Xander has 20+ years of experience in building tech startups. He started his first company back in 1996, building one of world’s first patented cloud architectures. Releasing the first open source encryption library and implementing distributed security frameworks, Xander is a pioneer in distributed & network computing. Currently, Xander is Managing Partner of Venturerock – a digital venture capital platform and ecosystem of founders, backers and venture builders. We designed a new investment protocol – eliminating the middleman and delivering added value throughout the venture’s lifecycle. Xander is CEO of UNL – a universal addressing and naming platform that gives anyone, anywhere a unique, universal address. UNL goes beyond street names and postal codes. We are building the Internet of Places to power the location-based economy – making locations transactional, programmable and auditable.

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