Smile Sail & AI N.V.
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Smile Sail is an evergreen private equity fund that invests in European B2B software and IT services companies, with a focus on data and AI technologies. It provides growth and buyout capital, typically taking majority or minority stakes.
Smile Sail & AI N.V. is a private equity firm headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2017. It invests directly in companies, from growth to buyout, in software, AI, IT services and healthcare. Its stated cheque size is €5 to €50 million of equity. €1 billion across the Smile group under management and 5 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We aim to take a majority or minority position in European B2B Software and IT services businesses, and look to invest €5 to €50 million of equity.”
— Smile Sail & AI N.V., own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Invests in
- Europe
- Sectors
- Software, AI, IT services, Healthcare, Industry 5.0, Financial & Business Services
- Cheque size
- €5 to €50 million of equity
- Founded
- 2017
- Assets under management
- €1 billion across the Smile group
- Portfolio
- 5 companies
Team, as Smile Sail & AI N.V. publishes it
- Urbain Vandeurzen Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Investment Committee
- Ronald Kemmeren Partner, Investment Committee Member
- Nico Bogaerts Partner, Investment Committee Member
- Julia Beij Investment Manager
- Rian Zwart Senior Investment Manager
- Olivier Timmerman Investment Associate
- Filip Jorens Chief Legal Officer
- Maxim Herbosch Investment Associate
- Lars Zuidinga Investment Analyst
- Manfred Krikke Investment Committee Member
- Dirk Beeusaert Investment Committee Member
- Erik Verrijssen Investment Committee Member
Names and roles exactly as listed on smile-sail.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Smile Sail & AI N.V. publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.smile-sail.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, aum, status, confidence
- https://www.smile-sail.com/our-approachstage_min, stage_max
- https://www.smile-sail.com/about-usfounded
- https://www.smile-sail.com/portfolioportfolio_count
- https://www.smile-sail.com/teampeople
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Record 5980 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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