Koen Heindryckx

Koen Heindryckx is a Belgian investment professional based in the Deinze/Waregem area of West-Flanders. He began his career in professional services at Ernst & Young and holds a management-school credential associated with EHSAL Management School (2012). His skill profile centres on corporate finance, financial modelling and data analysis.

He then moved into private equity, joining Abacus Investments — a member company of the Waregem-based holding Abacus Group — where he worked as an investment associate. Abacus Investments is a long-term, involved minority shareholder in small- and mid-cap European (often listed) companies; in the same Waregem private-equity orbit he is also linked to QuaeroQ, the associated buy-out/PE firm (the "Abacus Investments" LinkedIn page resolves to QuaeroQ). The supplied `abacusgroup.be` email and Waregem (056-area) phone number date from this affiliation.

Today Heindryckx is Investment Director – Fund Investments at PMV, the Flemish regional investment company. In that role he sits within PMV's fund-of-funds activity, committing capital alongside private investors into funds run by independent managers, and he has been involved with the Belgian Growth Fund, PMV's later-stage venture/growth/buy-out fund-of-funds. PMV's fund-investments book has committed on the order of €570M across ~70 funds spanning start-up, scale-up and growth/acquisition strategies, with themes in life sciences & care, clean tech & industrials, real estate and energy.

Beyond his institutional day job, Heindryckx is one of 120+ founders, operators and investors backing Syndicate One, an international network channelling capital and operating know-how into Belgian early-stage tech — the source of the "angel investor / seed" characterisation.

• Fund-of-funds, not direct deals (day job): through PMV he invests *with* private co-investors into independently managed funds across the full lifecycle — seed and early-stage VC (start-up funds), later-stage VC (scale-up funds), and growth/succession/buy-out funds.
• Flanders linkage as a gate: PMV requires "a solid link to Flanders through the manager or investment strategy," so a fund's Flemish nexus is a practical prerequisite.
• Sector tilt: life sciences & care (a documented Belgian Growth Fund priority — "playing a leading role in the maturation of the European life-sciences sector"), plus clean tech & industrials, energy, real estate and general tech/venture.
• Long-term, lower-leverage instincts carried from Abacus/QuaeroQ, where the model is an involved minority shareholder with a multi-year horizon rather than a quick-flip LBO.
• Personal early-stage/angel exposure via Syndicate One, oriented to Belgian founder-led tech at the seed stage.