Marc Vermeeren
Hi, I’m Vermeeren, when I’m not working I love making and listening to music with my son and am based out of Amsterdam.
Through my work with , a European AI automation unicorn currently valued at 5.2 billion, where I set up and lead the creative studio, , a non-profit community exploring how AI can work for the rest of us, where I chair the supervisory board, , as an advisor, helping them sharpen their story for growth and connect with top-tier creative talent, as an , mainly focussing on , proud to have started my investor journey with Sam and schematik.io, to test my , more on this soon, for a new kind of European venture fund I dream of starting one day, and with , like clawy, my viral Claude Code companion that may have influenced Anthropic’s roadmap per WIRED, I explore how technology changes what we build and how we understand the world.
I’ve spent more than twenty years in design, advertising, and creative leadership, including work for , where I led the in-house brand studio and worked across leadership, product, and marketing as the company grew and got acquired, , where I developed ideas around films like Uncut Gems, a dream brief for someone who loves movies, , where I worked as creative director on several high-profile pitches, including Coinbase, , which I co-founded, working with organizations like SPACE10 and re:arc Institute across technology, architecture, and the climate crisis, while creating projects of our own, including the co-op space Post Office, , including , where I helped establish the New York and Los Angeles offices while working with global clients across technology and culture, , helping translate design ideas into wearable experiences, , working together on high-profile projects in AI and film, , helping ideate the store of the future, , helping translate the brand’s vision from the runway into other touchpoints and , where I wrote an essay with Bryan Wolff.
What fascinates me is entering different worlds, learning about the people, organizations, and decisions behind them, and building pattern recognition for how people, companies, and capital shape what gets built.