WE ARE RAISING NOW. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE.

The team's ambition is massive and we won't stop until the impact is made. Our ultimate goal is to operate on a global scale, reach 35M+ users, and go public (IPO). You have the chance to be part of this journey right now, and this interactive dossier was built specifically for you.

BUZBO INVESTOR ARCHIVE 2026

GET HIRED FOR WHO YOU ARE.

Buzbo is building the new way professionals and business managers connect: based on values, culture, ambition and energy, not only cvs.

We start with professionals.
Because when the right professionals gather, business managers follow.

HIRING IS STILL BUILT AROUND RESUMES, JOB POSTS AND HARD SKILLS.

But work has changed. People want purpose, fit and growth.
Companies need people who actually match the team.
The current hiring process misses the human layer.

Broken Hiring

228

Applications per vacancy.

Source: Greenhouse / Axios

89%

Failures driven by culture-fit, not skills.

Source: Leadership IQ.

46% / 85%

Professionals considering leaving / looking for a new job.

Source: Microsoft Work Trend Index (46% worldwide / 85% US).

WHY NOW

AI BREAKS THE CV / COVER LETTER AS A RELIABLE SIGNAL.

The automation of applying means quantity over quality. To find true cultural fit, we must move beyond the document and look at the human.

APP IN DEVELOPMENT

Less applying. More connecting.

1

Create a human-first profile

No stiff headshots. Show who you actually are.

2

Show ambition, values, and work style

Connect different tools like LinkedIn, Strava, Pinterest, and social media to form a complete picture.

3

AI Matches

Based on the enormous data, we make AI matches connecting you with the right people.

4

Meet online or in real life

Meet people before the job even exists.

5

Turn connection into opportunity

A natural path from network to career.

Product Interface
TRACTION

The market is responding.

1

First Event

70+

Attendees

+260

Waitlist

THE TEAM

BUILT ON BELIEF.

Buzbo Founders

Anouk Horrevorts

CEO

Serial entrepreneur, former elite athlete and mission-driven founder building Buzbo to help as many people as possible get hired for who they truly are.

LinkedIn →

Elmer Bulthuis

CTO

Experienced CTO and builder who has created products from scratch and brings the technical depth, speed and mission-driven mindset to turn Buzbo into a scalable platform.

LinkedIn →

Shinead Pond

Growth Manager

Growth manager with lived experience of the problem, strong community-building instincts and hands-on experience in events, influencers and brand-led growth.

LinkedIn →

7

Bootstrapped Team Members

No payments, just a shared mission.

MARKET POTENTIAL

A MASSIVE, SHIFTING LANDSCAPE.

1.2B

Professional Identity TAM

Total LinkedIn members globally. The ultimate professional networking market size.

SOURCE: MICROSOFT

275M+

Job-Seeking Intent

Members privately "Open to Work" since 2020, plus 68M publicly open.

SOURCE: LINKEDIN FEATURE DATA

3.7M

Paid Social Matching

Average Bumble Inc. paying users. Proven willingness to pay for curated discovery.

SOURCE: BUMBLE

70%

The AI Tailwind

Of skills used in most jobs will completely change by 2030. Professionals must reposition themselves.

SOURCE: WORK TREND INDEX

THE GTM WEDGE

Events build the network.

Why events? Events create trust, local density, content, and app conversion. This is the repeatable city playbook.

The Netherlands
The Hague
30 Apr 130 REG, 70 ATTENDEES
4 JunCONFIRMED
9 JulPLANNED
13 AugPLANNED
The Netherlands
Amsterdam
18 JunPLANNED
30 JulPLANNED
10 SepPLANNED
The Netherlands
Rotterdam
2 JulPLANNED
6 AugPLANNED
17 SepPLANNED
The Netherlands
Utrecht
16 JulPLANNED
27 AugPLANNED
3 OctPLANNED
The Netherlands
Eindhoven
30 JulPLANNED
10 SepPLANNED
Germany
Berlin
9 JulPLANNED
13 AugPLANNED
24 SepPLANNED
Germany
Munich
23 JulPLANNED
3 SepPLANNED
15 OctPLANNED
Germany
Hamburg
6 AugPLANNED
17 SepPLANNED
29 OctPLANNED
Germany
Frankfurt
20 AugPLANNED
1 OctPLANNED
UK
London
13 AugPLANNED
24 SepPLANNED
5 NovPLANNED
UK
Manchester
27 AugPLANNED
8 OctPLANNED
UK
Birmingham
10 SepPLANNED
22 OctPLANNED
MILESTONES & TARGETS

The Path Forward

NOW

• App live

• Revenue model validation

• Expand to another country

USE OF FUNDS (€1M)

Events (€100K) • Team (€430K) • App+AI (€120K)
Growth (€200K) • Buffer (€150K)

TARGET: Q4 2026

• Min. 7,500 paid users a € 25,- per month

• Real raise for expansion to the USA

WHAT THIS PROVES

25 Events scaled across NL, DE, UK. App live and tested. Paid subscriptions proven.

Target set: 2,25 mio ARR.

The Ask
THE ASK

JOIN THE VISION.

We are scaling to 35M+ users, dominating the human-first hiring space, and working towards an IPO. The growth engine is proven.

Claim your stake in the next massive professional network.

Instrument

SAFE (€1M)

Valuation Cap

€10M

Allocation

Max 2 Tickets

Structure

BV or INC

CLAIM A TICKET →

Investor FAQ

Work changed. Hiring didn't.

AI has made hard skills a commodity. What actually determines success — how you communicate, what drives you, how you work with others — is still invisible in the hiring process.

Professionals are open to new opportunities but stuck: send a cold application, wait weeks, get rejected by an algorithm that never saw who they actually are.

Business managers want culture fit and the right energy. But the system gives them keyword-matched CVs filtered by HR.

Buzbo fixes this. Professionals build a human-first profile — values, work style, ambitions. Managers do the same. Both sides opt in before any conversation starts. No cold applications. No recruiters in between. Just the right people finding each other.

AI removed hard-skill scarcity. What remains irreplaceable is who you are — how you communicate, what drives you, how you work.

The gap between what managers actually want and what the CV-based system delivers has never been wider. That gap is Buzbo's market.

Events are one of the channels. Software is the scale.

Events are a powerful tool to build the community, get people on the app and create organic trust. The app turns that trust into profiles, matches and paid users.

LinkedIn is a directory — you share your feed and updates. Buzbo is how you expand your network: it actively connects people based on values, work style and culture fit.

LinkedIn is profile-first, reactive and search-driven. Buzbo is match-first and community-led.

The mechanic is similar — both sides opt in, identity leads. But the category is more valuable.

Work has higher intent, longer relationships and stronger willingness to pay. This is a fundamentally larger market than dating.

Events:

  • First Buzbo event, April 30 — 130 registrations, 70 attendees. Target was 50.
  • Event 2, June 4 — 20 paid registrations and growing.

Community:

  • 260 total across waitlist and co-build
  • 20 active investor conversations
  • 10-person team, bootstrapped

Next proof: app launch, matching, first paid users.

Buzbo equalizes the labour market: app subscriptions and pay-as-you-go for professionals. B2B access — companies, HR accounts — activates once the professional network reaches sufficient density.

  • 100,000 users
  • 7.5% paid conversion → 7,500 paid users
  • €250/year average → €2.25M ARR

This round tests the assumptions behind that model. The numbers are benchmarked against Bumble's early conversion data.

LinkedIn proved the scale of professional networks. Bumble proved identity-led matching can become a large paid platform.

Buzbo brings soft-skill matching, community, events and AI into one layer that neither has built. New category, not a feature.

The moat is not the software. It's the community and the brand.

City-by-city density is defensible. Trust, brand, local culture and matching history compound over time. A competitor can't replicate that with a feature launch.

  • Anouk (CEO): top-sport mentality, serial entrepreneur, ambitious leader.
  • Elmer (CTO): senior engineer, architecture built to scale.
  • Shinead (Growth Manager): owns community strategy, events and social.
  • Plus 7 contributors building on belief, mostly deferred compensation.

In their minds, the IPO is already a fact — now it's just execution. Capital will not create the momentum. It will accelerate what's already moving.

  • App launch
  • First paid conversion
  • Event-to-app acquisition
  • City-by-city expansion: NL → Germany → UK
  • Early B2B demand
  • App development
  • Events (NL, Germany, UK)
  • Team compensation
  • Growth and community
  • AI and matching infrastructure
  • Legal and entity setup

We're early and moving fast. A convertible keeps the round simple, avoids a premature valuation debate, and lets strategic investors in before the next priced round. The next round will be used to expand into the US.

Currently AH Limited B.V. A Buzbo B.V. will be incorporated at funding close. IP ownership and founder agreements are documented. A US entity (Delaware) will be evaluated if US investors participate.

The USA is the expansion market, not the starting point. We prove repeatable city density in NL, Germany and UK first — make mistakes fast, learn fast. New York is the target: the highest-density professional networking market in the world.

Buzbo is early. But it is not theoretical.

130 people at the first event. A team building on belief. 20 active investor conversations. A clear path to city-by-city scale.

This is not another app. It's a new professional network built around who people are.

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