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DIRK PAELINCK is a serial entrepreneur in real estate and the Chairman of the European PropTech Association.
He is the founder and Chairman of the European PropTech Association, composed of 24 national PropTech associations in Europe with a total of 3000+ startups/scale-ups as members,
working closely with large European real estate and construction corporates. The mission of the European PropTech Association is to standardize the fragmented European Property & Construction Technology market,
to scale up cross border collaboration, to produce unique market insights, to facilitate access to funding and to work with institutions such as the EIC, EIT, ESA aimed at increasing the maturity of the market.
He also organizes the largest PropTech and Contech competition in Europe: the PropTech StartUp Europe Awards, supported and promoted by the European Commission and the European Parliament.
He is also the founder and CEO of the Belgian independent coworking space operator Interoffices and CEO of the PropTech startup Workero, which has received the Seal of Excellence & funding from the European Commission.
Dirk is also a Board Member of Imoya Real Estate Developer. He previously was the Area Sales Director of multiple EMEA countries for Regus, and Manager at Mercedes-Benz Belgium-Luxembourg HQ.
His passion is to have a positive impact on people and planet through innovation in the real estate industry, with the goal to create, together with partners, a Climate Impact VC Fund with a focus on sustainable cities and investing at the crossroads of the verticals of PropTech/Contech, Mobility Tech and Energy Tech.