A builder, not a guru.
David Baudrez spent eighteen years at Cisco before becoming an entrepreneur. Three companies sold, including a medtech exit. Today he works with company leaders as a fractional CXO. But what matters here is where he put his hands.
The point
Most entrepreneurship methods are written by people who never ran a small rooted business. David did.
He has worked with farming cooperatives, winemakers, woodworkers, microbreweries, service SMEs, medtech projects. Businesses that live on a craft, a soil, a community, not on a funding round. He knows what it takes to start with no network and no capital, and to prove things fast, with very little.
The Loop came out of that experience. Not from a whiteboard. From the field.
The businesses he knows from the inside
- Ma Ferme and Biere a la FermeEnghien
Living cooperatives, artisan producers, short supply chain, collective governance.
- Domaine WSaintes
Organic and biodynamic vineyard, one of Belgium's finest terroirs, a community model of 2000 members.
- Holy-woodMons
Shared woodworking workshop and ecodesign, circular economy, solidarity craft.
- GESPODO Lab.
3D solutions for healthcare, ten years serving care professionals.
- Allten
Professional real estate, a Belgian player established for fifteen years.
- FelixAndCom
Fractional support to SME leaders.
- Barwal
Barwal.be
- La Ruche qui dit OuiEnghien
Initiative and running of the Enghien chapter.
- Incredible company Belgique
Cooperative for team building events, hands-on training and moments of reconnection with nature and meaning, member of the governance circle (OA).
- Helpigo
Belgian platform matching employers and Horeca workers, by skills and proximity.
Why the foundation
David built The Loop for founders who can afford it. The foundation exists for everyone else. The people no incubator is waiting for, who still have an idea, a craft, a drive. Giving them the access he spent years building for himself.