Biography

Eric Van der Kleij is Co-Founder and General Partner at EdenBase. He is a disruptive tech investor, entrepreneur and one of London’s leading tech ecosystem builders, now leading the charge in quantum by launching QBase, London’s Quantum-AI Centre of Excellence.

He previously supported Cambridge Quantum Computers (now Quantinuum – the world’s largest full stack quantum company) on their 2019 capital raise and today supports their secondary transactions. He was the driving force in bringing a Nasdaq listed quantum photonics company to the U.K., hosting quantum industry roundtables.

Van der Kleij has previously created and led some of the U.K. and Switzerland’s most prestigious technology ecosystems and hubs. This includes the world’s leading fintech hub Level39, the fintech vertical of the Kickstart Accelerator for Digital Switzerland, as well as the U.K.’s groundbreaking Tech City/TechNation initiative, where he was appointed by the former U.K. Prime Minister to develop the U.K. tech economy. He was also instrumental in establishing the U.K.’s leading trade body for fintech – Innovate Finance.

Prior to this, he pioneered the U.K. governments highly successful Global Entrepreneur Inward Investment Programme, which has attracted over 1,500 startups and $2.5Bn of investment to the U.K.. Together these initiatives have supported the growth of one third of the U.K.’s tech unicorns as well as accelerating the U.K. and international technology ecosystems and economies.