Bob Van Winden

Active Investor

Building at Bridge at Bridge

Marbella, Spain

Bob Van Winden, Building at Bridge at Bridge is an active investor based in Marbella, Spain. This profile covers what Bob Van Winden backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Mr. Bob Van Winden serves as Executive Advisor at Vela Partners. Mr. Winden served as Head of Operations at Stripe. Mr. Winden is an Executive advisor at Vela, providing advice to fast-growing startups in the Vela portfolio. He leads Stripe's global ops teams, including technical support, risk operations and supply chain management, and a variety of internal ops teams. He has extensive leadership experience building large organizations from scratch during periods of hypergrowth. Before Stripe, he led vendor management at Google Cloud in the European headquarters of Google in Dublin. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from the University of Maastricht and the Grenoble Graduate School of Business, respectively. Given the global nature of his current role he spends time in the US, Europe and APAC, but he and his family call Marbella, Spain, home. Outside of work, he is kept busy by his wife and kids, and enjoys running, cycling and cooking paellas.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Invests in: FintechPaymentsSaaS & EnterpriseConsumer & RetailE-commerce & D2CDeveloper Tools & DataMobility & LogisticsSupply Chain & Logistics
Location: Marbella, Spain
Typical check: $500K
Past investments: 2

Notable investments

Vela PartnersLorikeet

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