About
Pieter Hintjens is a writer, programmer and thinker who has spent decades building large software systems and on-line communities, which he describes as “Living Systems”. He is an expert in distributed computing, having written over 30 protocols and distributed software systems. He founded the ZeroMQ free software project in 2007, and in 2013 launched the edgenet project to build a fully secure, anonymous peer-to-peer Internet. He is the author of “ZeroMQ – Messaging for Many Applications” (O’Reilly), “Code Connected”, and “Culture and Empire: Digital Revolution”. His technology and digital anthropology blog is at hintjens.com. His company, iMatix, provides support to the ZeroMQ market, and in this role he’s traveled the world, teaching, coaching and helping others to organize successfully.
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 3,360 investors hold the CEO role in VCSift. Pieter Hintjens is one of them.
- • 371 investors are based in Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
Investment Focus
- Stages
- seed
- Location
- Brussels, Belgium
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