3x founder

Niek Hogenboom

Co-Founder Minimal AI (YC S25) | AI Agents for E-commerce Customer Support

Co-founder

Minimal AI· Summer 2025 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

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2024Co-founder· Minimal AI (YC S25)

Founder · since 2013

Company

Minimal AI (YC S25)

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco / Amsterdam

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Minimal AI

AI Agents for E-commerce Customer Support

Summer 2025

Experience

Career

Minimal AI (YC S25)
Co-founder
Co-Founder · San Francisco / Amsterdam · 2024 – Present
2024
SitRight
Founder
Founder · Делфт · 2020 – 2023
2020
Kempen & Co
Investment Banking · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland · 2022
2022
Vattenfall Solar Team
Team Leader · Delft en omgeving, Nederland · 2019 – 2020
2019
FITS Custom Suits
Founder
Founder · Maastricht en omgeving, Nederland · 2013 – 2019
2013

Bio

Niek is the Co-Founder and CEO of Minimal AI He started his first business at the age of 16, selling and importing custom suits from his parents' house and sold the business 3 years later. After graduating from Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology, he spent a year leading the most successful solar racing team in the world and grew his startup SitRight to $2M+ revenue during covid. Later he did his master's research at the University of Oxford before founding Minimal AI