Robin T.

Investor - Mentor - Lecturer - Entrepreneur: Working hard, enjoying life, trying to make the world a little better for everyone

Bulgaria

About

I am Robin Teurlings, founder/CEO of The Startup Buddy and managing partner of the Zero Emissions Fund. My first enterprise was as a street musician at the age of 12, I started investing with those earnings at 13 and I did my first angel investment at 25. I hold a master’s degree in public policy and public administration and have worked in small startups as well as large corporates like Accenture, Altran and ING. My motto is “work hard, play hard”. I enjoy working with entrepreneurs and innovators and focus a lot of my energy on helping to mitigate climate change through my work in the field of decarbonization and sustainability.

Experience

  • Managing Partner at Zero Emissions Fund
    Jul 2021 - Present · 5 yrs

    The Zero Emissions Fund is our family investment fund and invests in startups and funds around the world working on practical market solutions and services that reduce climate-changing emissions. We support any startup working on sustainability and decarbonization through our free accelerator program. To join check https://www.zeroemissionsfund.vc and apply.

  • The Startup Buddy (9 yrs 11 mos)
    • Founder - CEO
      Dec 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 7 mos

      The Startup Buddy believes that founders and innovators with access to the right knowledge and resources have a 50% higher chance of building sustainable businesses and scalable inventions. Our goal is to provide these resources and knowledge to all entrepreneurs and innovators. We do this through our online platform which is accessible for any entrepreneurs and investors anywhere, anytime. The Startup Buddy provides mentoring, toolkits, learning, services, network and everything else someone needs to grow a business from idea to raising funds. The 2nd hurdle for companies to grow is funding. The Startup Buddy connects entirely online 2000 founders to 700 investors that look for companies to invest in. Additionally, we very successfully connect entrepreneurs and investors via our Demo Days and Speed Dating events. In short, we are an online startup boot camp for entrepreneurs combined with a startup equity trading platform for investors around the world.

    • Owner
      Aug 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

      The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. is the incorporation entity for The Startup Buddy and is registered as UEN 201621739R. The company is formerly known as Investeur Pte Ltd. The name was changed after pivoting the business model to what The Startup Buddy is now, an online startup building and fundraising platform.

  • Visiting Associate Professor Sustainable Strategy, Green Technology and Investment at Emeritus
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

  • Executive Education Fellow Green Technology at National University of Singapore
    Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

    All industries of the global economy will have to change in order to decarbonize every aspect of how we live, including the ever-larger growing IT sector. I am honoured to join the NUS School of Computing as a guest lecturer with an entirely new program on Green Technology which will be delivered online. For more details check and register via: https://ace.nus.edu.sg/green-technology-in-the-digital-economy-for-leaders/

  • Fund investor, startup mentor and VC Lab member at Founder Institute
    May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos