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Koen Bok
Founder at Framer, investor at Festina.
Koen Bok is an investor and co-founder of Festina, an investment fund that specializes in software companies with a focus on exceptional user experience design. He co-founded Festina alongside Jorn van Dijk, and they both have backgrounds in design and technology, particularly through their work with Framer, a web design tool that Bok continues to be involved with as CEO and co-founder.123
Bok has a diverse professional background, having previously worked as a product designer at Facebook, where he contributed to projects related to messaging, ads, and video. He also co-founded a company called Sofa before his tenure at Facebook. In addition to his role at Festina, Bok is an angel investor in various startups, including Pitch, CodeSandbox, and Mollie, among others.34
He is based in Amsterdam and Barcelona, and he identifies himself as a blend of designer, programmer, and entrepreneur, with a keen interest in supporting startups.34
Highlights
I ❤️ web performance. When we first launched @framer, I could typically find some manual optimizations to speed sites up.
Today I think that 90% of Framer sites are automatically optimized better than I could ever do by hand.
No-code tools have come a long way.
Fidas is getting me to follow EU politics. Who would have thought?
