On AI Lounge since Oct 2026
Ricardo Ghekiere
Member #4FounderBetaL1Founder, Patricia.app
Founder of Patricia.app and Betterpic.io
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Achievements
Plugged In ×3Connected sources: GitHub, Hugging Face, LinkedIn, X, website.How: Connected 3 sources (GitHub, LinkedIn, X or a website) in Settings
Plugged In×3
Regular ×2Masterminds attended.How: Attended 3 live masterminds
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Early BirdJoined a mastermind within 14 days of joining AI Lounge.How: Joined a mastermind within two weeks of signing up
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Founding MemberOne of the first 500 members.How: Joined AI Lounge in the founding cohort
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SpotlightWas the AI Lounge Featured Member for a day.How: Featured Member
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About
Ricardo Ghekiere is the founder of Patricia.app, a Brussels-based company building an AI coworker for small marketing agencies that works inside Slack or Teams and handles client reports, spend alerts, recaps and follow-ups. Before Patricia, he spent about ten years running marketing agencies, including Saasmic, which was acquired in 2025, and co-founded the AI headshot company BetterPic. Ricardo now focuses on helping agency owners make their teams AI native.
Stack
Raises & exits
Member Raises$2.5M
Led by MOC Capital, Shilling VC
BetterPic raised a $2.5M seed led by MOC Capital and Shilling VC (2025).
Exits
Hall of Fame →Undisclosed
Saasmic, the SaaS marketing agency he founded, was acquired in 2025 (acquirer not disclosed; per his profile).
Undisclosed
Antwerp growth-marketing agency Fast Forward, later renamed Saasmic, was taken over by Upthrust in a deal whose price was not disclosed, with the timing around 2019.
Experience
Make your team AI native, in Slack and Teams.
CEO & Co-founder · Patricia
CEO & Co-Founder · Runflow
CEO and Co-Founder · BetterStudio
Board Member & Co-Founder · BetterPic
Founder · Socialtribes
Head of Paid Social · UPTHRUST - digital projects & experts
Founder (Acquired) · Saasmic
Head of Growth · Kazi
Education
JB
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Thomas More University
Thomas More University of Applied Sciences
Bharati College
Beijing Language and Culture University
Afc
Flanders Business School - Fbs
U
Unizo
Vlerick Business School
V
Voka
YP
Young Potentials
