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Rutger Peters
Member #83FounderBetaL2co-Founder, Threading Needles
Co-founder of Threading Needles; founder & CEO of Gynzy, classroom software
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About
Rutger Peters is co-founder of Threading Needles and founder and CEO of Gynzy, an online education company he started in 2009 that makes classroom software for schools. Rutger co-founded GameGate.com in 1998 and the internet games company Zylom in 2001. He later served as co-CEO of GameHouse and joined the supervisory board of Amsterdam fitness software company Virtuagym. He builds with AI tools such as Claude, Claude Code, Lovable and Supabase.
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Raises & exits
Member RaisesExits
Hall of Fame →Zylom
Up to $21M
Zylom was acquired by RealNetworks in 2006 in a deal valued at up to $21M.
Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
Education
HB
Haarlem Business School & Hogeschool Eindhoven
MM
Marketing Management Degree (University of Professional Education Hbo)
Eindhoven University of Technology
PH
Pawling High School, Ny Usa
LV
Lts Valkenswaard, Nl
