About the episode
Inflexion Point tells the story of Marktlink Capital, the private markets investment platform for entrepreneurs, and how a fund of funds launched out of a Dutch M&A adviser became a business with its own European ambition. Host Tim Smallbone is joined by Tim van der Meer and Tom Beltman, the managing partners who have built Marktlink over two decades, and Sander Ruijter, head of Inflexion’s Benelux office, who led the investment. They reflect on the moments that shaped it: the launch in 2020 after clients who had sold their businesses asked how to invest the proceeds, the letter Inflexion sent to a business whose partners had no wish to sell, and the minority investment that followed. Along the way, they talk about why being a hunter matters as much as being a farmer, how a commercial culture carried across from M&A advice, and why scale matters in a market where private investors want access to the best funds.