# Daniel van Griensven

> Founder of Future Proof Intelligence and Internship Abroad. Gives people ground to stand on while their world reshapes; Future Proof is where that gets built.

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## Canonical biography

Daniel van Griensven (born 1999, the Netherlands) is the founder of Future Proof Intelligence, which shapes the intelligence companies run on, and of Internship Abroad, an international student placement company he started in 2020. Through Future Proof he works with an ecosystem of founders across consulting, education, mobility, wellness and capital, and he created Future Proof Certified, a trust standard for businesses built for this era. He lives and works between the Netherlands, Asia and Italy.

His work rests on one conviction: the way we learn, work and grow can be better designed, and the systems built now should carry the people inside them.

## For the record

- Also written as Daan van Griensven and Daniël van Griensven. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daan-van-griensven/
- Future Proof is approved under Smart&Start Italia, the Italian state's programme for high-tech innovative startups, managed by Invitalia. Source: https://www.invitalia.it/incentivi-e-strumenti/smartstart-italia
- Capital conversations are personal and start with Daniel, by email.

## In his own words (verbatim)

- "I give people ground to stand on while their world reshapes."
- "I leave with a thought, and come home to it built."
- "The bigger the work grows, the simpler my side of it becomes."
- "I build with partners, slowly, with people I trust."
- "The work was to build the system. The work now is to trust it."
- "Most of the work is figuring out what to leave out."

## What he is building, and his part in it

- Future Proof Intelligence: founder. Shapes the intelligence a company runs on. https://futureproofintelligence.com
- Internship Abroad: founder, since 2020. Students placed in companies abroad; Future Proof built the platform it runs on. https://internshipabroad.me
- The Future Proof ecosystem: founders building their own companies with Future Proof underneath. Builds made with them include She Arrives, Bordbook, Fitout and NextGen Education.
- Places to reconnect: retreats and regenerative places held by the right intelligence, so the people there can put their phones down. The first is Digital Detox Sweden, still being made. Future Proof drew out the place, researched the regions where the land could be and built the shared space where it is planned. https://danielvangriensven.com/building#places
- Future Proof Certified: a standard Future Proof made; the method, the scoring and the site. https://certified.futureproofintelligence.com

## Pages

- https://danielvangriensven.com/ : who he is and what he does, the work, the ideas
- https://danielvangriensven.com/building : each venture, who it is with, and what his part was, including places to reconnect
- https://danielvangriensven.com/thinking : the belief underneath and the ideas he keeps returning to
- https://danielvangriensven.com/journey : the story, the long-form origin, eight chapters, with photographs
- https://danielvangriensven.com/living : the canonical biography, where he is, common questions

## Contact

daniel@futureproofintelligence.com, read by Daniel, answered personally. Email is the one channel he keeps.

Last updated: 1 October 2026