In this episode I spoke with Ines Feytons, co-founder of Nascent, a science-based co-founder matchmaking platform spun out of UHasselt. A great episode for anyone currently looking for a co-founder.

Nascent uses an algorithm developed by two professors of entrepreneurship to measure fit between co-founders, going beyond hard skills to look at personality traits and entrepreneurial soft skills like passion and persistence. For €89 and 15 minutes, founders get matched with potential co-founders and a report flagging both the strengths and the friction points to expect.

Ines walked me through the spin-off process from university research to venture, how the matching algorithm actually works, and how Nascent compares to alternatives like Y Combinator's co-founder matching and imec.istart. We also got into the harder stuff: how to know when a co-founder relationship isn't working, and why - especially in a conflict-averse culture like Belgium's - the tough conversations you want to avoid are the ones that matter most.