In January 2020, Data Science Professor Francisco Blasques, along with his former Master's student Michiel Doornenbal and Maarten Doornenbal, founded Churned in Amsterdam. Recognizing the growing importance of customer retention for businesses, they identified a critical gap: while data is key to understanding customer health, companies often struggle to utilize it effectively. Businesses were caught between slow, expensive, and non-actionable consultancy services, or traditional customer success tools that rely on outdated, rule-based methods lacking advanced intelligence.
This realization led to the birth of Churned. Our mission?
To make AI scalable and accessible for customer success and marketing teams to maximize value and revenue from existing customers. We use different forms of AI to revolutionize customer success. From predictive AI that predicts customer behaviors, to prescriptive AI that guides you on what to do, and Generative AI that actually does it. It is designed to bridge the gap between B2C-level personalization and B2B-level depth
Churned is a VC backed AI-driven Customer Success Management Platform. We are an AI SaaS startup headquartered in Amsterdam, serving clients worldwide. Success starts with an amazing team: we are a group of talented, ambitious, like-minded people who are eagerly building an innovative company. We have fun while we build the next big thing!
As AI is the core of everything we do, we have a team of highly skilled data scientists and data engineers who have developed our AI engine. Together with the rest of the Churned team, we have built Churned AI, the AI-driven Customer Success Management platform that transforms your data into actionable retention operations and upsell machines.
This journey of innovation and growth is not just ours—it's an opportunity for you to join and contribute to shaping the future of Customer Success with Churned.
Committed
We are self-driven, opportunistic, and we go all-in.
Happy
We are positive, energetic and optimistic.
User-centric
We are hyper-focused on our customers’ values.
Remarkable
We are a diverse team where everybody brings something unique.
Noble
We are open, honest and do the right things.
Entrepreneurial
We are bold, we invent, and we simplify.
Data-driven
We are analytical, we love data and numbers.
Francisco Blasques
Founder & CDSO
Lou Bayle
Business Development Intern
Dorsa Pourhassan
Intern Customer Success Manager
Maarten Doornenbal
Founder & CCO
Maura van der Linden
Data Scientist
Michiel Doornenbal
Founder & CEO
Brendan Jansen
Senior Business Development rep
Martijn Jansen
Full stack developer
Markus Ohms
Business Development Intern
Declan Cherry
Account Executive
Chrétien Minke
GTM Advisor
Sjoerd van den Beukel
Senior Data scientist
Vasco Mota
Data scientist
Muus Ebbelaar
Business development
Lars Hisken
Full stack developer
Shreesha Srinivas
Data Scientist Intern