Balthazar de Moucheron
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Balthazar de Moucheron (1552-1630) was a Dutch trader, ship owner, and one of the founders of the Dutch East India Company, but never participated as he went bankrupt in the same year. He is known for his early trading with India (Calcutta) and Indonesia, America,[1] the west coast of Africa, the Baltic Sea , and the White Sea (Archangelsk).