Top 20 Automotive Startup Investors in Belgium
A list of 20 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Automotive startups based in Belgium. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Belgium. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Automotive Startup Investors in Belgium
Investor | Automotive Belgium investments |
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Thibaud Elziere | 3 |
HCVC | 3 |
PMV | 2 |
Harold Mechelynck | 2 |
Index Ventures | 2 |
Buysse & Partners | 2 |
Francis Nappez | 2 |
SPDG | 2 |
The Faktory Fund | 2 |
Greyhound Capital | 2 |
Fred Potter | 2 |
Meusinvest (Noshaq) | 2 |
Bertrand Jelensperger | 2 |
Romain Afflelou | 1 |
Oscar Salazar | 1 |
SFPI-FPIM | 1 |
Asimov Ventures | 1 |
BIG Capital Vietnam | 1 |
Clement Benoit | 1 |
Eduardo Ronzano | 1 |
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
- Skynopy — Connecting satellites. As a service
- Presti — French startup using GenAI to create lifestyle product photos for furniture brands
HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- atmio — atmio helps natural gas operations to find, fix and report methane emissions easily.
- Transmutex SA — Producing clean energy from nuclear waste is the challenge Transmutex is taking on. Based on experimentaly validated science from CERN in Geneva.
- Chiral — Next-generation electronics with nanomaterials
Do and dare company
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium, The Netherlands, United States
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- TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
- Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.
- Augustine Therapeutics — Augustine, Innovative therapies for neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases
Harold Mechelynck is Founder at Ogone.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, Belgium, United States
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- Cowboy — Meet Cowboy, the connected electric bike for urban riders. With an intuitive motor to sense your pedaling force and a companion app in the cockpit to guide your ride, tune into a newfound freedom in the city.
- Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
- Spreedly — Spreedly's Payments Orchestration Platform lets you connect to payment gateways in over 100 countries with a single API connection.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- MoeGo — MoeGo is the best all-in-one pet grooming software designed to automate & simplify your pet grooming business.
- Dazz — Dazz is a cloud security repair service that takes a unique approach to cybersecurity.
- Savvy Wealth — Savvy is the next-generation wealth management firm that pairs world-class advisors with modern software to help clients achieve their financial goals.
Buysse and Partners is a private equity investment group based in Antwerpen that offers smart equity, a growth fund, and partnerships.
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Investment focus
- Software, Cloud Computing, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Twikit — Discover Twikit's 3D product configurator software with manufacturing workflows.
- Bluebee — Delivering a streamlined way for users to analyze, explore, and manage large-scale genomics data in the cloud.
- moonbird — Slow breathing is the easiest way to relieve stress and promote relaxation. Moonbird makes it intuitive and easy to do breathing exercises.
Francis leads the technical and product evolution of BlaBlaCar and has been instrumental in building the platform since 2006, allowing it to grow from hosting a few thousand members to millions today. He knows how to turn ambitious ideas into reality, and believes in building robust solutions which can adapt to fast growth and stay relevant for thelong-term. Francis cares about building agile cross-functional teams across locations to deliver efficiently on ambitious objectives. Pragmatic and result-oriented, he is driven by the opportunity to create disruptive solutions which better the user experience. Before joining BlaBlaCar, Francis led major technical developments for big names in European consumer internet which drove impactful disruptions in their respective sectors, including Free and Meetic. Francis holds a degree in Technology and Communications Research from the Joseph Fourier University. Find him @fnapz.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
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- Inarix — Inarix utilizes the latest technologies in artificial intelligence and image analysis to develop its technology. Your pocket laboratory on your smartphone. You can get reliable results from your samples in seconds by snapping a picture. The monitoring platform for your flows is global and instantaneous. Management tools tailored to your needs.
- La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
- Imagination Machine — Imagination Machine Imagination Machine is a startup studio.
SPDG is a single family office representing the Périer-D'Ieteren branch. It co-controls the D’Ieteren Group, together with the other D'Ieteren family members. Since 1805, the Group has developed strong brands mainly in the automotive industry: D'Ieteren Auto, the leading importer of Volkswagen brands in Belgium, and Belron, theglobal leader in vehicle glass repair and replacement. Next to its role as a major shareholder of D'Ieteren, SPDG has developed its investing activities to drive innovation and generate lasting impact in road mobility & smart cities.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Software
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- Belgium, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- IVEX — IVEX offers Repeatable and Scalable Testing & Validation Data Analytics solutions for ADAS/AD Vehicles.
- Hysopt — The HVAC simulation and calculation software, to streamline your design process and optimise your building's heating and cooling installations. Take actionable steps towards greener zero carbon initiatives.
- IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
The Faktory is a hub for business ideas based on any disruptive technology with a high potential in international niche markets: ICT, Health, Environment, Media, Broadcast and more.
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Belgium, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- IVEX — IVEX offers Repeatable and Scalable Testing & Validation Data Analytics solutions for ADAS/AD Vehicles.
- xyzt.ai — The big data platform to easily visualize and analyze any spatio-temporal data. Scaling to billions of records.
- MyCellHub — MyCellHub.com is a pre-startup from the KULeuven in the biotherapeutics industry that aspires to reform the way cell production processes are organised. With a regulatory compliant Saas-platform for data management and analytics, we increase the efficiency of your manufacturing processes, provide actionable insights via cell culture specificprocess analytics and facilitate regulatory compliance by means of a real-time audit trail and automated batch records.
Global growth equity investment firm focused on technology-enabled businesses improving everyday lives
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Series B, Seed, Series D
- United States, India, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Toss — Toss is a South Korea-based mobile financial service platform operated by fintech startup Viva Republica. Its application offers peer-to-peer money transfers, manages credit scores and bank accounts, access loan and insurance plans, split bill options, QR payment and other similar services that enable users to manage their finance.
- Satispay — Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly tothe consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.
- Lunar — Free account with positive interest. Keep your budget, save, and make your money grow with ease. Sign up from your mobile phone in minutes.
Engineer from Telecom ParisTech and holder of a PHD in Microelectronics, Fred is a passionate entrepreneur who has been reinventing objects we use in our everyday lives for over 20 years.
In 1999, he started CIRPACK, a telecommunications supplier, later bought by TECHNICOLOR; and WITHINGS, sold to NOKIA, before creating NETATMO in 2011.
His vision:a company where every employee knows how the business and projects grow and where daily life is driven by a strong sense of innovation, empowerment, hard work and sharing.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Cowboy — Meet Cowboy, the connected electric bike for urban riders. With an intuitive motor to sense your pedaling force and a companion app in the cockpit to guide your ride, tune into a newfound freedom in the city.
- Gleamer — Gleamer develops an AI-powered software to enhance radiologists’ productivity.
- Renovation Man — Renovation Man is a provider of services intended to revolutionize the world of renovation work.
Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
- HEPHAISTOS-Pharma — Hephaistos Pharma is a developing weapons firm. They provide services for oncology, immunotherapy, and cancer. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.
- SamanTree Medical — SamanTree Medical has developed the Histolog Scanner, a confocal microscopy device intended for imaging the surface of excised human tissue specimens to visualize morphological microstructures. Easy-to-read images are available immediately, providing decision-making support at the point of care.
Bertrand Jelensperger is the Co-Founder and Advisory Board at TheFork.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Organic Food, Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, Spain, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Malou — Malou offers food marketing and digital marketing solutions for restaurants. The company also offers content management, restaurant marketing, reputation management, presence management, and SEO solutions.
- Kiliba — 100% automated emailing platform: design of html templates in your colours, sending of personalised emails, marketing automation workflows, enriched CRM
- Neptune Elements — Neptune Elements offerFrench seaweed of controlled origin, with exceptional taste and culture.
Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security andmobility.Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people's lives.Serial investor in +50Tech companies6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts)
Cityscoot
Clay Inc VR
Cowboy Bike
Epicery
Everoad (Ex Convargo)
Fithouse
Fré Skincare
Fokoya
Guillotine Vodka
Klassroom
Laminate Technologies
MeetFabric
Molotov TV
Multiwave Technologies
Nestor
Octopus
Officeriders
Onoff telecom
Pledg
Quiqup
Universal Standard
Shapr
Spendesk
Zipdrug...(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy)
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Investment focus
- Health Care, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Cashbee — Cashbee is a mobile application to helps save money with budget analysis tools based on artificial intelligence. They wish to help the French to save better and more, and to provide the technological means to do this in the simplest possible way, without having to change banks. The Cashbee App allows you to put money aside with a simple swipe onyour smartphone. They alert you every time when they think you can put some more cash aside.
- Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
- Kubo Labs — Kubo Labs provides a suite of products to simplify your experience with Kubernetes.
Oscar Salazar is one of the most influential figures in the modern tech industry. Salazar is the Founding-CTO and Architect of Uber. He was responsible for the creation of the initial prototypes for Uber’s customer app, driver app and dispatch engine.Salazar is also the founder of Citivox, Pager and RIDE. Citivox is an international companydesigned to enable NGOs and individuals to report and monitor electoral fraud, crime and infrastructure problems. Pager is an Uber like concept designed to connect patients with high quality health care providers. RIDE is an application that enables co-workers to carpool to work.Salazar graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Universidad de Colima in Mexico. He later earned a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Calgary in Canada and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Chile
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- Qbeast Analytics — Discover Qbeast: AI-driven data observability and lakehouse building tool for enhanced data management.
- Constrafor — Constrafor offers procurement solutions for GCs and accelerated payment solutions for subcontractors to reduce payment cycles from 60 days to 1 day.
- Giskard — Deliver AI products, better & faster. Deploy automated tests to eliminate regression and biases. Collaborate faster with feedback from business stakeholders and more.
The Federal Holding and Investment Company (SFPI-FPIM) centrally manages the federal government’s shareholdings, cooperates with the government on specific projects and pursues its own investment policy in the interests of the Belgian economy.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Belgium, United States, France
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- Cohabs — We create sustainable & community-driven shared homes around the world for young workers and interns. Join our community.
- Univercells — Univercells is a One-stop-shop for high-density low-cost biomanufacturing "end-to-end" solutions, with innovative engineering able to decrease the needs for investments of over 75% and the cost of goods of up to 90%.Univercells' technologies, aimed at low cost manufacturing of antibodies/proteins/vaccines, is based onsingle-use technologies, and chaining of three manufacturing steps into simulated continuous mode : cell culture under perfusion, clarification and capture.
- Tangent Works — Create predictive models in seconds for faster and better forecasting & anomaly detection with TIM InstantML.
Venture Capital for 3D Printing and Robotics
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Medical Device
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Spain, Canada
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- Arka — Design custom boxes for Ecommerce with Arka! Use our integrations with Shopify, BigCommerce, Square & more! Order your sustainable custom boxes today.
- Particle3D — Particle3D (P3D) is a Danish biomedical engineering company founded in 2017. The company is based on more than 3 years of research and is currently developing patient-fitted bone replacement implants from natural materials through 3D printing. The mission is to revolutionize the treatment of craniofacial patients by providing state of the artsolutions that will optimize the value chain for health care professionals, the health care system and most importantly the patients. Benefits of the technology include better aesthetic and functional outcomes for the patients, faster recovery and fewer complications, less complicated surgery and higher hospital productivity. The company aims at setting new standards in craniofacial reconstruction and will play a major role in a market segment with a very interesting commercial potential.
- Addivation Medical — Addivation Medical develops surgical devices to treat degenerative, trauma, and deformity spinal conditions.
We embrace disruptive ideas and people, who are willing to dream big and to make real change in future endeavors
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Automotive, Electric Vehicle
- Seed, Funding Round
- India, Belgium, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Magnax — Magnax develops yokeless axial flux electric motors for eMobility and Aerospace
- Aerolane — Aerolane is building a new logistics method, delivering shipments as fast as same-day and as affordably as the cost of ground. Proprietary technology unlocks aircraft capacity making every cargo flight more productive, efficient, and sustainable. Founded in 2021, our experienced team brings decades of logistics and aviation industry experience toserve government, commercial and defense customers through fast, affordable middle mile air logistics services and direct technology sales.
- Chara Technologies — The world is moving towards sustainability. Efficient and Intelligent motors will be at the heart of this transition powering everything from our vehicles to industries and appliances.
Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Spain
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- AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
- Cocunat — Cocunat is a natural and 100% toxic free cosmetics brand.
- Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
- Frak Labs — FRAK is DeFi* protocol that enables creators and users to get paid for the usage of the content.
- Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.
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