Top 25 Automotive Startup Investors in Belgium in May 2026
Top 25 Automotive Startup Investors in Belgium in May 2026
| Investor | Automotive Belgium investments |
|---|---|
| Thibaud Elziere | 3 |
| HCVC | 3 |
| SPDG | 2 |
| Meusinvest (Noshaq) | 2 |
| PMV | 2 |
| Francis Nappez | 2 |
| Bertrand Jelensperger | 2 |
| Fred Potter | 2 |
| Greyhound Capital | 2 |
| Index Ventures | 2 |
| The Faktory Fund | 2 |
| Harold Mechelynck | 2 |
| Buysse & Partners | 2 |
| Clement Benoit | 1 |
| BIG Capital Vietnam | 1 |
| AA Sons | 1 |
| SFPI-FPIM | 1 |
| Vlerick Group | 1 |
| Isomer Capital | 1 |
| Exor Ventures | 1 |
| Future Positive Capital | 1 |
| Cypress Capital Hong Kong | 1 |
| Torus Capital | 1 |
| Oscar Salazar | 1 |
| Asimov Ventures | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!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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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
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- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- DotBlocks — The first no-code simulation platform designed to accelerate your innovation workflow.
- 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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- Software, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Karman+ — Mining near Earth asteroids
- Kyron.bio — Kyron.bio uses the power of glycan alterations to enable improved protein therapies.
- atmio — atmio helps natural gas operations to find, fix and report methane emissions easily.
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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- Software, Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- Belgium, France, Germany
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- 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. Deploy, manage, and scale AI-driven, data-rich industrial systems at the edge with our open edge data platform.
Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium, France, Germany
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- TrustUp — TrustUp is the home contractors platform, connects homeowners with verified quality home improvement.
- Le Fourgon — Le Fourgon provides contained drinks for home delivery. They offer milk, water, beer, wine, fruit juice, and sodas. They allow customers to have their drinks delivered free of charge during the day.
- Allegro Biotech — Allegro has developed the world’s-first custom-tailored, durable, biocompatible, anisotropic, regenerative meniscus cartilage, providing immediate support while also leverage the body’s own healing potential to regenerate human cartilage (proliferation and differentiation of fibrochondrocyte cells).
Do and dare company
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- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Belgium, United States, The Netherlands
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- Sentea — Sentea makes fibre optic Sensing affordable to the industry and enables continuous monitoring even in harsh environments.
- Morrow Optics — Looking for the next big thing in eyewear technology? Check out Morrow's electrified progressives, also known as autofocals! These innovative glasses switch focus length with a touch of button, providing you with seamless vision from near to far. Learn more about this technology on Morrow's website.
- Willow — With Willow you always know what, how and when to post to build a healthy social media presence. From easy publishing and content inspiration to the best news from all around the web, curated by experts and our algorithm.
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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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
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- Alvie — Alvie creates products based on sensors and an AI platform to assist farmers in adjusting pesticide doses.
- 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.
- Imagination Machine — Imagination Machine Imagination Machine is a startup studio.
Bertrand Jelensperger is the Co-Founder and Advisory Board at TheFork.
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- Apps, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, Spain, Belgium
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- 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.
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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- Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Belgium
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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.
- Gleamer — Gleamer delivers next-generation AI solutions for medical imaging, empowering radiologists to diagnose faster, with greater accuracy, across every modality.
- Renovation Man — Renovation Man is a provider of services intended to revolutionize the world of renovation work.
Global growth equity investment firm focused on technology-enabled businesses improving everyday lives
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Seed, Series B, Series D
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Damisa — Damisa, moving money across borders is slow, expensive, and riddled with hidden fees and outdated banking processes.Stablecoins are shaping the future of money movement. However, most businesses find the crypto world too complex.
- Perk (formerly TravelPerk) — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
- Coalition — Coalition combines comprehensive cyber insurance coverage and security services to help businesses prevent digital risk before it strikes.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Trouva — Trouva, launched in September 2015, is the marketplace for bricks and mortar independent shops, selling unique homeware and lifestyle products from hundreds of shops and boutiques. Trouva bridges online and offline in retail to offer click and collect, 1-hour delivery, and worldwide shipping in a single seamless platform.Trouva is one of the mostexciting e-commerce start-ups in Europe, backed by amazing VC and Angel Investors whose successes include Secret Escapes, Net-A-Porter, and Farfetch (BGF Ventures, Octopus Investments, C4 Ventures, Index Ventures & LocalGlobe).
- Funding Circle — When Funding Circle was founded, they could see that businesses weren’t being given the finance to grow, while investors were making poor returns. They had a simple idea — let them support each other.By lending directly to businesses through Funding Circle, investors can now earn attractive returns to better provide for their future. Businessesget fast, easy access to funding to grow, create jobs, support local communities and drive the economy forward. They believe it’s better for everyone.
- Raisin — Raisin is a savings and investment marketplace that connects retail customers with banks looking to expand deposit reach. The company's goal is to provide savers the best interest rates. The company gives access to exclusive savings products from all over Europe. Raisin assures a smooth investment process and the simple management ofinvestments with all of the partner banks via one single platform.Raisin was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Raisin DS was formed by a merger of the FinTech companies Deposit Solutions and Raisin in June 2021.
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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- Software, Analytics, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Belgium, France, United States
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- IVEX — IVEX offers Repeatable and Scalable Testing & Validation Data Analytics solutions for ADAS/AD Vehicles.
- xyzt.ai — xyzt.ai is a SaaS platform for ANALYTICS, REPORTING and VISUALIZATION of big location data in the Maritime & Ports, Smart City and Logistics industries. EASY & EFFORTLESS
- 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.
Harold Mechelynck is Founder at Ogone.
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- 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.
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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- Software, Cloud Computing, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
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- Twikit — Deliver unforgettable customer experiences with real time 3D product configurators, linked to your existing order and manufacturing flows.
- 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 and moonbuddy make it intuitive and easy to practice slow breathing exercises.
Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse
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- 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.
We embrace disruptive ideas and people, who are willing to dream big and to make real change in future endeavors
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- Aerospace, Automotive, Electric Vehicle
- Seed, Funding Round
- India, Belgium, United States
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- Magnax — Magnax develops yokeless axial flux electric motors for eMobility and Aerospace
- Aerolane — We're making every plane every plane more capable, productive, and far cleaner with a groundbreaking new technology: Autonomous Cargo Gliders.
- 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.
AA Sons focuses on raising venture capital for ambitious, fast-growing companies with a desire to 'make the world a better place' in retail, mobility, healthcare, care, fintech and broader tech sectors.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Israel
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- HUG — Join our global creative community to showcase & sell your art, connect with others, and access creator-friendly grants and education.
- Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
- Multiwave Technologies — More than 2/3 of humanity has no access to medical imaging Our mission is to make MRI available globally, through our ultra-low field mobile device.
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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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- 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 — We are biotech innovators, rooted in Belgium, driven by one purpose: To transform how biotech drugs are made so everyone, everywhere, can get them.
- Tangent Works — Create predictive models in seconds for faster and better forecasting & anomaly detection with TIM InstantML.
Vlerick Group has its industrial roots in Flanders in 1880 in the textile industry. In its present form, it originates from B.I.C. Carpets, a high-end woollen broad-loom woven carpet manufacturer, founded in 1956.Via its anchored participations in a.o. the former holding company of what is currently KBC Groep, the group contributed to thedevelopment of one of Flanders' primary financial services providers, in which it continues to be actively involved today.
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- Electric Vehicle, Automotive, GreenTech
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United Kingdom, Belgium, France
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- Onto — Gotmoves ensures reliable, stress-free vehicle delivery with professional drivers, precise ETAs, and real-time automated updates.
- Corwave — The CorWave LVAD utilizes an undulating disc wave pumping mechanism, replacing the high speed, high shear impeller of current continuous flow rotary pumps. The result is much less trauma to the blood, reducing clotting and bleeding complications. The high frequency actuation of the Corwave pump provides for pulsatile flow that mimics the action ofthe native heart. Current LVADs provide only continuous flow with no significant pulsation, due to the high inertia of their rotors. Its low power consumption and small size will facilitate totally implantablity with the incorporation of a wireless energy transfer system.
- Onto — Gotmoves ensures reliable, stress-free vehicle delivery with professional drivers, precise ETAs, and real-time automated updates.
Isomer's entrepreneurial approach accesses high-potential opportunities through limited partner investments in funds, company co-investments, and providing liquidity to firms and founders via secondary purchases.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Austria
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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.
- Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
- Latent Labs — Latent Labs is making biology programmable to transform health and sustainability for the benefit of all.We are a frontier AI lab building foundational models that capture the fundamentals of biology. We empower partners with breakthrough generative AI to gain unprecedented control over molecular biology, creating new antibodies, optimizingexisting enzymes, and advancing genetic engineering.Contact us to work with us today.
Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Italy, France
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- N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
- Focoos AI — Focoos reshapes computer vision with ultra-efficient models that drive down costs, automate hardware integration, and ensure peak performance on any device, while promoting sustainability.
- Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Future Positive Capital is an investment firm that invests in deep tech companies. Future Positive Capital backs companies that use advances in artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, genetics, and other deep technologies to solve the world's most pressing challenges such as sustainably feeding the world’s growing population, combatingclimate change, and serving the aging population.
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- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Wellness
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, France, Germany
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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.
- Tangible — Tangible empowers hardware companies with sustainable asset-based lending solutions. Our platform streamlines debt funding, compliance automation, and financial product design, enabling efficient capital mobilization and comprehensive reporting for a greener future. Scale your business with Twist.
- Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.
Cypress Capital Hong Kong is a financial fund.
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- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Debt Financing
- Hong Kong
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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.
- FundPark — FundPark is a FinTech focused trade finance platform. FundPark provide purchase order financing and invoice financing to Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs), hence business owners can focus on its own business development, and FundPark can take care of its funding for working capital production.
We are investors advocating for positive action, and are searching for like-minded founders. Is this you?
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- Cannabis, Computer, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg
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- Ziggu — Ziggu is the gold standard for streamlining your homebuyer journey in residential projects. Discover how property developers and homebuilders deliver homes 10x more efficiently.
- Magnax — Magnax develops yokeless axial flux electric motors for eMobility and Aerospace
- Thankyoujane / Cantura — Started in 2017, we are one of the first German CBD companies and one of the leading CBD and Cannabis players in Europe. In 2019 we launched Cantura Organics, the leading CBD brand for organic and sustainable CBD products. At Thankyoujane we believe that CBD and cannabis should be freed from its stigma and should be placed back at the center of oursociety, so that everyone can benefit from the healing power that the hemp plants provides us with. Since our customers share that vision, we grow our company significantly and are always open for further partners that want to join our journey.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Chile
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- Qbeast Analytics — Qbeast Analytics SL is a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Qbeast is a Big Data cloud platform with a patented data storage technology that reorganizes and manages data through multidimensional indexing and sampling techniques so that it can be analyzed up to 100 times faster. Qbeast provides data teams with the option toadjust the precision of data analytics to produce high-quality insights while only accessing a fraction of the available data. This speeds up their work massively and at the same time produces savings on computational resources and energy.
- 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.
Venture Capital for 3D Printing and Robotics
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- 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Robotics
- 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.
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