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Top 35 Big Data Startup Investors in Belgium in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Big data startups based in Belgium. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Big data companies from Belgium. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Big Data Startup Investors in Belgium in September 2025

Investor	Big Data Belgium investments
S.R.I.W.	3
Inventures SA	3
Sambrinvest	3
Lorenz Bogaert	2
Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij	2
Angelwise	2
Point Nine	2
Toon Coppens	2
Sniper Investments	2
Singular	2
Zero Prime Ventures	2
Spreds	1
Bruno Vanderschueren	1
Gimv	1
Michaël Blockx	1
KBC Focus Fund	1
ING Group	1
Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship (VLAIO)	1
StepStone	1
Ahorn	1
Hummingbird Ventures	1
Miles Ahead	1
SmartFin	1
Endeit Capital	1
Fortino Capital	1
Nicolas Van Eenaeme	1
Gemma Frisius Fund	1
Innovation Fund	1
Capricorn Partners	1
Wim Derkinderen	1
Sebastien de Halleux	1
StepStone Group	1
Jonas Dhaenens	1
Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen	1
Bart Swanson	1

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The S.R.I.W. Group is an institution at the heart of the financial market that assists entrepreneurs in creating and developing businesses in the Walloon region. It reflects the effort of Wallonian industry in facing the challenges of the creation of economic value in the 21st century. Since its creation in 1979, the SociÃ©tÃ© RÃ©gionaledâ€™Investissement de Wallonie has continuously been expanding its abilities to adapt and anticipate as well as its flexibility in order to meet the requirements of its partners who are confronted with the evolution of the world economy. The principles of good governance, a strong business culture and shared values at the heart of the Group constitute important assets to capture the changing realities of the market and progress in a sustainable development perspective.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Belgium, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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.
Intressa Vascular — Intressa Vascular provides innovative solutions to address life-threatening cardiovascular conditions such as aortic dissection.
Santero Therapeutics — This is the homepage of the website

Inventures is a European venture capital fund that builds a better world through a portfolio of investments in sustainable businesses.The firm has two funds: Inventures I & Inventures II.Inventures was created to support early stage smart and innovative European businesses, to support sustainable job growth and empower entrepreneurs.Inventures empowers citizenship co-investments through a crowdfunding platform, MyMicroInvest.

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Belgium, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BiOceanOr — BiOceanOr harnessed the power of Marine Biology and AI to deliver bio-guided services that optimize fish welfare and fish growth, while supporting aquaculture sustainability standards
myskillcamp — Myskillcamp is a digital learning platform and educational design support service. Myskillcamp supports their customers in the digital transformation of their company and the launch of their Digital Learning project. From the audit of needs to the design of engaging educational devices, through a pilot phase, they make a point of honor to adapt thedigital to the specificities of each and give it meaning.With their online platform, businesses can manage their learner communities and connect all their partners in one place. Their tool also allows businesses to structure training spaces by skills, trades, brands within camps. In parallel, businesses can create educational content from scratch, select a map in their marketplace, or plan sessions in-class. Businesses can organize the distribution of their training to a single learner or to a whole group.
Octave — A sustainable, cost-effective and reliable energy storage system with second-life batteries from electric vehicles.

Sambrinvest is an active venture capital player in the region of Charleroi - Thuin.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Belgium, France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

AdipoPharma — AdipoPharma SAS is dedicated to learning more about the role of adipocyte cells in diabetes. AdipoPharma is using the adipocyte's power to treat insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and other diseases.
AbolerIS Pharma — AbolerIS Pharma aims to develop novel and unique therapeutic approaches to induce immune tolerance.
ATB Therapeutics — ATB Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that provides novel therapeutic solutions and treatments for cancer patients.

Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Belgium, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
Cashfeed — Automating e-invoicing
Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.

Oxygen for growth - LRM

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Belgium, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Cumul.io — Create powerful dashboards in minutes. Share with your teams, or integrate in your platform. Drive growth in your business today!
ADLC — ADLC employs drone technology to deliver logistics services, allowing businesses to implement drone-based solutions without having to manage them in-house. The company is focused on enhancing last-mile delivery in maritime and offshore environments. ADLC now conducts drone delivery services in the Port of Antwerp in collaboration with SGS, atesting and certification company, and works with companies such as BASF. Its drones have reduced delivery times and environmental effect, boosting efficiency sixfold and lowering CO2 emissions by up to 80% for petrochemical sample deliveries.
Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.

Angelwise Vlaams Investeringsfonds

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Marine Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Belgium, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Pleevi — AI powered smart charging to charge fleet more cost-efficient and cleaner on professional sites
DeltaBlue — Our hybrid cloud platform ensures a full application lifecycle by creating cloudnative serverless environments for traditional applications
Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
sensmore — Equip your machinery with autonomy built for the harshest conditions. Enhance safety, reduce costs, and increase efficiency with our advanced radar technology.
Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.

Toon Coppens (Belgium, 1981), graduated as a Master of Science in Informatics at the University of Ghent.In june 2000, during his first year at university, he successfully launched the first Belgian social networking site, which later became Redbox.be.He is the co-founder of Massive Media, the social media company behind the successfuldigital brands Netlog.com and Twoo.com. Massive Media enables members to meet nearby people instantly. Today, Over 80 million people have joined our sites on web and mobile.Toon lives in Ghent (Belgium) and London (UK), loves snowboarding and used to deejay and play volleyball a lot.>> Toon's personal Netlog (dutch)>> Twoo.com (dutch)

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
StarApps — StarApps is a boutique venture builder, turning game-changing ideas into breakthrough companies, managed by rockstar entrepreneurs.

Formed in 2011, Sniper Investments is a lean, transparent value investment fund with a long term philosophy. The fund builds on its management team’s full cycle track record in successfully raising, investing, managing and exiting Venture Capital and Private Equity portfolio’s in both up- and down cycles.Sniper Investments is a venture capitalfund investing in early stage companies primarily via equity participation. the fund combines the joint experience of Privast Capital Partners and Partners @ Venture.the geographical scope is determined by the need to be able to be close to the investee companies.

Investment focus

Software, CRM, Video
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Belgium, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

NGDATA — NGDATA is the consumer intelligence management solutions company that empowers enterprises seeking greater customer lifetime value to drive continuous, actionable insights to enable sales and increase customer loyalty.The company does this through its unique combination of Big Data management and machine learning technologies in a singleintegrated solution.Recently named one of Bank Systems and Technology Magazine’s “Top 7 Big Data Players to Watch,” NGDATA is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium with offices in New York City and San Francisco. The company provides solutions to data-driven sectors such as financial services, retail and media/publishing.
Divitel — Divitel is your partner for all things video; cutting-edge technology, consultancty, end-to-end deployments and continuously improving operations solutions.
Materialise — Materialise delivers 3D printing solutions for flexible volume manufacturing of industrial applications while continuing to drive mass personalization in healthcare.

Singular is a generalist venture capital firm backing ambitious European entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Germany, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Prelude — Prelude is advancing SMS verification and mobile onboarding infrastructure through a set of unified APIs developers might actually like. Prelude is dedicated to more reliable fraud detection, elegant transparency, and increased reliability– all at a better price, so businesses can make every ping count for their customer experience, not their bill.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.
Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.

Pre-seed/seed fund writing first checks into engineer-led enterprise startups focused on data technologies (AI/ML/deep learning/data infra)

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Archestra.AI — Enterprise-grade platform enabling non-technical users to safely leverage AI agents and MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers with security guardrails and compliance.
Structured AI — AI for design engineering.
Pydantic Services — The team behind Pydantic are build developer tools that put developers first.

We empower high-potential entrepreneurship and democratize venture capital. Discover promising start-ups & SMEs and invest alongside business angels.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed, Series B
Belgium, France

Portfolio highlights

Opinum — What is Opinum Data Hub? Our Data Hub is a secured Cloud-based platform that allows energy and environmental actors to centralise, enhance, analyse, and share data.
Digiteal — Digiteal offers a wide range of services for e-invoice presentment, electronic payments and open banking.
NietsCo — NietsCo. is the home of Botaniets Gin 0.0%, a leading selection of alcohol-free products, carefully distributed to the world's best restaurants, concept stores, shops and consumers.

Bruno Vanderschueren

Investment focus

Big Data, Cloud Data Services, Information Technology
Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Opinum — What is Opinum Data Hub? Our Data Hub is a secured Cloud-based platform that allows energy and environmental actors to centralise, enhance, analyse, and share data.

Gimv, a trusted European investment company, helps mid-market businesses create sustainable value through growth capital and expertise across diverse sectors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Funding Round, Private Equity
Belgium, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Curana — Curana is a manufacturer of bike equipment and accessories.
Kivu Bioscience — At Kivu Bioscience, we leverage advanced, next-generation proprietary ADC technologies to deliver more precise and effective cancer treatments.
ImmunOs Therapeutics — ImmunOs Therapeutics AG is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing next generation and novel human immunomodulatory proteins with a role in both innate and adaptive immunity.Their mission is to develop the next generation of novel therapeutics that will improve the lives of patients with serious disease.

Michaël Blockx

Investment focus

Marketing Automation, Apps, SaaS
Seed
Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tsjing — Waiting for waiters to come and take your order will soon be history!
Appiness — Appiness is a European start up working on an innovation that will transform the way you interact with video and tv content.
Sparkcentral — Consumers today engage with brands and companies on social channels by sending tweets and messages stating their customer service needs openly and publicly. Many companies choose to respond to these consumers via the same channels in order to address their concerns. The Sparkcentral Platform helps customer support teams manage large volumes ofsocial inquiries in a streamlined and efficient manner. The platform pulls in the messages from these social channels and presents them to customer care teams via a secure agent console that automatically assigns the messages to the first available agent. Sparkcentral’s client roster includes Delta Air Lines, Emirates, Netflix, Nordstrom, Dropbox, Uber, and T-Mobile.The company’s client portfolio includes Formerly known as TwitSpark, Sparkcentral was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

The KBC Focus Fund is a € 50 million venture capital fund that leverages the network of KBC in our investments. As we are an evergreen fund, we always strive for an exit when market conditions are favourable.

Investment focus

Electronics, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Novenda Technologies — Groundbreaking multi-material 3D printing solutions for dental applications and beyond.
BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
Ubitium — Ubiquitous computing, universal RISC-V microprocessor

ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, investments, life insurance and retirement services. They serve more than 85 million private, corporate and institutional customers in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Australia. They draw on our experience and expertise, their commitment to excellent service andtheir global scale to meet the needs of a broad customer base, comprising individuals, families, small businesses, large corporations, institutions and governments.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, FinTech
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Electra — Electra is a platform that provides Charging stations Ultrafast for electric vehicles.
Akaysha Energy — Discover innovative and sustainable renewable energy solutions with Akaysha Energy. Powering Australia's future with clean, reliable energy.
WiseTech Global — WiseTech Global is changing the world of logistics through world-leading software solutions. Find out how you can make an impact by joining our team.

Basic and applied research fund of the Flemish regional government in Belgium

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
Belgium, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

WeHave — Enter the cookieless era of advertising with WeHave's first-party data collaboration. Leverage external data in a gdpr compliant way.
Summ.link — Summ.link works to transform enterprises by enhancing the employee experience through strategy and strong insights based on trustworthy data, which leads to improvements in digital processes. By putting a strong emphasis on data intelligence and people analytics, it seeks to provide everyone in the organization with actionable information.Application development, big data, AI, cloud solutions, and other services are among their offerings.
Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.

Our AI-driven job marketplaces, programmatic-powered marketing solutions and customer-centricity find the perfect candidate quickly and equitably

Investment focus

Big Data, Advertising, Human Resources
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

PushPress — Automate and scale your fitness business with an easy-to-use solution that your clients and your team will love. Cut your costs and save time with PushPress.
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
Swan Insights — Swan Insights focuses on providing businesses with big data solutions for their decision making in marketing campaigns, lead generation, and customer relationship management.Swan Insights enables businesses to obtain business insights and information collected from social media, corporate websites, official business registers, businessactivities, and more. The company develops cloud solutions, APIs, applications, and system integration solutions.Swan Insights was founded by Laurent Kinet in October 2013. And it is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Personal holding company

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Data Integration
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Tengu — Tengu makes data most useful with DataOps. We help companies become data-driven and increase the efficiency of data profiles.

Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tavrn — Tavrn provides state of the art, AI-powered demand letters and medical chronologies for attorneys.
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
Pristyn Care — A Surgical Clinic for diseases such as Piles, Fissure, Hernia, Kidney Stone, ENT conditions etc. Get most-advanced daycare surgical treatment with a hassle-free experience.

Miles Ahead is a Venture Studio that helps first-time founders of Deep Tech & AI startups to grow faster by producing and funding their business within an empowering environment.

Investment focus

Big Data, Data Integration, Marine Technology
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Weavely — Design forms in Figma - publish with Weavely. We turn your visual ideas into interactive, web-based forms.
IntelliProve — Supercharge your digital health solution with clinically-validated biomarker data from sophisticated facial scanning technology.
Automated Architecture — A global ecosystem of automated micro-factories, to deliver sustainable, affordable and beautiful architecture to millions of people.

Venture capital fund focussing on European B2B technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Analytics
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Belgium, The Netherlands, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Cumul.io — Create powerful dashboards in minutes. Share with your teams, or integrate in your platform. Drive growth in your business today!
Timefold — Experts in PlanningAI for complex scheduling and routing
CrazyGames — Play free online games at CrazyGames, the best place to play high-quality browser games. We add new games every day. Have fun!

Endeit Capital is a growth capital firm fueling internationalisation and innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
The Netherlands, Germany, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Lepaya — Lepaya boosts employee development with Power Skills training. Join the learning curve of a lifetime. Look at our Tracks!
NomuPay — Nomu Pay is a newly established company that through its subsidiaries will provide state of the art payment solutions to help its clients accelerate growth in Turkey and the Middle East region.The modern end-to-end payment solution, NomuPay’s Unified Payment (uP) Platform makes it easy to accept payments and send payouts in Europe and across theexpansion markets of Southeast Asia and Turkey through a single integration. Purpose-built to support your international growth efforts, the uP Platform’s secure API unlocks a wide range of payment acceptance methods, including card, buy-now-pay-later solutions, instalment payment plans, and local alternative payment methods in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Turkey. Architected to enable payouts based on your organization’s unique payment workflows, NomuPay’s uP Platform provides payment providers, large enterprises, and sophisticated marketplaces with end-to-end payment visibility and traceability.Founded in 2021, NomuPay is VC-funded and has a presence in London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Bangkok. The executive team is comprised of industry veterans with previous experience at PayPal, US Bank, Barclays, Ingenico, Evo Payments, and American Express.
Happeo — This intranet keeps your teams informed, aligned, and productive with a template-based page builder, integrations, and universal search across all company tools.

We partner with exceptional B2B Software entrepreneurs across Northwestern Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Belgium, The Netherlands, United States

Portfolio highlights

Seenons — Do you have business waste, transport or process waste? Discover our platform - a total solution for sustainable waste management.
Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
Altura Platform — Altura Platform helps you to identify opportunities, collaborate on writing your bid and analyse data on your performance.

Nicolas Van Eenaeme - Co-Founder @ Realo

Investment focus

Big Data, Internet, Classifieds
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Realo — Realo is a data-driven real estate marketplace. Realo's mission is to help people to buy, sell or rent a home by providing them insights about houses, neighbourhoods and service providers such as real estate agents.
Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.

Gemma Frisius Fund KU Leuven is a seed capital fund that aims to stimulate the creation and growth of university related spin-off companies.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series B, Series A
Belgium, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Protealis — Sustainable plant proteins for Europe
Tavira Therapeutics — Tavira Therapeutics develops an innovative technology that equips AAV vectors with molecules to accurately target the intended tissues.
Augustine Therapeutics — Augustine Therapeutics is developing selective, safe and efficacious HDAC6 inhibitors designed for treatment of neuromuscular, neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic diseases. Discover our pipeline poised for clinical impact.

Chemical, Advanced Materials, Cosmetics, Recycling, CleanTech, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Biosciences

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Belgium, France, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Aloxy — Aloxy offers reliable IIot solutions tailored to the needs of the process industry. Our valve sensor provides an open and close indication of manual valves.
Fyteko — For a more sustainable agriculture
Graftys — Graftys, an Aix-en-Provence, France-based early stage company focused on advanced bone biologics.

Capricorn Partners is a unique independent manager of venture capital, growth capital and quoted equity funds

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Belgium, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

InsectSense — MIMICKING HOW INSECTS SENSE | Biomimetic technology based on the sensing mechanism of insects. A deeptech platform that applies synthetic biology, microfluidics and is powered by machine learning.
Minze Health — Digital Urology Starts Here from symptom to solution Home-based digital diagnostics and therapeutics for Male LUTS/BPH and OAB. Shaping the future of urology through meaningful data. Get In Touch Our Mission We're redefining how Male LUTS/BPH and OAB are diagnosed and treated Today's Challenge Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) affect a growing group of patients.
Econic Technologies — At Econic, we are pioneering the transformation of CO2 into high-performance materials that shape a better future for all.

Wim Derkinderen is the Founder, Director, and Board member of FixForm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Belgium, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
RiftPay — Banking and finance done with others. Introducing a social banking, finance, and mobile payment platform. The financial industry is designed to cater to the individual. RiftPay puts groups first, making us truly unique.
Hotel Manager — Hotel Manager is the platform for delivering modern experiences to guests, wherever they are. Launch and build your hotel app in no time and manage your growth easily. All in one platform with zero technical knowledge required.

Sebastien de Halleux has a 20-year track-record of launching startups around the world, leading them from idea to success. Sebastien is currently Chief Gaming Officer at Matchday, building a new type of game for football's 5 billion fans. Sebastien is also a founding General Partner at Graph Ventures, an early stage fund with a portfolio of300+ companies including Blue Apron, Ipsy, Envoy, and Dapper Labs. Most recently, Sebastien was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Capricorn, a pioneering investment group focused on scaling innovative solutions to persistent global problems, including key investments in Tesla, SpaceX, Planet Labs, Quantumscape and Joby Aviation and founding COO of Saildrone, helping launch a category-defining company which revolutionized planetary data collection at sea, using wind and solar powered ocean drones. At the confluence of autonomy, big data and AI/ML, Saildrone pursued a vision called ‘The Quantified Planet’ to help better understand key planetary systems that affect humanity, such as extreme weather, ocean acidification, and global fisheries. Formerly, Sebastien was Co-Founder and COO of Playfish, one of the largest and fastest growing social video games companies which was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2009 (Nasdaq:EA). Prior to founding Playfish, Sebastien helped launch Glu Mobile, an early pioneer in mobile games which IPO'ed in 2007 (Nasdaq:GLUU) and held innovation and strategy roles at Nokia and Booz Allen Hamilton. Sebastien is the recipient of the 2012 EA Emerging Leaders Award, the 2011 Tech 100 award, the 2010 TechFellow award, and the 2003 Booz Allen Professional Excellence Award. His contribution in establishing a successful public-private partnership between Saildrone and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was recognized with the 2020 Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award and the 2018 US Department of Commerce Bronze Medal. Sebastien has served on the boards of Saildrone, Samasource, Vittana, UWC-USA, the Solar Fuel Institute, and Trusted Family. Sebastien holds a Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Marine Transportation
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Formally — Formally is a platform for legal collaboration. We leverage intelligent technology with behavioral science to create a whole new category of legal tech. And it all starts with immigration.
Kosmik — Transform your creative workflow with Kosmik's AI moodboard maker. Built-in browser, auto-tagging, and infinite canvas for seamless visual research.
Wet Dog Weather — Wet Dog Weather makes a SaaS platform for weather and sensor data dissemination and display. Our focus is on fact, interactive, and performant interactive data visualization.

StepStone provides investment services to institutional investors focused on achieving excess net (after fees) risk-adjusted private equity returns. StepStone builds private equity portfolios by accessing the market through a combination of fund investments, co-investments, and secondary purchases.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
Series C, Series B, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Stash — Invest and build wealth with Stash, the investing app helping over 6M Americans invest and save for the future. Start investing in stocks, ETFs and more today.
TurbineOne — TurbineOne is the frontline perception company. It started with the vision of a world where people could sense every threat, speak any language, and deploy robots to dangerous environments instead of putting people unnecessarily in harm's way.
Chaos — The future of defense and critical industry technology. Creating that which has never been.

Jonas Dhaenens - Group CEO @ team.blue Denmark

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Qollabi — Make partner and account plans work with Qollabi BRM (Business Relationship Management) for professionals managing indirect sales channels like agents, branches, distributors, dealers, brokers, resellers etc.
Leadcamp — Leadcamp offers software solutions for email tracking, lead scoring, pipeline management, sales analytics and automation.
Cardify — Cardify redefines the way the fastest growing companies enable their sales team to deliver a more effective and personalized buyer/seller experience. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen is a government agency, charged with implementing the economic, innovation and enterprise policy.

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Data Integration
Pre-Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

DYAMAND — The SaaS infrastructure platform (Dyamand) that bridges the gap between IoT/digital equipment and digital cloud infrastructure.
Sealution — Sealution is a startup that was founded to improve connectivity on board of merchant vessels to enable IoT solutions.For decades, the maritime sector has been lagging behind in terms of digital innovation due to the impenetrable steel walls below deck that made it impossible for any signal to get to the bridge.At Sealution we are bringing thesector into the 21st century.

Bart helps companies scale globally and has been active in the technology sector for more than fifteen years as an entrepreneur, mentor, and executive. Previously he was the Chairman of Summly (sold to Yahoo), COO at Badoo, an MD International at GSI Commerce (sold to eBay), a GM at Amazon.com (helping lead the international expansion from1998-2001), and was an MD at EMI Music Europe. Bart received an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, was a Fellow at the Lauder Institute, and has a BA in History from the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Certn — Thousands of companies worldwide rely on Certn's integrated background screening to secure the right people with an 80% reduced time to hire.
Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Part3 — Part3 simplifies construction administration for architects and engineers. Leverage AI to collaborate on submittals, RFIs, changes, field reporting & more.

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