Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Belgium in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Enterprise startups based in Belgium. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Enterprise companies from Belgium. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Belgium in December 2024
Investor | Enterprise Belgium investments |
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Lorenz Bogaert | 13 |
Toon Coppens | 11 |
Luc De Vos | 6 |
Jonas Dhaenens | 5 |
Louis Jonckheere | 5 |
Pieterjan Bouten | 4 |
Michel Akkermans | 3 |
Jochen Boeykens | 3 |
Stefan Grosjean | 3 |
Willem Delbare | 3 |
Pieter Casneuf | 3 |
Jan Verbeke | 2 |
Olivier Coune | 2 |
Jean Vliegen | 2 |
Wim Derkinderen | 2 |
François Van Uffelen | 2 |
Michaël Blockx | 2 |
Boris Bogaert | 2 |
Jorn Vanysacker | 2 |
Wim Vernaeve | 2 |
Marc Coppens | 2 |
Luc Vauterin | 2 |
Dann Bibas | 1 |
Viktor De Maertelaere | 1 |
Jan Vertonghen | 1 |
Wouter Reggers | 1 |
Bruno Vanderschueren | 1 |
Didier Valet | 1 |
Jonathan Cornelissen | 1 |
Sebastien de Halleux | 1 |
Annie Vereecken | 1 |
Emmanuel Caeymaex | 1 |
Christina Cacioppo | 1 |
Eduardo Salvo | 1 |
Mike Vandenhooft | 1 |
Gilles Mattelin | 1 |
Selçuk Boydak | 1 |
Bart Swanson | 1 |
Quentin Nickmans | 1 |
Vic Swerts | 1 |
Pierre Antoine Dusoulier | 1 |
Jacob Quartier | 1 |
Gregory De Clerck | 1 |
Hugo Arevalo | 1 |
Bert Baeck | 1 |
Itai Tsiddon | 1 |
Laurent Drion | 1 |
Stijn Christiaens | 1 |
Luc Kindt | 1 |
Marcel Hermann | 1 |
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).
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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.
- Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
- 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.
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)
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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.
Luc De Vos is the non-executive director at Hybrid Software Group PLC. Luc De Vos attended KU Leuven.
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Consulting, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Belgium, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Finactum — Finactum delivers company data for Belgium in a freemium business model. The offering is to provide 'rich' factual data and as such be a tool for company competitive intelligence, m&a market research or lead generation. The company aims to be(come) a data Intelligence Service Provider (web 3.0).
- Husky Marketing Planner — Marketing planning & marketing calendar tool for marketing teams. Makes the complete marketing planning clear on one central digital platform.
- DataStories International — DataStories a Partners in Performance Company, is an end-to-end prescriptive analytics provider for your operations. Real-time optimisation for better quality, yield and energy efficiency.
Jonas Dhaenens - Group CEO @ team.blue Denmark
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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.
Louis Jonckheere is the Co-Founder and Board member at In The Pocket. Louis Jonckheere attended Vlerick Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Belgium, France
Portfolio highlights
- Henchman — Effortlessly find the clauses you’re looking for by applying our AI to your existing contracts.
- Leadcamp — Leadcamp offers software solutions for email tracking, lead scoring, pipeline management, sales analytics and automation.
- Aikido Security — Easily discover and track all your security issues in one place with Aikido's all-in-one AppSec product.
Pieterjan Bouten is the Co-Founder - Chairman of the board at In The Pocket. Pieterjan Bouten attended KU Leuven.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium, France, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- introw — We help B2B sales, marketing & partnership teams to unlock warm referral leads in their partner ecosystem through AI. Allowing them to discover & co-sell on these leads from within their sales tools.
- Henchman — Effortlessly find the clauses you’re looking for by applying our AI to your existing contracts.
- Growblocks — Growblocks builds your full SaaS bowtie - letting you see your full funnel, plan & monitor performance across your Go-To-Market engine.
Michel Akkermans is the Chairman and CEO of Pamica NV. Attended University of Leuven.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Seaters A.I. - Unrivalled Brand Relation Management — Smart technology for sustainable brand relationships. A people-centric approach for customer activation and guest management.
- Cashforce — Cashforce is a ‘next-generation’ Cash forecasting & Working Capital management platform, focused on automation and integration - bridging the gap between the CFO, finance, AR/ AP and treasury. The platform is unique in its category because of the seamless integration with numerous ERPs & banking systems, the ability to drill down totransaction level details, and the intelligent AI-based simulation engine that enables multiple cash flow scenarios, forecasts & impact analysis. Cashforce is a global company with offices in New York, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Copenhagen & London and provides Cash visibility to multinational corporates across various industries in over 120 countries worldwide.
- Connective — Connective provides Digital Transaction Management services to the financial, insurance, and public sectors in Belgium and The Netherlands. The Antwerp FinTech scale-up, offers solutions to generate, digitally sign and exchange so-called “smart contracts” in an ergonomic, secure and flexible way. Connective meets the growing market demand todigitize document driven processes and easily collect digital signatures by the different stakeholders.The company mainly focuses on large banks, insurers and other financial institutions. Connective’s innovative, proven and futureproof technology is compliant to European standards (ETSI/eIDAS) and is used by banks and insurers such as BNP Paribas, Delta Lloyd Life, Federale Verzekeringen, ING Bank, Credit Agricole’s Keytrade, DELA, and many more.
Jochen Boeykens is the Board Member at Torus.vc. Attended Vlerick Business School.
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Investment focus
- PaaS, Health Care, Social Media Marketing
- Seed, Series A
- Belgium, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Engagor — Know what your customers and employees need, when they need it, and deliver it every time with powerful, AI driven Experience Management (XM) software.
- TapCrowd — TapCrowd provides mobile event apps to associations, PCOs and large corporations. Our apps boast a unique blend of information, interaction and engagement features. Our robust solution includes features like a session catalog with speaker bios, personal agenda, exhibitor listings, attendee messaging, favorites, meet me, live Q&A and polls,surveys and much more. Easily add or update content, change the look & feel of your app or engage with attendees through push notifications. The apps are updated simultaneously in the background.Companies like Marketo, Vodafone, MCI, Hitachi, MSD & Thomson Reuters use TapCrowd to engage with their attendees and augment the event experience. Give your attendees the experience they deserve with TapCrowd!
- Blendr.io (a Qlik company) — Qlik Application Automation enables you to drive dynamic actions with analytics and SaaS data integration workflows. Get an app automation demo now!
Stefan Grosjean is a Founder & CEO at Smappee.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Internet, Software
- Series A, Seed
- Belgium
Willem Delbare is the Founder at Teamleader.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, CRM
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, your AI-powered sales assistant designed to streamline your sales process. Reduce admin tasks, automate CRM updates, and draft follow-up emails with ease. Spend more time closing deals and less on paperwork. Book a demo now!
- journy.io — Turn customer behaviour on SaaS platform and website into playbooks that drive product-led customer acquisition, expansion and retention, at scale.
- StoryChief — StoryChief.io is an Editorial Software for Startups, SEO Marketers and Editorial teams who want to publish their stories multi-channel in seconds. This tool lets you create and push your articles to different publishing channels like Wordpress, Self hosted SC blog, API, Accelerated Mobile Pages (Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP,...), Medium.com, Newsletters, Ambassadors, Press contacts/Influencers, etc. It has a universal editor that lets you create beautiful stories with ease, making them look as they should on these channels and measure your impact and ROI in one place. It also provides SEO suggestions for your content.
Pieter Casneuf
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Investment focus
- Software, SEO, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Revend — Thanks for visiting Revend's Crunchbase page. Revend is the e-commerce tool that monitors, detects, and pinpoints revenue-impacting issues in minutes for D2C and omni-channel companies. Put differently, Revend is a watchdog for e-commerce KPIs. Revenue, add to carts, checkouts, we keep a close eye on them in near real-time. It is supereasy to install, and easily integrates with your preferred communication channels. We've also been called 'a smoke detector for online shops'.We are working together with a select number of large e-commerce companies that currently trail our solution prior to our launch in early 2023.Today, you can put yourself on the waitlist to ensure early access on Revend's website upon launch. For any questions or requests, please feel welcome to reach out via info@revend.ai.
- Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
- StoryChief — StoryChief.io is an Editorial Software for Startups, SEO Marketers and Editorial teams who want to publish their stories multi-channel in seconds. This tool lets you create and push your articles to different publishing channels like Wordpress, Self hosted SC blog, API, Accelerated Mobile Pages (Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP,...), Medium.com, Newsletters, Ambassadors, Press contacts/Influencers, etc. It has a universal editor that lets you create beautiful stories with ease, making them look as they should on these channels and measure your impact and ROI in one place. It also provides SEO suggestions for your content.
Jan Verbeke
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Investment focus
- Software, Government, Recruiting
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- sympl — Sympl startup integrates chatbots and video to connect job seekers and companies.
- CitizenLab — CitizenLab is an online community engagement platform for local governments. Engage more people, manage input easily and drive better decisions. Discover it now!
Olivier Coune
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Investment focus
- Outdoors, Software, Lifestyle
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Fishtripr — Fishtripr is on a mission to bring more people to the outdoors, fostering a deeper connection with nature. We want to change the story of recreational fishing through purveying the market's essential storytellers, brands, destinations, and resources, displayed in a way that magnifies the beauty of this extraordinary lifestyle and modernise itsperception. With Fishtripr, now you can easily discover the best fishing experiences worldwide. From private fisheries to guides and lodges, we're the most comprehensive guide to travel fishing in Europe. Connect local fishing guides with anglers online is an entirely new way to experience recreational fishing and Fishtripr is at the forefront of the movement.
- Big Bad Wolf — Big Bad Wolf is a brand-tech agency employing 30 digital experts. We help innovative businesses shape the future of their brand experience through digital transformation of their services, products and communication. We see Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Natural Interfaces as new opportunities to redesignand improve business-to-consumers interactions.We believe in a future where customer to brands relationships are redefined by the value they will create for each other through a meaningful use of technology.With more than 10 years of cutting-edge audiovisual know-how and emerging media expertise, we leverage on 3D digital content and spatial computing to help organizations release their full potential.
Jean-Marie Vliegen.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, B2B
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Ceeyu — Ceeyu's SaaS platform vulnerabilities for your company and your supply chain (Third Party Risk Management or TPRM) by combining automated scans (ASM) with online questionnaire-based risk assessments.
- Kwarts — Empower your commercial and medical teams to better respond to customer needs. A-Inside brings actionable insights into your CRM and marketing automation tools.
- Ambassify — Ambassify enables you to manage and measure your employee engagement efforts. Start making a real connection with your workforce.
Wim Derkinderen is the Founder, Director, and Board member of FixForm.
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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.
François Van Uffelen - Founder and Managing Director @ Babelway
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Smartbeam — Smartbeam is a construction-tech startup solving construction problems with technology solutions. We are developing a budget management application for construction that helps every site stakeholders (general contractors, subcontractors, architects and developers) to work together from the tendering phase to the end of the project. Our team is madeof Construction, Business and Software Engineers and we are currently working with experienced construction partners to co-develop the software and create a modern vision of construction budget management 2.0.
- Sortlist — Discover the most relevant agencies for your project based on your own specific requirements.
Michaël Blockx
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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.
Startup Enabler & Angel Investor. In 2011 I co-founded Cardwise that later became Xpenditure NV an innovative product for managing expenses. Which was acquired by Sodexo Group (EURONEXT:SDXOF) in March 2017 after a very succesfull growth phase with more then 6000 customers globally (eg. Deloitte, Henkel, PWC,....) Reinvested partly in the newventure with Sodexo & iAlbatros. We launched this new corp-up venture in June 2018 under the name of RYDOO and I'm acting COO and board member.. Next to that I'm also investing in promising early stage startups with Tumbzup bvba.In the early 90ies I've been involved in commercialisation of the first Internet solutions. My passion has always been making new innovative products marketable towards B2B markets. I've pioneered in the internet sector and have been involved in the launch of Europe's first Internet service providers PING (Eunet) and Yucom (JV BT & ING), now both part of Belgacom (BELG:BB).Later, I became Chief Commercial Officer at SpaceChecker and after the acquisition by Punch Telematix, I became Country Manager. Punch Telematix is now owned by Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB). In 2007, I joined Massive Media (publishers of Netlog & TWOO), a leading European on-line community that has recently been acquired by IACI (NASDAQ:IACI). As Director of Business Development, I successfully set-up the complete business development strategy and team from scratch.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Oper — Oper is the mortgage platform that helps lenders and brokers digitise and streamline their mortgage distribution.
- 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.
- 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.
Jorn Vanysacker - Co-CEO & Founder @ Henchman
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, your AI-powered sales assistant designed to streamline your sales process. Reduce admin tasks, automate CRM updates, and draft follow-up emails with ease. Spend more time closing deals and less on paperwork. Book a demo now!
- Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
Wim is a founding partner of Green Park Investment Partners, a private equity investor in the BeNeLux. He also personally invests in early stage startups. Previously he was co-founder of Bragster.com, a social network for daredevils that was sold to Guinness World Records. Before that, he worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley in London.Wim received a MSc. in Aerospace Engineering.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, CRM, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Dripl — Dripl revolutionizes the supply chain for flavored water and soft drinks by doing away with bottles and needless water transportation.Using natural chemicals and carbonation, the Refill Points turn tap water into a respectable low-sugar substitute for soft beverages. By 2030, Dripl hopes to save up to 1 billion packing units.
- SweepBright — SweepBright is a new generation CRM for forward looking real estate agencies.
- 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.
Marc Coppens - Director Belgium @ The Yuki Company
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Investment focus
- CRM, PaaS, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Chift — Offer native integrations within your software. Your clients connect your software to their tools in one click. Connect easily to Accounting, POS, Invoicing, e-commerce, etc.
- Donna — Meet Donna, your AI-powered sales assistant designed to streamline your sales process. Reduce admin tasks, automate CRM updates, and draft follow-up emails with ease. Spend more time closing deals and less on paperwork. Book a demo now!
Luc Vauterin - Board Member @ ONTOFORCE
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Investment focus
- Life Science, Data Integration, Data Visualization
- Seed, Series A
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- ONTOFORCE — ONTOFORCE creates and implements pioneering semantic search technology for information management. Our user-friendly data search platform DISQOVER builds uniquely intelligent links between heterogeneous data sources, allowing everybody to become a data scientist.
Dann Bibas is the GM International at Public.com. He attended McGill University.
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Investment focus
- PaaS, SaaS, Software
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Chift — Offer native integrations within your software. Your clients connect your software to their tools in one click. Connect easily to Accounting, POS, Invoicing, e-commerce, etc.
Viktor De Maertelaere
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
Jan Vertonghen
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Investment focus
- Sports, Outdoors, Information Technology
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
Wouter Reggers
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Kwarts — Empower your commercial and medical teams to better respond to customer needs. A-Inside brings actionable insights into your CRM and marketing automation tools.
Bruno Vanderschueren
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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.
Didier Valet
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Luxembourg, Israel
Jonathan Cornelissen is an entrepreneur from Leuven, Belgium who focuses his work on education and data science. He holds an undergraduate degree in commercial engineering and a Ph.D. in financial econometrics. Both degrees were obtained from the Catholic University of Leuven.
During his Ph.D. program, the data scientist created a non-profitorganization that matches tutors with students in a manner that prioritizes fit and affordability. The program is still used to this day and has connected over 1,000 student/tutor pairs since its inception.The entrepreneur is also known for his work as a co-founder and CEO of DataCamp, a company created to increase data science education and data literacy. The inspiration for the company came from the entrepreneur’s time as a teaching assistant when he was looking for a fun and engaging platform to help students struggling to learn the programing language R. Since no such platform existed, he decided to create his own.
During his time as CEO, the data scientist oversaw company growth that reached over $30 million in annual revenue. During his tenure, the company workforce also at least doubled for five years straight while maintaining employee satisfaction in the top 10-15 percentile. To date, the company has served over 4 million learners.
Jonathan Cornelissen also works as an angel investor with a focus on education. He has contributed funds to numerous startups, including Clever Girl Finance, Kyso.io, perch.fit, and FlyThere.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- United States, Belgium, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- NannyML — Open Source Library for post deployment data science
- Audyo — Create audio like writing a doc. Edit words not waveforms, switch speakers and tweak pronunciations with phonetics.
- Segments.ai — The data labeling platform for 3D Point Cloud and 2D image data annotations. Built for machine learning engineers. Start your free trial now!
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.
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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 — Kosmik is the visual canvas for creatives. Stop wasting times looking for your screenshots, images, or favorite links. Browse the web, capture images, text and more. Share and work with your team! No more folders, bookmarks or infinite message threads.
- 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.
Annie Vereecken
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Medical, Hospital
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Ziphius — Ziphius Vaccines is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing next-generation vaccines for the prevention of infectious diseases.
- Sensolus — Introducing our smart, industrial-grade tracking solution. With battery life of up to ten years, and no additional infrastructure needed.
- 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).
Caeymaex Emmanuel, Executive Vice President Immunology Solutions & Head of US at UCB.
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Investment focus
- Security, Non Profit, Association
- Series A
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Kaspard — Kaspard is a non-intrusive system that provides more security to residents while respecting their privacy.
Christina Cacioppo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vanta. She previously worked at Dropbox as a Product Management. Christina Cacioppo attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Cyber Security, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Belgium, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Linear — Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
- Aikido Security — Easily discover and track all your security issues in one place with Aikido's all-in-one AppSec product.
Eduardo Salvo, partner at Antai
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Investment focus
- CRM, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Chift — Offer native integrations within your software. Your clients connect your software to their tools in one click. Connect easily to Accounting, POS, Invoicing, e-commerce, etc.
- Domma — Domma counsels and supports women who are reaching the menopause stage so that the symptoms they may experience do not affect their daily life.
- Piper — Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making.
Mike Vandenhooft - CMO and Co-Founder @ Newpharma
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Investment focus
- Internet, Marketing, Advertising
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium
Gilles Mattelin is Co-CEO / Founder at Henchman AI. Attended at Vlerick Business School
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
Selçuk Boydak is the Co-Founder and Lecturer at AI Business School. Selçuk attended Boğaziçi University.
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- Software, Education, E-Learning
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- AI Planet, Formerly DPhi — DPhi is envisioned to shape the future of AI/Innovation and democratize data science education. Our inception of the ecosystem started as a global data science community that is now home to 30K+ data and tech enthusiasts from 140+ countries.
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.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- 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.
Quentin is a Co-founder of eFounders.
He spent his first years working as a strategy Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and acts on the board of several SaaS ventures
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Spain
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- Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
- RockFi — RockFi is a private management company offering wealth management services.
- Twin — Twin Labs, offer an automated tool for repetitive operations, such as onboarding new staff to all internal systems.
Vic Swerts
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Investment focus
- Software, Transportation, Internet of Things
- Series A
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Rombit — Improve the productivity, safety and security of your operational workforce and mobile assets with our personalised solutions.
Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier is the CEO of iBanFirst. He previously worked at Saxo Bank as a Head of Western Europe. Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier attended the University of Westminster.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Bastion — Bastion is a cloud-based cyber security platform that is built to scale with security, compliance, insurance, and risk management needs.
- Roundtable — The community-led platform for private market investments. Create or join a community to co-invest in premium start-ups and funds, seamlessly.
- FREELAND FOR CORPORATES — Corporate Online Schoo
Jacob Quartier is a CFO at iText Software. Jacob previously worked at Showpad as a VP Operations. He attended Vlerick Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
Gregory De Clerck is the CEO and Member of the Executive Board of Dovesco. He previously worked at Domo Investment Group as a Managing Director. Gregory De Clerck attended KU Leuven.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
Hugo Arévalo is co-founder of Buytheface , Bright & Sharp , and Albau Ventures . In addition, he has invested in: Jobandtalent , Cabify , Ontruck and Deporvillage : and has led the 50M € round of Hawkers . One of its criteria is the qualification of management. Lately, it is focused on investing in marketplace, fintech and ecommerce, althoughit is open to any sector. Among his exits, Tuenti and Buytheface stand out .
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Spain, Canada, Belgium
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- Chift — Offer native integrations within your software. Your clients connect your software to their tools in one click. Connect easily to Accounting, POS, Invoicing, e-commerce, etc.
- Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
- Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.
I consider myself as a highly motivated (young) person. My domains of interest (passions): Automation — Process industry — Data mining — Software — Graphical arts — Graphical user interfacing — Technology companies — "Entrepreneuring (a process that involves dreaming, discovering, and creating)"
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- Mobile, Outsourcing, Crowdsourcing
- Seed, Series B
- Belgium, The Netherlands
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- Intago — The tailored eCommerce platform for the Wholesales industry. All you ever needed to grow your Wholesales enterprise.
- Roamler — Roamler's IT architecture is designed to scale in several verticals and geographies, with first implementations in 2 specific industries: 1] field marketing in the Retail sector, and 2] in-home IoT installations and repairs.Roamler is currently active in most European countries such as the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Poland,Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Turkey, Italy and also in Chile.
Itai co-founded Lightricks, an Israeli unicorn with over $200m of revenues in 2021 which has raised over $200m, more than half of which in liquidity, over the past decade.Itai has led deals (issued lead TS) and/or served on boards in >$15b of cumulative enterprise value companies with over $1b of cumulative revenue. Among those areFrame.io (C/D lead, board until sold to Adobe for 1.3b in 2021); Forter (led series E in 2020 at $1.25b prior to a $3b round in 2021); Gcash ($2b round in 2021) and several earlier stage companies such as Commandbar ($19m Series A) and others. He lives in NYC, invests internationally as an agile solo GP in a highly concentrated manner, and usually writes checks of $1-30m
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- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, India, Israel
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- Lyka Pet Food — Life-changing dog food. Real food. Gently cooked. Delivered.
- CommandBar — Command Bar allows users to add a command bar to their app with one line of code, making it easy for them to learn and navigate their GUI.
- Thynk.Cloud — Thynk is designed by hoteliers for hoteliers to simplify and automate sales, operations, and data management. Every process is easier, faster, and fully integrated.
Laurent holds a Business Engineering degree from Solvay Business School (ULB, Belgium). During his studies, he launched his first startup, Mac Line SA, together with Gregory. Before creating E-Merge, both of them were also early stage investors in Internet Access Provider Skynet, which fast became the leading access provider in Belgium andwas later acquired by Belgacom.
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- E-Commerce, B2B, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Belgium, The Netherlands
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- Bolt — Bolt makes Ecommerce better with One-Click Checkout and CheckoutOS. See how Bolt checkout boosts your sales today.
- Riskpulse — Everstream sets the world's supply chain standard, using predictive analytics, human insights, and eyes everywhere to make supply chains smarter.
- Stormpulse — Everstream's uniquely specialized global weather analysis, predictive weather analysis, and forecasting bridge the gaps between variances in weather and climate, business decision-making, and risk management.
Stan leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for our customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales,Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education. Prior to cofounding Collibra, he was a senior researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he focused on application-oriented research in semantics. Stan holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology, a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Postgraduate in Industrial Corporate Governance from Europese Hogeschool Brussel. He is a sought-after expert resource, industry speaker and author on the topic of Data Intelligence.
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Investment focus
- Software, Data Integration, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium, Spain, France
Portfolio highlights
- Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
- Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
- Opna — Lead on timely and credible climate action by catalysing the highest impact carbon projects across the globe.
Luc Kindt is currently Managing Principal and CEO of the private equity group Leeward in Luxemburg, after having been for 6 years the Executive Board & Managing Partner of the venture capital and private equity QAT group, also in Luxemburg. Prior to his engagements in the private equity world, Luc has been a Group Senior Vice President of BarcoNV, where he has held several positions, among others, President Global Sales & Services and CEO of Barco Projection Systems. Luc is an independent board member and advisor in various high-tech companies, is a member of IMEC’s Scientific Advisory Board, is an advisor for eHealth to Agoria and is Chairman of the Board of the RVO Society Foundation.Luc holds a Master in Electronics Engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium and an MBA from the Vlerick Management School of Ghent, Belgium.
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Investment focus
- Telecommunications
- Series A
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Calltic — Calltic is offers a radical new approach in telco fraud fighting.
Marcel Hermann
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- Security, Non Profit, Association
- Series A
- Belgium
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- Kaspard — Kaspard is a non-intrusive system that provides more security to residents while respecting their privacy.
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