# Top 5 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Belgium in June 2026

## Maximilien Peeters
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Distillery, Food Processing, Wine And Spirits

Entrepreneur who has a wide range of interests and has a great added value when it comes to creativity and marketing.

## Wim Vernaeve
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, CRM, Apps

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.

## Jose Marin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil).  IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

## Gaelle Lefebvre
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Distillery, Food Processing, Wine And Spirits

Gaelle Lefebvre

## Zhong Xu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, B2B

Entrepreneur specialized in web, mobile, saas and cloud productsMy life's moto: don't settle, stay hungry, stay foolishThe most important accomplishments in my life are:- Proud father of 2 amazing kids :)[@Deliverect]
- Co-founder & CEO, Deliverect helps restaurants to manage all their delivery and takeaway channels.Deliverect currently raised 650k euro in seed and will expand rapidly[@Lightspeed]
- Global director of hospitality & managing director Belgium, grown Lightspeed restaurant to customers > 100 countries, the team in Belgium to +60 FTE's and more then >120 FTE's worldwide. Market leader in the hospitality POS business in Europe, ranging from QSR, hotels to Michelin star restaurants[@POSIOS]
- Co-founder & CEO POSIOS, iPad & cloud based POS for the hospitality business, POSIOS was founded in 2012 and had offices in Singapore, Ghent and NY. Customers > 38 Countries, grown exponentially to +23 employees in less than 2 years.
- Acquired in september 2014 by Lightspeed and joined Lightspeed as Global director of hospitality product[@EVS]
- Created cloud solutions for big sport organisations and events at EVS (BBC, UEFA, London Olympics, Monaco, ...)
- Delivered webservices and applications to major players in the broadcast industry[@Siruna]
- Implementated and launched the low cost SaaS OSMOBI product (after 6 months 3000 customers, 1600 projects)
- Developed and launched the Siruna transcoding product that is used by large national (VRT, Belgacom, Telenet, Mobistar…) and international (Aramco, Truvo…) companies. 
- Successfully set-up and implemented mobile web projects for VRT, Telenet, Belgacom, Stad Gent, Vlaanderen, Nomadesk, The reference…[@XudoX]
- Started my first company when I was 17, web agency creating websites for Asian restaurant with more then 600 customers

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