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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Belgium

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Hardware startups based in Belgium. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Belgium. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Belgium

Investor	Hardware Belgium investments
PMV	11
Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij	9
Capricorn Partners	8
Qbic Fund	8
WING by Digital Wallonia	7
The Faktory Fund	6
imec.xpand	6
Volta Ventures	4
Allegro Investment Fund	4
Toon Coppens	4
Lorenz Bogaert	4
Big Bang Ventures	3
KBC Focus Fund	3
Lean FUND	3
Baekeland Funds	3
Be Angels	3
Jonas Dhaenens	3
Fidimec	3
Capital-E	3
Innovation Fund	2
Gimv	2
Terra Drone	2
Vives Louvain Technology Fund	2
Meusinvest (Noshaq)	2
Boris Bogaert	2
Flanders Future Techfund	2
S.R.I.W.	2
New Enterprise Associates	2
PROfounders Capital	2
Inventures SA	2
Korys	2
TheClubDeal	2
Finance.Brussels	2
Partech	2
Vesalius Biocapital Partners	2
European Commission	2
Quest for Growth	2
LeanSquare	2
Gemma Frisius Fund	2
Nuoyan Capital	2
Akiles	2
Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship (VLAIO)	2
Olivier Coune	2
KPN Ventures	2
Level Equity Management	1
SHIFT Invest	1
Bosch Ventures	1
TeleSoft Partners	1
Ark Angels Activator Fund	1
Sydes	1

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Do and dare company

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.
Augustine Therapeutics — Augustine, Innovative therapies for neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases

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!
MobieTrain — Unlock the potential of your customer-facing employees and create memorable customer experiences with MobieTrain's app.
Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.

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

Chainels — The tenant experience app for every property in your portfolio. Save time, gain insights and collaborate with your tenants all in one place.
VoxelSensors — Spatial and Empathic Computing. Bringing empathic abilities to XR and mobile devices by understanding user attention and intent.
Electric Hydrogen — Electric Hydrogen designs and builds low-cost, high-efficiency green hydrogen systems to economically decarbonize industrial sectors like ammonia and steel

The Qbic Fund is a multi-sector fund supporting spin-off companies of the Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp university associations and of VITO. Through its strategic partnership with the universities of Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp, and VITO, the Qbic Fund has early and privileged access to promising research projects at these partner universities. Ourinvestment approach is based on early in-depth and independent review and analysis followed by hands on involvement and support.In May 2012 the Qbic Fund held its first close and currently it has over € 30 million under management. The Qbic Fund is backed by several public and private investors and managed by Qbic Venture Partners.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Flindr Therapeutics — Immagene develops personalized cancer immunotherapies to fight multiple cancer type.
VoxelSensors — Spatial and Empathic Computing. Bringing empathic abilities to XR and mobile devices by understanding user attention and intent.
Swave Photonics — Swave develops Spatial Computing, Holography, holographic chips, and holograms in the HXR chip to create 3D augmented and virtual reality and HUD Heads Up Displays

W.IN.G by Digital Wallonia invests in SAAS, advanced tech and deep tech startups (AI, drones, medtech, IOT,...). W.IN.G brings smart money by helping startups by bi-weekly interactions and providing an operating teams (seasonal entrepreneurs being hands-on with the portfolio).

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

IONNYK — IONNYK is a new medium of art photography, containing millions of tiny ink capsules.
MYOCENE — Myocene is a Liège-based sports technology company which creates unique and innovative devices for measuring muscle fatigue and performance.
Soil Capital Belgium — Discover Europe's first certified, multi-national carbon farming programme that rewards regenerative agriculture.

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.

Investment focus

Analytics, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Belgium, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

IVEX — IVEX offers Repeatable and Scalable Testing & Validation Data Analytics solutions for ADAS/AD Vehicles.
xyzt.ai — The big data platform to easily visualize and analyze any spatio-temporal data. Scaling to billions of records.
MyCellHub — MyCellHub.com is a pre-startup from the KULeuven in the biotherapeutics industry that aspires to reform the way cell production processes are organised. With a regulatory compliant Saas-platform for data management and analytics, we increase the efficiency of your manufacturing processes, provide actionable insights via cell culture specificprocess analytics and facilitate regulatory compliance by means of a real-time audit trail and automated batch records.

Expanding nanotechnology into business.

Investment focus

Semiconductor, Medical Device, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
Belgium, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Onera Health — Introduction to Onera sleep diagnostics and monitoring solutions
Wise Integration — Wise Integration is a developer of GaN-integrated solutions to miniaturize power supplies and improve energy efficiency.
MICLEDI Microdisplays — MICLEDI Microdisplays is an experienced executive in the semiconductor industry,

Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering seed & early stage VC for internet & software companies (SaaS) in the Benelux region

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Propellant.digital — We are a Netherlands based FinTech that is focused on bring together public and private data to power business decisions in a low cost way. Born in 2021, our mission is to organise financial markets information and make it transparent, accessible, affordable and useful to all parties in the ecosystem. Propellant.Digital is headed up by foundersVincent Grandjean, and Allan Horgan, both professionals who have a long history in the financial market technology sector and wanted to leverage their experience to create a solution that was low cost.
Fero — Welcome to FERO
Ecochain Technologies — Ecochain is a life cycle assessment software and services company that helps companies reduce their environmental footprint. Learn more.

Allegro Investment Fund is an open end seed capital investment fund, focussing on high-tech ventures. With a combined experience of more then 40 years of experience in high-tech start-up management, the AIF team adds smart money to your capital needs.

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, Apps
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Belgium, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Visys — Visys NV, The optical sorting innovation Company, is a leading state-of-the-art provider of Digital automated sorting solutions to the global food and non-food processing industry.
Mass Relevance — Mass Relevance develops and offers cloud-based software for media and entertainment sectors.Its software enables social media content aggregation, filtration, and integration. The company's clientele includes December, 2010. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Austin, Texas.In April 2014, Mass Relevance merged with Spredfast, forming a comprehensive social marketing company.
GreenPeak Technologies — GreenPeak Technologies operates as a fabless semiconductor and is one of the leaders in the ZigBee market with a rich offering of RF chips for the Smart Home and the IoT.Driven by the world’s MSOs, GreenPeak is proving its market leadership position as the Internet of Things connectivity technology provider for the Smart Home.GreenPeakTechnologies is a fabless semiconductor company and the leader in the ZigBee market with a rich offering of semiconductor products and software technologies for Smart Home data communications and the Internet of Things.The GreenPeak founders have significantly contributed to the invention of WiFi and made it into a commercial success, used by several billion people today. GreenPeak is recognised as a leader in developing new wireless technologies for consumer electronics, Smart Home applications and the IoT/IoE, demonstrating rapid growth and adoption by major customers around the globe.It offers its products for original equipment manufacturers in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company was formerly known as Xanadu Wireless and changed its name to GreenPeak Technologies B.V. in 2007. GreenPeak Technologies was founded in 2004 and is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands with additional offices in Belgium, Japan, France, California, US as well as in Korea and Hong Kong.

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, Sales Automation, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
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.

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

Tribboo — Project management platform for construction SMEs
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.
Maison Sport — Book ski lessons online with highly qualified ski instructors. Ski & snowboard lessons & ski school in Morzine, Meribel, Val Thorens, Courchevel, Avoriaz, Tignes, Val d'Isere, Zermatt, Verbier & more

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, Cloud Computing, Apps
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Belgium, The Netherlands, United States

Portfolio highlights

Amplidata — From high-performance ingest that powers AI applications and demanding data-intensive workloads, to massive, durable data lakes to fuel AI models, Quantum offers the most comprehensive and cost-efficient data management solutions.
Clear2Pay — Clear2Pay is an innovative payments technology company focused on delivering globally applicable solutions for secure, timely and streamlined payments processing. Clear2Pay's Open Payment Framework (OPF) enables financial institutions to improve internal payments processing efficiencies whilst at the same time providing their clients withbetter payment services that are faster, with richer payments related information.Clear2Pay's solutions within the Service- Oriented Architecture (SOA) based Open Payment Framework offer financial institutions the ability to process payments through a centralised payments engine that utilises a library of re-useable business services across all payment types. The bank can thus combine new services models with existing infrastructures, thereby protecting previous investments whilst gradually moving to a more modern efficient payments environment.
Racktivity — Racktivity, an innovator in next-generation power, energy and environmental management solutions offers the industry's only integrated hardware and software for critical infrastructures.The DCPM suite, a Service Provider Infrastructure & Data Center Performance Management System, measures, monitors and manages power across distributeddata centres and gives customers full visibility and control of their energy consumption while integrating seamlessly with other applications and PDU appliances.Racktivity's EnergySwitch family of smart Power Distribution Units (PDUs), and sensors equips infrastructures with the most advanced metering, switching and predictive analysis capabilities available on the market today.

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

Aito — We are developers of patented and award-winning Piezo Sensing and Haptics technology who are on a mission to offer unparalleled user experience by bringing surfaces to life with tactile feedback to help consumer electronics brands create new and innovative products, offering differentiation in a crowded marketplace.
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.
Pharrowtech — Pharrowtech designs next-generation solutions for fixed-wireless access, wireless VR/AR and ultra-high capacity wireless links. It builds on more than 12 years of top-notch R&D performed at imec, the Belgian R&D powerhouse. Leveraging deep technical expertise in algorithm, chip and antenna design for millimeter-wave systems, it createsproducts with best-in-class performance, power and cost features.

Startups, increase your value by 3 within 9 months thanks to Power 3 by Leanfund (www.leanfund.com)!

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Software
Seed, Series B
Belgium, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Neveo — With one click, send photos and messages on a family newspaper that your senior will receive every month.
Supersec — Good to eat, good to think: discover the Supersec organic, healthy, artisanal and sustainable food treats available in bulk delivery!
Sortlist — Discover the most relevant agencies for your project based on your own specific requirements.

Baekeland Funds is a seed capital fund formed to invest in companies developed at the University of Ghent.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Hardware, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Caliopa — Caliopa NV develops and markets silicon photonics based optical transceivers for the data and telecommunications markets. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Zwijnaarde, Belgium.
Complix — Complix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of Alphabodiesâ„¢, a novel class of biopharmaceuticals that offer significant advantages over existing protein based therapies. Alphabodiesâ„¢ bind with high affinity to a wide range of disease targets and are particularly suited to address certain targets that aredifficult to reach with antibodies or other types of protein scaffolds. Due to their unique stability and versatility Alphabodiesâ„¢ can be delivered via alternative non-injectable routes of administration, unlike most therapeutic proteins.
Trinean — Unchained Labs helps biologics & gene therapy researchers break free from tools that don't cut it. Crank up your research with our problem-solving products.

Early stage Entrepreneurs Coaching and FinancingOne of Europe's leading Business Angels Networks. We connect innovative growth companies to equity finance and coaching by experienced angel investors. The network is 250 members strong and has been assisting innovative entrepreneurs to find financing for more than 10 millions Euros in thelast 4 years.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Belgium, France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Savics — Savics offers digital solutions for health actors to improve their data management, disease diagnostics and GeneXpert connectivity.
DeftHedge — DeftHedge is an application addressed to business leaders, and CFOs facing volatility of foreign exchange market.
HeartKinetics — HeartKinetics is a developer of a smart wireless connected device to provide a measure of cardiac contractility together with the traditional electrocardiogram.

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.

Fidimec is a Belgium-based venture capital firm that offers investment and incubation services for seed stage startups.

Investment focus

Industrial, Semiconductor, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Belgium

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.
Sentea — Sentea makes fibre optic Sensing affordable to the industry and enables continuous monitoring even in harsh environments.
MICLEDI Microdisplays — MICLEDI Microdisplays is an experienced executive in the semiconductor industry,

Leading venture capital fund with exclusive focus on micro/nano-electronics and advanced materials

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Semiconductor
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Belgium, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Accelleran — Accelleran is pioneering a disruptive approach to the delivery of cost-effective, carrier and mission-critical grade TDD and FDD Small Cell networks through its focus on software quality and partnerships with volume manufacturers.Accelleran provides LTE Small Cell software and LTE Small Cell product solutions which address the real-worldchallenges of volume deployment of Small Cells. We offer turnkey solutions and unique experience on the challenges of integrating cellular technology on low cost, yet powerful platforms and architectures. Accelleran offers its customers solid and dependable system solutions, backed by the support of our unparalleled expertise.Accelleran’s technology is genuinely independent from any HW platform and enables operators to invest once in the integration and validation of a common software base that can be deployed across different segments, platforms and Small Cell architectural approaches to enable a truly integrated HetNet.
Silicon Line — Munich, Germany-based Silicon Line (www.silicon-line.com) is the unchallenged world leader in developing and providing innovative ultra-low-power optical link technology that enables the use of thin, long, lightweight and very high speed ‘active’ optical cables for a wide array of consumer electronics products – including TVs, set-top boxes, videogame consoles, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets and related devices – as well as commercial and industrial applications. ‘Active’ refers to powered electronics integrated within the cable.Clear evidence of Silicon Line’s global leadership in ultra-lower-power optical technology can be seen not only by its steadily evolving line of leading-edge and industry-first products – with more than 25 different products now in use – but also in its pivotal role within the HDMI Forum, where it has successfully led efforts to enhance support for active optical cable technology standards in the latest specification, HDMI 2.1.Founded in 2005 as an outsource integrated circuit (IC) design house, Silicon Line quickly developed proven expertise in ultra-low-power, analog and mixed-signal chip design. Billions of ICs based on its designs have been used in products of major brand-name manufacturers.
Silicon Mobility — Our solution enables carmakers to improve EV and HEV energy efficiency, increase range and accelerate charging time while reducing cost.

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.
Graftys — Graftys, an Aix-en-Provence, France-based early stage company focused on advanced bone biologics.
SENSE in — SENSE in manufactures monitoring solutions based on thermomechanical sensors sensitive to deformation, pressure, temperature, humidity, and more. Their solutions evaluate in real time or periodically the expected characteristics and alert on abnormal behavior, threshold overruns, and damage.

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.
Onward — Working to restore movement, independence, and health in people with spinal cord injury.
Onera Health — Introduction to Onera sleep diagnostics and monitoring solutions

Terra Drone Indonesia provides drone services for various industry sector such as mining, construction, oil & gas, energy, and utilities.

Investment focus

Drones, Robotics, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Unifly — Unifly - Enabling autonomous aviation

Vives is an interregional seed and early stage technology multi-sector fund. The new fund, initiated by UCLouvain, is a unique European inter-university fund having access to world class innovations from leading EU top universities.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BOTALYS — BOTALYS uses an innovative Biomimetic Indoor Farming technology to recreate the ideal wild conditions for rare botanicals to grow in. We develop pristine & potent botanical ingredients for the Nutraceutical and Cosmetic industries.
Sunrise — Sunrise aims to bring simple answers to millions of people suffering from sleep disorders.We have developed a 3-gram sensor to diagnose sleep with gold standard quality. The technology offers a revolutionary new way to measure brain commands at night, with published clinical results never seen before. Studies demonstrate Sunrise is as accurate asin-lab sleep studies, at a fraction of the cost.Affecting one in three people, sleep disorders are extremely common. Sleep apnea is the most prevalent disease with almost 1 billion persons concerned. This condition leads to great body damage over time and yet remains undiagnosed in 80% of the cases.Patients, caregiver and insurers stand to benefit greatly from a solution to current highly cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming diagnostics systems.
Novadip Biosciences — Novadip Biosciences, an advanced biopharmaceutical company focused on new generation of therapies from adipose stem cells adapted to hard and soft tissues reconstruction.

Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Belgium, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Axithra — Saving lives and improving health economics through significant advancement of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM).
RISORCE — RISORCE fills a need in Belgium for local solutions for processing tire waste while remaining dedicated to a circular economy strategy. We provide a regionally-based, technologically and environmentally sound solution.
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).

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.

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.

Flanders Future Techfund operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

Medical, Semiconductor, Clinical Trials
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

AstriVax — AstriVax aims for initial clinical validation of the platform technology, to develop a broad vaccination pipeline.
Flindr Therapeutics — Immagene develops personalized cancer immunotherapies to fight multiple cancer type.
Swave Photonics — Swave develops Spatial Computing, Holography, holographic chips, and holograms in the HXR chip to create 3D augmented and virtual reality and HUD Heads Up Displays

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 — Univercells is a One-stop-shop for high-density low-cost biomanufacturing "end-to-end" solutions, with innovative engineering able to decrease the needs for investments of over 75% and the cost of goods of up to 90%.Univercells' technologies, aimed at low cost manufacturing of antibodies/proteins/vaccines, is based onsingle-use technologies, and chaining of three manufacturing steps into simulated continuous mode : cell culture under perfusion, clarification and capture.
Intressa Vascular — Intressa Vascular provides innovative solutions to address life-threatening cardiovascular conditions such as aortic dissection.
Santero Therapeutics — Santero Therapeutics seeks to provide novel medications with fresh modes of action that combat diseases with high resistance. Santero develops antimicrobials with novel modes of action to combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

MBX Biosciences — Homepage - MBX Biosciences
Brenig Therapeutics — Brenig Therapeutics develops therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.
Cardurion Pharmaceuticals — A Boston-based cardiovascular biotechnology company developing next-generation therapeutics for the treatment of heart failure and cardiovascular diseases.

We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Travel
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

QA.tech — Our AI combines the skills of a QA engineer with the speed of automated testing for you. This shortens your time to market, cuts costs and improves the quality of your web apps.
Frontnow — Frontnow is redefining e-commerce with AI, providing businesses with powerful pre-sales tools to maximize core KPIs and provide an in-store-like shopping experience. Our vision is to transform online shopping into a dynamic, hyper-personalized, and inspirational experience through an adaptive interface. By revolutionizing the ecosystem, theyempower businesses to thrive in the digital age and significantly impact the way customers shop online, leading to a more profitable and customer-centric retail world.
Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management

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.

Korys is the name chosen by the Colruyt family for their investment structure. The name Korys is derived from the Latin word for hazelnut tree – Corylus - which is at the origin of the Colruyt name.Their multi-disciplinary approach enables us to create a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, anddirect participations in small and medium-sized companies. Through their investments, they aim to make a positive impact on people and the planet, while generating attractive returns. A “three P” approach (People, Planet, Profit) forms the cornerstone of their investment strategy. They invest for the long term, as they realize that it takes time to achieve the sustainable impact they are aiming for. They focus their investments in sectors in which they have built substantial expertise as a team: Cleantech, consumer goods & retail and life sciences.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Greenely — Greenely is the electricity company that optimizes your electricity use using smart technology in an app. We help you take control of your consumption.
Protealis — Sustainable plant proteins for Europe
Eneida — Operational Analytics LV Apps, software and smart sensor for LV Network Monitoring, Control, and Visibility

TheClubDeal is an investment holding and fund manager co-investing into SME’s and real estate projects. It provides facilitation of governance between non-executive shareholders and entrepreneurs. Its governance structure, including its charter of avoidance of conflict of interests, is therefore paramount to the adequate management of the Company.At TheClubDeal, we connect Investors and Entrepreneurs around promising investment opportunities. For each of these, we will invest ourselves and co-invest with a selected number of investors. We add value by processing strong applied governance principles, when selecting and managing our investments, and by gathering the necessary skills to successfully grow the businesses and real-estate projects we co-invest in. TheClubDeal is launching their second fund, a 50M € PRIVAK/PRICAF in H1 2021 with the mandate to invest in Belgian scale-ups in three sectors: Smart Living, Tech and Life Sciences.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FLYX.cloud — Empower your omnichannel strategy with our API-based solutions tailored for dynamic businesses managing network of stores or restaurants. Streamline loyalty programs and digitize sales channels seamlessly.
Univercells — Univercells is a One-stop-shop for high-density low-cost biomanufacturing "end-to-end" solutions, with innovative engineering able to decrease the needs for investments of over 75% and the cost of goods of up to 90%.Univercells' technologies, aimed at low cost manufacturing of antibodies/proteins/vaccines, is based onsingle-use technologies, and chaining of three manufacturing steps into simulated continuous mode : cell culture under perfusion, clarification and capture.
Inpulse — Inpulse is an automated supply management platform for restaurateurs.

Regional Investment Company of Brussels

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Belgium, France

Portfolio highlights

cikisi — Specialized in Web Intelligence (collecting, searching and filtering web information). Help companies and organizations to take advantage of Web information that are relevant to their development. Develops and commercializes Cikisi WMT, a Web Intelligence Solution.
Easyvest — Easyvest is leading a crusade to help all Belgians to make their money grow in a personalized, simple, low-cost and educational way.
VoxelSensors — Spatial and Empathic Computing. Bringing empathic abilities to XR and mobile devices by understanding user attention and intent.

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

scnd — The marketplace solution to sell services online. Start selling services directly or through a marketplace with third party providers and scale infinitely.
Nomad Homes — Nomad Homes provides concierge real estate hunting services and technology to match the specific needs of buyers in Dubai with their dream home.
Second — The marketplace solution to sell services online. Start selling services directly or through a marketplace with third party providers and scale infinitely.

Vesalius Biocapital Partners invests in companies active in human health through venture capital funds raised since 2007. They have contributed to developing 20 companies since inception.With more than € 150 million under management in two funds. Vesalius Biocapital Partners plays the role of lead investor in the large majority of its financingrounds.Their companies are based in Europe allowing easy interaction with management.They invest in all stages of development and do not shy away from relatively early-stage projects with a sound proprietary technology and corresponding IP, unique team skills and a clear competitive edge based on solid data.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Series A, Series C
Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

CatalYm — Catalym develops antibodies against a placental factor which is overexpressed by various tumour types.
inHEART — inHEART is a spin-off from IHU Liryc and Inria, two top-tier research centers respectively in cardiac electrophysiology and digital science and technology, that develops software solutions for medical image analysis and cardiac modeling in heart rhythm disorders. inHEART vision is to make the bridge between radiology and cardiology to become aworldwide leader in image-guided diagnosis, therapy planning and navigation software solutions for heart rhythm disorders.
Memo Therapeutics — Memo Therapeutics AG (MEMO) is an innovator in the field of antibody discovery and immune repertoire analysis.Its MemoMAB™ platform creates a recombinant in vitro copy of an individual’s B cell / antibody repertoire, which is then banked as a library. The resulting unique, large and relevant antibody libraries represent the individual’simmune repertoire and are expected to contain an unprecedented number of relevant and rare antibodies. This leads to entirely new possibilities in immune repertoire analysis and antibody discovery.MemoMAB™ is deployed in proprietary antibody lead discovery programs and is made available in collaborations.

The official website of the European Commission, providing access to information about its political priorities, policies and services

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Spain, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Forkbomb — Provides encryption, identity, and blockchain interoperability components and solutions to make cryptography more accessible to the general public.
Compellio — Compellio is a technology company offering blockchain-enabled solutions for asset-centric interoperability. Our technologies are used by major public institutions and corporate leaders active in several industries ranging from audit & supply chain management to consumer engagement & IoT-driven manufacturing. Learn more about our recentjoint research with MIT: "Towards Blockchain-enabled Open Architectures for Scalable Digital Asset Platforms" https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12553
City and Me — City and Me is a digital response to the citizens' needs to communicate, be active, and act sustainably in their communities.

Quest for Growth (QGPLF) is an Internet company located in 19 Lei, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Hardware, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
Belgium, France, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Qpinch — Our patented QHT - Qpinch Heat Transformer - technology recovers and transforms waste heat into carbon neutral process heat.
Finquest — Tap into the largest private company database in the world to change the way you find and connect with M&A targets using Data, AI, & People.
EclecticIQ — EclecticIQ is a global threat intelligence, hunting and response technology provider. Its clients are some of the most targeted organizations, globally. To build tomorrow’s defenses today, they have to understand the threats against them – and align their efforts and investments to mitigate their risks. EclecticIQ helps governments, largeenterprises and service providers manage threat intelligence, create situational awareness and adopt an intelligence-led cybersecurity approach. EclecticIQ extended its focus towards hunting and response with the acquisition of Polylogyx’s endpoint technology in 2020. Founded in 2014, EclecticIQ operates globally with offices across Europe, North America, and via value-add partners. More info: www.eclecticiq.com

New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator

Investment focus

Software, Music, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Belgium, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zapfloor — Zapfloor is the number one workspace management software for coworking spaces, serviced offices and corporate workspaces in Europe.
ClimateCamp — Looking for a sustainable way to collaborate with your suppliers on emissions reduction projects? Look no further than our platform - Book a demo for free!
Streamforge — Streamforge is the technology-first, turnkey solution for all of your influencer marketing needs.

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

DName-iT — DName-iT is a genetic analysis tool that offers DNA-based barcode labeling technology and a software platform that can ensure reliable, cost-effective NGS specimen identification.
Protealis — Sustainable plant proteins for Europe
Augustine Therapeutics — Augustine, Innovative therapies for neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases

Nuoyan Capital is a premier industrial investment institution specializing in optoelectronic displays, smart cars, compound semiconductors, and new energy.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Electronics
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
China, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Presheng — Presheng New Materials is a high-end semiconductor polishing solution provider. The company has extensive technical knowledge of high-end abrasives. Prisheng focuses on the research and development of high-end alumina polishing fluids, polishing abrasives, and other goods. Provider of cost-effective local solutions for third-generation compoundsemiconductor polishing.
GaN Valley — GaN Valley is an industrial manufacturer of semiconductor equipment and devices.
ChangXin Memory Technologies — ChangXin Memory Technologies specializes in manufacturing dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) semiconductor products.

Akiles is a Belgian Evergreen Investment Company focussing on Growth Capital. Managed by Christophe Rousseaux, Kurt Huyghe, Laurent Puissant Baeyens and

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Wellness
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Belgium, France, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

HypnoVR — HypnoVR is a virtual reality software for anesthesia, treatment of pain, and anxiety. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Strasbourg, France.
moonbird — Slow breathing is the easiest way to relieve stress and promote relaxation. Moonbird makes it intuitive and easy to do breathing exercises.
Saturne Technology — Saturne Technology is specialized in laser-cutting, laser-drilling, laser-welding and laser-cladding, using a manufacturing process by Selective Laser Melting (SLM) (i.e. metallic 3D-printing using fine metallic-powder bed).

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.

Olivier Coune

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.

KPN Ventures is a corporate venture arm of KPN that aims to partner with innovative technology companies, providing access to capital, expertise, network, and customer channels. It focuses on early growth-stage European companies in networking technology, internet of things, smart home, digital healthcare, cyber security, mobile and video (OTT)services, cloud computing, data, and analytics. It began operation on June 1, 2015, with its headquarters in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Investment focus

Software, Internet of Things, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
Wirepas — Wirepas is the best mesh for industrial and commercial IoT. Wireless. Infinitely scalable. Ultra-reliable. Lowest total cost of ownership. Self-building and self-healing. It can't fail.
BOX ID Systems — BOX ID Systems develops and offers an end-to-end location & process mining solution to cost effectively track millions of logistics assets digitally throughout the industrial supply chain across Europe and the World - including site-to-site, on-premises and indoor buildings digital twin of supply chain processes. The system is built on aspecialized analytics software platform, sensorik tracking devices and efficient data-, device- and user-management tools, including functions to support process automation and optimization. Industrial and automotive production customers benefit from making their logistics processes more efficient and cost optimized, with 100% transparency within their critical processes throughout the entire supply chain.

Level Equity provides bespoke guidance to best-in-class software pioneers and technology leaders.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Private Equity, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Accelo — Simplify project, retainer, sales, and service management. Gain visibility across your client database, improve processes and spend more time on your expertise.
DocuPhase — DocuPhase believes in the power of automation to truly transform the lives of our customers! We have built an Enterprise Automation Platform that simplifies application and deployment, and we have a team with rich experience, insights, and an approach that ensures our clients' success. No one does it better! We solve many challenging problemsincluding access to information, burdensome approval processes, high transaction volumes, and complex compliance issues.Our top priority is providing our customers with a superior partnership and user experience. Our mission is to automate every process within an organization.For more information, visit docuphase.com.
Allseated — AllSeated is a free collaboration network for planning events that enables you to design floor plans, manage guest lists, and create seating seating charts. We save you time and make planning your event simple.

SHIFT Invest is a Dutch venture capital fund that invests in early stage environmental impact startups

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

FononTech — FononTech specializes in impulse printing.It is used to print small electronic circuits for electronic devices.
Astrape Networks — Astrape powers the future of datacenters: more bandwidth, less power.
volytica diagnostics — Our software enables customers to develop more economical battery systems, reduce operational risks and establish second-use concepts.

Invented for life: we want our products to spark enthusiasm, improve quality of life, and help conserve natural resources.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Variantyx — Based on clinical whole genome sequencing (WGS) and using a single patient sample, Variantyx's Genomic Unity® test identifies and reports all major variant types including small sequence changes, structural variants, mitochondrial variants and short tandem repeat expansions. This comprehensive test test eliminates the need for traditionalstep-wise, reiterative genetic testing.
ARRIS — ARRIS is an industrial engineering company that specializes in the fields of machinery manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace. It provides next-gen composites for mass-market applications including aerospace, automotive, sports, and consumer products. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California.
Point2 Technology — We Develop Innovative, Ultra-Low Power Connectivity SoCs Point2 Technology cloud-optimized range of high-speed SoCs and reference design platforms accelerate deployment of next generation data centers and 5G infrastructure.

TeleSoft Partners provides value-added capital for technology, communications and energy value chain companies. Our focus is to help entrepreneurs benefit from our knowledge, contacts and experience -- to help you Make-It-Happen. Over the last two decades, TeleSoft has helped build over 75 companies, of which over 50 companies have been acquiredor gone public.

Investment focus

Software, Telecommunications, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Tomo — Tomo: Mortgages made simple
Sesame — Ranked America's #1 Telehealth Company - 2022. Book doctor appointments and specialists today at discount prices. Labs, prescriptions, and more available now with top-reviewed doctors near you. Feel better paying less for better care.
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

Ark Angels Activator Fund SA is a closed venture capital fund (closed-end private equity investment fund) with a capital of 14.8 M EUR. The Fund is recognized as ARKIV and has obtained the status of Private Privak under Belgian law. The Fund is managed by a management company set up by BAN Vlaanderen VZW, ING Belgium & the two fund managers.The Fund initially acted primarily as a co-investor in investments made by business angels who are members of BAN Vlaanderen, but then also co-invested with other capital providers. It focuses not only on investments in young growth companies, but also on companies in the growth or transfer phase with an operating office in Flanders,

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Apicbase — Apicbase is a F&B management platform that gives you total visibility of your back of house so you can grow without compromise.
waylay — Waylay is a leading Enterprise IT-OT digital unification software company delivering low-code based orchestration, automation and analytics software solutions. Waylay has a passion for supporting enterprises on their IoT automation journey and ensuring it puts all valuable data to work for developers, data scientists and domain experts.
Accelleran — Accelleran is pioneering a disruptive approach to the delivery of cost-effective, carrier and mission-critical grade TDD and FDD Small Cell networks through its focus on software quality and partnerships with volume manufacturers.Accelleran provides LTE Small Cell software and LTE Small Cell product solutions which address the real-worldchallenges of volume deployment of Small Cells. We offer turnkey solutions and unique experience on the challenges of integrating cellular technology on low cost, yet powerful platforms and architectures. Accelleran offers its customers solid and dependable system solutions, backed by the support of our unparalleled expertise.Accelleran’s technology is genuinely independent from any HW platform and enables operators to invest once in the integration and validation of a common software base that can be deployed across different segments, platforms and Small Cell architectural approaches to enable a truly integrated HetNet.

Sydes is a company that offers content management services.

Investment focus

Hardware, Software
Funding Round
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

cinvolve — Quick Sensor N.V. offers seat control and detection system that provides overview of the audience behavior with the use of sensors embedded in movie theatre seating. Its system enables seat detection, as well as gathers and stores the seating information for retrieval and processing. Quick Sensor N.V. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered inIzegem, Belgium.

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