Top 15 Hospitality Startup Investors in Belgium in May 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hospitality startups based in Belgium. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Belgium. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Hospitality Startup Investors in Belgium in May 2025
Investor | Hospitality Belgium investments |
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Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij | 2 |
Fly Ventures | 2 |
Itai Tsiddon | 1 |
Singular | 1 |
Seeder Fund | 1 |
Kima Ventures | 1 |
Join Capital | 1 |
Didier Valet | 1 |
Notion Capital | 1 |
Jose Marin | 1 |
Isomer Capital | 1 |
Jürgen Ingels | 1 |
Zhong Xu | 1 |
Michaël Blockx | 1 |
Slingshot Ventures | 1 |
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Belgium, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Cumul.io — Create powerful dashboards in minutes. Share with your teams, or integrate in your platform. Drive growth in your business today!
- ADLC — ADLC employs drone technology to deliver logistics services, allowing businesses to implement drone-based solutions without having to manage them in-house. The company is focused on enhancing last-mile delivery in maritime and offshore environments. ADLC now conducts drone delivery services in the Port of Antwerp in collaboration with SGS, atesting and certification company, and works with companies such as BASF. Its drones have reduced delivery times and environmental effect, boosting efficiency sixfold and lowering CO2 emissions by up to 80% for petrochemical sample deliveries.
- Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
Fly is a first check VC for technical founders solving hard problems. We invest from day-zero to seed, backing founders from all over Europe.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- Cakewalk — Cakewalk enables IT & Security teams to monitor all SaaS apps used by their employees, run compliant access flows, securely on- and offboard people, and be IT audit-ready.
- Elea — Elea is an AI-powered operating system that transforms pathology into a future-proof force for precision, speed, and innovation.
- Zendo Energy — Zendo Energy is dedicated to the mission of decarbonising computing power. The company aims to empower data centres to become smarter, more efficient, and prepared for the increasing future demand of computing by leveraging advanced software solutions. Their platform utilizes real-time analytics and predictive tools to optimise energy consumption,reduce emissions, and integrate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, thereby supporting the transition to sustainable digital infrastructure. This mission addresses the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of data centres amid the exponential growth of AI and computing workloads globally
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 — Lyka Pet Food: for puppers living their best life. We deliver fresh, homemade dog food straight from our Australian kitchen to your door.
- 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.
Singular is a generalist venture capital firm backing ambitious European entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, Germany, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Prelude — Prelude is advancing SMS verification and mobile onboarding infrastructure through a set of unified APIs developers might actually like. Prelude is dedicated to more reliable fraud detection, elegant transparency, and increased reliability– all at a better price, so businesses can make every ping count for their customer experience, not their bill.
- Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.
- Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.
Seeder Fund is an early-stage financing and growth capital for digital startups. For young start-ups with a start in commercial traction it offers seed funding of up to EUR 200,000 to validate their value proposition and product-market fit. For start-ups preparing for Series A it provides funding of up to EUR 300,000 to confirm the growth potentialand move closer to break-even. For scale-ups, the Seeder Fund can also help finance the company's growth, this time in the form of a capital stake of up to 1,000,000 EUR.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Portfolio highlights
- Pleevi — AI powered smart charging APIs to charge fleet more cost-efficient and cleaner on professional sites
- Passbolt — The open source password manager for teams. Passbolt simplifies password management, helps prevent data loss, stores data securely and enables secure password sharing.
- ARK Capture Solutions — ARK Capture Solutions is a cleantech company that specializes in decarbonization solutions to record low energy consumption.
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kalent — Search. Match. Engage. At scale. From your ATS to our 500M+ profiles — Kalent is your AI recruiter.
- Plakar — Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io.
- Alta Ares — Alta Ares is a data integration surveillance service provider that utilizes drone imaging.
JOIN Capital is an early stage VC focused on pre-Series A investments in Industry 4.0 and enterprise tech. Our portfolio companies are front and center at factories, delivering smart machinery and robotics for high-volume manufacturing. They’re behind the scenes with powerful algorithms for managing global production systems. They rethink andrewire essential processes, with the goal of maximizing human capabilities. We invest in technologies related to core business functions: operations, manufacturing, data analytics, supply chain and software development. We seek innovative solutions to real customer problems that have achieved product-market fit. Technologies we invest in include: machine learning, robotics, cloud computing, IoT, smart sensors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- SEMRON — open jobs at SEMRON / career
- Calvin Risk — We help companies manage the risks of their AI algorithms!
- Quantum Optics Jena — BEYOND CLASSICAL SOLUTIONS We are a team of passionate engineers, physicists, computer scientists and business developers and we believe that quantum technology allows us to achieve more: More confidence in data security via quantum communication More insights into matter and
Didier Valet
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Luxembourg, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Grâce — Grâce offers innovative insurance solutions to enhance customer experience and improve process efficiency.
- Celest Science — Celest Science is a combination of climate science and machine learning to improve the prediction and understanding of extreme weather events.
- Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.
Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
- Isembard — Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business.
- Cloud Capital — CloudCapital manages cloud costs and invests in tech companies using AI and ML.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
- Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
- Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.
Isomer's entrepreneurial approach accesses high-potential opportunities through limited partner investments in funds, company co-investments, and providing liquidity to firms and founders via secondary purchases.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Cowboy — Meet Cowboy, the connected electric bike for urban riders. With an intuitive motor to sense your pedaling force and a companion app in the cockpit to guide your ride, tune into a newfound freedom in the city.
- Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
- Latent Labs — Latent Labs is making biology programmable to transform health and sustainability for the benefit of all.We are a frontier AI lab building foundational models that capture the fundamentals of biology. We empower partners with breakthrough generative AI to gain unprecedented control over molecular biology, creating new antibodies, optimizingexisting enzymes, and advancing genetic engineering.Contact us to work with us today.
Founding Partner, was the Founder and CFO of Clear2Pay, a leading payments technology company. Under his leadership, he grew the company to one of the world leaders in payment software with more than 1,200 employees in 14 countries and successfully sold the business to FIS for 400 million euro in October 2014. In 2012, Jurgen co-founded NGData, aleading big data company offering customer intelligence management software and services to track customer behavior in real time. He started his career as Investment Manager with Dexia Ventures (previously Quadra Invest), where he focused on investing in early-stage companies while taking a pro-active role in their business strategy, product launches, and financial management.He currently holds Board positions at several technology companies such as Materialise (NASDAQ: MTLS), Itiviti, NGData, Itineris, and Projective and is the founder and Chairman of start-ups.be. Jurgen holds a Masters degree in Political and Social Sciences and an MBA from the University of Antwerp.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Information Technology
- Series B, Funding Round, Seed
- Belgium, Turkey, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Locatee — Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilisation insight. Developed with a strong focus and a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers leaders and managers to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence.Locatee works by leveraging office occupancy data from multiple sources, processing them using unique patented technology, and beautifully visualising them all in one place. With workplace intelligence at fingertips’ length, it’s easy to identify optimisation potential, realise savings, and enhance company’s workplace experience across the entire real estate portfolio.
- Casper — Casper is a pan European Hybrid Kitchen pioneer and a modern day food hall; 100% virtual and getting everyone what they want. Their vision is to have a foothold in every great city of Europe: a virtual food hall (referring to the wide variety of cuisines available from which you can order) at everyone’s fingertips, from the comfort of their ownhome. Available for in-store purchase, pick-up or within 30 minutes delivery distance. Similar to a dark kitchen, Casper's kitchen operations are takeaway & delivery focused. However, they differ by choosing high street locations where customers are able to walk in and order from a kiosk, click & collect or pick-up from the deli. While they wait for and see how their food is prepared, the branded in-store environment allows them to engage with the brand; completely wiping out the mystery-factor and all misconceptions around ghost kitchens.
- Recharge — The leading one-stop-shop for all branded payment needs.
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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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, E-Commerce, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Belgium, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Deliverect — Deliverect is a subscription-based service that integrates third-party online ordering platforms like Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo, and Doordash into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, automating the inbound online order flow through a single point and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manuallyre-enter orders into their existing system.
- Orderchamp — Orderchamp is a marketplace that brings independent retailers and brands together to provide wholesale service for local communities.The company's mission is to enable creators and shop owners from around the world to find the right sales channels and discover unique products.Orderchamp was founded in 2019 and is headquartered inAmsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands.
- Casper — Casper is a pan European Hybrid Kitchen pioneer and a modern day food hall; 100% virtual and getting everyone what they want. Their vision is to have a foothold in every great city of Europe: a virtual food hall (referring to the wide variety of cuisines available from which you can order) at everyone’s fingertips, from the comfort of their ownhome. Available for in-store purchase, pick-up or within 30 minutes delivery distance. Similar to a dark kitchen, Casper's kitchen operations are takeaway & delivery focused. However, they differ by choosing high street locations where customers are able to walk in and order from a kiosk, click & collect or pick-up from the deli. While they wait for and see how their food is prepared, the branded in-store environment allows them to engage with the brand; completely wiping out the mystery-factor and all misconceptions around ghost kitchens.
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.
Slingshot Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in fast growing companies, with a focus on B2C and B2B2C businesses.We back ambitious, talented and charismatic entrepreneurs and actively help them accelerate their businesses with our knowledge, experience and international network of people and companies. By providing smart capital we helpthese start- and scale-ups catapult their business to the next level.We currently manage a portfolio of multiple investments, all with a base in the Netherlands and all with a cross-border ambition. Our portfolio includes companies such as VanMoof, Wonderkind, Boldking, Wasteless, Temper, Swishfund & more.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- XOXO Soda — XOXO Soda is a plant-based drink with prebiotic fiber that is low in sugar and calories.
- Cruit — Cruit is on a mission to revolutionize the way companies hire talent. We believe that referrals are the most powerful tool for companies to find the best candidates, and we’re dedicated to leveraging that power to help businesses around the world build amazing teams. Our goal is simple: to turn employees and communities into a “Cruiter”.
- Unravel — Unravel delivers immersive digital transformation and engagement with travellers through short-format, shoppable videos.
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