Top 10 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Belgium in May 2026

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

Portfolio highlights

Axe — AI phone agents that handle millions of calls. Build and manage voice, email, and chat agents.
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.

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Sales Automation
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.

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Michel Akkermans is the Chairman and CEO of Pamica NV. Attended University of Leuven.

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 — Nitro Sign Enterprise simplifies complex workflows. Empower your teams with compliant eSignatures, seamless API integration, and expert eSigning support.

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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.

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
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 — Label your point cloud and image data in a single task. For machine learning teams labeling robotics data at scale. Start your free trial now.

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Selçuk Boydak is the Co-Founder and Lecturer at AI Business School. Selçuk attended Boğaziçi University.

Investment focus

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.

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Noman Ahmed is a Founder, CEO & CTO at SmartEnds. He Attended Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, Smart Cities
Pre-Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

SmartEnds — At BrighterBins we produce cost-effective smart sensors for municipal waste pickup. Our smart sensors prevent overflowing bins keeping cities clean and collect data enabling route optimization for waste pickup trucks. This means less heavy traffic, less CO2 emissions, and greener cities.

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Will Margiloff serves as CEO of IgnitionOne. Margiloff is charged with the overall vision and strategic direction of IgnitionOne’s services and Digital Marketing Suite. With digital marketing experience stretching back to 1995, Margiloff brings unparalleled innovation and expertise to the company and to the industry. As one of the early pioneers inthe Internet marketing field, he has helped revolutionize the online landscape, leading the use of new online advertising formats and technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Sentiance — Sentiance turns motion into insights, empowering companies to create personalized engagements, contribue to safety and sustainability, and revolutionize their customer experience.

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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.

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 workflows
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.
Dalton — AI-powered website optimization that runs 24/7. Dalton automatically tests variations to boost conversions without manual work or development teams.

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