Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Belgium in February 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in Belgium. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from Belgium. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Belgium in February 2025
Investor | Media (entertainment) Belgium investments |
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Volta Ventures | 8 |
Volta Ventures | 8 |
PMV | 7 |
PMV | 7 |
WING by Digital Wallonia | 6 |
LeanSquare | 6 |
LeanSquare | 6 |
WING by Digital Wallonia | 5 |
Newion | 4 |
Peak | 4 |
Newion | 4 |
Lorenz Bogaert | 4 |
Ark Angels Activator Fund | 4 |
Belfius Bank | 4 |
Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij | 4 |
Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij | 4 |
Lorenz Bogaert | 4 |
Toon Coppens | 4 |
Ark Angels Activator Fund | 4 |
Belfius Bank | 4 |
Toon Coppens | 4 |
Peak | 4 |
QuaeroQ | 3 |
Meusinvest (Noshaq) | 3 |
QuaeroQ | 3 |
Meusinvest (Noshaq) | 3 |
Pieter Casneuf | 2 |
Kima Ventures | 2 |
Kima Ventures | 2 |
European Commission | 2 |
Fly Ventures | 2 |
European Commission | 2 |
Solidity Ventures | 2 |
PROfounders Capital | 2 |
Fly Ventures | 2 |
PROfounders Capital | 2 |
Finance.Brussels | 2 |
Solidity Ventures | 2 |
Pieter Casneuf | 2 |
Angelwise | 1 |
The CoFoundry | 1 |
Gimv | 1 |
Telenet Holding | 1 |
Notion Capital | 1 |
Gimv | 1 |
Ninepointfive | 1 |
ING Group | 1 |
Singular | 1 |
Itai Tsiddon | 1 |
Compagnie Nationale à Portefeuille | 1 |
Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering seed & early stage VC for internet & software companies (SaaS) in the Benelux region
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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.
Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering seed & early stage VC for internet & software companies (SaaS) in the Benelux region
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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 — Fero uses predictive AI to customize the payment process and pathway uniquely for every individual customer. Acknowledging the uniqueness of each customer and personalizing their checkout experience on an individual basis leads to an enhanced customer experience and, consequently, higher conversion rates. FERO's AI engine empowers itsclientsto strategically determine when to offer pricier payment methods and when to provide more economical choices, effectively lowering payment expenses while preserving conversion rates.
- Ecochain Technologies — Ecochain is a life cycle assessment software and services company that helps companies reduce their environmental footprint. Learn more.
Do and dare company
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium, The Netherlands, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- PanTera — PanTera wants to bring a new hope to cancer patients by enabling the widespread use of radiopharmaceuticals for personalised treatment of tumors
- Augustine Therapeutics — Augustine, Innovative therapies for neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases
Do and dare company
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Belgium, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Nobi — Fall detection for the elderly at your home or in a residential care center with the smart Nobi lamp. Nobi ensures that you can be helped quickly.
- Apideck — Integrate and monitor APIs at warp speed. Apideck is the fastest way for developers to build integrations. Connect new APIs in minutes instead of days.
- 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).
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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.
New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator
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Investment focus
- Software, Music, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Belgium, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- e-peas — Ready to make your device energy autonomous with our state-of-art energy harvesting solutions? Phone: (+32) 10 77 12 30, sales@e-peas.com
- LinkByCar — LinkByCar specializes in leveraging artificial intelligence and sensor data from connected vehicles to predict mechanical issues accurately. The company aggregates data across various automotive manufacturers, offering comprehensive solutions as a neutral third party. This approach enables the anticipation of vehicle maintenance needs, enhancingthe driving experience by ensuring reliability and safety. LinkByCar's technology focuses on the personalization of driving experiences and supports the evolving landscape of mobility, including connected vehicles, autonomous driving, and carpooling. The company serves as a bridge between automotive data and actionable insights, catering to the needs of vehicle owners and manufacturers alike.
- Bridge.audio — Bridge is for everyone working with music and audio. We provide private workspaces to manage, share, and connect better
New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator
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Investment focus
- Software, Music, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Belgium, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
- CityLegends — A home for urban sports & culture partners of CityLegends. Making the lines.
- Streamforge — Streamforge helps companies find the most relevant creators for their games and products using the most sophisticated platform and technology on the market.
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).
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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.
Newion is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in B2B software companies. Its mission is to support entrepreneurs in building software companies into category leaders that create sustainable impact, and in doing so generate excellent returns to its investors.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
- airfocus — airfocus is the first modular product management software: Manage and communicate your product strategy, prioritize your roadmap, and solve the right problems.
- Neople — Every employee deserves an assistant. Meet the Neople, and increase your productivity simply by starting a conversation with them. Trained on your documents, available in your pocket.
European early-stage venture capital fund backed 100% by founders. Helping Pre-Seed and Seed SaaS, Marketplaces & Platforms with their Go-To-Market.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Meela — Meela AB matches individuals with psychologists or psychotherapists for online and in-person therapy.
- OpusFlow — OpusFlow is an all-in-one ERP system for the installation industry.
- Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
Newion is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in B2B software companies. Its mission is to support entrepreneurs in building software companies into category leaders that create sustainable impact, and in doing so generate excellent returns to its investors.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
- airfocus — airfocus is the first modular product management software: Manage and communicate your product strategy, prioritize your roadmap, and solve the right problems.
- Neople — Every employee deserves an assistant. Meet the Neople, and increase your productivity simply by starting a conversation with them. Trained on your documents, available in your pocket.
Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
- Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
- Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
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,
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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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- GlasDraad — GlasDraad develops broadband infrastructures by means of the construction of modern fibre optic networks.
- 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.
- PanTera — PanTera wants to bring a new hope to cancer patients by enabling the widespread use of radiopharmaceuticals for personalised treatment of tumors
Oxygen for growth - LRM
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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!
- 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.
Oxygen for growth - LRM
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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.
Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
- Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
- Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
Toon Coppens (Belgium, 1981), graduated as a Master of Science in Informatics at the University of Ghent.In june 2000, during his first year at university, he successfully launched the first Belgian social networking site, which later became Redbox.be.He is the co-founder of Massive Media, the social media company behind the successfuldigital brands Netlog.com and Twoo.com. Massive Media enables members to meet nearby people instantly. Today, Over 80 million people have joined our sites on web and mobile.Toon lives in Ghent (Belgium) and London (UK), loves snowboarding and used to deejay and play volleyball a lot.>> Toon's personal Netlog (dutch)>> Twoo.com (dutch)
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Belgium, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
- Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
- StarApps — StarApps is a boutique venture builder, turning game-changing ideas into breakthrough companies, managed by rockstar entrepreneurs.
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,
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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.
A for-profit PLC founded to meet local authority needs.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Alan — Alan is a digital health insurance platform that revolutionizes health insurance by focusing on user experience with an excellent price-quality ratio health plan. Alan started by creating a health insurance company for individuals and companies, that they can trust as a service and enjoy as an experience. Alan is the insurance company that makeshealthcare simpler, smarter, and better.It is the first new independent insurance licensed in France since 1986 by the French Prudential Supervisory Authority (ACPR) and it has raised more than €125m with leading investors such as Index Ventures, CNP, Partech, and Portage since its creation in 2016.
- GlasDraad — GlasDraad develops broadband infrastructures by means of the construction of modern fibre optic networks.
- PanTera — PanTera wants to bring a new hope to cancer patients by enabling the widespread use of radiopharmaceuticals for personalised treatment of tumors
Toon Coppens (Belgium, 1981), graduated as a Master of Science in Informatics at the University of Ghent.In june 2000, during his first year at university, he successfully launched the first Belgian social networking site, which later became Redbox.be.He is the co-founder of Massive Media, the social media company behind the successfuldigital brands Netlog.com and Twoo.com. Massive Media enables members to meet nearby people instantly. Today, Over 80 million people have joined our sites on web and mobile.Toon lives in Ghent (Belgium) and London (UK), loves snowboarding and used to deejay and play volleyball a lot.>> Toon's personal Netlog (dutch)>> Twoo.com (dutch)
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Belgium, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
- Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
- StarApps — StarApps is a boutique venture builder, turning game-changing ideas into breakthrough companies, managed by rockstar entrepreneurs.
European early-stage venture capital fund backed 100% by founders. Helping Pre-Seed and Seed SaaS, Marketplaces & Platforms with their Go-To-Market.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Vetnio — Vetnio is a tool that records conversations between veterinary professionals and pet owners, automatically generating clinical notes for the meetings. It saves veterinary professionals time, allowing them to focus more on their patients.
- Outcome — Our mission: Give companies the power to continuously evolve
- Workwize — Provide and maintain any kind of remote equipment for your workforce, no matter where they are
QuaeroQ is a privately-held investment fund that invests in and supports small and midsize companies in Europe with a long-term approach as an involved minority shareholder with a co-owner mindset and in close relationship with their management.
It was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Waregem, Belgium.
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Investment focus
- GovTech, CivicTech, Communities
- Series A
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Hoplr — Hoplr activates the social capital in your neighbourhood such as material, knowledge, time and infrastructure. Hoplr is a digital participation platform for inclusion, citizen participation and neighbourhood care.
Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Veoware — More coverage, shorter revisit time. Increasing target collection frequency through modular next-gen actuator technology.
- Get Your Way — Discover the future of assisted reality with Get Your Way's aRdent smart glasses. Perfect for SMEs looking for innovative solutions to improve their business
- Brenus Pharma — Brenus Pharma is an allogeneic platform to generate immune therapy ambitioning to harness patient immune system & prevent cancer resistance over treatment.
QuaeroQ is a privately-held investment fund that invests in and supports small and midsize companies in Europe with a long-term approach as an involved minority shareholder with a co-owner mindset and in close relationship with their management.
It was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Waregem, Belgium.
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Investment focus
- GovTech, CivicTech, Communities
- Series A
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Hoplr — Hoplr activates the social capital in your neighbourhood such as material, knowledge, time and infrastructure. Hoplr is a digital participation platform for inclusion, citizen participation and neighbourhood care.
Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- TrustUp — TrustUp is the home contractors platform, connects homeowners with verified quality home improvement.
- Veoware — More coverage, shorter revisit time. Increasing target collection frequency through modular next-gen actuator technology.
- Le Fourgon — Le Fourgon provides contained drinks for home delivery. They offer milk, water, beer, wine, fruit juice, and sodas. They allow customers to have their drinks delivered free of charge during the day.
Pieter Casneuf
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Investment focus
- Software, SEO, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Revend — Thanks for visiting Revend's Crunchbase page. Revend is the e-commerce tool that monitors, detects, and pinpoints revenue-impacting issues in minutes for D2C and omni-channel companies. Put differently, Revend is a watchdog for e-commerce KPIs. Revenue, add to carts, checkouts, we keep a close eye on them in near real-time. It is supereasy to install, and easily integrates with your preferred communication channels. We've also been called 'a smoke detector for online shops'.We are working together with a select number of large e-commerce companies that currently trail our solution prior to our launch in early 2023.Today, you can put yourself on the waitlist to ensure early access on Revend's website upon launch. For any questions or requests, please feel welcome to reach out via info@revend.ai.
- Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
- StoryChief — StoryChief.io is an Editorial Software for Startups, SEO Marketers and Editorial teams who want to publish their stories multi-channel in seconds. This tool lets you create and push your articles to different publishing channels like Wordpress, Self hosted SC blog, API, Accelerated Mobile Pages (Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP,...), Medium.com, Newsletters, Ambassadors, Press contacts/Influencers, etc. It has a universal editor that lets you create beautiful stories with ease, making them look as they should on these channels and measure your impact and ROI in one place. It also provides SEO suggestions for your content.
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- nopillo — Nopillo provides tools to automate and optimize the tax declaration and the return on investment. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Paris, Ile de France.
- Willy anti-gaspi — Willy anti-gaspi is a waste-fighting e-commerce business.
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Solteo — Solteo operates as a platform for photovoltaic installers.
- GROWL — Discover GROWL: the smart boxing bag blending cardio, strength, and gaming. Experience an immersive home boxing coach and step up your performance.
- CROWN — CROWN is modernizing procurement negotiations through ethical eAuctions.
The official website of the European Commission, providing access to information about its political priorities, policies and services
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- Spain, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Forkbomb — Cryptography, blockchain interoperability, digital identity
- Compellio — Manage the lifecycle of assets in the physical world through the use of digital twins on blockchains
- City and Me — City and Me is a digital response to the citizens' needs to communicate, be active, and act sustainably in their communities.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.
- Lakera AI — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
- Orbital Materials — Orbital Materials leverages AI to design and deploy advanced materials & climate technologies for the long-term habitability of our planet.
The official website of the European Commission, providing access to information about its political priorities, policies and services
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- France, Spain, The Netherlands
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- Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
- Magnetfab — Magnetfab pioneers the mass-production of integrated micromagnets, driving advanced miniaturization for next-generation consumer electronics, robotics, quantum computing, and beyond.
- Silicon Box — We are an advanced chiplet interconnection company specialising in cutting-edge semiconductor integration services. Learn more about our proprietary integration technology.
Solidity Ventures they provides infrastructure for blockchain platforms.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, Cayman Islands, India
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- Envoy — Personalise, Curate and Earn with your NFTs. Claim your username today.
- TiTi Protocol — TiTi Protocol always monitors changes in the total value of reserve to calculate the average price of TiUSD in circulation and adjusts the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market through the ReOrders mechanism.
- Blocklords — Be part of the most ambitious strategy game of our age.
We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.
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- Software, Apps, Travel
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- 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.
- Carbonx — CarbonX is your trusted carbon credits procurement and management partner for high-quality permanent carbon dioxide removals to reach your net zero targets.
- Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management
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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- carbmee GmbH — Automate your companys carbon & ESG reporting & reduce Scope 1,2,3 emissions. Decarbonization tool based on data & science. Enterprise climate platform.
- Neuralk-AI — The first AI embedding models specialized for structured data representation.
- Orbital Materials — Orbital Materials leverages AI to design and deploy advanced materials & climate technologies for the long-term habitability of our planet.
We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.
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- Software, Apps, Travel
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- 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.
- ClimeFi — ClimeFi is the leader specialising in permanent carbon removals (CDRs), partnering with companies to build portfolio of certified CDR assets.
- Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management
Regional Investment Company of Brussels
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Belgium, France
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- 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.
- AnyKrowd — Anykrowd specializes in providing an all-in-one cashless payments and ticketing solution aimed at enhancing event experiences. The company focuses on increasing revenue for event organizers while reducing operational costs. Anykrowd's platform is designed to support the creation of various ticket types, including early bird, multiple days, andVIP tickets, catering to the diverse needs of events. With a commitment to technological innovation, Anykrowd continuously develops new tools to stay aligned with the evolving demands of the event industry. The company also emphasizes sustainability and the future of event management by offering easy-to-use event technology and management tools.
- Easyvest — Easyvest is leading a crusade to help all Belgians to make their money grow in a personalized, simple, low-cost and educational way.
Solidity Ventures they provides infrastructure for blockchain platforms.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, Cayman Islands, India
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- Envoy — Personalise, Curate and Earn with your NFTs. Claim your username today.
- TiTi Protocol — TiTi Protocol always monitors changes in the total value of reserve to calculate the average price of TiUSD in circulation and adjusts the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market through the ReOrders mechanism.
- Blocklords — Be part of the most ambitious strategy game of our age.
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- Software, SEO, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium
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- Revend — Thanks for visiting Revend's Crunchbase page. Revend is the e-commerce tool that monitors, detects, and pinpoints revenue-impacting issues in minutes for D2C and omni-channel companies. Put differently, Revend is a watchdog for e-commerce KPIs. Revenue, add to carts, checkouts, we keep a close eye on them in near real-time. It is supereasy to install, and easily integrates with your preferred communication channels. We've also been called 'a smoke detector for online shops'.We are working together with a select number of large e-commerce companies that currently trail our solution prior to our launch in early 2023.Today, you can put yourself on the waitlist to ensure early access on Revend's website upon launch. For any questions or requests, please feel welcome to reach out via info@revend.ai.
- Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
- StoryChief — StoryChief.io is an Editorial Software for Startups, SEO Marketers and Editorial teams who want to publish their stories multi-channel in seconds. This tool lets you create and push your articles to different publishing channels like Wordpress, Self hosted SC blog, API, Accelerated Mobile Pages (Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP,...), Medium.com, Newsletters, Ambassadors, Press contacts/Influencers, etc. It has a universal editor that lets you create beautiful stories with ease, making them look as they should on these channels and measure your impact and ROI in one place. It also provides SEO suggestions for your content.
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- Software, SaaS, Marine Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium, The Netherlands
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- Pleevi — AI powered smart charging APIs to charge fleet more cost-efficient and cleaner on professional sites
- xyzt.ai — The big data platform to easily visualize and analyze any spatio-temporal data. Scaling to billions of records.
- 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.
The CoFoundry helps entrepreneurs transform their ideas into sustainable companies. Some say we cut through the funding hype and work hard to give your business a sustainable future.
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- Software, Network Security, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium, The Netherlands, United States
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- 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.
- 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.
- Vaultspeed — Save your teams months of headache with a no-code approach to automate your multi-source data integration, Data Vault modeling & ETL/DDL code generation.
Gimv, a trusted European investment company, helps mid-market businesses create sustainable value through growth capital and expertise across diverse sectors.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series B, Funding Round, Private Equity
- Belgium, United States, France
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- 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
Telenet Group Holding NV, through its subsidiaries, provides media and communication services in Belgium. Services The company, through its broadband network, offers cable television, including premium television services, broadband Internet, and telephony services to residential subscribers in Flanders and certain communes in Brussels, as well asbroadband Internet, data, and voice services in the business market throughout Belgium.
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- Privacy, Security, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium
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- The Park — Experience virtual reality in Brisbane with The Park Playground and Arena 21. Fight aliens, hunt for zombies or discover who is The Snitch. Ready to explore the impossible?
- Itsme — Veilig laten weten wie je bent, makkelijk inloggen, transacties bevestigen en documenten ondertekenen. Allemaal met 1 app.
Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Ferovinum — We are a technology enabled supply chain financing partner for the wine and spirit industries. Our platform funds wine producers, whisky distillers, bottlers and merchants.
- Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
- In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridge the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.
Gimv, a trusted European investment company, helps mid-market businesses create sustainable value through growth capital and expertise across diverse sectors.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series B, Funding Round, Private Equity
- Belgium, United States, France
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- Curana — Curana is a manufacturer of bike equipment and accessories.
- Kivu Bioscience — At Kivu Bioscience, we leverage advanced, next-generation proprietary ADC technologies to deliver more precise and effective cancer treatments.
- ImmunOs Therapeutics — ImmunOs Therapeutics AG is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing next generation and novel human immunomodulatory proteins with a role in both innate and adaptive immunity.Their mission is to develop the next generation of novel therapeutics that will improve the lives of patients with serious disease.
Ninepointfive is a venture capital fund that co-invests with corporates to take tech-based startups from pre-seed funding to maturity. A trusted partner with brands like Beiersdorf, Telenet, and Agfa, Ninepointfive helps founders deploy the inherent value of corporate acceleration. The Ninepointfive proprietary methodology offers speed, growth,value, and skin in the game. fully engaged and focused, with a positive and pragmatic approach. This is ninepointfive.
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- E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain
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- Eccocar — Launch, operate and scale your digital shared mobility services. Technology that takes mobility to the next level!
- MakerVerse — Makerverse is the platform for sourcing all your industrial parts - from prototyping to production. Upload your design and receive instant quotes.
- Penny Black — Penny Black drives growth for ecommerce brands. Transform ecommerce inserts into a marketing touchpoint that increases CLTV.
ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, investments, life insurance and retirement services. They serve more than 85 million private, corporate and institutional customers in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Australia. They draw on our experience and expertise, their commitment to excellent service andtheir global scale to meet the needs of a broad customer base, comprising individuals, families, small businesses, large corporations, institutions and governments.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
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- Neoen — Neoen is an independent energy company, develops, finances, builds, and operates power plants based on renewable energies in France, Portugal, Australia, Mexico, Egypt, and El Salvador. It operates solar, wind, and biomass power plants. The company, through its subsidiaries, also specializes in the development of marine renewable energy projects inFrance; supports photovoltaic project developers and investors in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of solar power plants in France and abroad; and develops solar and wind farms.
- Enfinity Global — We develop value added solutions to accelerate the transition to a sustainable global energy economy
- STX Group — Founded in 2005, STX Group provides access to renewable energy, biofuels, energy efficiency and carbon markets. We're hiring!
Singular is a generalist venture capital firm backing ambitious European entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, Germany, Belgium
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- 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.
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.
CNP is a private investment firm investing in and supporting European sector-leading or emerging companies in their long-term development. It has a long history of direct investing across sectors and European listed and non-listed companies and fosters sustainable value creation from strategic, financial, and government stewardship. CNP is one of agroup controlled by the Frère family.CNP is headquartered in Belgium with presence and a mandate across Europe
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- Information Technology, Manufacturing, Automotive
- Funding Round, Series A, Series D
- France, Belgium, Germany
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- Hofy — Use Hofy's equipment management platform to remotely supply, manage and maintain subscription workstations, while staying compliant.
- 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.
- FAIRMAT — We are bringing a new, sustainable and innovative way to recycle carbon fiber composite. Thanks to our proprietary technology, we produce a recycled material with a negative footprint! It's a light and strong high-tech material designed to be used in industries such as design, mobility, electronics, construction, transport, and logistics.
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