Top 35 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Belgium in February 2025

Investor	Media (entertainment) Belgium investments
Lorenz Bogaert	4
Toon Coppens	4
Toon Coppens	4
Lorenz Bogaert	4
Pieter Casneuf	2
Pieter Casneuf	2
Bart Claeys	1
Didier Valet	1
Willem Delbare	1
Itai Tsiddon	1
Jochen Boeykens	1
Frank Bekkers	1
Niklas Zennström	1
Andreas Spechtler	1
Dr. Cornelius Boersch	1
Didier Valet	1
Andreas Spechtler	1
Christiaan Thoma	1
Jan Verbeke	1
Gio Canini	1
Michael Verschueren	1
Jonas Deprez	1
Robin Wauters	1
Willem Delbare	1
Jonas Deprez	1
Itai Tsiddon	1
Robin Wauters	1
Niklas Zennström	1
Dr. Cornelius Boersch	1
Koen Desmedt	1
Frank Van Raemdonck	1
Christiaan Thoma	1
Bart Putteman	1
Jochen Boeykens	1
Bart Claeys	1

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

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)

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.

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, 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.

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

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.

Pieter Casneuf

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.

Pieter Casneuf

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.

Bart Claeys - Product Designer @ Meta

Investment focus

Content, Publishing, Digital Media
Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Small Teaser — Small Teaser is a community-based digital media company. They operate a digital publishing platform for shared creative output. It offers small teaser, a collaborative publishing platform that allows users to publish digital magazines and news Websites; and people to contribute articles, photos, and videos, as well as users to manage thesecontributions. Small Teaser was founded by Ruth Janssens and Stijn Janssens in 2015; and is headquartered in Belgium, Germany.

Didier Valet

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Luxembourg, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
OMAJ — Second-hand fashion platform for sellers and buyers
Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.

Willem Delbare is the Founder at Teamleader.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, CRM
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Donna — Meet Donna, your AI-powered sales assistant designed to streamline your sales process. Reduce admin tasks, automate CRM updates, and draft follow-up emails with ease. Spend more time closing deals and less on paperwork. Book a demo now!
journy.io — Turn customer behaviour on SaaS platform and website into playbooks that drive product-led customer acquisition, expansion and retention, at scale.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Lyka Pet Food — Life-changing dog food. Real food. Gently cooked. Delivered.
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.

Jochen Boeykens is the Board Member at Torus.vc. Attended Vlerick Business School.

Investment focus

PaaS, Health Care, Social Media Marketing
Seed, Series A
Belgium, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Engagor — Know what your customers and employees need, when they need it, and deliver it every time with powerful, AI driven Experience Management (XM) software.
TapCrowd — TapCrowd provides mobile event apps to associations, PCOs and large corporations. Our apps boast a unique blend of information, interaction and engagement features. Our robust solution includes features like a session catalog with speaker bios, personal agenda, exhibitor listings, attendee messaging, favorites, meet me, live Q&A and polls,surveys and much more. Easily add or update content, change the look & feel of your app or engage with attendees through push notifications. The apps are updated simultaneously in the background.Companies like Marketo, Vodafone, MCI, Hitachi, MSD & Thomson Reuters use TapCrowd to engage with their attendees and augment the event experience. Give your attendees the experience they deserve with TapCrowd!
Blendr.io (a Qlik company) — Qlik Application Automation enables you to drive dynamic actions with analytics and SaaS data integration workflows. Get an app automation demo now!

Frank Bekkers

Investment focus

Content, Publishing, Digital Media
Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Small Teaser — Small Teaser is a community-based digital media company. They operate a digital publishing platform for shared creative output. It offers small teaser, a collaborative publishing platform that allows users to publish digital magazines and news Websites; and people to contribute articles, photos, and videos, as well as users to manage thesecontributions. Small Teaser was founded by Ruth Janssens and Stijn Janssens in 2015; and is headquartered in Belgium, Germany.

Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

Andreas Spechtler

Investment focus

B2B, Music, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Musimap — Musimap helps you to play the right music / promote the right artist or album / insert the right advertisement / promote the right product or brand to the right audience!

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Didier Valet

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Luxembourg, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
Arrago — Arrago is a Fintech lending platform providing French Lifetime Mortgages
OMAJ — Second-hand fashion platform for sellers and buyers

Andreas Spechtler

Investment focus

B2B, Music, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Musimap — Musimap helps you to play the right music / promote the right artist or album / insert the right advertisement / promote the right product or brand to the right audience!

Christiaan Thoma

Investment focus

Recruiting, Social Media, Staffing Agency
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

sympl — Sympl startup integrates chatbots and video to connect job seekers and companies.

Jan Verbeke

Investment focus

Software, Government, Recruiting
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

sympl — Sympl startup integrates chatbots and video to connect job seekers and companies.
CitizenLab — CitizenLab is an online community engagement platform for local governments. Engage more people, manage input easily and drive better decisions. Discover it now!

Gio Canini is the WPP Country Manager in Belgium.

Investment focus

Apps, Payments, Software
Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

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.

Michael Verschueren is an entrepreneur in health science and sports.

Investment focus

Apps, Payments, Software
Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

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.

Jonas Deprez - Founder and CEO @ Daltix

Investment focus

Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
StriveCloud — Transform web and mobile apps with interactive features that enhance engagement, retain users, and build loyalty.
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.

Robin Wauters is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Tech.eu since October 2013. Robin is a seasoned European technology journalist and founding editor of Tech.eu, a new digital publication dedicated to covering the EU tech industry in depth. Robin was formerly the European Editor of The Next Web and before that a Senior Editor at TechCrunch(acquired by AOL in 2010) and Managing Editor of Virtualization.com. Robin started his career working as Internet Marketing Manager for IT company Hostbasket (acquired by Telenet) and later as Online Media Manager for Belgian ICT publisher Datanews / VNUnet (acquired by Roularta). Robin went on to co-found social media agency Talking Heads in 2009 (the company became part of Web development agency Netlash in 2010). Robin occasionally serves as a startup Advisory Board Member - more specifically, he is currently a minor Shareholder / Advisor to Belgian startups such as Checkthis (Frontback), Maily, Showpad, Argus Labs and ARTPLUS.

Investment focus

Events, Marketing, Ticketing
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Oxynade — Oxynade, based in Belgium, offers a unique 100% white label ticketing technology (eTaaS) for ticketing business professionals who are focussed in their own market on multiple verticals such as event organizers (fairs, festivals, conferences, …), venue owners, theaters, theme parks, nightclubs, sport clubs, etc.Oxynade is expanding the whitelabel offering in the European event management ticketing space. This has proven to work in Belgium by partnering with Belgium’s number one multi-purpose multi-venue organiser TeleTicketService, owner of 8 of Belgium’s largest venues (Sportpaleis Antwerp, Lotto Arena Antwerp, etc.) and Golazo (Memorial Van Damme, etc.).Besides Belgium Oxynade is covering already 8 more European countries. All of those partnerships are based on the same Oxynade white label ticketing technology, focused on local ticketing needs and are targeting other segments. Oxynade is not just a technology provider to leading ticketing brands in the market. The company also provides a complete set of backoffice services including payment processing, helpdesk to organizers, call center to ticket buyers and administration. All services are executed “white label” under the brand name of our partners in multiple languages across Europe.

Willem Delbare is the Founder at Teamleader.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, CRM
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Donna — Meet Donna, your AI-powered sales assistant designed to streamline your sales process. Reduce admin tasks, automate CRM updates, and draft follow-up emails with ease. Spend more time closing deals and less on paperwork. Book a demo now!
journy.io — Turn customer behaviour on SaaS platform and website into playbooks that drive product-led customer acquisition, expansion and retention, at scale.
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.

Jonas Deprez - Founder and CEO @ Daltix

Investment focus

Seed
Belgium

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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.

Robin Wauters is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Tech.eu since October 2013. Robin is a seasoned European technology journalist and founding editor of Tech.eu, a new digital publication dedicated to covering the EU tech industry in depth. Robin was formerly the European Editor of The Next Web and before that a Senior Editor at TechCrunch(acquired by AOL in 2010) and Managing Editor of Virtualization.com. Robin started his career working as Internet Marketing Manager for IT company Hostbasket (acquired by Telenet) and later as Online Media Manager for Belgian ICT publisher Datanews / VNUnet (acquired by Roularta). Robin went on to co-found social media agency Talking Heads in 2009 (the company became part of Web development agency Netlash in 2010). Robin occasionally serves as a startup Advisory Board Member - more specifically, he is currently a minor Shareholder / Advisor to Belgian startups such as Checkthis (Frontback), Maily, Showpad, Argus Labs and ARTPLUS.

Investment focus

Events, Marketing, Ticketing
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Oxynade — Oxynade, based in Belgium, offers a unique 100% white label ticketing technology (eTaaS) for ticketing business professionals who are focussed in their own market on multiple verticals such as event organizers (fairs, festivals, conferences, …), venue owners, theaters, theme parks, nightclubs, sport clubs, etc.Oxynade is expanding the whitelabel offering in the European event management ticketing space. This has proven to work in Belgium by partnering with Belgium’s number one multi-purpose multi-venue organiser TeleTicketService, owner of 8 of Belgium’s largest venues (Sportpaleis Antwerp, Lotto Arena Antwerp, etc.) and Golazo (Memorial Van Damme, etc.).Besides Belgium Oxynade is covering already 8 more European countries. All of those partnerships are based on the same Oxynade white label ticketing technology, focused on local ticketing needs and are targeting other segments. Oxynade is not just a technology provider to leading ticketing brands in the market. The company also provides a complete set of backoffice services including payment processing, helpdesk to organizers, call center to ticket buyers and administration. All services are executed “white label” under the brand name of our partners in multiple languages across Europe.

Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Koen Desmedt - COO @ CityLive

Investment focus

Content, Publishing, Digital Media
Series A, Funding Round
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

CityLive —
Small Teaser — Small Teaser is a community-based digital media company. They operate a digital publishing platform for shared creative output. It offers small teaser, a collaborative publishing platform that allows users to publish digital magazines and news Websites; and people to contribute articles, photos, and videos, as well as users to manage thesecontributions. Small Teaser was founded by Ruth Janssens and Stijn Janssens in 2015; and is headquartered in Belgium, Germany.

Frank Van Raemdonck is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Apps, Payments, Software
Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

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.

Christiaan Thoma

Investment focus

Recruiting, Social Media, Staffing Agency
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

sympl — Sympl startup integrates chatbots and video to connect job seekers and companies.

Bart Putteman

Investment focus

Publishing, Machine Learning, Retail Technology
Seed
Belgium

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.

Jochen Boeykens is the Board Member at Torus.vc. Attended Vlerick Business School.

Investment focus

PaaS, Health Care, Social Media Marketing
Seed, Series A
Belgium, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Engagor — Know what your customers and employees need, when they need it, and deliver it every time with powerful, AI driven Experience Management (XM) software.
TapCrowd — TapCrowd provides mobile event apps to associations, PCOs and large corporations. Our apps boast a unique blend of information, interaction and engagement features. Our robust solution includes features like a session catalog with speaker bios, personal agenda, exhibitor listings, attendee messaging, favorites, meet me, live Q&A and polls,surveys and much more. Easily add or update content, change the look & feel of your app or engage with attendees through push notifications. The apps are updated simultaneously in the background.Companies like Marketo, Vodafone, MCI, Hitachi, MSD & Thomson Reuters use TapCrowd to engage with their attendees and augment the event experience. Give your attendees the experience they deserve with TapCrowd!
Blendr.io (a Qlik company) — Qlik Application Automation enables you to drive dynamic actions with analytics and SaaS data integration workflows. Get an app automation demo now!

Bart Claeys - Product Designer @ Meta

Investment focus

Content, Publishing, Digital Media
Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Small Teaser — Small Teaser is a community-based digital media company. They operate a digital publishing platform for shared creative output. It offers small teaser, a collaborative publishing platform that allows users to publish digital magazines and news Websites; and people to contribute articles, photos, and videos, as well as users to manage thesecontributions. Small Teaser was founded by Ruth Janssens and Stijn Janssens in 2015; and is headquartered in Belgium, Germany.