# Top 35 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Belgium in June 2026

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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).

## Toon Coppens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Sales Automation

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)

## Pieter Casneuf
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SEO, SaaS

Pieter Casneuf

## Jean-Michel Teerlinck
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hotel, Tourism, Event Management

Jean-Michel Teerlinck, co-founder at MTM & Artion

## Dr. Cornelius Boersch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

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.

## Gio Canini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Payments, Software

Gio Canini is the WPP Country Manager in Belgium.

## Jonas Deprez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed

Jonas Deprez - Founder and CEO @ Daltix

## Robin Wauters
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Events, Marketing, Ticketing

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.

## Didier Valet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Didier Valet

## Itai Tsiddon
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps

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

## Niklas Zennström
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Apps

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.

## Willem Delbare
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, CRM

Willem Delbare is the Founder at Teamleader.

## Frank Bekkers
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Content, Publishing, Digital Media

Frank Bekkers

## Bart Claeys
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Content, Publishing, Digital Media

Bart Claeys - Product Designer @ Meta

## Koen Desmedt
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Content, Publishing, Digital Media

Koen Desmedt - COO @ CityLive

## Jochen Boeykens
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: PaaS, Health Care, Social Media Marketing

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

## Andreas Spechtler
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: B2B, Music, Artificial Intelligence

Andreas Spechtler

## Michael Verschueren
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Payments, Software

Michael Verschueren is an entrepreneur in health science and sports.

## Tanguy Serraes
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Hotel, Tourism, Event Management

Tanguy Serraes

## Matthias Stevens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Hotel, Tourism, Event Management

Matthias Stevens Esign - e-commerce, marketplaces, websites, online marketing, apps

## Gilles Mattelin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, CRM

Gilles Mattelin is Co-CEO / Founder at Henchman AI. Attended at Vlerick Business School

## Hendrik Isebaert
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1

Hendrik Isebaert is the CEO at Showpad. Hendrik Isebaert attended Harvard Business School.

## Tony Mary
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Payments, Software

Tony Mary (born 1950) is a Belgian businessman.He graduated as a Master in Economic Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1973.He started his career at IBM, where he became Country General Manager for IBM Belgium and Luxemburg in 1990. In 1993 he founded Synergia, which he lead until July 1995. From August 1995 until May 1997, hewas General Manager of Belgacom. From June 1997 until December 1998 he was President Europe of SITEL Corporation. Tony Mary was Senior Executive Vice President of Groupe Bull from January 1999 until December 1999. From January 2000 until July 2002 he was Managing Partner of KPMG. He succeeded Bert De Graeve in 2002 as President and CEO of the VRT and remained in office from August 2002 until September 2006. Since 2000 he is Independent Director and member of the audit committee of Vivium and several other companies. He is an angel investor and is the Chairman of Collibra, a Belgian spin-off company.

## Jan Verbeke
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Government, Recruiting

Jan Verbeke

## Christophe Salanon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Internet, Apps, Music

Christophe Salanon is an Investor at Proxistore and was a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Meetic. Christophe has a master's degree from the Université Paris Cité and KEDGE Business School.

## David MARY
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Payments, Software

David MARY is an individual investor.

## Stefaan Rossel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hotel, Tourism, Event Management

Stefaan Rossel

## Piet Van Waes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Hotel, Medical, Tourism

Piet Van Waes is the Managing Director and Founder of Tilleghem. He previously worked at Green Park Investment Partners as a Partner. Piet Van Waes attended KU Leuven.

## Jorn Vanysacker
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, CRM

Jorn Vanysacker - Co-CEO & Founder @ Henchman

## Christiaan Thoma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Recruiting, Social Media, Staffing Agency

Christiaan Thoma

## Frank Van Raemdonck
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Payments, Software

Frank Van Raemdonck is an individual investor.

## louis mahy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Hotel, Tourism

louis mahy

## Bart Putteman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Publishing, Machine Learning, Retail Technology

Bart Putteman

## Pieter Vanermen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Hotel, Tourism, Event Management

Pieter Vanermen

## Olivier Saverys
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hotel, Tourism, Event Management

Olivier Saverys

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