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Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Belgium in October 2024

Last updated: Oct 2024 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 October 2024

Investor	Media (entertainment) Belgium investments
Volta Ventures	8
PMV	7
WING by Digital Wallonia	6
LeanSquare	6
Lorenz Bogaert	4
Belfius Bank	4
Newion	4
Peak	4
Ark Angels Activator Fund	4
Toon Coppens	4
Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij	4
QuaeroQ	3
Meusinvest (Noshaq)	3
Solidity Ventures	2
PROfounders Capital	2
European Commission	2
Pieter Casneuf	2
Fly Ventures	2
Kima Ventures	2
Willem Delbare	1
Theodorus III	1
ING Group	1
Invest BW	1
New Enterprise Associates	1
Finance.Brussels	1
Elysian Park Ventures	1
Dr. Cornelius Boersch	1
Viralety Ventures	1
Itai Tsiddon	1
Christophe Salanon	1
Cox Enterprises	1
SmartFin	1
iMinds	1
S.R.I.W.	1
The CoFoundry	1
Andreas Spechtler	1
Be Angels	1
Ninepointfive	1
Capricorn Partners	1
Koen Desmedt	1
Sambrinvest	1
Niklas Zennström	1
Notion Capital	1
Gemma Frisius Fund	1
KBC	1
Evalue	1
Bart Putteman	1
Jonas Deprez	1
Gimv	1
Como Venture	1

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Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering seed & early stage VC for internet & software companies (SaaS) in the Benelux region

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.

Do and dare company

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

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).

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

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.

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.

A for-profit PLC founded to meet local authority needs.

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

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

Oxygen for growth - LRM

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.

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.

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.

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.

Solidity Ventures they provides infrastructure for blockchain platforms.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, Cayman Islands, India

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Travel
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

The official website of the European Commission, providing access to information about its political priorities, policies and services

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Theodorus is the spin-off fund of Université Libre de Bruxelles that invests ininvest in early stage projects based on proprietary disruptive technologies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Life Science, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Belgium, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

DrugBank — DrugBank augments human intelligence to improve the world’s health. Our suite of products are powered by the world’s most complete and up-to-date pharmaceutical knowledge database. It includes everything there is to know about drugs and how they work in the body. We enable companies to improve healthcare delivery through precision medicine orclinical software applications, as well as uncover insights through data science in drug discovery. Our knowledge base can be integrated into software solutions to help achieve clinical intelligence. Companies can easily scale their usage through our API and launch faster with flexible data modules. By providing users with advanced insights and the right information at the right time, users are empowered to make better health decisions.Our extensive, structured datasets are used to discover novel drug candidates, identify drug repurposing opportunities, and build predictive machine learning models. Companies working with data science can find answers quickly and get drugs to market faster with our evidence-based drug information. Lastly, our publicly available resource, DrugBank Online, is free-to-use with limited datasets available for download for academic and non-commercial researchers. DrugBank has been cited in over 13,000 academic publications and is used by millions of researchers and health professionals globally.
HypnoVR — HypnoVR is a virtual reality software for anesthesia, treatment of pain, and anxiety. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Strasbourg, France.
Cascador Health — Cascador Health bridges the gap between sources and users of healthcare data. Using curated, validated and anonymized RWD allows healthcare providers and life science industry to gain insights and provide better care.

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.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, FinTech
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Voltera — Voltera’s customers are companies that have a pressing need to power EVs at scale. They are challenged by the fact that charging infrastructure does not exist in the right place, at the right time, or of the right type necessary to support planned EV deployments. They're also challenged by the complexity of siting, building, owning, andoperating EV charging infrastructure without disrupting operations or investing significant time and upfront capital.
Royal FloraHolland — Royal FloraHolland connects players in floriculture and creates opportunities for sustainable growth and success in the global floriculture market.
Nearfield Instruments — Automated High-Throughput 3D Scanning Probe Metrology

Invest BW is a funding program.

Investment focus

Health Care, AgTech, Medical
Series A, Seed, Series B
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

IONNYK — IONNYK is a new medium of art photography, containing millions of tiny ink capsules.
Minagro — Minagro develops high-quality green products for crop care. Minagro conducts research activities in confirmed proprietary technologies from green and specialty chemistries.
Sunrise — Sunrise aims to bring simple answers to millions of people suffering from sleep disorders.We have developed a 3-gram sensor to diagnose sleep with gold standard quality. The technology offers a revolutionary new way to measure brain commands at night, with published clinical results never seen before. Studies demonstrate Sunrise is as accurate asin-lab sleep studies, at a fraction of the cost.Affecting one in three people, sleep disorders are extremely common. Sleep apnea is the most prevalent disease with almost 1 billion persons concerned. This condition leads to great body damage over time and yet remains undiagnosed in 80% of the cases.Patients, caregiver and insurers stand to benefit greatly from a solution to current highly cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming diagnostics systems.

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Agree.com — Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments.
Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.

Regional Investment Company of Brussels

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Belgium, France

Portfolio highlights

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.
Easyvest — Easyvest is leading a crusade to help all Belgians to make their money grow in a personalized, simple, low-cost and educational way.
VoxelSensors — Spatial and Empathic Computing. Bringing empathic abilities to XR and mobile devices by understanding user attention and intent.

We invest where sports intersect with life.

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FORTË — The fitness industry's ONLY premium live and on-demand streaming white label digital solution.
Fount — Health and Performance Coaching | Fount
OnePlan — Map, design and manage your event site for safe, successful events in just one tool. Try the world's best event planning tool for free

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.

Viralety is a venture capital fund investing in aspiring entrepreneurs determined to build companies with long-term worth. They aim to be a strong strategic partner throughout the first difficult steps of a startup’s journey by investing mostly seed or even pre-seed capital for startup R&D, product development and providing strategic guidance.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Belgium, France

Portfolio highlights

Look Live Media — Look is a NewsTech Startup active in the citizen journalism space. Find out more on www.look-app.net
Broadlume — The All-In-One Platform for the flooring industry that connects the online experience to the in-store showroom.
Shiftmeapp — Great domain names provide SEO, branding, and a memorable experience for your users. Get a premium domain today.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Music
Angel, Seed
France, Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bim App — Bim App is a French restaurant table booking app that allows users to view best tables available in real time around them. It also allows users to book them instantly, and to pay and share the bill without taking out CB.Bim anticipates even the need thanks to notifications that allow its members to be warned as soon as a table is released in therestaurants of their choice.
Radionomy — Radionomy is a groundbreaking online radio platform. It allows radio enthusiasts from around the world to create their own online radio stations for free. It provides the tools for anyone to broadcast, promote, and monetize their own station. Radionomy is one of the largest user generated online radio networks in the world. The platform features awide variety of music and themed stations to listen to and discover. Radionomy leads the online radio revolution.www.radionomy.com
DESIGN MARKET — Vintage Furniture: Shop our unique collection of pre-owned vintage furniture from the best galleries in Europe and Find the Vintage Furniture of your dreams!

Empower to build. The story of Cox Enterprises is one of hard work, respect for employees, entrepreneurship and making bold decisions.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series C, Series A
United States, Italy, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Wheels Up — Wheels Up is a membership-based private aviation company that focuses on reducing the upfront cost to fly privately, providing flexibility, service, and safety. Its mobile app enables members to book flights, manage their accounts, and participate in ride-share opportunities. Its members also have given access to the Wheels Down program.
Bending Spoons — We create cutting-edge technologies and products, 500 million app downloads, 100 million monthly active users.
DSD Renewables — From analysis, through design and finance, to commercial operation, DSD provides customized solar PV energy and energy storage solutions with exceptional outcomes.

Venture capital fund focussing on European B2B technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Analytics
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Belgium, The Netherlands, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Cumul.io — Create powerful dashboards in minutes. Share with your teams, or integrate in your platform. Drive growth in your business today!
Timefold — Experts in PlanningAI for complex scheduling and routing
Happeo — This intranet keeps your teams informed, aligned, and productive with a template-based page builder, integrations, and universal search across all company tools.

Minds is Flanders' digital research center and business incubator, established by the Flemish government in 2004. Building on the strength of our 850+ top researchers located at 5 Flemish universities, we introduce digital innovation in 6 key markets (ICT, Media, Health, Energy, Smart Cities and Manufacturing). We collaborate with researchpartners to convert digital knowhow into real-life products and services that change people's lives for the better. Key asset is our agile, open research mind set and proven methodology.As a business incubator, iMinds also guides researchers, young entrepreneurs and start-ups in the successful market introduction of their ideas.

Investment focus

Mobile, Sports, Tourism
Seed, Funding Round
Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Seaters A.I. - Unrivalled Brand Relation Management — Smart technology for sustainable brand relationships. A people-centric approach for customer activation and guest management.
TagTagCity — TagTagCity is an open platform allowing cities & location owners to go SOLOMO (Social-Local-Mobile) by creating in 5 minutes with no IT skills a mobile website. TagTagCity technologies agregate web based information to generate point of interest and transform them into customers.TagTagCity is a search engine that geolocalises cultural,touristic or interactive content. This content can be bookmarked from the web, your mobile or even the real world thanks to intelligent stickers (tags with QR & NFC).

The S.R.I.W. Group is an institution at the heart of the financial market that assists entrepreneurs in creating and developing businesses in the Walloon region. It reflects the effort of Wallonian industry in facing the challenges of the creation of economic value in the 21st century. Since its creation in 1979, the SociÃ©tÃ© RÃ©gionaledâ€™Investissement de Wallonie has continuously been expanding its abilities to adapt and anticipate as well as its flexibility in order to meet the requirements of its partners who are confronted with the evolution of the world economy. The principles of good governance, a strong business culture and shared values at the heart of the Group constitute important assets to capture the changing realities of the market and progress in a sustainable development perspective.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Belgium, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Univercells — Univercells is a One-stop-shop for high-density low-cost biomanufacturing "end-to-end" solutions, with innovative engineering able to decrease the needs for investments of over 75% and the cost of goods of up to 90%.Univercells' technologies, aimed at low cost manufacturing of antibodies/proteins/vaccines, is based onsingle-use technologies, and chaining of three manufacturing steps into simulated continuous mode : cell culture under perfusion, clarification and capture.
Intressa Vascular — Intressa Vascular provides innovative solutions to address life-threatening cardiovascular conditions such as aortic dissection.
Santero Therapeutics — Santero Therapeutics seeks to provide novel medications with fresh modes of action that combat diseases with high resistance. Santero develops antimicrobials with novel modes of action to combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Network Security, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Belgium, The Netherlands, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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!

Early stage Entrepreneurs Coaching and FinancingOne of Europe's leading Business Angels Networks. We connect innovative growth companies to equity finance and coaching by experienced angel investors. The network is 250 members strong and has been assisting innovative entrepreneurs to find financing for more than 10 millions Euros in thelast 4 years.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Belgium, France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Savics — Savics offers digital solutions for health actors to improve their data management, disease diagnostics and GeneXpert connectivity.
DeftHedge — DeftHedge is an application addressed to business leaders, and CFOs facing volatility of foreign exchange market.
NIUM — NIUM is a startup focused on personalized nutrition and gut microbiome research. NIUM created science-based solutions to transform nutrition research and product development.

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.

Investment focus

Water, Network Hardware, Digital Entertainment
Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
Belgium, The Netherlands, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Heylog — Heylog makes WhatsApp, Facebook messenger, and Viber fit for logistics. We help dispatchers to stay in touch with their drivers on channels they like most.
Kando — Kando is an end-to-end solution that creates continuous awareness of events in the collection system. Kando enables utilities to remotely and continuously improve their operations by providing the following features:• Realtime wastewater quality data across the collection system • Pinpoint sources of pollution • Early warnings of damaging WWTPinfluent quality • Machine learning that evolves with your network • Autonomous sampling units • User fee calculator • Customized pollution alerts • A user-friendly, online interface • Detection of COVID-19 infection rates (New)The combination of these actionable insights results in:• Reduced CAPEX/OPEX • Greater WW reuse capabilities • Improved public health • Cleaner environmentsKando has been deployed in Los Angeles, Milan, Brisbane, and many other cities. To gain a greater understanding of how our system can help your organization, visit our homepage at www.kando.eco.
MakerVerse — Makerverse is the platform for sourcing all your industrial parts - from prototyping to production. Upload your design and receive instant quotes.

Capricorn Partners is a unique independent manager of venture capital, growth capital and quoted equity funds

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Belgium, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Chainels — The tenant experience app for every property in your portfolio. Save time, gain insights and collaborate with your tenants all in one place.
VoxelSensors — Spatial and Empathic Computing. Bringing empathic abilities to XR and mobile devices by understanding user attention and intent.
Electric Hydrogen — Electric Hydrogen designs and builds low-cost, high-efficiency green hydrogen systems to economically decarbonize industrial sectors like ammonia and steel

Koen Desmedt - COO @ CityLive

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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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.

Sambrinvest is an active venture capital player in the region of Charleroi - Thuin.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Belgium, France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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.
AbolerIS Pharma — AbolerIS Pharma aims to develop novel and unique therapeutic approaches to induce immune tolerance.
Santero Therapeutics — Santero Therapeutics seeks to provide novel medications with fresh modes of action that combat diseases with high resistance. Santero develops antimicrobials with novel modes of action to combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.

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.

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
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.
LegalFly — The most powerful contract review & drafting experience ever made. LegalFly brings the power of Legal AI into the hands of your legal teams.

Gemma Frisius Fund KU Leuven is a seed capital fund that aims to stimulate the creation and growth of university related spin-off companies.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series B, Series A
Belgium, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DName-iT — DName-iT is a genetic analysis tool that offers DNA-based barcode labeling technology and a software platform that can ensure reliable, cost-effective NGS specimen identification.
Protealis — Sustainable plant proteins for Europe
Augustine Therapeutics — Augustine, Innovative therapies for neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases

KBC Private Equity - the investment company of KBC Group - provides development capital and finances buy-outs to medium-sized companies in Belgium and in Central and Eastern Europe, KBC's home markets.Boasting an experienced team of 28 people, it has more than 60 active investments in portfolio with a market value in excess of EUR 400million.KBC Private Equity aims to become one of the leading private equity providers on KBC Group's home markets. As an active shareholder with a long-term perspective, KBC Private Equity is involved in taking strategic decisions and providing support to management teams.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Belgium, United States, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Paperspace — Ceres, Inc. (Ceres) is an agricultural biotechnology company selling seeds to produce renewable biomass feedstocks. The Company’s large-scale commercial products are sweet sorghum varieties that can be used as a drop-in feedstock to extend the operating season of Brazilian sugarcane-to-ethanol mills. Its products include sweet sorghum, high biomasssorghum, switchgrass, miscanthus and row crops. Its energy crops can also be used for the production of second-generation biofuels and bio-based chemicals, including cellulosic ethanol, butanol, jet fuel, diesel-like molecules and gasoline-like molecules, from non-food biomass. Baseload utility scale electric power can also be generated from the biomass feedstocks grown from its seeds. Ceres has sold switchgrass and high biomass sorghum seeds in the United States under its Blade Energy Crops (Blade) brand. In January 2010, the Company incorporated a subsidiary, Ceres Sementes do Brasil Ltda.
Setle — During the renovation process, Settle assists in helping to make better judgments. Settle's goal is to increase renovation transparency. From increasing the energy efficiency of your home to getting the most out of your housing budget.
Unbox — Unbox the Universe makes it easy for customers to achieve efficient funding distribution, transparant, and targeted.

Evalue invests in global venture capital and private equity at all stages. With over two decades of entrepreneurial and investment experience, they partner with exceptional people to create long-term value around the world.

Investment focus

Music, Software, Broadcasting
Seed, Angel
Belgium, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Radionomy — Radionomy is a groundbreaking online radio platform. It allows radio enthusiasts from around the world to create their own online radio stations for free. It provides the tools for anyone to broadcast, promote, and monetize their own station. Radionomy is one of the largest user generated online radio networks in the world. The platform features awide variety of music and themed stations to listen to and discover. Radionomy leads the online radio revolution.www.radionomy.com
Replex — Replex is now part of Cisco AppDynamics

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.

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.

Gimv, a trusted European investment company, helps mid-market businesses create sustainable value through growth capital and expertise across diverse sectors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Funding Round, Private Equity
Belgium, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

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

Como Venture is a venture capital firm specialized in seed and early stage investments.

Investment focus

Events, Aerospace, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round
Italy, Belgium, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hyperverse International — Hyperfair, Inc. is a SaaS VR platform that provides Social VR for the Enterprise via a truly 3D immersive experience. It allows enterprises to build their Social VR presence through self-customizable virtual reality spaces, generating the feeling of "presence”, that you’re actually there to interact with customers, partners, leads, etc. viaavatar, to conduct effective marketing programs and sales through VR, to monetize via event management. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Hyperfair has a European subsidiary in Italy.
Leaf Space — Leaf Space offers a global network of ground stations, providing seamless, cost-effective satellite communication with scalable solutions for all mission sizes.
Directa Plus — Directa Plus is a nanotechnology company, manufactures nanoparticles.

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