Ben Schrauwen
Angel Investor
San Francisco, United States
Ben Schrauwen is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Software. Benjamin Schrauwen is the CEO and Co-Founder Director of Oqton. He's also the Product Development for Autodesk’s Spark 3D printing platform, Tinkercad, 123D, and Project Ignite. He holds a Master in Computer Science and Engineering, a PhD in Machine Learning, and was a research professor in Machine Learning and Robotics at Belgium’s GentUniversity. Schrauwen’s research ranged from quadruped robotics, brain computer interfaces, speech/image recognition, to financial prediction models; co-authoring more than 200 publications. Next to academia, he was co-founder of online technology companies Mollom and circuits.io. When not developing an open and connected additive manufacturing platform, he enjoys rock climbing, paragliding and running very long distances.
- Total investments:
- 2
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (100%)
- Software 1 (50%)
- Analytics 1 (50%)
- Manufacturing 1 (50%)
- Machine Learning 1 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (50%)
- Series A 1 (50%)
Country
- Belgium 1 (50%)
- United States 1 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| FixForm allows customers to easily report, manage and fix every problem within a space. Engage everybody to report problems and supercharge your operational team with unique proptech. | $1.7M / Seed / Sep 18, 2024 | ||
| Oqton is building an open factory operating system that deeply integrates engineering software with manufacturing hardware. Oqton FactoryOS captures real-time data from the production environment and uses AI techniques to close the loop, generating actionable insights and optimizing and re-engineering production workflows. Oqton develops AI-poweredmanufacturing solutions to allow manufacturers to manage, optimize, and automate their additive manufacturing workflows.It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, and Ghent, Belgium. | $40M / Series A / Jan 15, 2021 |
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What does Ben Schrauwen invest in?
Ben Schrauwen invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Ben Schrauwen closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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