# Big Bang Ventures

> Big Bang Ventures is a VC fund in Antwerpen backing Software and Cloud Computing. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Antwerpen, Belgium
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Mar 2013
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/hummingbirdVC
- Website: http://www.bbv.be
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Hummingbird-Ventures/1485992051958

Big Bang Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture capital fund for high-growth digital media and software companies.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1M–$2.7M |
| Series B | $6M–$9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 26% |
| Cloud Computing | 2 | 11% |
| Apps | 1 | 5% |
| Energy | 1 | 5% |
| FinTech | 1 | 5% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 47% |
| Series B | 4 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 21% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |
| Series D | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Belgium | 5 | 26% |
| The Netherlands | 3 | 16% |
| United States | 2 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Racktivity | Racktivity, an innovator in next-generation power, energy and environmental management solutions offers the industry's only integrated hardware and software for critical infrastructures.The DCPM suite, a Service Provider Infrastructure & Data Center Performance Management System, measures, monitors and manages power across distributeddata centres and gives customers full visibility and control of their energy consumption while integrating seamlessly with other applications and PDU appliances.Racktivity's EnergySwitch family of smart Power Distribution Units (PDUs), and sensors equips infrastructures with the most advanced metering, switching and predictive analysis capabilities available on the market today. | $2.7M |  | Mar 29, 2013 |  |
| Amplidata | Amplidata provides unbreakable storage technology that is ten thousand times more reliable than current RAID based technologies, requires three times less storage and power and is thereby five times less expensive than current storage solutions. The Amplidata Distributed Storage System fundamentally changes the way how data is stored. Thecompany’s patent pending BitSpread encoding technology offers the scalability and ease-of-use of a next generation RAIN grid, creating a 10,000 times more reliable alternative to RAID. Through more efficient usage of power and raw storage capacity, Amplidata drastically decreases the storage cost. Amplidata easily scales up to tens of Petabytes.Amplidata responds to the market's need by solving the problems traditional technologies face and guarantees ultimate availability on all storage tiers. Leveraging distributed storage technologies, Amplidata enables customers to build highly available storage infrastructures at significantly reduced cost. The company is addressing some of the inherent weaknesses of high capacity disk systems, such as performance, bit error rates, mean time between failures and RAID rebuild times which have not improved sufficiently to keep up with the explosion of digital storage needs.Amplidata was in founded in 2008 by Wim De Wispelaere (CEO) and Wouter Van Eetvelde (COO), two storage veterans. They have been involved in the development and launch of several innovative products and technologies. Serial entrepreneur and high-tech visionary Kristof De Spiegeleer is the primary investor. The trio De Spiegeleer, De Wispelaere and Van Eetvelde was previously successful with DataCenter Technologies (acquired by Symantec) and Dedigate (acquired by Terremark). De Spiegeleer also added Q-Layer (acquired by SUN Microsystems) to his track record.Amplidata has its operational headquarters at the Innovation Center in IT Valley in Lochristi, near Gent, Belgium. R&D are located in Belgium and Egypt, sales and support are represented in a number of countries in Europe and North America. More information can be found at www.amplidata.com. | $8M | Series C | Feb 29, 2012 |  |
| Racktivity | Racktivity, an innovator in next-generation power, energy and environmental management solutions offers the industry's only integrated hardware and software for critical infrastructures.The DCPM suite, a Service Provider Infrastructure & Data Center Performance Management System, measures, monitors and manages power across distributeddata centres and gives customers full visibility and control of their energy consumption while integrating seamlessly with other applications and PDU appliances.Racktivity's EnergySwitch family of smart Power Distribution Units (PDUs), and sensors equips infrastructures with the most advanced metering, switching and predictive analysis capabilities available on the market today. | $8M | Series B | Dec 01, 2010 |  |
| Amplidata | Amplidata provides unbreakable storage technology that is ten thousand times more reliable than current RAID based technologies, requires three times less storage and power and is thereby five times less expensive than current storage solutions. The Amplidata Distributed Storage System fundamentally changes the way how data is stored. Thecompany’s patent pending BitSpread encoding technology offers the scalability and ease-of-use of a next generation RAIN grid, creating a 10,000 times more reliable alternative to RAID. Through more efficient usage of power and raw storage capacity, Amplidata drastically decreases the storage cost. Amplidata easily scales up to tens of Petabytes.Amplidata responds to the market's need by solving the problems traditional technologies face and guarantees ultimate availability on all storage tiers. Leveraging distributed storage technologies, Amplidata enables customers to build highly available storage infrastructures at significantly reduced cost. The company is addressing some of the inherent weaknesses of high capacity disk systems, such as performance, bit error rates, mean time between failures and RAID rebuild times which have not improved sufficiently to keep up with the explosion of digital storage needs.Amplidata was in founded in 2008 by Wim De Wispelaere (CEO) and Wouter Van Eetvelde (COO), two storage veterans. They have been involved in the development and launch of several innovative products and technologies. Serial entrepreneur and high-tech visionary Kristof De Spiegeleer is the primary investor. The trio De Spiegeleer, De Wispelaere and Van Eetvelde was previously successful with DataCenter Technologies (acquired by Symantec) and Dedigate (acquired by Terremark). De Spiegeleer also added Q-Layer (acquired by SUN Microsystems) to his track record.Amplidata has its operational headquarters at the Innovation Center in IT Valley in Lochristi, near Gent, Belgium. R&D are located in Belgium and Egypt, sales and support are represented in a number of countries in Europe and North America. More information can be found at www.amplidata.com. | $6M | Series B | Sep 17, 2010 |  |
| Amplidata | Amplidata provides unbreakable storage technology that is ten thousand times more reliable than current RAID based technologies, requires three times less storage and power and is thereby five times less expensive than current storage solutions. The Amplidata Distributed Storage System fundamentally changes the way how data is stored. Thecompany’s patent pending BitSpread encoding technology offers the scalability and ease-of-use of a next generation RAIN grid, creating a 10,000 times more reliable alternative to RAID. Through more efficient usage of power and raw storage capacity, Amplidata drastically decreases the storage cost. Amplidata easily scales up to tens of Petabytes.Amplidata responds to the market's need by solving the problems traditional technologies face and guarantees ultimate availability on all storage tiers. Leveraging distributed storage technologies, Amplidata enables customers to build highly available storage infrastructures at significantly reduced cost. The company is addressing some of the inherent weaknesses of high capacity disk systems, such as performance, bit error rates, mean time between failures and RAID rebuild times which have not improved sufficiently to keep up with the explosion of digital storage needs.Amplidata was in founded in 2008 by Wim De Wispelaere (CEO) and Wouter Van Eetvelde (COO), two storage veterans. They have been involved in the development and launch of several innovative products and technologies. Serial entrepreneur and high-tech visionary Kristof De Spiegeleer is the primary investor. The trio De Spiegeleer, De Wispelaere and Van Eetvelde was previously successful with DataCenter Technologies (acquired by Symantec) and Dedigate (acquired by Terremark). De Spiegeleer also added Q-Layer (acquired by SUN Microsystems) to his track record.Amplidata has its operational headquarters at the Innovation Center in IT Valley in Lochristi, near Gent, Belgium. R&D are located in Belgium and Egypt, sales and support are represented in a number of countries in Europe and North America. More information can be found at www.amplidata.com. | $2.7M | Series A | May 26, 2010 |  |
| Racktivity | Racktivity, an innovator in next-generation power, energy and environmental management solutions offers the industry's only integrated hardware and software for critical infrastructures.The DCPM suite, a Service Provider Infrastructure & Data Center Performance Management System, measures, monitors and manages power across distributeddata centres and gives customers full visibility and control of their energy consumption while integrating seamlessly with other applications and PDU appliances.Racktivity's EnergySwitch family of smart Power Distribution Units (PDUs), and sensors equips infrastructures with the most advanced metering, switching and predictive analysis capabilities available on the market today. | $1.8M | Series A | Sep 30, 2009 |  |
| Clear2Pay | Clear2Pay is an innovative payments technology company focused on delivering globally applicable solutions for secure, timely and streamlined payments processing. Clear2Pay's Open Payment Framework (OPF) enables financial institutions to improve internal payments processing efficiencies whilst at the same time providing their clients withbetter payment services that are faster, with richer payments related information.Clear2Pay's solutions within the Service- Oriented Architecture (SOA) based Open Payment Framework offer financial institutions the ability to process payments through a centralised payments engine that utilises a library of re-useable business services across all payment types. The bank can thus combine new services models with existing infrastructures, thereby protecting previous investments whilst gradually moving to a more modern efficient payments environment. | $8.3M |  | Dec 16, 2008 |  |
| Wakoopa | Wakoopa is supplier of passive metering solutions on three screens (desktop, tablet, smartphone). Wakoopa unlocks high quality behavioral data. We empower the consumer insights industry with the best tracking technology and the most powerful data distribution models. And we offer consumers the best in class user experience. Together with onlineaccess panels and market research companies we establish user centric, behavioral datasets in 25 markets globally. This data fuels innovative research designs such as consumer journey studies, segmentation and audience profiling. | $1M | Series A | Jun 02, 2008 |  |
| iNEWiT | iNEWiT, an engineering company, engages in identifying, designing, and creating applications and devices for the mobile market. It provides mobile video communication applications; wireless communication technologies, ranging from GPRS/EDGE, over 3G, HSDPA/HSUPA to WiFi, and WiMAX and satellite networks; and plug and play products for thebusiness-to-consumer markets. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Mechelen, Belgium | $3.2M |  | Mar 06, 2008 |  |
| PeopleCube | As of November 9, 2005, PeopleCube (UK) was acquired by PeopleCube, Inc. (formerly known as Meeting Maker, Inc.). PeopleCube provides intelligent on-demand workplace management solutions that help customers cut real estate, meeting services, travel, and energy costs based on actual workspace usage. Through its corporate headquarters inFramingham, Massachusetts, and offices throughout the world, PeopleCube supports 7,500 customers in small, medium, and large enterprises. PeopleCube helps businesses cut real estate, meeting services, travel and energy costs based on actual workspace usage.The UK predecessor, formerly known as The Internet Applications Group (UK), Ltd., was founded in 1995 and is based in Twickenham, the United Kingdom with an additional office in the Netherlands. | $17M |  | Sep 20, 2007 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Big Bang Ventures invest in?

Big Bang Ventures invests primarily in Software, Cloud Computing and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Big Bang Ventures's check size?

Big Bang Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$2.7M at Series A and $6M–$9M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Big Bang Ventures participates in.

### When did Big Bang Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Big Bang Ventures closed in Mar 2013. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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