# Dries Buytaert

> Dries Buytaert is a seed investor at The World Economic Forum backing Information Technology. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The World Economic Forum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/world-economic-forum)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/buytaert
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/dries
- Website: http://buytaert.net/

Dries Buytaert is a seed investor at The World Economic Forum in Boston focused on Information Technology and Software. Dries Buytaert is based out of Boston, Massachusetts and is the Founder and Project lead of Drupalize.Me. Dries previously worked at ACUNIA NV as a Software engineer. Dries Buytaert attended Ghent University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$3M |
| Series A | $10M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 60% |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Video | 1 | 20% |
| Sports | 1 | 20% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Series A | 2 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Belgium | 2 | 40% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maurice & Nora | Maurice & Nora is a care-tech company that offers support for seniors and families. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | May 06, 2026 |  |
| NineID | NineID provides all of the resources required to increase access security, facility safety, and compliance. | $1.2M | Seed | Jun 20, 2023 |  |
| Oqton | 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 |  |
| Bitmovin | Bitmovin is a young and dynamic multimedia company. Their principal expertise is in the domain of information and communication technologies for audio-visual networks, in particular for HTTP streaming services and embedded multimedia applications. Additionally, bitmovin provides consulting and standardization services, specifically towardsISO/IEC MPEG.Bitmovin multimedia is a spin-of company of the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, where most of their experts come from, and the ALICANTE EU FP7-ICT project. Together with the University they are still investigated in all kinds of research in the field of multimedia and especially in state of the art standardization at this sector e.g. ISO/IEC MPEG. Their highly skilled and motivated employees work in their offices in the Lakeside Science & Technology Park, Building B01.Bitmovin offers API-based products to help developers solve the most complex video problems with cloud native software that runs anywhere. The company was founded in 2013 by Stefan Lederer, Christopher Müller and Christian Timmerer.Bitmovin is based in San Francisco, CA, USA and Klagenfurt, Austria and privately owned. The company's investors include Atomico, Dawn Capital, YCombinator (YC S15), SpeedInvest and Constantia Industries. | $10.3M | Series A | Sep 02, 2016 |  |
| Seaters A.I. - Unrivalled Brand Relation Management | We are proud to partner with top Industry Leading Brands and enrich their R.O.I. with our permission-based inbound customer centric experiential marketing strategies.Essentially, Seaters does 3 things: Guest Management & Sales enablement, Brand Acquisition & Loyalty, Integrations & Compliance. Over 400.000 users at Leading IndustryCompanies, handling millions of requests each year. Seaters is seen as the missing link in Brand relationship management for many Industry Leaders such as Food & Beverage companies, Tech, Banks, Automotive in their relation with their clients for Hospitality. Therefore, Seaters' management achieved 4 succesfull rounds of investment. 2020 exceptional results during Covid-19 pandemic proves the stickiness of the solution at client's level as the agility to react by the team in difficult times by achieving exceptional financial results while keeping the team in force. Given our evolution in 2020 we are confident in the underlying strength of our B2B strategy (despite covid). Seaters is proving to be a “sticky” and a relevant AI solution for top customers, with high customer satisfaction (high NPS), now tested under extreme circumstances. Like most companies, the board continues to assume a challenging year in 2021 given the remaining covid effects on our type of business.>We are addressing Sponsoring & Events professionals, Marketing agencies & colleagues, Sales & CRM departments, Employee benefits managers and Financial C-level with an eye on the R.O.I in the marketing spending of their companies.>Enterprise-ready, Partner-easy. Seaters bridges the gap between sales and experiential marketing, it integrates with customer relationship management (CRM), marketing automation systems (MAS), Content Management systems (CMS),... We partner with marketing agencies, consulting offices and other essential partners to help our customers win and retain business. >Seaters seamlessly integrates with everybody. Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Drupal, AuthO (SSO), SAML (SSO), Adobe, SAP and many more ! Seaters is compatible and integrates with numerous platforms and technologies: CRM platforms, SSO & Full embedded solution, API content and user analytics with your own reporting ecosystem, automate content delivery and user management processes, and build your own differentiated customer experiences.For now, we are proud to invite you to discover our new website: www.seaters.ai | $3M | Seed | Jan 31, 2015 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [100IN](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/100in) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [7percent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7-percent) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Block, Inc.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/block-fda8) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Coformaco](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coformaco) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Comate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comate-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About The World Economic Forum

VC Fund · Geneva, Switzerland

The World Economic Forum is an international institution committed to improving the state of the world through public-private cooperation. It is engaged in political, business, academic, and other leaders of society in collaborative efforts to shape global, regional, and industry agendas. The institution serves and builds sustained communitiesthrough an integrated concept of high-level meetings, research networks, task forces, and digital collaboration while delivering unique value to its partners, members, and constituents through its annual and regional meetings; its centers dedicated to global, regional, and industry issues; its future-oriented communities of new champions; its expert networks of global agenda councils; and its knowledge, interaction platform, and the forum academy.The World Economic Forum was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit Foundation and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

5 contacts available at The World Economic Forum.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sam Ruben | G20 Sustainability Taskforce Core Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-ruben |
| Amit Paley | Young Global Leader | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-paley-4185 |
| Amol Sarva | Global Vanguard | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amol-sarva |
| Anju Patwardhan | Member-Global Future Council on Blockchain; Steering Comm Member-Disruptive Innovation in Finl Svcs | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anju-patwardhan |
| Anna Khan | Global Shaper | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-khan |

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## FAQ

### What does Dries Buytaert invest in?

Dries Buytaert invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Dries Buytaert's check size?

Dries Buytaert typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$3M at Seed and $10M–$40M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dries Buytaert participates in.

### When did Dries Buytaert last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dries Buytaert closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 5 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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