Frank Maene
Investor in Residence @ Vlerick Business school
Gent, Belgium
Frank Maene is a Series A investor at Vlerick Business school in Gent focused on Software and SaaS. Frank joined Hummingbird Ventures as a Partner in November 2000 during the capital raising process of the team's first fund (then called Big Bang Ventures). Frank currently serves on the board of directors of Amplidata, CicekSepeti, Dacentec, Digitouch and Racktivity. He was the chairman of DataCenterTechnologies (acquired by Symantec) andQ-layer (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and a director on the board of Avinity (acquired by ActiveVideo Networks).Prior to joining Hummingbird Ventures, Frank was CEO of ExpertEyes in Mountain View, CA, where he helped US software companies to expand into Europe. In 1998, he spun off a team of developers from a systems integrator and created Syfact International, acting as its CEO. In 1995, Frank created the Benelux distributor for Gentia Software, which he sold to the mother company in 1997. Prior to Gentia, he worked as Sales Manager for Comshare Belgium/Luxembourg, after starting his career as consultant with the Cap Gemini Group. Frank holds a Master’s degree in Applied Economics and Accountancy from the University of Gent, Belgium.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries Frank Maene invests in
Stages Frank Maene invests in
Countries Frank Maene invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (23%)
- SaaS 4 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (10%)
- Analytics 2 (7%)
- Marketing 2 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 10 (33%)
- Seed 5 (17%)
- Series B 3 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (7%)
Country
- Belgium 11 (37%)
- Finland 1 (3%)
- United States 1 (3%)
- The Netherlands 1 (3%)
Investments
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Predikt
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Predikt empowers finance leaders to navigate today’s volatile markets with clarity and confidence. By integrating advanced AI, external market data, and internal financial metrics, Predikt transforms forecasting into a strategic advantage.Our pioneering Confidence Intelligence platform:- Provides transparency and automation to reduceforecasting uncertainty. - Enables CFOs to assess risks, identify opportunities, and align teams globally. - Turns data into decisions that foster resilience and drive growth.We understand the challenges finance leaders face: juggling a high-level view with local market complexities. That’s why Predikt is designed to enhance collaboration, challenge assumptions, and provide confidence in every number.Founded by a Swiss-Belgian team in 2023, Predikt is democratizing predictive technology, equipping finance teams to make smarter decisions and thrive amid uncertainty. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Apr 01, 2025 | |
Videobot
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People spend hours every day watching videos from different sources. Long walls of text can be tiresome to read, and images don’t show the whole picture. With Videobot, you can showcase your products, services, or anything you like with short and easily digestible video clips.Videobot is a revolutionary tool for creating leads and improvinginteraction on your website. It eases purchasing and finding information while making navigation a breeze. At the same time, Videobot makes collecting visitors’ contact information more straightforward than ever, so you don’t need to worry about missing any potential leads. | $2.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 25, 2025 | |
Nodalview
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Nodalview is the leading all-in-one marketing platform for real estate professionals, empowering them to capture, market, and sell properties with high-quality visuals. Its AI-driven tools and immersive visuals make listings stand out and attract more buyers online.Nodalview was founded in 2016 with a simple but powerful observation: finding aplace to call home is a life milestone, yet the home-seeking experience often lacks engaging and immersive listings. Real estate agents needed better tools to connect with buyers.What began as an advanced HDR photography tool has evolved into an all-in-one, AI-powered marketing platform.Today, real estate professionals can capture stunning photos, dynamic videos, 360° virtual tours, and even detailed 2D-floor plans, using just a smartphone.With €10 million in funding, Nodalview now supports over 20,000 real estate professionals in 30+ countries. | $4.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 08, 2022 | |
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Nodalview
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Nodalview is the leading all-in-one marketing platform for real estate professionals, empowering them to capture, market, and sell properties with high-quality visuals. Its AI-driven tools and immersive visuals make listings stand out and attract more buyers online.Nodalview was founded in 2016 with a simple but powerful observation: finding aplace to call home is a life milestone, yet the home-seeking experience often lacks engaging and immersive listings. Real estate agents needed better tools to connect with buyers.What began as an advanced HDR photography tool has evolved into an all-in-one, AI-powered marketing platform.Today, real estate professionals can capture stunning photos, dynamic videos, 360° virtual tours, and even detailed 2D-floor plans, using just a smartphone.With €10 million in funding, Nodalview now supports over 20,000 real estate professionals in 30+ countries. | $4.4M / Series A / Nov 26, 2020 | |
NannyML
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NannyML is an early stage venture funded start-up. Our product bridges the gap between business and AI in production, monitoring decisions made by ML systems, and ensuring they are stable and reliable, while extracting and communicating insights to business stakeholders. We work to become the product for monitoring AI in production.At NannyMLwe build enterprise software for detecting and correcting ML systems in production. That includes detecting data and concept drift, estimating performance loss and suggesting corrective actions as well as a dashboard that presents all these insights for business and technical users. Our goal is to ensure that ML systems keep adding value and that insights that can be extracted from ML systems are clearly communicated to business stakeholders. We want to make ML in production effortless to interact with and extract value from. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Oct 30, 2020 | |
Keyrock
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Keyrock develops crypto asset financial infrastructure. It uses in-house algorithmic trading bots and high frequency trading infrastructure to supply market making and liquidity services to the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Jeremy De Groodt, Juan David Mendieta, and Kevin de Patoul founded it in 2017. It has its headquarters in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre inBelgium. | $4.7M / Series A / Oct 29, 2020 | |
CHILI publish
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CHILI Publisher is an online editing software that turns any original design into a Smart Template. Its online document editing solution is revolutionizing digital publishing, redefining what’s possible on the web, and changing the way its clients work for the better. At CHILI Publish, its mission is simple: to deliver innovative publishingtechnology that helps businesses grow.CHILI publisher is adopted worldwide by both major and niche brands in marketing, retail, cosmetics, food & beverage, and other markets. It also integrates with an extensive ecosystem of third-party partners. This enables marketers, brands, and printers to offer users a self-service platform to produce online and offline graphics more efficiently, regardless of purpose, market, or industry.It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Erembodegem, Belgium. | $4.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 02, 2020 | |
Vamp.io
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Magnetic.io VAMP is an open-source platform to add Canary test and release, and auto-scaling features to container and microservice systems. VAMP can work stand-alone or integrate with container platforms like Mesosphere DC/OS, Kubernetes, Rancher, or Docker.The canary and autoscaling features that VAMP provides enable DevOps and businessteams to deliver higher-quality software in less time. New software versions can continuously be deployed to small percentages of visitors in production, measured and optimized, and then gradually scaled up to achieve stable and risk-free releases with no downtime or performance issues. | $2.7M / Series A / May 08, 2019 | |
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Keyrock
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Keyrock develops crypto asset financial infrastructure. It uses in-house algorithmic trading bots and high frequency trading infrastructure to supply market making and liquidity services to the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Jeremy De Groodt, Juan David Mendieta, and Kevin de Patoul founded it in 2017. It has its headquarters in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre inBelgium. | $987K / Seed / Apr 26, 2018 | |
Sentiance
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Sentiance is an intelligence-driven data science and behavior change company. We turn motion data into contextual insights and use behavioral change techniques to personalize engagement for safer and sustainable mobility and wellbeing experiences.Sentiance empowers the world's leading companies to create personalized engagement services andproducts through intelligent contextual recommenders, delivering technology for a new human-centric economy where the user is in control of data. | $11.1M / Series A / Dec 28, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Vlerick Business school
Vlerick is a leading international business school... with a difference. Yes, they offer fully-accredited, world-class education programmes combining a healthy mix of theoretical knowledge and practical insight. Yes, they are a leading academic institution with a strong tradition of innovative and independent research. Yes, they boastinternationally recognised, expert faculty with close ties to the corporate world. And yes, they are consistently ranked amongst the top business schools in Europe and the world.However, what truly sets Vlerick apart is not just what they do but the spirit in which they do it. The Vlerick spirit is defined by openness, vitality and a passion for innovation and enterprise. It is a spirit that can be found in every aspect of their school and its activities: from their enthusiastic, highly motivated staff to their innovative and pragmatic teaching methods; from their global network of students, alumni and corporate partners to their inspiring, vibrant campuses.It is all these elements together that have made Vlerick Business School the leading institution it is today: a place where people and organisations come together to shape the future of global business.
Vlerick Business school Contacts
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Isabel De Clercq
Guest Lecturer Master Class HR
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Frank Maene
Investor in Residence
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Hans Vanoorbeek
Adjunct Professor
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Jan-Willem Rombouts
Entrepreneur In Residence
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Louis Jonckheere
Vice Chairman Of The Board
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What does Frank Maene invest in?
Frank Maene invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Frank Maene last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Frank Maene closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 30 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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