Frank Maene
Managing Partner @ Volta Ventures
Gent, Belgium
Frank Maene is a Series A investor at Volta Ventures in Gent focused on Software and SaaS. Frank Maene is based out of Gent,Oost-Vlaanderen and is the Managing Partner of Volta Ventures. Frank previously worked at NannyML as a Board Member. Frank Maene attended Ghent University.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries Frank Maene invests in
SoftwareSaaSArtificial IntelligenceAnalyticsMarketing
Stages Frank Maene invests in
Series ASeedSeries BVenture - Series UnknownPre-Seed
Countries Frank Maene invests in
BelgiumFinlandUnited StatesThe Netherlands
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (27%)
- 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
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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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 | ||
| 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 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 | ||
| 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. | $4.8M / Series A / Nov 26, 2020 | ||
| 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 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. | $5M / Series A / Oct 29, 2020 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. | $1.9M / Seed / Sep 05, 2019 | ||
| 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. | $2.8M / Series A / May 08, 2019 | ||
| 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. | Series A / Feb 01, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Volta Ventures
Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed & early stage VC for internet & software companies in the Benelux.The fund’s team, with active support from some 30 business angels, expects to make a substantial impact on every company it invests in by working with the founders and management to identify new markets andcustomers, hire senior talent, provide ongoing guidance and arrange further financing rounds.Volta Ventures has offices in Ghent and Amsterdam.
Volta Ventures Contacts
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Koen De Waele
General Partner
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Junior Associate
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Frank Maene
Managing Partner
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Michel Akkermans
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Stan Jeanty
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FAQ
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.
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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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