# François Van Uffelen

> François Van Uffelen is a seed investor at Babelway backing Information Technology and SaaS. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Babelway](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/babelway)
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

François Van Uffelen is a seed investor at Babelway focused on Information Technology and SaaS. François Van Uffelen - Founder and Managing Director @ Babelway

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Marketing | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sortlist | Because finding the right partner in the fast-growing digital environment is a hard task, we have built an online multi-criteria searching tool strongly linked to professional networks and peer-to-peer recommendations. Sortlist helps marketing managers find their partners in minutes and let them focus on building communication and marketingsuccess.Start your search now on www.sortlist.com | $13M | Series B | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Smartbeam | Smartbeam is a construction-tech startup solving construction problems with technology solutions. We are developing a budget management application for construction that helps every site stakeholders (general contractors, subcontractors, architects and developers) to work together from the tendering phase to the end of the project. Our team is madeof Construction, Business and Software Engineers and we are currently working with experienced construction partners to co-develop the software and create a modern vision of construction budget management 2.0. | $924K | Seed | May 15, 2019 |  |
| Sortlist | Because finding the right partner in the fast-growing digital environment is a hard task, we have built an online multi-criteria searching tool strongly linked to professional networks and peer-to-peer recommendations. Sortlist helps marketing managers find their partners in minutes and let them focus on building communication and marketingsuccess.Start your search now on www.sortlist.com | $2.2M | Series A | Feb 08, 2019 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sambrinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sambr-invest) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Be Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/be-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lean FUND](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lean-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [S.R.I.W.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s-r-i-w) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TCD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/theclubdeal) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Babelway

VC Fund · Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium

Babelway has built a SaaS application for B2B Integration. It allows organizations to automate cross-company processes and enables the secure exchange of business documents. Due to the SaaS nature of the application, any company can plug his current application (legacy or not) to the application of his business partner without making expensivechanges to their current applications. All this without having to purchase any software or hardware.The solution offers full control to the users. He can:- map messages directly from his browser using an online drag-and-drop tool.- track the messages that went through his communication channels- receive notification when errors occur.To speed up the integration between partners, the Babelway catalogue contains message formats (EDIFACT, X12, XML, CSV, SAP, Excel, ...) and protocols (FTP, AS2, X400, SOAP, SMTP, ...) that are preconfigured for given business partners.The Babelway application is built on top of a cloud architecture to guarantee scalability.

2 contacts available at Babelway.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| François Van Uffelen | Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/franois-van-uffelen |
| Mathieu Pasture | Founder and Technical Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mathieu-pasture |

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## FAQ

### What does François Van Uffelen invest in?

François Van Uffelen invests primarily in Information Technology, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did François Van Uffelen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for François Van Uffelen closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 3 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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