# Ines Mertens

> Ines Mertens is a seed investor at Inventures SA (Tervuren) backing Health Care and E-Commerce. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Inventures SA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inventures-sa)
- Location: Tervuren, Belgium
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Feb 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ines-mertens-de-wilmars-82010a1

Ines Mertens is a seed investor at Inventures SA in Tervuren focused on Health Care and E-Commerce. Ines has more than 8 years of experience in Corporate Finance and Valuation. She holds a Master in Business Administration obtained in UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve) specialized in Economics and Finance, and also participated in an exchange programme in the Barcelone University.She has worked for four years in the Deloitte Corporate Finance, where sheacquired experience in business valuation and M&As.In 2006, Ines moved to California, where she worked for the Brenner Group, and after for Groco. These experiences allowed her to develop competences in company valuation, both on a practical and theorical point of view. Then we worked for several companies in Europe and in the United States.Ines has been working at every step of companies’ development, and in particular in the preliminary stage, thanks to professional experiences in the Silicon Valley. She became a member of the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA), and obtained the labeled statute of Accredited Valuation Analyst (AVA).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 3 | 23% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 15% |
| Medical | 1 | 8% |
| Auctions | 1 | 8% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 46% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Series B | 2 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Belgium | 4 | 31% |
| France | 3 | 23% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| YouScribe | YouScribe is the French community platform for sharing and selling digital publications. | $588K |  | Feb 03, 2017 |  |
| Opinum | Opinum has created and ensures the continuous development of the "Opinum Data Hub" platform, designed for energy and environmental actors. Opinum is the key partner of these actors in their digital transformation journey. Opinum Data Hub covers all stages of the data management value chain to allow its users to look beyond the complexityof data and focus on their core value and expertise. Opinum Data Hub is mainly intended for large private and public service companies, energy suppliers and companies with expertise in energy management (ESCO). | $987K | Series A | Sep 29, 2016 |  |
| Domoscio | Domoscio is a solution to solidify your learning and measure your training's impacts.It offers an adaptive memorization solution to efficiently remember more and for longer. The point is thus to improve the development of skills and be able to measure its impact in the long term. The Domoscio's method combines cognitive science researchstudies and neurosciences with the advances in computer sciences (big data, statistics…) to develop an adaptive algorithm for learning and memorization. | $351K | Seed | Aug 15, 2016 |  |
| Santech | Santech is a customizable medical platform, specialized in prevention and support. It is a software editor for the health reserves management. They conceived a software platform with 4 lines of configurable products in the health sector.Thanks to digital tools (on mobile and tablet), they encourage the users to have a more responsiblemanagement of their health, and they support them in order to succeed in this.It is about helping them to change their behavior, with an objective of preventing the common daily accompanying of chronic patients and providing home care for the elderly. | $2.9M | Series A | Jul 04, 2016 |  |
| Opinum | Opinum has created and ensures the continuous development of the "Opinum Data Hub" platform, designed for energy and environmental actors. Opinum is the key partner of these actors in their digital transformation journey. Opinum Data Hub covers all stages of the data management value chain to allow its users to look beyond the complexityof data and focus on their core value and expertise. Opinum Data Hub is mainly intended for large private and public service companies, energy suppliers and companies with expertise in energy management (ESCO). | $411K | Series A | Mar 21, 2016 |  |
| YouScribe | YouScribe is the French community platform for sharing and selling digital publications. | $680K | Series B | Dec 28, 2015 |  |
| Domoscio | Domoscio is a solution to solidify your learning and measure your training's impacts.It offers an adaptive memorization solution to efficiently remember more and for longer. The point is thus to improve the development of skills and be able to measure its impact in the long term. The Domoscio's method combines cognitive science researchstudies and neurosciences with the advances in computer sciences (big data, statistics…) to develop an adaptive algorithm for learning and memorization. | $274K | Seed | Nov 09, 2015 |  |
| Opinum | Opinum has created and ensures the continuous development of the "Opinum Data Hub" platform, designed for energy and environmental actors. Opinum is the key partner of these actors in their digital transformation journey. Opinum Data Hub covers all stages of the data management value chain to allow its users to look beyond the complexityof data and focus on their core value and expertise. Opinum Data Hub is mainly intended for large private and public service companies, energy suppliers and companies with expertise in energy management (ESCO). | $544K | Seed | Oct 29, 2015 |  |
| Auctelia | Auctelia offers industrial companies a simple way to manage efficiently their assets throughout their life cycle.Auctelia currently allows companies and intermediaries to sell and buy industrial assets through an effective online auction process. More than 30,000 members from 30 countries are logged in as buyers and Auctelia already managedsales of over EUR 10 of millions worth in assets. | $878K | Series B | Oct 15, 2015 |  |
| 2-Observe | 2-Observe company is active in observational research and validation of innovative concepts in the biotechnology sector and private health care.Founded in 2010, 2-Observe company was born from the concern of its founders of meeting the needs observed in the field by providing effective solutions to improve quality of life. It was built from theexperience of its associates from the medical community, the research sector and the industry field of life sciences.Jean-Philippe Hermanne MD, Internist and Head of Department of Oncology in the Centre Hospitalier Régional of Namur (Belgium), with expertise in intensive care and emergency services.Isabelle Joslet, Specialist in Public Health with a long experience as Coordinator of university research programs.Pierre Bothy, Senior Consultant in the medical device industry. | $768K | Series A | Jun 17, 2015 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Spreds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mymicroinvest) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Sambrinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sambr-invest) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [S.R.I.W.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s-r-i-w) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Meusinvest (Noshaq)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meusinvest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Internet Attitude](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/internet-attitude) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IRIS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iris-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Inventures SA

VC Fund · Brussels, Belgium

Inventures is a European venture capital fund that builds a better world through a portfolio of investments in sustainable businesses.The firm has two funds: Inventures I & Inventures II.Inventures was created to support early stage smart and innovative European businesses, to support sustainable job growth and empower entrepreneurs.Inventures empowers citizenship co-investments through a crowdfunding platform, MyMicroInvest.

3 contacts available at Inventures SA.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bruno de Radzitzky | Fund Manager and senior investment manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruno-de-radzitzky |
| Ines Mertens | Principal, Sourcing & Communication Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ines-mertens |
| Laurent Jouret | Partner & Head of Corporate Services | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurent-jouret |

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## FAQ

### What does Ines Mertens invest in?

Ines Mertens invests primarily in Health Care, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ines Mertens last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ines Mertens closed in Feb 2017. Shizune tracks 13 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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