# Jürgen Ingels

> Jürgen Ingels is a seed investor at SmartFin (Antwerp) backing Software and SaaS. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SmartFin](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smartfin)
- Location: Antwerp, Belgium
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 61%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1287858

Jürgen Ingels is a seed investor at SmartFin in Antwerp focused on Software and SaaS. Jurgen Ingels is the Founder and Managing Partner of SmartFin. He previously worked at FTI SuperNova as an Organizer. Jurgen holds a Master's degree in Political and Social Sciences and an MBA from the University of Antwerp.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$3M |
| Series A | $3.3M–$12M |
| Series B | $5.3M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 33% |
| SaaS | 3 | 17% |
| FinTech | 3 | 17% |
| Analytics | 3 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 17% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 22% |
| Series B | 4 | 22% |
| Series A | 3 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Belgium | 7 | 39% |
| Turkey | 2 | 11% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 11% |
| Finland | 1 | 6% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OpenUp | OpenUp provides tools and tips to help employees deal with daily mental health challenges. | $23.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 26, 2026 |  |
| Fimple | Simple and composable financial platform with the “Financial Function as a Service” principle. | $10.1M |  | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| Sequesto | Sequesto offers an AI-first RFX Response Platform designed to optimize the answering process for tenders, RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, DDQs, security questionnaires, and inventory lists. The platform aims to streamline processes for software providers, enabling them to secure more proposals efficiently. By automating RFP responses, Sequesto helpsorganizations optimize their resources and swiftly detect and answer questions, enhancing the overall proposal management process. | $3M | Seed | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Allegro Biotech | Allegro has developed the world’s-first custom-tailored, durable, biocompatible, anisotropic, regenerative meniscus cartilage, providing immediate support while also leverage the body’s own healing potential to regenerate human cartilage (proliferation and differentiation of fibrochondrocyte cells). | $2.4M | Seed | Jul 03, 2025 |  |
| Fimple | Simple and composable financial platform with the “Financial Function as a Service” principle. | $12M | Series A | Feb 04, 2025 |  |
| Casper | Casper is a pan European Hybrid Kitchen pioneer and a modern day food hall; 100% virtual and getting everyone what they want. Their vision is to have a foothold in every great city of Europe: a virtual food hall (referring to the wide variety of cuisines available from which you can order) at everyone’s fingertips, from the comfort of their ownhome. Available for in-store purchase, pick-up or within 30 minutes delivery distance. Similar to a dark kitchen, Casper's kitchen operations are takeaway & delivery focused. However, they differ by choosing high street locations where customers are able to walk in and order from a kiosk, click & collect or pick-up from the deli. While they wait for and see how their food is prepared, the branded in-store environment allows them to engage with the brand; completely wiping out the mystery-factor and all misconceptions around ghost kitchens. | $5.4M | Series A | Apr 20, 2022 |  |
| Locatee | Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilisation insight. Developed with a strong focus and a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers leaders and managers to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence.Locatee works by leveraging office occupancy data from multiple sources, processing them using unique patented technology, and beautifully visualising them all in one place. With workplace intelligence at fingertips’ length, it’s easy to identify optimisation potential, realise savings, and enhance company’s workplace experience across the entire real estate portfolio. | $7.5M |  | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Locatee | Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilisation insight. Developed with a strong focus and a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers leaders and managers to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence.Locatee works by leveraging office occupancy data from multiple sources, processing them using unique patented technology, and beautifully visualising them all in one place. With workplace intelligence at fingertips’ length, it’s easy to identify optimisation potential, realise savings, and enhance company’s workplace experience across the entire real estate portfolio. | $9M |  | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Locatee | Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilisation insight. Developed with a strong focus and a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers leaders and managers to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence.Locatee works by leveraging office occupancy data from multiple sources, processing them using unique patented technology, and beautifully visualising them all in one place. With workplace intelligence at fingertips’ length, it’s easy to identify optimisation potential, realise savings, and enhance company’s workplace experience across the entire real estate portfolio. | $8.3M | Series B | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Recharge | Recharge has revolutionised the prepaid payments industry connecting brands effortlessly with customers through their unified platform solutions. Recharge enables stored value products to be obtained anywhere, anytime via their own multi-country digital store fronts including Recharge.com and Startselect.com. Founded in 2010, they are headquarteredin Amsterdam, and have raised over $75 million across Series A and B funding rounds to date. Learn more at: company.recharge.com. | $35M | Series B | Sep 21, 2021 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [FYRFLY Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fyrfly-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Constructive Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swiss-immo-lab) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tomahawk.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tomahawk-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Verve Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/verve-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Zürcher Kantonal Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/z%C3%BCrcher-kantonalbank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About SmartFin

VC Fund · Brussels, Belgium

SmartFin operates as an early-stage venture capital fund. Its focus is on companies developing smart technologies for the financial industry and related technologies such as security, big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and enterprise software.

5 contacts available at SmartFin.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bart Luyten | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bart-luyten |
| Edward Schiettecatte | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edward-schiettecatte |
| Jan Hollez | Managing partner of Space & Defence fund | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-hollez |
| Jürgen Ingels | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jrgen-ingels |
| Stefan Dierckx | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stefan-dierckx |

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## FAQ

### What does Jürgen Ingels invest in?

Jürgen Ingels invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jürgen Ingels's check size?

Jürgen Ingels typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$3M at Seed, $3.3M–$12M at Series A and $5.3M–$35M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jürgen Ingels participates in.

### When did Jürgen Ingels last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jürgen Ingels closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 18 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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