# Koen De Waele > Koen De Waele is a seed investor at Volta Ventures backing Information Technology and Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Volta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/volta-ventures) - Location: Antwerp, Belgium - Total investments: 8 - Last investment: Apr 2025 - Lead investor: 75% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/koen-de-waele-796613/ Koen De Waele is a seed investor at Volta Ventures in Antwerp focused on Information Technology and Software. Koen De Waele is based out of Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen and is the General Partner of Volta Ventures. Koen previously worked at KWARTS as a Board Member. Koen De Waele attended the Ghent University. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Information Technology | 5 | 63% | | Software | 4 | 50% | | SaaS | 2 | 25% | | Food and Beverage | 2 | 25% | | PaaS | 1 | 13% | 17 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 3 | 38% | | Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% | | Series A | 2 | 25% | | Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Belgium | 6 | 75% | | Luxembourg | 1 | 13% | | United Kingdom | 1 | 13% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Predikt | 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 | | | Hyperfox | The tailored eCommerce platform for the Wholesales industry. All you ever needed to grow your Wholesales enterprise. | $2.3M | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 | | | Lupovis | Lupovis is a Glasgow-based company that specializes in helping its customers protect their business-critical network assets as well as data and IP from attackers that have already compromised the network and from insider threats. | | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2024 | | | Whale | Whale is the knowledge and training platform that helps you centralize your processes, SOP's, policies and tribal knowledge so you can onboard and train your team faster. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 20, 2023 | | | RESPONSUM | RESPONSUM is the EU's leading all-in-one privacy management SaaS solution. Simplify and automate your privacy compliance challenges and turn Privacy into a competitive advantage. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 29, 2021 | | | Kwarts | Kwarts is the AI-driven customer data platform that helps companies to centralize and analyze data streams. | $1.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 22, 2021 | | | Apicbase | At Apicbase, we focus on the 30% to 35% of food and beverage related costs in a food business by save time and money, and bring peace of mind when it comes to Risk & Compliance (Allergens, HACCP, Nutriscore...). We make staff training more efficient and help you to scale your business consistently. For that we developed a platform solution tohelp F&B Managers manage the entire back-of-house operations of their restaurant business, dark kitchen, hotel or catering business. So they can make data-driven decisions to optimize inventory, cost control, planning, procurement, and profitability. | $4.9M | Series A | May 19, 2021 | | | Wizata | Wizata is make sense of your data and discover unique solutions and unexploited opportunities. Wizata proposes vertical solutions answering to your specific sector challenges. As main domains of expertize, Wizata counts today the Manufacturing (Industry 4.0), Insurance, Energy, Healthcare sectors and e-commerce for predictive management and processoptimization.By embedding themselves in your business and synergising with your teams, WIZATA’s data scientists uncover hidden gems within your data, whether internal or external to your organisation.Every profile is an exception, that’s why WIZATA offers an advanced collaboration model with people who are real experts in data science.Unique profiles for unique services. | $3M | Series A | Jun 02, 2020 | | 8 of 8 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Expon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expon-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together - [KBC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kbc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/limburgse-reconversie-maatschappij) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [PMV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pmv-eu) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Ark Angels Activator Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ark-angels-activator-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Belfius Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/belfius-bank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Volta Ventures VC Fund · Gent, Belgium 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. 5 contacts available at Volta Ventures. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Koen De Waele | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koen-de-waele | | Denisa Kasa | Junior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denisa-kasa | | Frank Maene | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-maene | | Michel Akkermans | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michel-akkermans | | Stan Jeanty | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stan-jeanty | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Koen De Waele invest in? Koen De Waele invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### When did Koen De Waele last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Koen De Waele closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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