Pitchdrive
VC Fund
Antwerp, Belgium
Pitchdrive is a European Co-founder Capital firm backing pre-seed and seed founders from day one. Founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, the firm invests €250K-€2M tickets, with offices in Antwerp, Ghent, Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona, London and New York. Chaired by team.blue founder Jonas Dhaenens, Pitchdrive's mentor network spans more than 20 entrepreneurs, including founders and leaders from European success stories.
- Total investments:
- 93
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
- Fund size:
- $69M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Pitchdrive invests in
Stages Pitchdrive invests in
Countries Pitchdrive invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$4.8M
- Pre-Seed
- $110k–$2.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 24 (26%)
- SaaS 14 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 13 (14%)
- Information Technology 9 (10%)
- FinTech 5 (5%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 38 (41%)
- Seed 29 (31%)
- Series A 2 (2%)
- Funding Round 1 (1%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (1%)
Country
- Belgium 22 (24%)
- United Kingdom 9 (10%)
- Germany 4 (4%)
- United States 4 (4%)
- The Netherlands 4 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan Hollez
Mentor
|
Mentor | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Koen Christiaens
Co-founder
|
Co-founder | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
Lorenz Bogaert
Director and Co-Founder
|
Director and Co-Founder | Total investments: 66 | Find email | |
Wim Derkinderen
Co-founder and managing partner at Pitchdrive
|
Co-founder and managing partner at Pitchdrive | Total investments: 18 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backbone integrates your quality data, surfaces the relevant signals at the right moment, and empowers decision-makers. | $4.6M / Pre-Seed / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| ORiS provides wireless power transmission using high-precision pointing lasers. On land, it focuses on dual-use market, while in space it focuses on LEO-orbiting satellite recharging, objects on the lunar surface, and active debris removal using laser ablation. | $5.1M / Pre-Seed / Jul 21, 2026 | ||
| ZeroDrift is building the AI-native enforcement infrastructure for enterprise communication. We are the first platform that enforces the rules before an AI message is ever sent, fixing violations in real time across every channel where AI speaks for the business. Everything goes out clean. Nothing dangerous comes in.As AI starts to communicate onbehalf of entire organizations, the gap between what compliance requires and what companies can actually enforce is widening fast. Every existing solution monitors after send, once the risk is already out the door. ZeroDrift enforces before send. Enforcement did not exist as a category. We created it.We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and other world-class VCs, and built by a team from Microsoft, Google, and Goldman Sachs, led by a repeat AI founder. | $10M / Seed / Jun 02, 2026 | ||
| Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software. | $2M / Seed / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Teaching vehicles on rails to drive autonomously. | $10.6M / Dec 11, 2025 | ||
| Donna operates as an AI Copilot for Sales Teams Deal intelligence to manage and convert pipeline on autopilot. | $4.8M / Seed / Dec 02, 2025 | ||
| Partnership ecosystem platform | $3M / Seed / Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| Stardust Analytics (meetstardust.ai) is a Swedish-based AI startup that provides a SaaS platform for advertising performance — using artificial intelligence to analyze what makes certain ads successful and automatically generate new high-performing ad content. Specifically, Stardust’s AI engine “reads” top-performing ads (frames, words, visuals)to identify the patterns behind success, then uses those insights to create new ad briefs and content, shifting advertising from guesswork to data-driven creativity. The goal: help brands and advertisers save time, increase conversions, and consistently scale ad performance without manually testing endless variations. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Nov 03, 2025 | ||
| Lette AI is building the AI back office for property management, helping institutional real estate funds and operators scale portfolios across the UK, Ireland, and GCC. In minutes, proprietary AI learns how a business runs internally and deploys custom AI agents that take over leasing, management, and resident engagement. This delivers fasterlease-ups, lower operating costs, higher tenant retention, and stronger Net Operating Income.Trusted by leading institutional landlords, Lette replaces fragmented systems with a single intelligent control room for investors. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| Workfully is a human resource e agency that prices employment, recruitment and upskillng services for candidates and companies. | $4.7M / Seed / Sep 23, 2025 | ||
| See all 93 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Pitchdrive invest in?
Pitchdrive invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 93 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Pitchdrive invest in?
Pitchdrive typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.8M at Seed and $110k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Pitchdrive's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Pitchdrive took part in.
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Who are the partners at Pitchdrive?
The team at Pitchdrive includes Jan Hollez (Mentor), Koen Christiaens (Co-founder) and Lorenz Bogaert (Director and Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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