SmartFin
VC Fund
Brussels, Belgium
SmartFin is a VC fund in Brussels focused on Software and SaaS. SmartFin is targeting exceptional B2B technology companies across Europe.
- Total investments:
- 65
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 46%
- Fund size:
- $257M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries SmartFin invests in
Stages SmartFin invests in
Countries SmartFin invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $549k–$6.7M
- Series A
- $5M–$13M
- Series B
- $3M–$35M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 21 (32%)
- SaaS 10 (15%)
- Information Technology 10 (15%)
- Analytics 7 (11%)
- FinTech 6 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 14 (22%)
- Series B 12 (18%)
- Seed 8 (12%)
- Funding Round 6 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (9%)
Country
- Belgium 19 (29%)
- The Netherlands 7 (11%)
- Turkey 2 (3%)
- Finland 2 (3%)
- United Kingdom 2 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bart Luyten
Founder and Managing Partner
|
Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
|
Edward Schiettecatte
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jan Hollez
Managing partner of Space & Defence fund
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Managing partner of Space & Defence fund | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Jürgen Ingels
Founder and Managing Partner
|
Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 20 | Find email | |
Stefan Dierckx
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hadrian’s digital security model focuses on automated event-based scanning. The company's approach maps vulnerabilities in an organization's entire attack surface infrastructure, and provides the critical insights to fortify them. Hadrian is developed by a team of hackers, their approach to digital security allows for continuoussecurity validation, running tests on 1000s of digital assets.Hadrian was established in 2021 by Maurice Clin and Rogier Fischer in Amsterdamnm Noord-Holland. | $40M / Series B / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Marble is the first open source transaction monitoring. We automate detection and investigations with unparalleled flexibility and simplicity to allow tech teams to build on top of Marble, while removing manual compliance checks. Built for real-time and scalability, Marble protects against fraud and money laundering leading financial institutions in the EU, UK and over 15 geographies. | $7.4M / Series A / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| BrightAnalytics is the most intuitive, reliable and fast platform for consolidated reporting of financial and operational data. With BrightAnalytics you always have clear and accurate management reports at your fingertips, from the entire organization - cross divisions, cross operations and cross entities.Set up and connected in no time andfamiliar from day one, BrightAnalytics automates complex consolidated reporting and provides you with a most user-friendly interface to give full transparency to management, stakeholders and even the entire organization, in real-time. Request your live demo via brightanalytics.eu. | Private Equity / Jul 09, 2026 | ||
| Timefold is a company that provides PlanningAI solutions for complex scheduling and routing challenges. The platform allows users to create and manage schedules in real-time while ensuring compliance with operational constraints. With seamless API integration and scalable models, Timefold enhances planning efficiency for enterprise organizations. | $13M / Series A / Jun 23, 2026 | ||
| OpenUp provides tools and tips to help employees deal with daily mental health challenges. | $23.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 26, 2026 | ||
| Simple and composable financial platform with the “Financial Function as a Service” principle. | $10.1M / Jan 20, 2026 | ||
| Incard offers financial solutions for e-commerce businesses of all sizes and stages, modernizing their financial operations and helping them succeed. Incard builds a range of finance tools—from corporate cards and expense management to bill payments and accounting—with e-commerce-specific integrations. These tools are designed to save digitalentrepreneurs time and money with every click. | $13.4M / Series A / Jan 09, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| We want to bring intelligence closer to the source, enabling real-time, efficient and sustainable physical AI solutions world-wide. We believe in processing data locally, right where it’s harvested. We want to make AI accessible and sustainable in real-world scenarios, breaking free from the limitations of the cloud. This isn’t just about betterhardware. It’s about empowering engineers to go beyond traditional paradigms and bring AI to life where it matters most. It’s about building a new foundation for the future — one that makes AI accessible, robust, and sustainable in the real world. Let’s build that future from the ground up - smarter, faster & closer than ever before.The future generation of engineers needs to think outside the cloud! | Series A / Sep 11, 2025 | ||
| Simple and composable financial platform with the “Financial Function as a Service” principle. | $12M / Series A / Feb 04, 2025 | ||
| See all 65 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does SmartFin invest in?
SmartFin invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 65 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 SmartFin invest in?
SmartFin typically joins rounds of $549k–$6.7M at Seed, $5M–$13M at Series A and $3M–$35M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not SmartFin's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds SmartFin took part in.
How do I contact SmartFin?
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Who are the partners at SmartFin?
The team at SmartFin includes Bart Luyten (Founder and Managing Partner), Edward Schiettecatte (Founding Partner) and Jan Hollez (Managing partner of Space & Defence fund), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 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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