# SmartFin

> SmartFin is a VC fund in Brussels backing Software and SaaS. See 58 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- Total investments: 58
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 47%
- Fund size: $281M
- Last fund: Jan 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/smartfin-capital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/smartfin_vc
- Website: http://www.smartfinvc.com

SmartFin is a VC fund in Brussels focused on Software and SaaS. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $549k–$6.7M |
| Series A | $5M–$13M |
| Series B | $5.3M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 19 | 33% |
| SaaS | 11 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 17% |
| Analytics | 7 | 12% |
| FinTech | 6 | 10% |

73 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 13 | 22% |
| Series B | 11 | 19% |
| Seed | 8 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 12% |
| Series C | 3 | 5% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Belgium | 19 | 33% |
| The Netherlands | 6 | 10% |
| Turkey | 2 | 3% |
| Finland | 2 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bart Luyten | Founder and Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bart-luyten |
| Edward Schiettecatte | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edward-schiettecatte |
| Jan Hollez | Managing partner of Space & Defence fund | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-hollez |
| Jürgen Ingels | Founder and Managing Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jrgen-ingels |
| Stefan Dierckx | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stefan-dierckx |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BrightAnalytics | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Incard | 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 | 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 |  |
| AI-Blox | 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 |  |
| Fimple | Simple and composable financial platform with the “Financial Function as a Service” principle. | $12M | Series A | Feb 04, 2025 |  |
| emma | Emma is a cloud management platform designed to help businesses manage, optimize, and govern their cloud environments seamlessly. The platform offers capabilities for centralized visibility, automated workflows, and cost control, enabling users to efficiently oversee their resources across multiple cloud providers. | $17M | Series A | Nov 25, 2024 |  |
| Timefold | 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. | $6.7M | Seed | Sep 17, 2024 |  |

10 of 58 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/limburgse-reconversie-maatschappij) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Axeleo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axeleo-sas) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Endeit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeit-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Newion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newion-investments) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Achmea](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/achmea) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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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 58 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SmartFin's check size?

SmartFin typically joins rounds of $549k–$6.7M at Seed, $5M–$13M at Series A and $5.3M–$30M 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 SmartFin participates in.

### How do I contact SmartFin?

Public channels for SmartFin include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 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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