Sofie Baeten
Angel Investor @ Qbic Fund
Sofie Baeten is a venture - series unknown investor at Qbic Fund focused on Solar and Energy. Sofie Baeten, Ph.D., has a long experience in venture capital. She started her career at Mercedes and Bekaert before being active as managing partner at several investment funds such as Capital-E, an early stage investment fund in micro-electronics and advanced materials, Gimv and Baekeland Fonds II, a venture capital fund of the University ofGhent.She was involved in start-up and development financing of a high number of innovating companies. She holds a MSc degree in Materials Science Engineering from the University of Ghent, a Ph.D. from the University of Leuven and a master in Entrepreneurship from the Vlerick School.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Sofie Baeten invests in
Stages Sofie Baeten invests in
Countries Sofie Baeten invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Solar 1 (14%)
- Energy 1 (14%)
- Chemical 1 (14%)
- Software 1 (14%)
- Industrial 1 (14%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (29%)
- Seed 1 (14%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (14%)
Investments
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| Aloxy provides an industrial internet of things solution for monitoring manual valve position in the industry. The company's services include valve position monitoring, emergency showers, line blinds, device management, network monitoring, and data integrity. Aloxy provides dependable industrial Internet of Things solutions designed to meetthe demands of the process industries, including chemical, oil, and gas, and others. | $8.1M / Mar 11, 2025 | ||
| Aloxy provides an industrial internet of things solution for monitoring manual valve position in the industry. The company's services include valve position monitoring, emergency showers, line blinds, device management, network monitoring, and data integrity. Aloxy provides dependable industrial Internet of Things solutions designed to meetthe demands of the process industries, including chemical, oil, and gas, and others. | $4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 16, 2022 | ||
| Accelleran is pioneering a disruptive approach to the delivery of cost-effective, carrier and mission-critical grade TDD and FDD Small Cell networks through its focus on software quality and partnerships with volume manufacturers.Accelleran provides LTE Small Cell software and LTE Small Cell product solutions which address the real-worldchallenges of volume deployment of Small Cells. We offer turnkey solutions and unique experience on the challenges of integrating cellular technology on low cost, yet powerful platforms and architectures. Accelleran offers its customers solid and dependable system solutions, backed by the support of our unparalleled expertise.Accelleran’s technology is genuinely independent from any HW platform and enables operators to invest once in the integration and validation of a common software base that can be deployed across different segments, platforms and Small Cell architectural approaches to enable a truly integrated HetNet. | $8.2M / Series B / May 05, 2021 | ||
| Aloxy provides an industrial internet of things solution for monitoring manual valve position in the industry. The company's services include valve position monitoring, emergency showers, line blinds, device management, network monitoring, and data integrity. Aloxy provides dependable industrial Internet of Things solutions designed to meetthe demands of the process industries, including chemical, oil, and gas, and others. | $2.3M / Series A / Sep 07, 2018 | ||
| The LAMWEC project is made up of a consortium of ocean energy experts. The consortium is led by Laminaria, and includes EMEC, Innosea, Ghent University, and TTI Testing. | $2.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 05, 2017 | ||
| Blue Foot Membranes is a start-up company, producing and commercializing the unique and worldwide-patented Integrated Permeate Channel (IPC™) technology used in Membrane Bioreactors for the treatment of Industrial and Municipal waste water. BFM manufactures and supplies membranes for more efficient treatment of Industrial and Municipal waste water.The company was established in 2017 at Lommel, Limburg. | $2.8M / Seed / Jul 05, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Qbic Fund
The Qbic Fund is a multi-sector fund supporting spin-off companies of the Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp university associations and of VITO. Through its strategic partnership with the universities of Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp, and VITO, the Qbic Fund has early and privileged access to promising research projects at these partner universities. Our investment approach is based on early in-depth and independent review and analysis followed by hands on involvement and support. In May 2012 the Qbic Fund held its first close and currently it has over € 30 million under management. The Qbic Fund is backed by several public and private investors and managed by Qbic Venture Partners.
Qbic Fund Contacts
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Sofie Baeten
CEO
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Cedric Van Nevel
Investment Manager
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Danny Gonnissen
Venture Capital Fund Manager
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Steven Leuridan
Partner
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What does Sofie Baeten invest in?
Sofie Baeten invests primarily in Solar, Energy and Chemical startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Sofie Baeten closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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