# The Birdhouse

> The Birdhouse is a VC fund in Ghent backing SaaS and Health Care. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ghent, Belgium
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/gobirdhouse
- Website: http://www.gobirdhouse.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gobirdhouse

The Birdhouse is an accelerator program for ambitious entrepreneurs

## Contacts

5 contacts available for The Birdhouse. Shizune tracks 5 team members at The Birdhouse. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/the-birdhouse?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 19% |
| Health Care | 3 | 19% |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |
| Wellness | 2 | 13% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 44% |
| Seed | 5 | 31% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 19% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Belgium | 7 | 44% |
| Germany | 2 | 13% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 13% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Austria | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Helena Pynte | Marketing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helena-pynte |
| Jan-Willem Callebaut | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-willem-callebaut-2 |
| Kasper Vancoppenolle | Marketing & Academy Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kasper-vancoppenolle |
| Lenja Doms | Project Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lenja-doms |
| Magali Renard | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magali-renard |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Steadiwear | Steadiwear's flagship product is the Steadi-3, a battery-free glove stabilizing the wrist joint for individuals with Essential tremor & Parkinson's Disease. The Steadi-3 technology was inspired by leading-edge earthquake dampers used in buildings. It is based on magnetic tuned mass damping technology, a novel class of stabilizationsystems. It consists of a counterbalancing flywheel in between programmable magnets. The system naturally adapts to different tremor severities.The Steadi-3 are FDA & Health Canada registered Class I medical devices. | $1.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Husk | Husk is the smart spending platform for European startups that integrates payment solutions, transaction insights, and liquidity. We provide corporate cards with meaningful limits in combination with control, insights and planning tools. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | May 27, 2025 |  |
| ClimateCamp | ClimateCamp offers precise information on the supply chain's carbon emissions. | $3.8M | Seed | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| fabel | The fabel app has been specially designed to meet the needs of family carers. It offers a comprehensive solution to simplify and automate home care tasks. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 21, 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 |  |
| SOMAREALITY | SOMAREALITY enable cognitive insights outside the laboratory. They specialize in developing eye tracking-based digital biomarkers, revolutionizing the way we understand and monitor cognitive processes in real time. | $2.8M | Seed | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| StriveCloud | StriveCloud is the go-to gamification solution that combines technology and gamification expertise to help companies enrich their customer experience - meaning better engagement and better retention.Companies, including sports apps like Zumba, the football club Club Brugge, mobility platform EVO, and telecom provider Mobile Vikings, useStriveCloud to boost customer loyalty, engage a new generation of users, and enhance their digital revenue. | $1.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Marple | Marple is an engineering data analysis platform. It uses metadata to organize, find, and visualize test and measurement data. Marple incorporates a folder structure as well as metadata filters. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 26, 2024 |  |
| family.cards | Family.cards provides elders with barrier-free access to digital solutions and all the tools they need to manage their circumstances. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Nestflow | NestEgg helps homeowners become financially free by trading their home equity for debt-free income. Our innovative equity-release model offers a fair, efficient way for millions of European elderly to tap their built-up housing wealth, while offering investors a unique asset class of owner-occupied real estate. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [PMV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pmv-eu) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Belfius Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/belfius-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/limburgse-reconversie-maatschappij) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agentschap-innoveren-ondernemen) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Agetech Collaborative from AARP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agetech-collaborative-from-aarp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does The Birdhouse invest in?

The Birdhouse invests primarily in SaaS, Health Care and FinTech startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact The Birdhouse?

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### Who are the partners at The Birdhouse?

The team at The Birdhouse includes Helena Pynte (Marketing), Jan-Willem Callebaut (CEO) and Kasper Vancoppenolle (Marketing & Academy Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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