# Willem Delbare

> Willem Delbare is a seed investor at Aikido Security backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aikido Security](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aikido-security)
- Location: Gent, Belgium
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willemdelbare

Willem Delbare is a seed investor at Aikido Security in Gent focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Willem Delbare is the Co-founder at Officient. He attended Ghent University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $384k–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.3M–$1.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 63% |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| CRM | 2 | 25% |
| Sales Automation | 2 | 25% |
| SEO | 1 | 13% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Belgium | 5 | 63% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Prelude | Prelude is advancing SMS verification and mobile onboarding infrastructure through a set of unified APIs developers might actually like. Prelude is dedicated to more reliable fraud detection, elegant transparency, and increased reliability– all at a better price, so businesses can make every ping count for their customer experience, not their bill. | $20M | Series A | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Holmes | Holmes is an AI platform that autonomously tests applications and finds bugs before users find fault. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Belfort | Belfort is specialising in technology that accelerates encrypted data processing, allowing it to be done in real time without ever decrypting the data. | $6M | Seed | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| Donna | Donna operates as an AI Copilot for Sales Teams Deal intelligence to manage and convert pipeline on autopilot. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Jun 19, 2024 |  |
| StoryChief | StoryChief.io is an Editorial Software for Startups, SEO Marketers and Editorial teams who want to publish their stories multi-channel in seconds. This tool lets you create and push your articles to different publishing channels like Wordpress, Self hosted SC blog, API, Accelerated Mobile Pages (Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP,...), Medium.com, Newsletters, Ambassadors, Press contacts/Influencers, etc. It has a universal editor that lets you create beautiful stories with ease, making them look as they should on these channels and measure your impact and ROI in one place. It also provides SEO suggestions for your content. | $3.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 18, 2022 |  |
| journy.io | Stop crunching CRM records and data sheets, searching for those accounts with revenue potential. Replace cold calling by data-driven engagement sequences on most promising signups, based on how they use your product and interact with your brand. | $541.6K | Seed | Feb 02, 2021 |  |
| StoryChief | StoryChief.io is an Editorial Software for Startups, SEO Marketers and Editorial teams who want to publish their stories multi-channel in seconds. This tool lets you create and push your articles to different publishing channels like Wordpress, Self hosted SC blog, API, Accelerated Mobile Pages (Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP,...), Medium.com, Newsletters, Ambassadors, Press contacts/Influencers, etc. It has a universal editor that lets you create beautiful stories with ease, making them look as they should on these channels and measure your impact and ROI in one place. It also provides SEO suggestions for your content. | $1.1M | Seed | Sep 27, 2018 |  |
| Salesflare | Salesflare is a simply powerful CRM that automates your data to build better relationships and make more sales. A fast, visual and easy-to-use sales machine. Built on happiness with the latest tech, by humans for humans.Salesflare works everywhere you work: it's integrated in Outlook & Gmail and works on desktop, mobile and tabletdevices.For a product tour with features and screenshots, or for a free trial, check salesflare.com. | $384K | Seed | May 28, 2018 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Syndicate One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/syndicate-one) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Pitchdrive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pitchdrive) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [welovefounders](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/welovefounders) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Peak](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peak-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [PMV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pmv-eu) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [100IN](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/100in) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Aikido Security

VC Fund · Ghent, Belgium

Aikido Security is a developer-first software security product. We scan your code & cloud in 8 different ways, showing you which security issues and vulnerabilities are actually important to solve. We speed up triaging massively by cutting out the false-positives, and making things human-readable.

5 contacts available at Aikido Security.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michiel Denis | Marketing Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michiel-denis |
| Roeland Delrue | Cofounder: CRO & COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roeland-delrue |
| Willem Delbare | Cofounder: CEO & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/willem-delbare |
| Bart Jonckheere | Solutions Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bart-jonckheere |
| Bert Coppens | Developer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bert-coppens-43a8 |

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## FAQ

### What does Willem Delbare invest in?

Willem Delbare invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and CRM startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Willem Delbare's check size?

Willem Delbare typically joins rounds of $384k–$6M at Seed and $1.3M–$1.6M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Willem Delbare participates in.

### When did Willem Delbare last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Willem Delbare closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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