Top 20 Publishing Startup Investors in Belgium (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Toon Coppens
Angel
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3 | Belgium, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | SaaS, Software, Sales Automation | $384k–$2.2M |
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Peak
VC Fund
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3 | The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $658k–$5M |
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Lorenz Bogaert
Angel
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3 | Belgium, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $120k–$5.7M |
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Pieter Casneuf
Angel
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2 | Belgium | Seed, Angel | Software, SEO, SaaS | $878k–$1.1M |
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PMV
VC Fund
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2 | Belgium, United States, The Netherlands | Series A, Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $549k–$40M |
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Willem Delbare
Angel
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2 | Belgium, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, CRM | $384k–$6M |
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Johan Van Damme
Angel
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1 | Belgium | SEO, SaaS, Software | ||
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Hera Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, Indonesia, Norway | Series A, Seed | Analytics, E-Commerce, Social CRM | $2.3M–$20M |
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Jonas Deprez
Angel
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1 | Belgium, United States | Seed, Convertible Note | Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software | $878k–$2.2M |
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Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, United States, The Netherlands | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology | $494k–$11M |
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Bart Putteman
Angel
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1 | Belgium | Seed | Publishing, Machine Learning, Retail Technology | |
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Bart Claeys
Angel
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1 | Belgium | Series A | Content, Publishing, Digital Media | |
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Belfius Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, France, The Netherlands | Debt Financing, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $291k–$382M |
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The CoFoundry
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, The Netherlands, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Security | $878k–$3.9M |
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Frank Bekkers
Angel
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1 | Belgium | Series A | Content, Publishing, Digital Media | |
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Koen Desmedt
Angel
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1 | Belgium | Series A | Content, Publishing, Digital Media | |
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Capricorn Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, The Netherlands, United States | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | $3.3M–$42M |
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Angelwise
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $521k–$2.9M |
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Anthony De Clerck
Angel
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1 | Belgium | Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, CRM | $1M–$3M |
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Valeri Potchekailov
Angel
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Toon Coppens (Belgium, 1981), graduated as a Master of Science in Informatics at the University of Ghent.In june 2000, during his first year at university, he successfully launched the first Belgian social networking site, which later became Redbox.be.He is the co-founder of Massive Media, the social media company behind the successfuldigital brands Netlog.com and Twoo.com. Massive Media enables members to meet nearby people instantly. Today, Over 80 million people have joined our sites on web and mobile.Toon lives in Ghent (Belgium) and London (UK), loves snowboarding and used to deejay and play volleyball a lot.>> Toon's personal Netlog (dutch)>> Twoo.com (dutch)
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Sales Automation
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Belgium, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $384k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qollabi — Make partner and account plans work with Qollabi BRM (Business Relationship Management) for professionals managing indirect sales channels like agents, branches, distributors, dealers, brokers, resellers etc.
- Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
- Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
European early-stage venture capital fund backed 100% by founders. Helping Pre-Seed and Seed SaaS, Marketplaces & Platforms with their Go-To-Market.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $658k–$5M; Pre-Seed $823k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AG5 — AG5 provides a complete skills management platform and training matrix software to map, track, and develop employee competencies. Optimize your workforce with AG5.
- Trengo — Shared Multi-Channel Team Inbox
- Sonomo — Invest in music royalties and earn monthly dividends. Thousands of assets to trade from and build a balanced portfolio. Start today.
Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $445k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.7M; Series A $3.8M–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Feedelity — Feedelity is a software that centralizes customer feedback from various sources (complaint mail, social media inboxes, Google reviews, restaurant delivery platforms etc.), automates customer interaction and makes valuable insights and trends visible using artificial intelligence. The result is an increased customer satisfaction, e-reputation andteam efficiency.
- Maurice & Nora —
- Aikido Security — Easily discover and track all your security issues in one place with Aikido's all-in-one AppSec product.
Pieter Casneuf
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- Industry: Software, SEO, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $878k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revend — Thanks for visiting Revend's Crunchbase page. Revend is the e-commerce tool that monitors, detects, and pinpoints revenue-impacting issues in minutes for D2C and omni-channel companies. Put differently, Revend is a watchdog for e-commerce KPIs. Revenue, add to carts, checkouts, we keep a close eye on them in near real-time. It is supereasy to install, and easily integrates with your preferred communication channels. We've also been called 'a smoke detector for online shops'.We are working together with a select number of large e-commerce companies that currently trail our solution prior to our launch in early 2023.Today, you can put yourself on the waitlist to ensure early access on Revend's website upon launch. For any questions or requests, please feel welcome to reach out via info@revend.ai.
- Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
- Crodeon Technologies — Crodeon is a leading manufacturer of plug & play end-to-end monitoring systems. We build the Crodeon Reporter, Europe's favourite sensor device.
Do and dare company
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Belgium, United States, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Seed $549k–$4.3M; Series A $2.7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Animab — Animal Health Company
- Sentea — Sentea makes fibre optic Sensing affordable to the industry and enables continuous monitoring even in harsh environments.
- CHILI publish — Allow users to edit customizable documents, or fully automate artwork generation. Output files are ready to use for print and digital.
Willem Delbare is the Co-founder at Officient. He attended Ghent University.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, CRM
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Belgium, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $384k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- journy.io — Turn customer behaviour on SaaS platform and website into playbooks that drive product-led customer acquisition, expansion and retention, at scale.
- Salesflare — Salesflare is the #1 user-rated CRM, designed for ease of use. Streamline your sales, generate more leads, and grow your business. Start your 30-day free trial today.
- 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.
Johan Van Damme is an individual investor.
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- Industry: SEO, SaaS, Software
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Hera Capital is a Monetary Authority of Singapore Registered Fund Management Company, which focuses on growth capital investments in small-to-mid sized companies within the South-East Asian region. Our portfolio companies enjoy high growth potential and are either established, or looking to accelerate, in South-East Asia.
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- Industry: Analytics, E-Commerce, Social CRM
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Singapore, Indonesia, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ActSocial — ActSocial (formerly Wildfire Asia) is the leader in providing both insight and influence in social networks across Asia. ActSocial can give deep information on identifying key trends, social media crises and core topics of interest online.Whether talking online or in the real world, ActSocial's network of 100,000 influencers are experts atcreating effective and scalable word-of-mouth for your brand.ActSocial creates measurable business results through a network of 100,000 consumer influencers, a powerful social CRM suite, and proven analytics methodology. ActSocial's WOM programs have boosted brands' marketing and sales performance, from packaged foods to tourism.
- Linkfluence — Linkfluence is a consumer insights platform that combines social media data, AI, and human market research expertise to uncover high-value insights..
- TSC - The Stakeholder Company — The global standard in stakeholder and issue intelligence
Jonas Deprez is a Belgian entrepreneur and tech founder with a passion for building data-driven solutions that simplify complexity. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of Donna, an AI-powered assistant that automates administrative tasks for field sales teams, freeing them up to focus on what truly matters - selling.Before Donna, Jonas foundedDaltix, a retail data company that delivered real-time insights into pricing, promotions, and product assortments for leading retailers across Europe. Under his leadership, Daltix grew from a local startup into a market leader, and was successfully acquired by Colruyt Group in 2023.Based in Ghent, Jonas is also an active angel investor and advisor within the Belgian startup ecosystem, supporting early-stage founders who are building the next wave of innovative companies.Driven by curiosity and a love for smart technology, Jonas continues to focus on the intersection of AI, data, and human productivity - always looking for better ways to work, live, and build.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Belgium, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $878k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Markmi — We give fashion retail teams access to optimized price markdowns through a fast, tailored, and easy-to-use AI assistant.
- Peliqan.io —
- Driven — Driven is the easiest platform to design smart incentives, align targets, and boost overall sales performance.
Oxygen for growth - LRM
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, United States, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $494k–$5.2M; Series A $1.6M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Monsana — Monsana offers an AI-powered platform that connects eligible participants to relevant clinical trials throughout Europe.
- ADLC — ADLC employs drone technology to deliver logistics services, allowing businesses to implement drone-based solutions without having to manage them in-house. The company is focused on enhancing last-mile delivery in maritime and offshore environments. ADLC now conducts drone delivery services in the Port of Antwerp in collaboration with SGS, atesting and certification company, and works with companies such as BASF. Its drones have reduced delivery times and environmental effect, boosting efficiency sixfold and lowering CO2 emissions by up to 80% for petrochemical sample deliveries.
- Aidoptation — Aidoptation develops autonomous driving technology for dual-use applications in commercial automotive, police and first-responder vehicles, and defence-relevant environments.
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- Industry: Publishing, Machine Learning, Retail Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
Bart Claeys - Product Designer @ Meta
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- Industry: Content, Publishing, Digital Media
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Small Teaser — Small Teaser is a community-based digital media company. They operate a digital publishing platform for shared creative output. It offers small teaser, a collaborative publishing platform that allows users to publish digital magazines and news Websites; and people to contribute articles, photos, and videos, as well as users to manage thesecontributions. Small Teaser was founded by Ruth Janssens and Stijn Janssens in 2015; and is headquartered in Belgium, Germany.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, France, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $291k–$1.9M; Series A $768k–$23M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$382M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alan — Alan provides online digital insurance services focusing on health and wellness. The company offers health insurance services, providing solutions tailored to the needs of different types of businesses. It provides simple and seamless insurance coverage and easy claim handling. It gives access to medical professionals for users to easily andconveniently get medical advice and manage claims and reimbursements.
- Tinrate — Tinrate is an easy-to-use connection that allows instructors, experts, and artists to be booked and paid immediately for their services. It serves as a link between your audience and your bank account rather than being a platform full of
- Storm — Storm focuses on wind energy solutions, developing and managing wind farms for renewable energy production.
The CoFoundry helps entrepreneurs transform their ideas into sustainable companies. Some say we cut through the funding hype and work hard to give your business a sustainable future.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Security
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, The Netherlands, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Series A $878k–$3.9M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aloxy — Aloxy offers reliable IIot solutions tailored to the needs of the process industry. Our valve sensor provides an open and close indication of manual valves.
- MyCellHub — MyCellHub.com is a pre-startup from the KULeuven in the biotherapeutics industry that aspires to reform the way cell production processes are organised. With a regulatory compliant Saas-platform for data management and analytics, we increase the efficiency of your manufacturing processes, provide actionable insights via cell culture specificprocess analytics and facilitate regulatory compliance by means of a real-time audit trail and automated batch records.
- Vaultspeed — Save your teams months of headache with a no-code approach to automate your multi-source data integration, Data Vault modeling & ETL/DDL code generation.
Frank Bekkers
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- Industry: Content, Publishing, Digital Media
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Small Teaser — Small Teaser is a community-based digital media company. They operate a digital publishing platform for shared creative output. It offers small teaser, a collaborative publishing platform that allows users to publish digital magazines and news Websites; and people to contribute articles, photos, and videos, as well as users to manage thesecontributions. Small Teaser was founded by Ruth Janssens and Stijn Janssens in 2015; and is headquartered in Belgium, Germany.
Koen Desmedt - COO @ CityLive
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- Industry: Content, Publishing, Digital Media
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CityLive —
- Small Teaser — Small Teaser is a community-based digital media company. They operate a digital publishing platform for shared creative output. It offers small teaser, a collaborative publishing platform that allows users to publish digital magazines and news Websites; and people to contribute articles, photos, and videos, as well as users to manage thesecontributions. Small Teaser was founded by Ruth Janssens and Stijn Janssens in 2015; and is headquartered in Belgium, Germany.
Capricorn Partners is a unique independent manager of venture capital, growth capital and quoted equity funds
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Belgium, The Netherlands, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Series A $3.3M–$18M; Series B $5.3M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Sensolus — Sensolus provides care-free tracking of your valuable non-powered assets directly from the cloud.Sensolus offers turnkey solutions for wireless, low-power context-aware sensing. Sensolus developed a personal product line of low-power tracker systems called STICKNTRACK.Sensolus is built upon many years of expertise in low-power networks,wireless sensor design, cloud-based sensor management, analytics, and applications.
- Delft Advanced Biorenewables — We enable the bio-economy by improving the productivity of fermentations with our in-situ product recovery (ISPR) technology.
- Trillium Renewable Chemicals — Trillium Renewable Chemicals manufactures chemicals from renewable feedstocks used in a variety of industrially important applications. The company was founded in 2021 and based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Angelwise Vlaams Investeringsfonds
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Belgium, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $521k–$2.9M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Azumuta — Unite Connected Worker and MES capabilities to build the execution platform that coordinates, governs, and continuously improves operational work on the shop floor, across humans, AI agents, and robotic systems
- DeltaBlue — Our hybrid cloud platform ensures a full application lifecycle by creating cloudnative serverless environments for traditional applications
- Powerhouse — Powerhouse is your all-in-one solution for turning complex property operations into streamlined, automated workflows. Built on Salesforce for seamless integrations and powerful insights.
Anthony De Clerck is a individual investor.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, CRM
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rookoo — Rookoo is an AI-driven venue management software that talks to your customers, handles the intake, checks availability, fills your CRM or booking software, and hands off to your team for seamless follow-up.
- Jurimesh — Jurimesh is an AI-powered legal due diligence automation and analyzer workspace using the various tools.
- Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
Co-Founder @ StoryChief
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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