Top 15 Publishing Startup Investors in Belgium in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Publishing startups based in Belgium. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Belgium. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Publishing Startup Investors in Belgium in January 2026
| Investor | Publishing Belgium investments |
|---|---|
| Lorenz Bogaert | 3 |
| Toon Coppens | 3 |
| Peak | 2 |
| PMV | 2 |
| Bart Claeys | 1 |
| Capricorn Partners | 1 |
| Belfius Bank | 1 |
| Hera Capital | 1 |
| The CoFoundry | 1 |
| Jonas Deprez | 1 |
| Pieter Casneuf | 1 |
| Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij | 1 |
| Frank Bekkers | 1 |
| Willem Delbare | 1 |
| Koen Desmedt | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Belgium, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- StarApps — StarApps is a boutique venture builder, turning game-changing ideas into breakthrough companies, managed by rockstar entrepreneurs.
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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
- Delfio — Delfio is a data-driven procurement platform that facilitates collective purchase for professional buyers around Europe.
- Stack — Stack is an immersive experience of the internet with collaboration at its core. Achieve more with your peers in an organized environment
Do and dare company
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Belgium, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- IVEX — IVEX offers Repeatable and Scalable Testing & Validation Data Analytics solutions for ADAS/AD Vehicles.
- LindaCare — LindaCare develops solutions for implantable cardiac device remote monitoring. From intuitive dashboards for caregivers to managed remote monitoring service, LindaCare is at the forefront of the monitoring revolution.
- Magics Technologies — Magics Technologies is a nuclear research center that develops autonomous machines for sustainable energy sources.
Bart Claeys - Product Designer @ Meta
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Investment focus
- Content, Publishing, Digital Media
- Series A
- Belgium
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.
Capricorn Partners is a unique independent manager of venture capital, growth capital and quoted equity funds
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Belgium, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- InsectSense — MIMICKING HOW INSECTS SENSE | Biomimetic technology based on the sensing mechanism of insects. A deeptech platform that applies synthetic biology, microfluidics and is powered by machine learning.
- Thryve — Thryve’s SDK brings everything you need to access fragmented wearable, medical devices, and health data silos with a single integration. We unify your users’ data from smartwatches, blood glucose meters, and many other sources that unlock a continuous stream of harmonized health information for your care. We support popular data sources like AppleHealth, Google Fit, Huawei Health, Samsung Health, and many more.
- Minze Health — Minze Health is a health tech start-up that builds creative digital health solutions for urology, pelvic health, and (in)continence care.
A for-profit PLC founded to meet local authority needs.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium
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- Alan — Alan is a digital health insurance platform that revolutionizes health insurance by focusing on user experience with an excellent price-quality ratio health plan. Alan started by creating a health insurance company for individuals and companies, that they can trust as a service and enjoy as an experience. Alan is the insurance company that makeshealthcare simpler, smarter, and better.It is the first new independent insurance licensed in France since 1986 by the French Prudential Supervisory Authority (ACPR) and it has raised more than €125m with leading investors such as Index Ventures, CNP, Partech, and Portage since its creation in 2016.
- Hexa — eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.
- PanTera — PanTera wants to bring a new hope to cancer patients by enabling the widespread use of radiopharmaceuticals for personalised treatment of tumors
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Analytics, Social Media
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Singapore, Indonesia, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Gojek — Gojek is an app that providing a variety of services from payments, food delivery, transportation, and logistics.The app is used for food ordering, commuting, digital payments, shopping, hyper-local delivery, getting a massage, and other services. It aims to create a positive socio-economic impact on customers, driver-partners, business, andMSMEs. Gojek is backed by investors including Google, Facebook, PayPal, Sequoia Capital, and Tencent Holdings.The company was founded in 2009 in Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia by Kevin Aluwi, Nadiem Makarim, and Michaelangelo Moran.
- Alodokter — App Kesehatan No.1 Di Indonesia. Dapatkan Info Kesehatan Terkini & Terlengkap, Fasilitas Online Booking Rumah Sakit & Dokter, Chat Bersama Dokter, Gratis!
- Nutrition Technologies — Black Soldier Fly for Animal Nutrition Sustainable insectmeal protein, produced in Malaysia, distributed worldwide. #insectmeat #insectprotein #blacksoldierfly #blacksoldierflylarvae
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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Investment focus
- Software, Network Security, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium, The Netherlands, United States
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- 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.
Jonas Deprez - Founder and CEO @ Daltix
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Investment focus
- Seed
- Belgium
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- Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
- StriveCloud — Turn users into daily fans with streaks, quests, leaderboards & rewards. No-code gamification platform for mobile apps. Launch in 14 days, boost retention.
- 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.
Pieter Casneuf
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Investment focus
- Software, SEO, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium
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- 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.
- 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.
Oxygen for growth - LRM
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Belgium, United States, The Netherlands
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- Cumul.io — Create powerful dashboards in minutes. Share with your teams, or integrate in your platform. Drive growth in your business today!
- 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.
- Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
Frank Bekkers
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Investment focus
- Content, Publishing, Digital Media
- Series A
- Belgium
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- 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.
Willem Delbare is the Founder at Teamleader.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, CRM
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- journy.io — Turn customer behaviour on SaaS platform and website into playbooks that drive product-led customer acquisition, expansion and retention, at scale.
- 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.
Koen Desmedt - COO @ CityLive
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Investment focus
- Content, Publishing, Digital Media
- Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium
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.
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