Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Belgium
A list of 20 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Retail startups based in Belgium. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Belgium. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Belgium
Investor | Retail Belgium investments |
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Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij | 3 |
PMV | 2 |
Toon Coppens | 2 |
Force Over Mass Capital | 1 |
Vendis Capital | 1 |
Lorenz Bogaert | 1 |
Jonas Dhaenens | 1 |
Spreds | 1 |
KPN Ventures | 1 |
ETF Partners | 1 |
Optiver | 1 |
Korys | 1 |
Angelwise | 1 |
ING Group | 1 |
Jos B. Peeters | 1 |
Boris Bogaert | 1 |
LeanSquare | 1 |
Wim Derkinderen | 1 |
The Craftory | 1 |
BNP Paribas Fortis | 1 |
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Belgium, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Cumul.io — Create powerful dashboards in minutes. Share with your teams, or integrate in your platform. Drive growth in your business today!
- MobieTrain — Unlock the potential of your customer-facing employees and create memorable customer experiences with MobieTrain's app.
- Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium, The Netherlands, United States
Portfolio highlights
- TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
- Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.
- Augustine Therapeutics — Augustine, Innovative therapies for neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases
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, Sales Automation, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- 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.
Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- CUR8 — CUR8 is committed to establishing a global market for carbon reduction. Carbon removal methods include increased rock weathering, direct air capture, forests, construction, soil, biomass, oceans, and new technologies.
- Artificial Labs — Powering the next generation of commercial insurer.
- SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.
Vendis Capital is an independent private equity firm that focuses on building and investing in small- to medium-sized branded consumer companies in Europe. Its flexible capital structure includes both development capital and buyout capital.Vendis Capital supports entrepreneurs and their companies through various stages of development. It helpsits clients in establishing strategic roadmaps, planning and facilitating management additions, evaluating and executing acquisitions, and establishing proper monitoring and reporting tools.Vendis Capital was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Diegem, Vlaams-Brabant.
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Investment focus
- Retail, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Private Equity, Funding Round
- The Netherlands, Belgium, France
Portfolio highlights
- Kamera Express — Kamera Express - De Kamera Superstore voor Foto, Video, Objectieven, Lenzen, Accessoires en toebehoren, Studio en Licht, Verrekijkers, Telescopen, Computer, Media en meer
- Skins Cosmetics — Skins Cosmetics is a cosmetic shop that sells skin cosmetics and beauty products.
- Pink Gellac — Pink Gellac is a digital native and direct-to-consumer premium nail polish brand with a distinctive colour offering. Pink Gellac is known for its distinctive on-trend colour offering and its salon-like quality.
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
- Tribboo — Project management platform for construction SMEs
- 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.
- Maison Sport — Book ski lessons online with highly qualified ski instructors. Ski & snowboard lessons & ski school in Morzine, Meribel, Val Thorens, Courchevel, Avoriaz, Tignes, Val d'Isere, Zermatt, Verbier & more
Jonas Dhaenens - Group CEO @ team.blue Denmark
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Belgium
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.
- Leadcamp — Leadcamp offers software solutions for email tracking, lead scoring, pipeline management, sales analytics and automation.
- Cardify — Cardify redefines the way the fastest growing companies enable their sales team to deliver a more effective and personalized buyer/seller experience. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
We empower high-potential entrepreneurship and democratize venture capital. Discover promising start-ups & SMEs and invest alongside business angels.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Belgium, France
Portfolio highlights
- Opinum — What is Opinum Data Hub? Our Data Hub is a secured Cloud-based platform that allows energy and environmental actors to centralise, enhance, analyse, and share data.
- Digiteal — Digiteal offers a wide range of services for e-invoice presentment, electronic payments and open banking.
- NietsCo — NietsCo. is the home of Botaniets Gin 0.0%, a leading selection of alcohol-free products, carefully distributed to the world's best restaurants, concept stores, shops and consumers.
KPN Ventures is a corporate venture arm of KPN that aims to partner with innovative technology companies, providing access to capital, expertise, network, and customer channels. It focuses on early growth-stage European companies in networking technology, internet of things, smart home, digital healthcare, cyber security, mobile and video (OTT)services, cloud computing, data, and analytics. It began operation on June 1, 2015, with its headquarters in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet of Things, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
- Wirepas — Wirepas is the best mesh for industrial and commercial IoT. Wireless. Infinitely scalable. Ultra-reliable. Lowest total cost of ownership. Self-building and self-healing. It can't fail.
- BOX ID Systems — BOX ID Systems develops and offers an end-to-end location & process mining solution to cost effectively track millions of logistics assets digitally throughout the industrial supply chain across Europe and the World - including site-to-site, on-premises and indoor buildings digital twin of supply chain processes. The system is built on aspecialized analytics software platform, sensorik tracking devices and efficient data-, device- and user-management tools, including functions to support process automation and optimization. Industrial and automotive production customers benefit from making their logistics processes more efficient and cost optimized, with 100% transparency within their critical processes throughout the entire supply chain.
ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations, and family offices. The firm creates value by investing in and supporting great European companies that deliver Sustainability Through Innovation.
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Investment focus
- Software, Renewable Energy, SaaS
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
- PlanerAI — PlanerAI offers an AI-based planning platform that enables food producers and suppliers to open up new distribution channels, achieve better margins and reduce food waste. With PlanerAI, suppliers can effectively manage planning for their assortment from production to the point of sale. Our planning platform is suitable for all types of fresh,perishable goods.
- shipzero — Measure, analyze, and reduce carbon emissions from your transport activities. shipzero is the smart data platform to enable effective actions towards zero transport emissions.
As a global market maker, Optiver works to make the world's markets fairer, more transparent and more efficient for everyone.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Stock Exchanges
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- United States, Belgium, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Auros — We develop world class technology to implement arbitrage and other trading strategies within the crypto space.
- Pattern — Pattern is a modern financial membership that combines access to a personal financial advisory team backed by a robo platform.
- Sk3w Technologies — Sk3w Technologies specializes in providing exchange access solutions.
Korys is the name chosen by the Colruyt family for their investment structure. The name Korys is derived from the Latin word for hazelnut tree – Corylus - which is at the origin of the Colruyt name.Their multi-disciplinary approach enables us to create a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, anddirect participations in small and medium-sized companies. Through their investments, they aim to make a positive impact on people and the planet, while generating attractive returns. A “three P” approach (People, Planet, Profit) forms the cornerstone of their investment strategy. They invest for the long term, as they realize that it takes time to achieve the sustainable impact they are aiming for. They focus their investments in sectors in which they have built substantial expertise as a team: Cleantech, consumer goods & retail and life sciences.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Information Technology, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Greenely — Greenely is the electricity company that optimizes your electricity use using smart technology in an app. We help you take control of your consumption.
- Protealis — Sustainable plant proteins for Europe
- Eneida — Operational Analytics LV Apps, software and smart sensor for LV Network Monitoring, Control, and Visibility
Angelwise Vlaams Investeringsfonds
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Marine Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- cikisi — Specialized in Web Intelligence (collecting, searching and filtering web information). Help companies and organizations to take advantage of Web information that are relevant to their development. Develops and commercializes Cikisi WMT, a Web Intelligence Solution.
- Azumuta — Azumuta, the #1 industry-leading tool that fully supports operators by centralizing all knowledge, on-the-floor training and communication.
- xyzt.ai — The big data platform to easily visualize and analyze any spatio-temporal data. Scaling to billions of records.
ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, investments, life insurance and retirement services. They serve more than 85 million private, corporate and institutional customers in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Australia. They draw on our experience and expertise, their commitment to excellent service andtheir global scale to meet the needs of a broad customer base, comprising individuals, families, small businesses, large corporations, institutions and governments.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Akaysha Energy — Discover innovative and sustainable renewable energy solutions with Akaysha Energy. Powering Australia's future with clean, reliable energy.
- Royal FloraHolland — Royal FloraHolland connects players in floriculture and creates opportunities for sustainable growth and success in the global floriculture market.
- Nearfield Instruments — Automated High-Throughput 3D Scanning Probe Metrology
Has a PhD in Solid State Physics from the University of Leuven. He worked at Bell Telephone Manufacturing Cy, PA Technology and BeneVent Management, before starting Capricorn Venture Partners.
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Investment focus
- Retail, FinTech, Stock Exchanges
- Series A
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Equiduct — Equiduct is a trading platform offering premium Best Execution services and a lit central limit order book.
Startup Enabler & Angel Investor. In 2011 I co-founded Cardwise that later became Xpenditure NV an innovative product for managing expenses. Which was acquired by Sodexo Group (EURONEXT:SDXOF) in March 2017 after a very succesfull growth phase with more then 6000 customers globally (eg. Deloitte, Henkel, PWC,....) Reinvested partly in the newventure with Sodexo & iAlbatros. We launched this new corp-up venture in June 2018 under the name of RYDOO and I'm acting COO and board member.. Next to that I'm also investing in promising early stage startups with Tumbzup bvba.In the early 90ies I've been involved in commercialisation of the first Internet solutions. My passion has always been making new innovative products marketable towards B2B markets. I've pioneered in the internet sector and have been involved in the launch of Europe's first Internet service providers PING (Eunet) and Yucom (JV BT & ING), now both part of Belgacom (BELG:BB).Later, I became Chief Commercial Officer at SpaceChecker and after the acquisition by Punch Telematix, I became Country Manager. Punch Telematix is now owned by Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB). In 2007, I joined Massive Media (publishers of Netlog & TWOO), a leading European on-line community that has recently been acquired by IACI (NASDAQ:IACI). As Director of Business Development, I successfully set-up the complete business development strategy and team from scratch.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Oper — Oper is the mortgage platform that helps lenders and brokers digitise and streamline their mortgage distribution.
- Cardify — Cardify redefines the way the fastest growing companies enable their sales team to deliver a more effective and personalized buyer/seller experience. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
- Hotel Manager — Hotel Manager is the platform for delivering modern experiences to guests, wherever they are. Launch and build your hotel app in no time and manage your growth easily. All in one platform with zero technical knowledge required.
New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator
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Investment focus
- Software, Music, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Belgium, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
- CityLegends — A home for urban sports & culture partners of CityLegends. Making the lines.
- Streamforge — Streamforge helps companies find the most relevant creators for their games and products using the most sophisticated platform and technology on the market.
Wim Derkinderen is the Founder, Director, and Board member of FixForm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Belgium, Spain, United States
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.
- RiftPay — Banking and finance done with others. Introducing a social banking, finance, and mobile payment platform. The financial industry is designed to cater to the individual. RiftPay puts groups first, making us truly unique.
- Hotel Manager — Hotel Manager is the platform for delivering modern experiences to guests, wherever they are. Launch and build your hotel app in no time and manage your growth easily. All in one platform with zero technical knowledge required.
The alternative growth equity and consumer venture capital fund based in London and San Francisco. We invest in consumer brands with a positive social impact. We are Cause Capital.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Consumer Goods, Retail
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Needed — Prenatal vitamins leave most women depleted, so we redesigned the Prenatal Multi from the ground-up, and paired it with the Omega-3 (DHA and EPA), Collagen Protein, and Pre/Probiotic that mamas need. Take them before, during, and after pregnancy (and while breastfeeding) for optimal prenatal and postpartum nourishment.
- Edgard & Cooper — Edgard & Cooper offers foods for dogs and cats made with natural and nutritious ingredients. Their products are made with fresh meat and simple ingredients making it more balanced than over-processed pet food. Edgard & Cooper was founded in 2014 by Louis Chalabi and Jürgen Degrande and is headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium.
- NotCo — We are reinventing the foods we love to eat! Same great flavor, but made from plants. Meet the future of food. Why not?
BNP Paribas Fortis is a bank that provides personal and business banking services.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Logistics, Pharmaceutical
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Belgium, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Aphea.Bio — Aphea.Bio will develop next generation ‘biopesticides’ based on natural microorganisms. These products will provide an alternative for chemical pesticides, which are currently under serious pressure. In addition, the company will develop novel ‘biostimulants’, i.e. microorganisms that stimulate crop growth, for example through promoting the uptakeof nutrients from the soil.
- MobieTrain — Unlock the potential of your customer-facing employees and create memorable customer experiences with MobieTrain's app.
- Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) — A leading global, independent infrastructure fund manager.
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