Top 20 Social Media Startup Investors in Belgium in November 2024

Investor	Social Media Belgium investments
Belfius Bank	3
QuaeroQ	3
WING by Digital Wallonia	2
Connect Ventures	1
Index Ventures	1
Christiaan Thoma	1
Lorenz Bogaert	1
Kima Ventures	1
Ark Angels Activator Fund	1
KBC Focus Fund	1
iMinds	1
Isomer Capital	1
Niklas Zennström	1
Newion	1
Meusinvest (Noshaq)	1
Jan Verbeke	1
Toon Coppens	1
LeanSquare	1
Dr. Cornelius Boersch	1
Join Capital	1

A for-profit PLC founded to meet local authority needs.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

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.
GlasDraad — GlasDraad develops broadband infrastructures by means of the construction of modern fibre optic networks.
PanTera — PanTera wants to bring a new hope to cancer patients by enabling the widespread use of radiopharmaceuticals for personalised treatment of tumors

QuaeroQ is a privately-held investment fund that invests in and supports small and midsize companies in Europe with a long-term approach as an involved minority shareholder with a co-owner mindset and in close relationship with their management. It was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Waregem, Belgium.

Investment focus

GovTech, CivicTech, Communities
Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Hoplr — Hoplr activates the social capital in your neighbourhood such as material, knowledge, time and infrastructure. Hoplr is a digital participation platform for inclusion, citizen participation and neighbourhood care.

W.IN.G by Digital Wallonia invests in SAAS, advanced tech and deep tech startups (AI, drones, medtech, IOT,...). W.IN.G brings smart money by helping startups by bi-weekly interactions and providing an operating teams (seasonal entrepreneurs being hands-on with the portfolio).

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

IONNYK — IONNYK is a new medium of art photography, containing millions of tiny ink capsules.
MYOCENE — Myocene is a Liège-based sports technology company which creates unique and innovative devices for measuring muscle fatigue and performance.
Soil Capital Belgium — Discover Europe's first certified, multi-national carbon farming programme that rewards regenerative agriculture.

We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
Tuza — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Valdera — Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry.
Tebi — Tebi is a software company that develops integrated management software apps and tools for hospitality and retail businesses.
Thread AI — Thread AI makes infrastructure simple for enterprises and can drive adoption and innovation in AI.

Christiaan Thoma

Investment focus

Recruiting, Social Media, Staffing Agency
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

sympl — Sympl startup integrates chatbots and video to connect job seekers and companies.

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).

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.
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.
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.

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
Freqens — We transform B2B negotiations with our advanced intelligence platform, empowering finance teams and buyers to lead confidently. Centralize your suppliers, leverage real-time market data to benchmark your terms, and gain a strategic edge in every deal. Secure optimal buying conditions while building and maintaining trusted supplier relationships.
Storio Energy — Storio Energy is an AI-powered energy efficiency technology platform that provides renewable energy.

Ark Angels Activator Fund SA is a closed venture capital fund (closed-end private equity investment fund) with a capital of 14.8 M EUR. The Fund is recognized as ARKIV and has obtained the status of Private Privak under Belgian law. The Fund is managed by a management company set up by BAN Vlaanderen VZW, ING Belgium & the two fund managers.The Fund initially acted primarily as a co-investor in investments made by business angels who are members of BAN Vlaanderen, but then also co-invested with other capital providers. It focuses not only on investments in young growth companies, but also on companies in the growth or transfer phase with an operating office in Flanders,

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Apicbase — Apicbase is a F&B management platform that gives you total visibility of your back of house so you can grow without compromise.
waylay — Waylay is a leading Enterprise IT-OT digital unification software company delivering low-code based orchestration, automation and analytics software solutions. Waylay has a passion for supporting enterprises on their IoT automation journey and ensuring it puts all valuable data to work for developers, data scientists and domain experts.
Accelleran — Accelleran is pioneering a disruptive approach to the delivery of cost-effective, carrier and mission-critical grade TDD and FDD Small Cell networks through its focus on software quality and partnerships with volume manufacturers.Accelleran provides LTE Small Cell software and LTE Small Cell product solutions which address the real-worldchallenges of volume deployment of Small Cells. We offer turnkey solutions and unique experience on the challenges of integrating cellular technology on low cost, yet powerful platforms and architectures. Accelleran offers its customers solid and dependable system solutions, backed by the support of our unparalleled expertise.Accelleran’s technology is genuinely independent from any HW platform and enables operators to invest once in the integration and validation of a common software base that can be deployed across different segments, platforms and Small Cell architectural approaches to enable a truly integrated HetNet.

The KBC Focus Fund is a € 50 million venture capital fund that leverages the network of KBC in our investments. As we are an evergreen fund, we always strive for an exit when market conditions are favourable.

Investment focus

Electronics, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Aito — We are developers of patented and award-winning Piezo Sensing and Haptics technology who are on a mission to offer unparalleled user experience by bringing surfaces to life with tactile feedback to help consumer electronics brands create new and innovative products, offering differentiation in a crowded marketplace.
BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
Pharrowtech — Pharrowtech designs next-generation solutions for fixed-wireless access, wireless VR/AR and ultra-high capacity wireless links. It builds on more than 12 years of top-notch R&D performed at imec, the Belgian R&D powerhouse. Leveraging deep technical expertise in algorithm, chip and antenna design for millimeter-wave systems, it createsproducts with best-in-class performance, power and cost features.

Minds is Flanders' digital research center and business incubator, established by the Flemish government in 2004. Building on the strength of our 850+ top researchers located at 5 Flemish universities, we introduce digital innovation in 6 key markets (ICT, Media, Health, Energy, Smart Cities and Manufacturing). We collaborate with researchpartners to convert digital knowhow into real-life products and services that change people's lives for the better. Key asset is our agile, open research mind set and proven methodology.As a business incubator, iMinds also guides researchers, young entrepreneurs and start-ups in the successful market introduction of their ideas.

Investment focus

Mobile, Sports, Tourism
Seed, Funding Round
Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Seaters A.I. - Unrivalled Brand Relation Management — Smart technology for sustainable brand relationships. A people-centric approach for customer activation and guest management.
TagTagCity — TagTagCity is an open platform allowing cities & location owners to go SOLOMO (Social-Local-Mobile) by creating in 5 minutes with no IT skills a mobile website. TagTagCity technologies agregate web based information to generate point of interest and transform them into customers.TagTagCity is a search engine that geolocalises cultural,touristic or interactive content. This content can be bookmarked from the web, your mobile or even the real world thanks to intelligent stickers (tags with QR & NFC).

Isomer's entrepreneurial approach accesses high-potential opportunities through limited partner investments in funds, company co-investments, and providing liquidity to firms and founders via secondary purchases.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Cowboy — Meet Cowboy, the connected electric bike for urban riders. With an intuitive motor to sense your pedaling force and a companion app in the cockpit to guide your ride, tune into a newfound freedom in the city.
Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
Entrepreneur First — We are the best place for the world's most ambitious talent to come together and build game-changing technology startups from scratch.

Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

Newion is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in B2B software companies. Its mission is to support entrepreneurs in building software companies into category leaders that create sustainable impact, and in doing so generate excellent returns to its investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
airfocus — airfocus is the first modular product management software: Manage and communicate your product strategy, prioritize your roadmap, and solve the right problems.
Neople — Every employee deserves an assistant. Meet the Neople, and increase your productivity simply by starting a conversation with them. Trained on your documents, available in your pocket.

Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Belgium, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Veoware — More coverage, shorter revisit time. Increasing target collection frequency through modular next-gen actuator technology.
Get Your Way — Discover the future of assisted reality with Get Your Way's aRdent smart glasses. Perfect for SMEs looking for innovative solutions to improve their business
Brenus Pharma — Brenus Pharma is an allogeneic platform to generate immune therapy ambitioning to harness patient immune system & prevent cancer resistance over treatment.

Jan Verbeke

Investment focus

Software, Government, Recruiting
Seed
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

sympl — Sympl startup integrates chatbots and video to connect job seekers and companies.
CitizenLab — CitizenLab is an online community engagement platform for local governments. Engage more people, manage input easily and drive better decisions. Discover it now!

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)

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.

New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator

Investment focus

Software, Music, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Belgium, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

e-peas — Ready to make your device energy autonomous with our state-of-art energy harvesting solutions? Phone: (+32) 10 77 12 30, sales@e-peas.com
LinkByCar — LinkByCar specializes in leveraging artificial intelligence and sensor data from connected vehicles to predict mechanical issues accurately. The company aggregates data across various automotive manufacturers, offering comprehensive solutions as a neutral third party. This approach enables the anticipation of vehicle maintenance needs, enhancingthe driving experience by ensuring reliability and safety. LinkByCar's technology focuses on the personalization of driving experiences and supports the evolving landscape of mobility, including connected vehicles, autonomous driving, and carpooling. The company serves as a bridge between automotive data and actionable insights, catering to the needs of vehicle owners and manufacturers alike.
Bridge.audio — Bridge is for everyone working with music and audio. We provide private workspaces to manage, share, and connect better

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

JOIN Capital is an early stage VC focused on pre-Series A investments in Industry 4.0 and enterprise tech. Our portfolio companies are front and center at factories, delivering smart machinery and robotics for high-volume manufacturing. They’re behind the scenes with powerful algorithms for managing global production systems. They rethink andrewire essential processes, with the goal of maximizing human capabilities. We invest in technologies related to core business functions: operations, manufacturing, data analytics, supply chain and software development. We seek innovative solutions to real customer problems that have achieved product-market fit. Technologies we invest in include: machine learning, robotics, cloud computing, IoT, smart sensors.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

SEMRON — open jobs at SEMRON / career
Quantum Optics Jena — BEYOND CLASSICAL SOLUTIONS We are a team of passionate engineers, physicists, computer scientists and business developers and we believe that quantum technology allows us to achieve more: More confidence in data security via quantum communication More insights into matter and
Generative Engineering — Generative Engineering is a deep-tech startup with a unique platform that generates, tests, and simulates thousands of different engineering designs, all within a fraction of the time these processes take today. This parallel engineering will radically decrease product development time, enabling innovative designs for all real-world products.