Top 20 Social Media Startup Investors in Belgium

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

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kwarts — Empower your commercial and medical teams to better respond to customer needs. A-Inside brings actionable insights into your CRM and marketing automation tools.
Summ.link — Summ.link works to transform enterprises by enhancing the employee experience through strategy and strong insights based on trustworthy data, which leads to improvements in digital processes. By putting a strong emphasis on data intelligence and people analytics, it seeks to provide everyone in the organization with actionable information.Application development, big data, AI, cloud solutions, and other services are among their offerings.
Itsme — Veilig laten weten wie je bent, makkelijk inloggen, transacties bevestigen en documenten ondertekenen. Allemaal met 1 app.

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.
Verbolia — Grow your organic traffic and increase conversion rates with our specialised SEO and Paid acquisition technology solutions.

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.

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

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.
Hepster — hepster, die Onlineversicherung, flexibel, sicher und immer 100% digital.

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, Sales Automation, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bizzy — All up-to-date information you need for the most transparent & reliable view on your business world.
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.

Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Samabriva — Biotechnology company that has developed an automated, proprietary bioproduction system available to companies who want to produce high-value molecules.
Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
HEPHAISTOS-Pharma — Hephaistos Pharma is a developing weapons firm. They provide services for oncology, immunotherapy, and cancer. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.

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.

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

SESO — Seso is a labor solution for agriculture. We provide support with the entire H-2A process, including the H-2A Visa, recruiting farmworkers, H-2A compliance, and digital worker onboarding.
Vizcom — Vizcom is an Ai-powered creative tool designed for design and creative professionals. It offers a transformative approach to concept drawing, enabling users to turn their sketches into impressive realistic renderings quickly and efficiently.
Nourish — Achieve your desired health and wellness through personalized nutrition counseling. Nourish is the easiest way to find a registered dietitian and get it covered by your insurance. Find a dietitian today and start your telehealth appointments.

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.

New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator

Investment focus

Music, Software, Internet
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 is the technology-first, turnkey solution for all of your influencer marketing needs.

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

NEWTWEN — We develop software that generates real-time embedded digital twin solutions for model predictive control and diagnostics of electromechanical systems, enhancing performance, longevity, and reliability. In essence, our toolchain creates a precise digital replica of a physical device, such as an electric motor or generator, in order to accuratelymodel the electrodynamic and thermodynamic behavior of the system across a wide range of operating conditions. We then apply our proprietary mathematical approach to exponentially reduce the computational complexity of this model—so much so, in fact, that our digital twin can be integrated into the device itself to compute in real-time, “on-chip,” as part of an amazingly fast and accurate firmware solution. By accurately predicting temperatures and other critical system parameters thousands of times per second, our Digital Twin On-Chip solutions not only provide unprecedented insight for real-time control techniques to enhance system performance, but also pave the way for data-as-a-service capabilities such as predictive maintenance, monitoring of component aging, and anomaly detection.
Modelwise — Automated functional safety analysis via drag & drop. Seamless Integration. Faster Analyses. Zero Defects. More Savings.
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.

Lorenz Bogaert is the Founder and Director of FixForm. He previously worked at Netlog as a Co-Founder. Lorenz Bogaert attended the University of Namur.

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
Bizzy — All up-to-date information you need for the most transparent & reliable view on your business world.
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

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, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.
Composable Prompts — Composable Prompts helps enterprises deploy LLM technology, with governance, collaboration, orchestration, and a unique virtualization engine.

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.

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!

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

airfocus — airfocus is the first modular product management software: Manage and communicate your product strategy, prioritize your roadmap, and solve the right problems.
Salonkee — All-in-one solution for beauty & hair salons
Ellie.ai — Grasp your business needs and validate your product ideas before building your data pipelines. Use Ellie's conceptual data models and logical data models to design great data products.

Connect is the Product VC. We are a thesis-led, pan-European pre-seed and seed stage VC. We invest in opinionated products, crafted with love, and loved by many.We've been backing product-led founders since 2012. Our investments include Truelayer, Typeform, Oyster, Lifebit, Kheiron, Faks and Sprinque. Our specialisms cut across SaaS,fintech, consumer, digital health and Web3. Collectively, we’re passionate about the power of product to transform people’s lives.We started Connect to back companies that help create the world we want to live in, and it’s hard to change the world without scale. That's why we’re in the business of investing in outlier companies — those with the potential to create impact on a massive scale.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Torg — Sourcing made simple. Easily send requests to 100's of food and drink suppliers. Discover new products, suppliers and buyers. Negotiate the best prices
Fantix — Fantix is a no-code network of companies that work together to develop AI models. Fantix is a collaborative learning technique based on data abstraction to develop common, strong machine learning models without pooling user-level data, maintaining consumer privacy and business confidentiality.
Aikido Security — Easily discover and track all your security issues in one place with Aikido's all-in-one AppSec product.

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.

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).