# Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Belgium in June 2026

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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).

## Louis Jonckheere
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Louis Jonckheere is the Co-Founder and Board member at In The Pocket. Louis Jonckheere attended Vlerick Business School.

## Toon Coppens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Sales Automation

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)

## Gilles Mattelin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, CRM

Gilles Mattelin is Co-CEO / Founder at Henchman AI. Attended at Vlerick Business School

## Matthias Geeroms
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Web Development

Matthias Geeroms is based out of Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, and is the Co-Founder and Head of Corporate Development of Lighthouse. Matthias Geeroms attended Ghent University.

## Jorn Vanysacker
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, CRM

Jorn Vanysacker - Co-CEO & Founder @ Henchman

## Jonas Dhaenens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Finance

Jonas Dhaenens

## Willem Delbare
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, CRM

Willem Delbare is the Co-founder at Officient. He attended Ghent University.

## Pieterjan Bouten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Pieterjan Bouten is the Co-Founder - Chairman of the board at In The Pocket. Pieterjan Bouten attended KU Leuven.

## Jeroen De Wit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care

Jeroen De Wit is CEO and co-founder of Teamleader, a Belgian scale-up that offers an all-in-one software solution for Customer Relationship Management (CRM), invoicing and project management to SMEs. The main idea? Helping SMEs and young startups work smarter, and focus on what matters. Jeroen is a passionate entrepreneur, driven by an iron willand the desire to really help other businesses.

## Boris Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

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.

## Luc De Vos
- Type: Angel
- Location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Analytics, Consulting, B2B

Luc De Vos is the non-executive director at Hybrid Software Group PLC. Luc De Vos attended KU Leuven.

## Anthony De Clerck
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, CRM

Anthony De Clerck is a individual investor.

## Roeland Delrue
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Web Development

Roeland Delrue - Cofounder: CRO & COO @ Aikido Security

## Michel Akkermans
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Michel Akkermans is the Chairman and CEO of Pamica NV. Attended University of Leuven.

## Marc Coppens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, CRM, PaaS

Marc Coppens - Director Belgium @ The Yuki Company

## Joris Van Der Gucht
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Joris Van Der Gucht - Co-founder @ Silverfin

## Wim Vernaeve
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, CRM, Apps

Wim is a founding partner of Green Park Investment Partners, a private equity investor in the BeNeLux. He also personally invests in early stage startups. Previously he was co-founder of Bragster.com, a social network for daredevils that was sold to Guinness World Records. Before that, he worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley in London.Wim received a MSc. in Aerospace Engineering.

## Wim Vanhaelemeesch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Customer Service

Wim Vanhaelemeesch

## Anthony Brenninkmeijer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, EdTech, Software

Anthony Brenninkmeijer Strategy - Start-ups - Scale-ups - Angel Investor.

## Luc Vauterin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Life Science, Data Integration, Data Visualization

Luc Vauterin - Board Member @ ONTOFORCE

## Jonas Deprez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software

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.

## Stefan Grosjean
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bruges, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Energy, Internet, Software

Stefan Grosjean is a Founder & CEO at Smappee.

## Jan Verbeke
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Government, Recruiting

Jan Verbeke

## Alex Brabers
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Real Estate

Alex Brabers (1965) joined Gimv in 1990, after working for Dexia Bank.He is a board member of various listed and non-listed companies, including Telenet, Inside Secure, Nomadesk, OTN Systems and Oree. Before he was on the board of Mobistar, Emme, Barco, Barconet, Option and Telos.Alex Brabers holds a Masters degree in Economics from KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven (Belgium).

## Wim Derkinderen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Wim Derkinderen is the Founder, Director, and Board member of FixForm.

## Bart Swanson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

Bart helps companies scale globally and has been active in the technology sector for more than fifteen years as an entrepreneur, mentor, and executive.  Previously he was the Chairman of Summly (sold to Yahoo), COO at Badoo, an MD International at GSI Commerce (sold to eBay), a GM at Amazon.com (helping lead the international expansion from1998-2001), and was an MD at EMI Music Europe. Bart received an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, was a Fellow at the Lauder Institute, and has a BA in History from the University of Southern California.

## Stijn Christiaens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Data Integration, Information Technology

Stijn Christiaens is based out of Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest and is the Founder and Chief Data Citizen of Collibra. Stijn previously worked at Vrije Universiteit Brussel as a Researcher. Stijn Christiaens attended the KU Leuven. Stijn Christiaens has been certified in Data Monetization Strategy: Creating Value Through Data.

## Piet Van Waes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Hotel, Medical, Tourism

Piet Van Waes is the Managing Director and Founder of Tilleghem. He previously worked at Green Park Investment Partners as a Partner. Piet Van Waes attended KU Leuven.

## Jonathan Cornelissen
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning

Jonathan Cornelissen is an entrepreneur from Leuven, Belgium who focuses his work on education and data science. He holds an undergraduate degree in commercial engineering and a Ph.D. in financial econometrics. Both degrees were obtained from the Catholic University of Leuven.
During his Ph.D. program, the data scientist created a non-profitorganization that matches tutors with students in a manner that prioritizes fit and affordability. The program is still used to this day and has connected over 1,000 student/tutor pairs since its inception.The entrepreneur is also known for his work as a co-founder and CEO of DataCamp, a company created to increase data science education and data literacy. The inspiration for the company came from the entrepreneur’s time as a teaching assistant when he was looking for a fun and engaging platform to help students struggling to learn the programing language R. Since no such platform existed, he decided to create his own.
During his time as CEO, the data scientist oversaw company growth that reached over $30 million in annual revenue. During his tenure, the company workforce also at least doubled for five years straight while maintaining employee satisfaction in the top 10-15 percentile. To date, the company has served over 4 million learners.
Jonathan Cornelissen also works as an angel investor with a focus on education. He has contributed funds to numerous startups, including Clever Girl Finance, Kyso.io, perch.fit, and FlyThere.

## Michiel Bearelle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Cyber Security, Legal, Security

Michiel Bearelle is the Co-Founder of Vendorvue. He previously worked at Officient as a Co-Founder. Michiel Bearelle attended the University College Arteveldehogeschool.

## Bernard Hazard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Enterprise Software

Bernard Hazard is the Growth Investor at Mubadala Ventures.

## Michaël Blockx
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketing Automation, Apps, SaaS

Michaël Blockx

## Christophe Morbee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Knokke-heist, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: CRM, Software, Cloud Security

Christophe Morbee is the current CEO of Besox. He previously worked at Sociaal Secretariaat van de Kust as a Business Development Manager. Christophe Morbee attended Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Flemish Autonomous Hogeschool.

## Michiel Denis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Legal, Fashion

Marketing at Aikido Security | Freelance Product Marketer & Growth Manager

## Wim Imans
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software

Wim Imans is the Owner - Director at M&E Consult.

## Eije Wiersema
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software

Eije Wiersema is the Consultant at Keyrus.

## Pieter Casneuf
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SEO, SaaS

Pieter Casneuf

## Olivier Coune
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Outdoors, Software, Lifestyle

Olivier Coune

## Mark Bivens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Mark Bivens is the Founder and Managing Director of Tachi.ai Ventures and shuttles between Paris and Tokyo. Current board seats and active investments include: Amplified.ai, Azarus, CoolGames, Curvegrid, Enterra, enTouch, QuantCube, Supervaisor, the AfricaTri Foundation, among others.Past exits include: Birdview (acq. by Constellation Software),CCI Publishers, Capsule (acq. by JMI Equity), Cerent (acq. by Cisco), Cybernetix (acq. by Technip), Domain Appraisal Tech, GoCater (acq. by EZCater), Kang (acq. by Adviqo), ITMasters (acq. by BMC Software), Keyyo (IPO), MakeLeaps (acq. by Ricoh), Momac (acq. by Sandvine), PeopleCube (acq. by Asure Software), Peer Digital (acq. by V-Span), and Vision/IQ (acq. by MG International).Prior to becoming a VC, Bivens founded 3 tech companies including one successful exit. He is the author of "Japan: Bitcoin #1," a book on Japan's leadership in cryptocurrency, as well as "Land of the Rising Blockchain." He holds a degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

## Kristof Dockers
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Property Management

Kristof Dockers is the Partner at Vybros Capital Partners.

## Mikaël Wornoo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software Engineering

Mikaël Wornoo - CPO @ TechWolf

## Piet Maes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software Engineering

Piet Maes is the CTO & Co-founder of Sofico. Piet Maes attended KU Leuven.

## Rodrigue Delépine
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: CRM, Sales Automation, Sales Enablement

Rodrigue Delépine

## Dieter Willems
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Property Management

Dieter Willems is the Business Consultant for Digital Automation at Umicore.

## Steve Vantorre
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Financial Services

Steve Vantorre

## Kris Moeremans
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, Web Development, Artificial Intelligence

Kris Moeremans is an angel investor.

## Nico Weymaere
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet of Things, Information Technology

Nico Weymaere

## Laurent Rouach
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Architecture

Laurent Rouach

## Jochen Boeykens
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: PaaS, Health Care, Social Media Marketing

Jochen Boeykens is the Board Member at Torus.vc. Attended Vlerick Business School.

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