Top 25 Sports Startup Investors in Belgium in May 2025
A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in Belgium. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Belgium. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Sports Startup Investors in Belgium in May 2025
Investor | Sports Belgium investments |
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Meusinvest (Noshaq) | 5 |
Pierre Rigaux | 4 |
LeanSquare | 3 |
WING by Digital Wallonia | 2 |
Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij | 1 |
PMV | 1 |
Eldridge Industries | 1 |
Sambrinvest | 1 |
Stefan Tournoy | 1 |
Xavier Dewulf | 1 |
Be Angels | 1 |
Pleiade Venture | 1 |
Olivier Coune | 1 |
Lean FUND | 1 |
Freshmen Fund | 1 |
Mark De Smedt | 1 |
Kima Ventures | 1 |
Tom Boonen | 1 |
Jan Vertonghen | 1 |
The Faktory Fund | 1 |
Bob Verbeeck | 1 |
Coolidge Corner Investment | 1 |
Steven Buyse | 1 |
Gemma Frisius Fund | 1 |
Elysian Park Ventures | 1 |
Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- TrustUp — TrustUp is the home contractors platform, connects homeowners with verified quality home improvement.
- Veoware — More coverage, shorter revisit time. Increasing target collection frequency through modular next-gen actuator technology.
- Le Fourgon — Le Fourgon provides contained drinks for home delivery. They offer milk, water, beer, wine, fruit juice, and sodas. They allow customers to have their drinks delivered free of charge during the day.
Pierre Rigaux
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Investment focus
- Sports, Medical Device
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- MYOCENE — Myocene is a Liège-based sports technology company which creates unique and innovative devices for measuring muscle fatigue and performance.
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Investment focus
- Software, Music, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Belgium, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- e-peas — Discover e-peas, pioneer of the Ambient IoT concept since 2014, which offers the most efficient solutions on the market to make your devices more energy self-sufficient: AEMs.
- 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.
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).
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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.
Oxygen for growth - LRM
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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!
- 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.
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
- Nobi — Fall detection for the elderly at your home or in a residential care center with the smart Nobi lamp. Nobi ensures that you can be helped quickly.
- Apideck — Integrate and monitor APIs at warp speed. Apideck is the fastest way for developers to build integrations. Connect new APIs in minutes instead of days.
- Swave Photonics — Swave develops Spatial Computing, Holography, holographic chips, and holograms in the HXR chip to create 3D augmented and virtual reality and HUD Heads Up Displays
Eldridge is an asset management and insurance holding company with approximately $72 billion in assets under management.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Qloo — Qloo is the cultural AI. Qloo has developed cutting-edge machine learning processes and AI algorithms to predict taste for any target audience and map relationships within and between cultural domains, including: Music, Film, TV, Dining, Nightlife, Fashion, Books, Travel and Tech.Qloo has mapped more than a quarter-trillion culturalcorrelations, and makes this intelligence readily available to individuals, developers, and leading brands. Qloo's cultural AI is currently powering personalization and informing key decisions for market leaders in tech, financial services, entertainment, automotive, fashion, CPG and hospitality. Qloo is headquartered and lovingly built in NYC.
- Fixated — Fixated is raising the bar and setting the standard for the digital entertainment industry.
- CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.
Sambrinvest is an active venture capital player in the region of Charleroi - Thuin.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Belgium, France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- AdipoPharma — By harnessing the power of the Adipocyte AdipoPharma is committed to developing innovative treatment for type 2 diabetes
- AbolerIS Pharma — AbolerIS Pharma aims to develop novel and unique therapeutic approaches to induce immune tolerance.
- ATB Therapeutics — ATB Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that provides novel therapeutic solutions and treatments for cancer patients.
Stefan Tournoy, Veepee.
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Investment focus
- Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
Xavier Dewulf, G&V Energy Group.
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Investment focus
- Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
Early stage Entrepreneurs Coaching and FinancingOne of Europe's leading Business Angels Networks. We connect innovative growth companies to equity finance and coaching by experienced angel investors.
The network is 250 members strong and has been assisting innovative entrepreneurs to find financing for more than 10 millions Euros in thelast 4 years.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium, France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Savics — Savics offers digital solutions for health actors to improve their data management, disease diagnostics and GeneXpert connectivity.
- DeftHedge — DeftHedge is an application addressed to business leaders, and CFOs facing volatility of foreign exchange market.
- NIUM — NIUM is a startup focused on personalized nutrition and gut microbiome research. NIUM created science-based solutions to transform nutrition research and product development.
Pleiade Venture is a French Ventrue Capital Company. It supports innovative companies from all sectors, except biotech.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Belgium, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- RIVRS — RIVRS creates high quality UGC games on all trending sandbox platforms.
- Sensefuel — Sensefuel is a software publisher dedicated to the retail industry and in particular e-commerce. Its innovative e-commerce search engine is based on algorithms specifically designed for online sales. It helps e-merchants of all sizes to give their visitors a new search experience through personalized results.
- Climbing District — Climbing District is a social club and coworking space between batignolles, canal saint-martin, buttes-chaumont, and saint-lazare where beginners or experienced climbers practise climbing in bouldering rooms.
Olivier Coune
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Investment focus
- Outdoors, Software, Lifestyle
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Fishtripr — Fishtripr is on a mission to bring more people to the outdoors, fostering a deeper connection with nature. We want to change the story of recreational fishing through purveying the market's essential storytellers, brands, destinations, and resources, displayed in a way that magnifies the beauty of this extraordinary lifestyle and modernise itsperception. With Fishtripr, now you can easily discover the best fishing experiences worldwide. From private fisheries to guides and lodges, we're the most comprehensive guide to travel fishing in Europe. Connect local fishing guides with anglers online is an entirely new way to experience recreational fishing and Fishtripr is at the forefront of the movement.
- Big Bad Wolf — Big Bad Wolf is a brand-tech agency employing 30 digital experts. We help innovative businesses shape the future of their brand experience through digital transformation of their services, products and communication. We see Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Natural Interfaces as new opportunities to redesignand improve business-to-consumers interactions.We believe in a future where customer to brands relationships are redefined by the value they will create for each other through a meaningful use of technology.With more than 10 years of cutting-edge audiovisual know-how and emerging media expertise, we leverage on 3D digital content and spatial computing to help organizations release their full potential.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Apps, Software
- Seed, Series B
- Belgium, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Neveo — With one click, send photos and messages on a family newspaper that your senior will receive every month.
- Supersec — Good to eat, good to think: discover the Supersec organic, healthy, artisanal and sustainable food treats available in bulk delivery!
- Sortlist — Discover the most relevant agencies for your project based on your own specific requirements.
Fueling B2C ventures in Urban Mobility, Consumer AI, and Progressive Niche Brands. With a distinct network of advisors & investors, and over 30 years of experience in brand-building, go-to-market and growth hacking, we support exceptional entrepreneurial teams with smart capital.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Apps, Sports
- Seed, Series A
- Belgium, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Levenue — Levenue is a platform that helps recurring revenue businesses to get funded without dilution of shares
- Cake App — Cake App mission is to become the leading software technology provider that analyzes financial data to help people better understand, control and improve their finances, supported by a business model that shares our revenue with users.
- Runeasi — The first scientifically validated wearable solution to measure impact while running and detect how your body responds to it - Perform real-time biomechanical assessments - Guide your athletes and patients with actionable insights to help them run more efficiently and recover from injuries with confidence
Mark De Smedt, Director at Plan International, Plan Belgium, SD Worx, Copus Group, SVR consult and Youth Start.
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Investment focus
- Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kalent — Search. Match. Engage. At scale. From your ATS to our 500M+ profiles — Kalent is your AI recruiter.
- Plakar — Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io.
- Alta Ares — Alta Ares is a data integration surveillance service provider that utilizes drone imaging.
Tom Boonen is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Cycling, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
- Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Classified Cycling — Classified Cycling
Jan Vertonghen
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Investment focus
- Sports, Outdoors, Information Technology
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
The Faktory is a hub for business ideas based on any disruptive technology with a high potential in international niche markets: ICT, Health, Environment, Media, Broadcast and more.
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Belgium, France, United States
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- IVEX — IVEX offers Repeatable and Scalable Testing & Validation Data Analytics solutions for ADAS/AD Vehicles.
- xyzt.ai — The big data platform to easily visualize and analyze any spatio-temporal data. Scaling to billions of records.
- 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.
Bob Verbeeck, Founder & CEO at Golazo.
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Investment focus
- Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Belgium
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- Nexusbe — Nexusbe is a manufacturer of atomic layer equipment technology intended to provide vacuum deposition equipment.
- Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
- Nature Loud — Nature Loud is an online store that supplies health and wellness products.
Partner, joined CVC in 2001. Steven is a member of the CVC Belgium team and is based in Brussels.
Prior to joining CVC, he spent five years at ING Investment Banking and four years as CFO of Corialis.
Steven holds a commercial engineering degree from KU Leuven and an MBA from Vlerick School for Management, Belgium.
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Investment focus
- Cycling, Marketing, Advertising
- Seed, Private Equity
- Belgium, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
- Aleph Holding — A leading global enabler of digital advertising in emerging countries
Gemma Frisius Fund KU Leuven is a seed capital fund that aims to stimulate the creation and growth of university related spin-off companies.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- Belgium, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- DName-iT — DName-iT is a genetic analysis tool that offers DNA-based barcode labeling technology and a software platform that can ensure reliable, cost-effective NGS specimen identification.
- Protealis — Sustainable plant proteins for Europe
- Augustine Therapeutics — Augustine Therapeutics is developing selective, safe and efficacious HDAC6 inhibitors designed for treatment of neuromuscular, neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic diseases. Discover our pipeline poised for clinical impact.
We invest where sports intersect with life.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- FCTRY LAb — FCTRY LAb is a Sneaker Laboratory, revolutionizing footwear with cutting-edge design. As a Boots Laboratory, we craft innovation for every step. Explore fctrylab.com!
- Ida Sports — Women play sports, so we make shoes and cleats for women. Yes, we make soccer cleats and shoes that actually fit women's feet. Forget tape & straps, you will never look back. Flat Rate Shipping for the US and the UK. Find comfort in soccer cleats and shoes made for your feet. What are you waiting for?
- Guidesly — Find the best fishing charters & fishing guides. Search and book from THOUSANDS of top fishing charters across the United States. Explore trips today
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