# Top 20 Transportation Angel Investors in Belgium in June 2026

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

## Michel Akkermans
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

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

## Francis Nappez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Francis leads the technical and product evolution of BlaBlaCar and has been instrumental in building the platform since 2006, allowing it to grow from hosting a few thousand members to millions today. He knows how to turn ambitious ideas into reality, and believes in building robust solutions which can adapt to fast growth and stay relevant for thelong-term. Francis cares about building agile cross-functional teams across locations to deliver efficiently on ambitious objectives. Pragmatic and result-oriented, he is driven by the opportunity to create disruptive solutions which better the user experience.  Before joining BlaBlaCar, Francis led major technical developments for big names in European consumer internet which drove impactful disruptions in their respective sectors, including Free and Meetic. Francis holds a degree in Technology and Communications Research from the Joseph Fourier University. Find him @fnapz.

## Bertrand Jelensperger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Software, E-Commerce

Bertrand Jelensperger is the Co-Founder and Advisory Board at TheFork.

## Fred Potter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software

Engineer from Telecom ParisTech and holder of a PHD in Microelectronics, Fred is a passionate entrepreneur who has been reinventing objects we use in our everyday lives for over 20 years.
In 1999, he started CIRPACK, a telecommunications supplier, later bought by TECHNICOLOR; and WITHINGS, sold to NOKIA, before creating NETATMO in 2011.
His vision:a company where every employee knows how the business and projects grow and where daily life is driven by a strong sense of innovation, empowerment, hard work and sharing.

## Harold Mechelynck
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, SaaS

Harold Mechelynck is Founder at Ogone.

## Stefan Tournoy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation

Stefan Tournoy, Veepee.

## Wim Vernaeve
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: 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.

## Stéphane Ronse
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Service Industry, Food and Beverage, Supply Chain Management

Stéphane Ronse is the Founder of FOODBAG. He previously worked at West Flanders business centers as a Regional responsible for Kortrijk. Stéphane Ronse attended Ghent University.

## Xavier Dewulf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation

Xavier Dewulf, G&V Energy Group.

## Jose Marin
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil).  IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

## Steven Buyse
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Cycling, Marketing, Advertising

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.

## Clement Benoit
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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).

## Oscar Salazar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Oscar Salazar is one of the most influential figures in the modern tech industry. Salazar is the Founding-CTO and Architect of Uber. He was responsible for the creation of the initial prototypes for Uber’s customer app, driver app and dispatch engine.Salazar is also the founder of Citivox, Pager and RIDE. Citivox is an international companydesigned to enable NGOs and individuals to report and monitor electoral fraud, crime and infrastructure problems. Pager is an Uber like concept designed to connect patients with high quality health care providers. RIDE is an application that enables co-workers to carpool to work.Salazar graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Universidad de Colima in Mexico. He later earned a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Calgary in Canada and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications.

## Romain Afflelou
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Software

Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security andmobility.Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people's lives.Serial investor in +50Tech companies6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts)
Cityscoot
Clay Inc VR
Cowboy Bike
Epicery
Everoad (Ex Convargo)
Fithouse
Fré Skincare
Fokoya
Guillotine Vodka
Klassroom
Laminate Technologies
MeetFabric
Molotov TV
Multiwave Technologies
Nestor
Octopus
Officeriders
Onoff telecom
Pledg
Quiqup
Universal Standard
Shapr
Spendesk
Zipdrug...(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy)

## Loic Bar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Liège, Liege, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Battery, Electric Vehicle, Charging Infrastructure

Loïc Bar is the CEO of Opinum, a company dedicated to give sense to building data. He studied computer sciences at Haute Ecole of Province de Liège. He is passionate about technologies and the way it can be leveraged to improve mankind living. Directly after finishing school, Loïc took the entrepreneurship path and created its first company. Heworked for well-known companies like McKinsey & Company, L’Oréal, Coca-Cola, etc. across multiple geographies including New York, Los Angeles, London, Kathmandu, Barcelona and Paris. 4 years ago, he created The Smart Company which is now Opinum. Loïc is invited member of the “Fondation pour les Générations Futures” Think Thank, a non-profit organization mapping the transition to a more sustainable world. He is author of multiple technical books published by the French editor Micro Application.

## Zhong Xu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Food Delivery, E-Commerce, B2B

Entrepreneur specialized in web, mobile, saas and cloud productsMy life's moto: don't settle, stay hungry, stay foolishThe most important accomplishments in my life are:- Proud father of 2 amazing kids :)[@Deliverect]
- Co-founder & CEO, Deliverect helps restaurants to manage all their delivery and takeaway channels.Deliverect currently raised 650k euro in seed and will expand rapidly[@Lightspeed]
- Global director of hospitality & managing director Belgium, grown Lightspeed restaurant to customers > 100 countries, the team in Belgium to +60 FTE's and more then >120 FTE's worldwide. Market leader in the hospitality POS business in Europe, ranging from QSR, hotels to Michelin star restaurants[@POSIOS]
- Co-founder & CEO POSIOS, iPad & cloud based POS for the hospitality business, POSIOS was founded in 2012 and had offices in Singapore, Ghent and NY. Customers > 38 Countries, grown exponentially to +23 employees in less than 2 years.
- Acquired in september 2014 by Lightspeed and joined Lightspeed as Global director of hospitality product[@EVS]
- Created cloud solutions for big sport organisations and events at EVS (BBC, UEFA, London Olympics, Monaco, ...)
- Delivered webservices and applications to major players in the broadcast industry[@Siruna]
- Implementated and launched the low cost SaaS OSMOBI product (after 6 months 3000 customers, 1600 projects)
- Developed and launched the Siruna transcoding product that is used by large national (VRT, Belgacom, Telenet, Mobistar…) and international (Aramco, Truvo…) companies. 
- Successfully set-up and implemented mobile web projects for VRT, Telenet, Belgacom, Stad Gent, Vlaanderen, Nomadesk, The reference…[@XudoX]
- Started my first company when I was 17, web agency creating websites for Asian restaurant with more then 600 customers

## Eduardo Ronzano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.

## Mark De Smedt
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation

Mark De Smedt, Director at Plan International, Plan Belgium, SD Worx, Copus Group, SVR consult and Youth Start.

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