# Top 50 Angel Investors in Belgium in May 2026

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Lorenz Bogaert is the Founder and Director of FixForm.

## Toon Coppens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Sales Automation, Artificial Intelligence

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)

## Luc De Vos
- Type: Angel
- Location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## Annie Vereecken
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Hospital

Annie Vereecken

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Thibaud Elzière is the Founder at Efounders.

## Jonas Dhaenens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Jonas Dhaenens - Group CEO @ team.blue Denmark

## Mike Vandenhooft
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Marketing, Advertising

Mike Vandenhooft - CMO and Co-Founder @ Newpharma

## Pieterjan Bouten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Software

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

## Louis Jonckheere
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Software

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

## Pierre Rigaux
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ougrée, Liege, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Sports, Medical Device

Pierre Rigaux

## Pieter Casneuf
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SEO, SaaS

Pieter Casneuf

## 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.

## Willem Delbare
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, CRM

Willem Delbare is the Founder at Teamleader.

## Stefan Grosjean
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bruges, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Energy, Internet, Software

Stefan Grosjean is a Founder & CEO at Smappee.

## Eduardo Ronzano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.

## Jonathan Cornelissen
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Pierre Drion
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Life Science, Software

Pierre Drion - CEO @ Petercam

## Jochen Boeykens
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: PaaS, Health Care, Social Media Marketing

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

## Olivier Coune
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Outdoors, Software, Lifestyle

Olivier Coune

## Boris Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Enterprise Software

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.

## François Van Uffelen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Internet

François Van Uffelen - Founder and Managing Director @ Babelway

## Jean Vliegen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, B2B

Jean-Marie Vliegen.

## Jacques-Martin Philippson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Education, Financial Services

Jacques-Martin Philippson

## Stéphane Ronse
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Wim Vanhaelemeesch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- 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, Software, Machine Learning

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

## Nicolas Van Eenaeme
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Internet, Classifieds

Nicolas Van Eenaeme - Co-Founder @ Realo

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

Jan Verbeke

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

Luc Vauterin - Board Member @ ONTOFORCE

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

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

## Wim Vernaeve
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## 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.

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

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.

## 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.

## 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.

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

Michaël Blockx

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

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

## alfred bouckaert
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Education, Financial Services

alfred bouckaert

## Jean Dessain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

Jean Dessain - Non Executive Director @ OneLIFE

## Bernard De Cannière
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Government, Crowdsourcing

Bernard De Cannière - CEO @ Audaxis

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

Steve Vantorre

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

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.

## Brice Le Blevennec
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Personal Finance

Brice Le Blevennec is the Co-Founder and CVO at Emakina. He is a former Co-Founder at Tunz. He attended Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts visuels de 'La Cambre'.Mr Brice Le Blévennec has been a director of Emakina since 2001. In 1991 he founded Ex Machina, a company working in communication and new technologies. Then in 1998, Mr LeBlévennec created the business Ex Machina Ineractive Architects (a web agency), which would join with Emalaya in 2001, and Ex Machina Graphic Design (studio graphics). In 1999, he co-founded NetBusiness SA (now ContactOffice Group SA), which develops ContactOffice.com groupware. For twelve years, Mr Le Blévennec created and hosted radio and television programmes, including CyberCafe21 (Radio21), CyberCafe 2.0 (RTBF La Deux), NetBusinessNews (BfM), Single and Elle et Lui (both Pure FM). In 2007 he co-founded TUNZ.COM, a company specialising in mobile payments. A specialist in new technologies, he is regularly invited to speak at seminars, meetings and conferences in Belgium and abroad. At the beginning of January 2014, he was appointed joint CEO at Emakina Group with Mr Karim Chouikri, replacing Mr Denis Steisel, who became chairman of the board of directors.

## Itai Tsiddon
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps

Itai co-founded Lightricks, an Israeli unicorn with over $200m of revenues in 2021 which has raised over $200m, more than half of which in liquidity, over the past decade.Itai has led deals (issued lead TS) and/or served on boards in >$15b of cumulative enterprise value companies with over $1b of cumulative revenue. Among those areFrame.io (C/D lead, board until sold to Adobe for 1.3b in 2021); Forter (led series E in 2020 at $1.25b prior to a $3b round in 2021); Gcash ($2b round in 2021) and several earlier stage companies such as Commandbar ($19m Series A) and others. He lives in NYC, invests internationally as an agile solo GP in a highly concentrated manner, and usually writes checks of $1-30m

## Niklas Zennström
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Apps, Software

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.

## Kevin De Pauw
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Human Resources, Predictive Analytics

Kevin De Pauw

## Thomas S. Olinger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Alamo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Lending, Financial Services

Thomas S. Olinger is a Board Member of Equinix.From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Olinger served as AMB’s chief financial officer. Prior to joining AMB in 2007, he served as vice president, corporate controller at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for global accounting, external reporting, technical accounting, global revenue recognition,Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and finance merger and acquisition integration. Mr. Olinger was also responsible for Oracle’s controllership operations in Bangalore, India; Dublin, Ireland; Sydney, Australia; and Rocklin, California. Prior to this, Mr. Olinger spent 14 years at Arthur Andersen, the last three as an audit partner in its U.S. real estate and technology groups.

## Robin Wauters
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Events, Marketing, Ticketing

Robin Wauters is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Tech.eu since October 2013. Robin is a seasoned European technology journalist and founding editor of Tech.eu, a new digital publication dedicated to covering the EU tech industry in depth. Robin was formerly the European Editor of The Next Web and before that a Senior Editor at TechCrunch(acquired by AOL in 2010) and Managing Editor of Virtualization.com. Robin started his career working as Internet Marketing Manager for IT company Hostbasket (acquired by Telenet) and later as Online Media Manager for Belgian ICT publisher Datanews / VNUnet (acquired by Roularta). Robin went on to co-found social media agency Talking Heads in 2009 (the company became part of Web development agency Netlash in 2010). Robin occasionally serves as a startup Advisory Board Member - more specifically, he is currently a minor Shareholder / Advisor to Belgian startups such as Checkthis (Frontback), Maily, Showpad, Argus Labs and ARTPLUS.

## Edgard Vermeersch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: CRM, Energy, Software

Edgard Vermeersch - Owner @ Itineris

## Andreas Spechtler
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: B2B, Music, Artificial Intelligence

Andreas Spechtler

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