# Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Belgium in October 2023

## PMV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Do and dare company

## Inventures SA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology

Inventures is a European venture capital fund that builds a better world through a portfolio of investments in sustainable businesses.The firm has two funds: Inventures I & Inventures II.Inventures was created to support early stage smart and innovative European businesses, to support sustainable job growth and empower entrepreneurs.Inventures empowers citizenship co-investments through a crowdfunding platform, MyMicroInvest.

## Qbic Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belgium, Wisconsin, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care

The Qbic Fund is a multi-sector fund supporting spin-off companies of the Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp university associations and of VITO. Through its strategic partnership with the universities of Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp, and VITO, the Qbic Fund has early and privileged access to promising research projects at these partner universities. Ourinvestment approach is based on early in-depth and independent review and analysis followed by hands on involvement and support.In May 2012 the Qbic Fund held its first close and currently it has over € 30 million under management. The Qbic Fund is backed by several public and private investors and managed by Qbic Venture Partners.

## The Faktory Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Liège, Liege, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

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.

## KBC Focus Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Electronics, Semiconductor, Manufacturing

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.

## WING by Digital Wallonia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Liège, Liege, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

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).

## Spreds
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Food and Beverage

We empower high-potential entrepreneurship and democratize venture capital. Discover promising start-ups & SMEs and invest alongside business angels.

## Saffelberg Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gooik, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Fashion, E-Commerce

Saffelberg Investments is an independent investment company with a 250 million EUR capital base. We focus on long term investments by taking both majority stakes and substantial minorities in fast-growing ventures through risk-bearing capital.

## LeanSquare
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Liège, Liege, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Music, Internet

New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator

## Vives Louvain Technology Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Louvain-la-neuve, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Vives is an interregional seed and early stage technology multi-sector fund. The new fund, initiated by UCLouvain, is a unique European inter-university fund having access to world class innovations from leading EU top universities.

## S.R.I.W.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Liège, Liege, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing

The S.R.I.W. Group is an institution at the heart of the financial market that assists entrepreneurs in creating and developing businesses in the Walloon region. It reflects the effort of Wallonian industry in facing the challenges of the creation of economic value in the 21st century.
Since its creation in 1979, the Société Régionaled’Investissement de Wallonie has continuously been expanding its abilities to adapt and anticipate as well as its flexibility in order to meet the requirements of its partners who are confronted with the evolution of the world economy. The principles of good governance, a strong business culture and shared values at the heart of the Group constitute important assets to capture the changing realities of the market and progress in a sustainable development perspective.

## Gimv
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Private Equity
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Gimv is a European investment company with over three decades of experience in private equity and venture capital.Gimv is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels. Gimv currently manages around 1.8 billion EUR (including third party funds) of investments in 85 portfolio companies, which jointly realise a turnover of more than EUR 6 billion and employover 28,000 professionals.As a recognized market leader in selected investment platforms, Gimv identifies entrepreneurial and innovative companies with high-growth potential and supports them in their transformation into market leaders. Gimv’s four investment platforms are: Consumer 2020, Health & Care, Smart Industries and Sustainable Cities. Each of these platforms works with a skilled and dedicated team across Gimv’s home markets of the Benelux, France and Germany and can count on an extended international network of experts.More information on Gimv can be found on [www.gimv.com].

## Terra Drone
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Drones, Robotics, Software

Terra Drone Indonesia provides drone services for various industry sector such as mining, construction, oil & gas, energy, and utilities.

## Gemma Frisius Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Gemma Frisius Fund KU Leuven is a seed capital fund that aims to stimulate the creation and growth of university related spin-off companies.

## Meusinvest (Noshaq)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Liège, Liege, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.

## Capricorn Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

Capricorn Partners is a unique independent manager of venture capital, growth capital and quoted equity funds

## Airbus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Aerospace, Information Technology

Empowering our entrepreneurs to shift the future of aerospace.

## Partech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

## Bloc Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet of Things, Financial Services

Bloc is a specialist deep tech investor. We back ambitious entrepreneurs building products across cloud, connectivity, data science and security with the potential to impact whole industries.

## European Union
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical Device

Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member countries; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.

## Innovation Industries
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Semiconductor, Health Care, Manufacturing

Innovation Industries is a Dutch venture capital fund investing in impactful deep tech, focusing on sustainability, scalability, and ESG-aligned companies.

## Bosch Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Invented for life: we want our products to spark enthusiasm, improve quality of life, and help conserve natural resources.

## Patrick Spaulding Ryan Ph.D
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps

Patrick Spaulding Ryan PhD (X-Google, X-Bytedance) is an investor and advisor in early-stage businesses. Patrick invests through PSR Crypto, PRMM USA and is on the Investment Committee at Leawood Venture Capital. Patrick is fractional general counsel and investor in Turion Space, and legal advisor and investor at Bttn. Patrick previously workedat Google for 9 years as a Trust, Engineering & Strategy Principal, and for 2 years at Bytedance as lead TPM in security engineering R&D and as co-director of the web3 research program. Patrick received a PhD in law & economics from KU Leuven (Belgium) and is a graduate of University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), the University of Texas School of Law, and the MIddlebury Institute of International Studies.

## Pleiade Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Pleiade Venture is a French Ventrue Capital Company. It supports innovative companies from all sectors, except biotech.

## Join
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B
- Focus: Drones, Software, Aerospace

JOIN is a new form of infrastructure investment fund that supports Japanese companies engaging in overseas infrastructure projects through the utilization of Japanese knowledge, technology and experience acquired over the long history of their business.

## SoFi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Biotechnology, Information Technology

SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services. The company primarily caters to early-stage professionals and offers variable and fixed rate parent, personal, and MBA loans, mortgage refinancing, and more. They create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, andprotect their money better so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

## Johan Smeyers
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Electronics, Architecture, Information Services

Johan Smeyers joined Arkite NV CEO & Founder in 2015.

## Endeit Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Advertising, Information Technology

Endeit Capital is a growth capital firm fueling internationalisation and innovation.

## Fortino Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zaventem, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

We partner with exceptional B2B Software entrepreneurs across Northwestern Europe.

## Lean FUND
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Louvain, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Apps, Software

Startups, increase your value by 3 within 9 months thanks to Power 3 by Leanfund (www.leanfund.com)!

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’slifecycle, from the seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

## Akiles
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rhode-saint-genèse, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Wellness

Akiles is a Belgian Evergreen Investment Company focussing on Growth Capital. Managed by Christophe Rousseaux, Kurt Huyghe, Laurent Puissant Baeyens and 

## H&M Foundation - Global Change Award
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fashion, CleanTech, GreenTech

Award for fashion start-ups

## TOKAI
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gifu, Gifu, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series C
- Focus: Eyewear, Medical, Robotics

TOKAI specializes in rental of dispensing pharmacies for hospital linen supplies and outsourcing of outsourced nursing care.

## Innovation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Software

Chemical, Advanced Materials, Cosmetics, Recycling, CleanTech, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Biosciences

## Finance.Brussels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, CleanTech, Information Technology

Regional Investment Company of Brussels

## Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology

Oxygen for growth - LRM

## Oak Investment Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, Telecommunications

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## Volta Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering seed & early stage VC for internet & software companies (SaaS) in the Benelux region

## TeleSoft Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Telecommunications, Manufacturing

TeleSoft Partners provides value-added capital for technology, communications and energy value chain companies. Our focus is to help entrepreneurs benefit from our knowledge, contacts and experience -- to help you Make-It-Happen. Over the last two decades, TeleSoft has helped build over 75 companies, of which over 50 companies have been acquiredor gone public.

## GoBeyond
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Medical, Software

GoBeyond is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small and large, novice to experienced investors. It offers a unique deal platform, portfolio tools, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services, training and certified deal leaders.Its clients are individuals, familyoffices, professional groups and corporations. It is active in the EU, Switzerland and the US. GoBeyond also offers educational training modules for angel investors in 11 categories.

## Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship (VLAIO)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Basic and applied research fund of the Flemish regional government in Belgium

## New Science Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

New Science Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in life sciences and information technology companies. They invest in early and late stage companies taking novel scientific approaches to address significant unmet needs, while creating order-of-magnitude improvements in performances. The company also invests in companiesusing science-based innovations to address market needs in life sciences such as pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices, diagnostics, and IT. The team of the company expertise in strategy and corporate planning, operations and cost management, and leadership development.

## Coelius Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Coelius Capital provides entrepreneurial early-stage capital for technology startups. Coelius Capital generally invests in B2B or B2B2C companies.

## Eutopia VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce

Eutopia is a fund for consumer startups. We back founders who are rethinking the way we eat, shop, sleep and feel. We are backing 26 startups

## Otium Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

In 2015, two independant investment teams were created in Paris inside Otium Capital, Pierre-Edouard Stérin's family office:* Otium Venture, focused on Seed investments in Tech companies (€40m invested in 14 companies among which Payfit, Doctrine, Owkin...)* Otium Brands, focused on Seed & Series A investments in Consumer GoodscompaniesIn 2019, the two teams spun off to become independant investment firms:* Otium Venture became frst* Otium Brands became Eutopia

## Level Equity Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Level Equity provides bespoke guidance to best-in-class software pioneers and technology leaders.

## ZEISS Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oberkochen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Sensor, Eyewear, Parking

Ever since ZEISS was founded 175 years ago, curiosity, passion and precision have been inspiring us, our customers and our partners. Together, we have succeeded time after time in opening up new perspectives, transforming major challenges into major opportunities and making the impossible possible.

## Freshmen Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Sports, Finance

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.

## Ventech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology

On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.

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