# Top 20 Real Estate Angel Investors in Belgium in May 2026

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Lorenz Bogaert is the Founder and Director of FixForm.

## Louis Jonckheere
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## 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.

## Pieterjan Bouten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Toon Coppens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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)

## Bart Swanson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Wim Derkinderen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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

## Peter Minne
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: iOS, SaaS, Mobile

Peter co-founded Showpad in 2011 with PJ Bouten and Louis Jonckheere. In fact, as Showpad’s technical founder, he wrote the first line of code of our platform, which has grown to become the industry’s leading sales enablement platform.Prior to Showpad, Peter co-founded the mobile development company In The Pocket and served as the company’s leaddeveloper, playing an integral role in the company’s rapid success. Peter started his career as an IT consultant and full-stack web developer, building web apps for MTV. Peter holds a master’s degree in computer engineering.

## Jonas Dhaenens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Jonas Dhaenens - Group CEO @ team.blue Denmark

## 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.

## Michael Bristow
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, SaaS, Software

Mike Bristow, CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdProperty (www.crowdproperty.com), the leading specialist property peer-to-peer lender in the UK. Actual property development and investment experience lies at the heart of CrowdProperty meaning hands-on, expertise-led due diligence and loan monitoring. Lending is focused on the SME property developer market,a key segment for supplying much needed UK housing stock, which is poorly and inefficiently served by traditional funding sources.CrowdProperty's unique combination of data, analytics, tech, expertise, rigour, relationships, security, extent of value chain disruption and vision means we stand out in sustainably delivering a better deal to lenders and borrowers alike through high-quality, institution-grade lending with huge potential ahead.

## Christoph Neut
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Real Estate

Christoph Neut is the Vice President of Sales at Hootsuite. he attended Université libre de Bruxelles.

## Sebastien de Halleux
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Marine Transportation

Sebastien de Halleux has a 20-year track-record of launching startups around the world, leading them from idea to success. Sebastien is currently Chief Gaming Officer at Matchday, building a new type of game for football's 5 billion fans. Sebastien is also a founding General Partner at Graph Ventures, an early stage fund with a portfolio of300+ companies including Blue Apron, Ipsy, Envoy, and Dapper Labs. Most recently, Sebastien was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Capricorn, a pioneering investment group focused on scaling innovative solutions to persistent global problems, including key investments in Tesla, SpaceX, Planet Labs, Quantumscape and Joby Aviation and founding COO of Saildrone, helping launch a category-defining company which revolutionized planetary data collection at sea, using wind and solar powered ocean drones. At the confluence of autonomy, big data and AI/ML, Saildrone pursued a vision called ‘The Quantified Planet’ to help better understand key planetary systems that affect humanity, such as extreme weather, ocean acidification, and global fisheries. Formerly, Sebastien was Co-Founder and COO of Playfish, one of the largest and fastest growing social video games companies which was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2009 (Nasdaq:EA). Prior to founding Playfish, Sebastien helped launch Glu Mobile, an early pioneer in mobile games which IPO'ed in 2007 (Nasdaq:GLUU) and held innovation and strategy roles at Nokia and Booz Allen Hamilton. Sebastien is the recipient of the 2012 EA Emerging Leaders Award, the 2011 Tech 100 award, the 2010 TechFellow award, and the 2003 Booz Allen Professional Excellence Award. His contribution in establishing a successful public-private partnership between Saildrone and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was recognized with the 2020 Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award and the 2018 US Department of Commerce Bronze Medal. Sebastien has served on the boards of Saildrone, Samasource, Vittana, UWC-USA, the Solar Fuel Institute, and Trusted Family. Sebastien holds a Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

## François Van Uffelen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Internet

François Van Uffelen - Founder and Managing Director @ Babelway

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Thibaud Elzière is the Founder at Efounders.

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

Laurent Rouach

## 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 Founder of KelDoc.

## Guillaume Luccisano
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps

Guillaume Luccisano was the Co-Founder of TripleByte and Socialcam. He attended EPITECH for his degree in computer science.

## Noman Ahmed
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, CleanTech, Smart Cities

Noman Ahmed is a Founder, CEO & CTO at SmartEnds. He Attended Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

## 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.

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