# Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Belgium in May 2026

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 13
- 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: 7
- 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: 5
- 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.

## 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.

## Jonas Dhaenens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Jonas Dhaenens - Group CEO @ team.blue Denmark

## Louis Jonckheere
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## 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.

## Pieterjan Bouten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## 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.

## Pieter Casneuf
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SEO, SaaS

Pieter Casneuf

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

Michaël Blockx

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

Luc Vauterin - Board Member @ ONTOFORCE

## Olivier Coune
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Outdoors, Software, Lifestyle

Olivier Coune

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

Jan Verbeke

## 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.

## Jonathan Cornelissen
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Wim Vanhaelemeesch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Customer Service

Wim Vanhaelemeesch

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

Andreas Spechtler

## Jean Vliegen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, B2B

Jean-Marie Vliegen.

## Jochen Boeykens
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: PaaS, Health Care, Social Media Marketing

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

## Nico Weymaere
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet of Things, Information Technology

Nico Weymaere

## 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

## Annie Vereecken
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Hospital

Annie Vereecken

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

Steve Vantorre

## Mark Bivens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Mark Bivens is Managing Director of Tachi.ai Ventures and shuttles between Paris and Tokyo. Current board seats and active investments include: Amplified.ai, Azarus, CoolGames, Curvegrid, Enterra, enTouch, QuantCube, Supervaisor, the AfricaTri Foundation, among others.Past exits include: Birdview (acq. by Constellation Software), CCI Publishers,Capsule (acq. by JMI Equity), Cerent (acq. by Cisco), Cybernetix (acq. by Technip), Domain Appraisal Tech, GoCater (acq. by EZCater), Kang (acq. by Adviqo), ITMasters (acq. by BMC Software), Keyyo (IPO), MakeLeaps (acq. by Ricoh), Momac (acq. by Sandvine), PeopleCube (acq. by Asure Software), Peer Digital (acq. by V-Span), and Vision/IQ (acq. by MG International).Prior to becoming a VC, Bivens founded 3 tech companies including one successful exit. He is the author of "Japan: Bitcoin #1," a book on Japan's leadership in cryptocurrency, as well as "Land of the Rising Blockchain." He holds a degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

## Vic Swerts
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Transportation, Internet of Things

Vic Swerts

## 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

## Selçuk Boydak
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Education, E-Learning

Selçuk Boydak is the Co-Founder and Lecturer at AI Business School. Selçuk attended Boğaziçi University.

## Jean-Marc Toussaint
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Financial Services

Jean-Marc Toussaint is a Founder and Managing Partner at WeQan.

## Didier Valet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Didier Valet

## Wim De Waele
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Legal Tech, Artificial Intelligence

Wim De Waele - Executive Chairman @ The Beacon

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

Laurent Rouach

## Wouter Reggers
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Wouter Reggers

## Lieven Danneels
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bruges, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency

Bruges Metropolitan CEO of Televic

## Frederik Vandermarlie
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Legal Tech, Health Care

Frederik Vandermarlie

## Manuel Thurner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: iOS, Software, Navigation

Manuel Thurner is the founder and CTO of Kaia Health.

## Wim Van Cappellen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Wim Van Cappellen

## 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.

## 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

## Konstantin Mehl
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: iOS, Banking, Security

Konstantin Mehl is the President, CEO, and founder of Kaia Health. Konstantin is a serial entrepreneur. His last company foodora, a global food delivery company was sold to delivery hero in 2015 after reaching 500 employees and 5,000 drivers. His current company Kaia has the mission to build the biggest platform for chronic disease management,powered by computer vision. His angel investments include more than 20 companies in the US and Europe. He holds a dual Masters from Columbia University and a Bachelors degree from Technical University Munich.

## 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.

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

Kevin De Pauw

## 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.

## Stijn Christiaens
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Privacy, Software, Analytics

Stan leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for our customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales,Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education. Prior to cofounding Collibra, he was a senior researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he focused on application-oriented research in semantics. Stan holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology, a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Postgraduate in Industrial Corporate Governance from Europese Hogeschool Brussel. He is a sought-after expert resource, industry speaker and author on the topic of Data Intelligence.

## 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.

## Patrick Keereman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Hardware, Software

Patrick Keereman

## 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.

## 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.

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