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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Financial Services startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hummingbird Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Europe | ||
Volta Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Europe | ||
Digital Attraxion | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium, Europe | ||
Inventures SA | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe | ||
Korys | Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Halle, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Seed investors in Belgium. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Financial Services Investors & Funds (Belgium)
Hummingbird Ventures
Hummingbird Ventures is a venture capital partner for extraordinary entrepreneurs building fast-growth tech companies. Hummingbird Ventures teamed up with transformative companies, including Deliveroo, Showpad, Kraken, Peak Games, Clear2pay, Amplidata, Gram Games, Shutl and many others. With a presence in London, Ghent and Istanbul, Hummingbird provides swift access to the operational resources and advice needed to build the tech companies of tomorrow.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Life Science, Therapeutics, Venture Capital
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Volta Ventures
Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed & early stage VC for internet & software companies in the Benelux. The fund’s team, with active support from some 30 business angels, expects to make a substantial impact on every company it invests in by working with the founders and management to identify new markets and customers, hire senior talent, provide ongoing guidance and arrange further financing rounds. Volta Ventures has offices in Ghent and Amsterdam.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Europe
Industries: B2B, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Digital Attraxion
Digital Attraxion is a digital startup accelerator working in close collaboration: – Upstream: with the Hainaut economic agencies that support entrepreneurs in the creation of their activity; – Downstream: with the VCs in the preparation of the startups first funding round. Digital Attraxion’s ambition is to make in Hainaut a solid and sustainable digital ecosystem particularly active and recognized beyond its borders. We focus on : Industry 4.0, Smart city, Ed&HR Tech, SAAS/Marketplace, e-health and Creatives Industries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Funding Platform
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Inventures SA
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Korys
Korys is the name chosen by the Colruyt family for their investment structure. The name Korys is derived from the Latin word for hazelnut tree – Corylus – which is at the origin of the Colruyt name. Their multi-disciplinary approach enables us to create a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, and direct participations in small and medium-sized companies. Through their investments, they aim to make a positive impact on people and the planet, while generating attractive returns. A “three P” approach (People, Planet, Profit) forms the cornerstone of their investment strategy. They invest for the long term, as they realize that it takes time to achieve the sustainable impact they are aiming for. They focus their investments in sectors in which they have built substantial expertise as a team: Cleantech, consumer goods & retail and life sciences.
Stages: Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Halle, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Pitchdrive
Pitchdrive is a radical break from traditional early-stage investing. We want to get 200k in the hands of great founders as soon as we can – in weeks, not months. Because entrepreneurs should focus on building a company, not on talking to investors. With our data-driven engine, we can qualify seed-stage ventures faster than anyone on the market. This allows us to make seed-stage investing scalable for founders and investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Financial Services
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Newton Biocapital
Newton Biocapital is a Venture Capital Fund incorporated in Belgium, focused on financing biotech and life science projects in the “core of Europe” (B, NL, D, F) and Japan for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. Their approach as lead investor is to support promising start-up projects as well as neglected or undervalued late-stage projects, in order to mitigate the risks and to create investor value. The leadership team consi.sts of specialists with long-standing management and investor experience who coach bio-entrepreneurs through the development stages of their projects.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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INGENIUM Poland Fund
INGENIUM Poland Fund is an international risk capital fund that provides seed and early-stage funding to Polish companies with high growth potential. The fund targets startups and expansion stage companies principally in the ICT, Healthcare, Energy, and Cleantech sectors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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VERSO Capital
Dedicated independent Merchant Banking Boutique and UHNW Advisory firm, founded by a former Swiss Private Banker. Exclusively working with international UHNW and Institutional Clients on transactions of at least USD 100mio.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Clean Energy, CleanTech, Consumer Goods, Consumer Software, EdTech, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Retail Technology
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Sniper Investments
Formed in 2011, Sniper Investments is a lean, transparent value investment fund with a long term philosophy. The fund builds on its management team’s full cycle track record in successfully raising, investing, managing and exiting Venture Capital and Private Equity portfolio’s in both up- and down cycles. Sniper Investments is a venture capital fund investing in early stage companies primarily via equity participation. the fund combines the joint experience of Privast Capital Partners and Partners @ Venture.the geographical scope is determined by the need to be able to be close to the investee companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Mechelen-bovelingen, Limburg, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Degroof Petercam
Degroof Petercam is a reference independent financial institution, serving private, institutional investors and organizations, based on a history dating back to 1871. Headquartered in Brussels, we employ 1 400 professionals through offices in Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Switzerland, Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Hong Kong. Our clients benefit from best in-class services through the unique combination of private banking, institutional asset management , investment banking (corporate finance and financial intermediation) and asset services. We manage assets of over 50 billion euro for private investors and families, corporates, public and corporate pension funds, insurance companies, governmental and non-profit organizations. Specialties: Private Banking, Asset Management, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Integrated Wealth Management, Wealth Structuring, Philantropy, Credit & Insurance, Generational Transfer (Estate Planning), Family Office Services, Real Estate Focus on Corporate Finance: Corporate Finance services include a.o. mergers & acquisitions, IPO, secondary offerings, private placements, debt advisory, valuations, fairness opinions, etc.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Post Ipo, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Asset Management, Banking, Finance, Financial Services, Wealth Management
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MBAN – The Middle East and North African Trade Association for Business Angels
MENA Business Angel Network (MBAN) initiative started in UAE in June 2014. This initiative is responding to the growing interest in start-ups by Business Angels and early stage investors in the MENA region and their desire to find the best modality to manage their investments and guarantee the best return. Angel and early-stage Investors are well established in Europe and globally, with billions of Euros invested annually through the various Angel Network Groups. The MENA region needs to pay attention to setting up the right structure and rules for Angel and early-stage Investing, in order to have a vibrant, healthy and promising entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services
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