Bert De Brabandere
Bert De Brabandere is co-founder and CTO of Segments.ai, the Leuven-based AI data labeling platform that became the first Belgian Y Combinator startup (W21) and was acquired by Uber in 2025.
Bert De Brabandere co-founded Segments.ai with Otto Debals in Leuven. Both founders hold PhDs from KU Leuven, grounding the company in academic-grade computer vision research. As CTO, Bert led the technical development of the annotation and data labeling platform.
Segments.ai was admitted to Y Combinator's Winter 2021 cohort, the first Belgian company to do so. The company was subsequently acquired by Uber in 2025.Education
PhD, KU Leuven
Career
Roles
Segments.ai by UberFounderJul 2019 – Present
- DeepMindResearch InternAug 2017 – Nov 2017
- Capgemini#23factoryIT ConsultantSep 2013 – Apr 2014
Education
ETH Zürich#100schoolElectrical Engineering and Information Technology2011 - 2012
- Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-LourdescollegeHigh school2002 - 2008
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