Smartfin

Key people

• Jurgen Ingels

1 alumni

Investments

• Showpad

  Showpad is a Ghent-founded sales enablement platform that helps B2B sales teams find, share, and track content throughout the buyer journey.

• TechWolf

  TechWolf is a Ghent-based AI platform that maps workforce skills using job data and HR systems, enabling large enterprises to make talent decisions based on real competency intelligence.

• Silverfin

  Silverfin is a Ghent-founded cloud accounting platform for accountancy firms, co-founded by Joris Van Der Gucht and Tim Vandecasteele, and acquired by Visma.

• Deliverect

  Deliverect is a Ghent-based Food Tech platform valued at $1.4B that integrates restaurant POS systems with online delivery channels like Uber Eats, Deliveroo, and DoorDash.

• BrightAnalytics

  BrightAnalytics is a Hooglede-based financial and operational reporting platform, helping Belgian SMEs and mid-market companies replace spreadsheet-based management reporting with structured analytics dashboards.

• EyeSee Research

  EyeSee is a tech-enabled consumer research partner, providing highly predictive insights for shopper, advertising, innovation, and e-commerce optimization. Equipped with cross-category knowledge, our team is 150+ multidisciplinary experts strong and driven by passion to understand and help businesses grow. Join the ranks of top-tier CPG companies, healthcare innovators, and media trailblazers who trust EyeSee's proven formula to navigate today's complex market dynamics with confidence. Three pi

• Willow

  Willow connects upscale restaurants with management talent to enhance guest experiences.

• Hex-Rays

  Belgian Cybersecurity company behind IDA Pro, the industry-standard interactive disassembler and reverse engineering tool.

• CrazyGames

  CrazyGames is a Leuven-based browser gaming platform with 35 million monthly active users and 300 million monthly gameplays, bootstrapped for a decade before raising its first VC round from Smartfin in 2023.

• NGDATA

  NGDATA is a Ghent-based customer data and AI personalization platform used primarily by large banks, telecoms, and utilities to improve customer engagement at scale.

• AI-Blox

  AI-Blox is a Zaventem-based hardware Company Building modular edge AI computing platforms for industrial applications, with backing from Smartfin and imec.istart.

• Timefold

  Timefold is a Ghent-based AI startup that builds planning and scheduling optimization software for logistics, workforce, and field service operations.

• Sequesto

  Sequesto provides an agentic operating system designed for commercial teams.

• Luzmo

  Luzmo is an embedded analytics platform, purpose-built for SaaS companies. We bring complex data to life with beautiful, easy-to-use dashboards, embedded seamlessly in any SaaS or web platform. With Luzmo, product teams can add impactful insights to their SaaS product in days, not months. And take their product users from data to decisions, damn fast. Offer new insights to your users and let them take action immediately, right within your own application!

• Unifiedpost Group

  Unifiedpost Group is a Brussels-based document processing and digital payments platform, listed on Euronext since 2020 with EUR 188M+ in funding and 500K+ customers across 26 countries.

• Payflip

  Payflip is a Belgian HR-tech startup offering flexible employee benefits and meal vouchers, backed by Smartfin and positioned as Belgium's 4th meal voucher provider.

• The Glue

  The Glue is a platform enabling companies to create social media and cause marketing programs that drive business results through consumer giving to nonprofit projects.

• Timeseer.AI

  Timeseer.AI is a Belgian startup that builds AI-powered tools for detecting and resolving data quality issues in time-series data, targeting industrial and engineering use cases.

In the news

• Waarom LinkedIn steeds persoonlijker wordt nu AI het platform overspoeltSelfies, die lang ongepast werden gevonden op een professioneel netwerk, duiken steeds vaker op LinkedIn op. De makers zien ze als een manier om zich te onderscheiden in een feed vol door artificiële intelligentie gegenereerde teksten. Achter die trend schuilt een bredere vraag voor bedrijven, recruiters en media: hoe bewijs je dat er een echte persoon achter content zit wanneer machines tegen lagForbes BE Ondernemers · 16 Oct 2026
• Delvaux haalt nieuwe CEO bij Cartier om internationale groei te stimulerenSinds de overname door luxegroep Richemont in 2021 had het Belgische luxemerk Delvaux al een licht Zwitsers accent. Vanaf 1 december wordt de mix nog internationaler met de komst van Yanina Novitskaya als CEO van het Brusselse bedrijf. Haar opdracht is de aantrekkingskracht van de producten en de internationale groei van het merk te stimuleren. L’article Delvaux haalt nieuwe CEO bij Cartier om intForbes BE Leiderschap · 12 Oct 2026
• Building ecosystems is rewarding & fun, but connecting them even more so. Yesterday Aalst Tech received the Entrepreneurial Culture Award from HITT.2050, an initiative of Voka Oost-Vlaanderen. An appreciated recognition from an organization that itself played such an important role in getting Wintercircus Ghent off the ground. Thanks Geert & Hilde and the Voka crowd! Meanwhile, at the same time (I had to run 😅), Aalst Tech was bringing another set of communities together: hosting an AI event with a fantastic panel ofLinkedIn · 8 Oct 2026
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• Belgisch-Amerikaanse fysicus Francis Halzen wint Nobelprijs voor NatuurkundeDe Belgisch-Amerikaanse fysicus Francis Halzen, 82 jaar en geboren in Tienen, is de enige laureaat van de Nobelprijs voor Natuurkunde 2026. Hij wordt bekroond voor IceCube, een neutrinodetector onder het ijs van de Zuidpool, waarvan de bouw 279,5 miljoen dollar kostte. De Koninklijke Zweedse Academie van Wetenschappen kent hem de volledige prijs toe. L’article Belgisch-Amerikaanse fysicus FrancisForbes BE Innovatie · 6 Oct 2026
• New investment for smartfin in cyber. Smartfin pompt 15 miljoen euro in cybertechstart-up van 29-jarige Nederlandse ex-hackerLinkedIn · 6 Oct 2026
  
• Smartfin stapt in Nederlandse cybersecurityspecialist HadrianDe Nederlandse scale-up Hadrian, die cyberaanvallen simuleert, haalt 40 miljoen dollar op. Het techfonds Smartfin van ondernemer Jürgen Ingels trekt de ronde met zijn Amerikaanse sectorgenoot Forgepoint Capital International. The post Smartfin stapt in Nederlandse cybersecurityspecialist Hadrian appeared first on Trends.be.DataNews · 6 Oct 2026
• Smartfin pompt 15 miljoen euro in cybertechstart-up van 29-jarige Nederlandse ex-hackerSmartfin, het investeringsfonds rond Jurgen Ingels, investeert 15 miljoen euro in Hadrian als deel van een kapitaalronde. De Amsterdamse scale-up, die AI inzet om de cyberveiligheid van bedrijven te verhogen, is zes jaar geleden opgericht door de voormalige succesvolle ethische hacker Rogier Fischer.De Tijd Ondernemen · 6 Oct 2026
• AI will not replace the auditor's judgement. It will free it for what really matters. That was the spirit on stage at the Dag van het Revisoraat 2026 - Journée du Révisorat 2026, where our CEO Natalia Khamraeva and our lead investor Jürgen Ingels (Smartfin) discussed how AI is changing the work of the financial auditor. Over 300 professionals, sharp questions and real curiosity. It confirmed why we build Auditstage. Many thanks to Instituut van de Bedrijfsrevisoren - Institut des Réviseurs d'Entreprises, Inge Vanbeveren, AlexiaLinkedIn · 23 Sept 2026
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Alumni 1 went on to found or lead

• Bert BaeckPartner @ Smartfin Capital→CEO at Timeseer.AI

Backers

• Jurgen Ingels

  Jurgen Ingels is Managing Partner at Smartfin, one of Belgium's leading tech-focused Venture Capital funds, and a well-known entrepreneur and investor in the Belgian ecosystem.

• PKristof Vande Capelle

  Kristof Vande Capelle is CFO at Gimv.

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