Overview
Axelle Moortgat is a co-founder and chief executive of NOX Energy, a role she has held since June 2024. She is based in Antwerp.
She studied at KU Leuven, where she completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Computerwetenschappen - Werktuigkunde between 2018 and 2021, followed by a Master's degree in computer science from 2021 to 2023. During 2021 she also undertook a Master's degree in computer science at Aalto University.
Career history
- FounderNOX Energy
In the news
- Targeted 100+ Welcomed 250+ Brussels, you blew us away! Stop #4 of our Back-to-School Roadshow landed right in the beating heart of the capital at BeCentral, and the Drink ZYLA energy in the room was electric. With the Back-to-School Roadshow we aim to make the innovation and startup economy the #1 destination for top Belgian graduates launching their careers in entrepreneurship, tech, law, finance, public policy, … Our mission is reaching its ambition: building tangible bridges across our entire Belgian startup ecosystem. When
- Last week, I was invited by Wintercircus Ghent Collective for an evening surrounded by ambitious, like-minded people. Julie Dumoulin, Hilde Sevens, Veerle Timmermans and Axelle Moortgat shared their very different journeys of building and growing companies. What stayed with me most? The mindset of: just go for it. Jump. Try. Don’t overthink everything. Solve the problems along the way. Do it with passion, learn fast and you’ll find the right people around you to build it with. GOFLUO was invited to showcase as well, and I brought my
- Female Game Changers: What game are we changing? Last week I was at Wintercircus Ghent for an evening organised by Enya Steenssens with a whole group of the Clusity | The women in tech community. We enjoyed: 4 women. 10-minute talks. An Ask-Anything panel. Honest, personal and deeply inspiring! My 4 take-aways 1️⃣ Fear is there. Act anyway. "If you feel comfortable, youre doing something wrong." Julie Dumoulin . Hilde overcame her fear of quitting her job. None of them call themselves fearless. You dont outgrow it. Damn ;)! But you
- She just raised 3M€ She’s changing the world One heat pump and solar panel at a time Please give a round of likes to our exceptional speaker in Brussels 🎤 Axelle Moortgat 👏 Hiring for a Startup? Starting a Startup? Joining a Startup? We’ll be at BeCentral, Brussels, on Wednesday Oct 14th for the Back-to-School Roadshow to address these hot topics! At the Belgium Startup Ecosystem, our mission has always been clear: building bridges. With the Back-to-School Roadshow we aim to make the innovation and startup economy the #1
- Our portfolio company NOX Energy raised €3M to build the infrastructure behind flexibility. One software layer connecting heat pumps, solar panels, batteries and EVs to energy markets, embedded directly into OEMs and energy retailers across Europe. Over the next years, millions of flexible devices will come onto the grid. They need to be connected. They need to be controlled. And their flexibility needs to become valuable. NOX Energy wants to be the infrastructure behind every kWh of it. Congratulations to Axelle Moortgat & Louis
- May 29th, 2024. A hot day, a slightly cramped office, and our first meeting with the Noxians. The energy in the room (pun very much intended ⚡) was incredible. Afterwards, we loved the vision and the ambition. But we also asked ourselves an honest question: could a team this young (22 and 23 at the time) really make a dent in a market this complex? A few days later, we got a call: the team was moving to the US. I was a little disappointed that we would loose this great talent to the US. But luckily for us, the complexity of
- Wintercircus Ghent is hosting a conversation that feels familiar to hsbcad: what it really takes to build beyond Belgium. 🌍 Tomorrow, our CEO Hilde Sevens takes the stage at Women of Collective: The International League, alongside Axelle Moortgat (NOX Energy), Julie Dumoulin (Spotable) and Veerle Timmermans (Securex) 4 inspirational female entrepreneurs who are already doing it, sharing honest stories about the markets they enter, the mistakes they make and the lessons that keep them moving forward. We are looking forward to seeing
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