Overview
Benedicte Boonefaes is founder of Ella Energy, a Kortrijk-based Belgian startup building an AI-powered digital energy assistant that helps small and medium businesses understand and reduce their energy costs.
Benedicte Boonefaes is the founder of ella-energy, based in Kortrijk. She co-founded Ella Energy AI in April 2025.
Before that she spent three years as a legal tech consultant at Henchman, which became Lexis Create+, from April 2022 to May 2025. From November 2020 to April 2022 she worked in business development at Showpad. Earlier she completed a marketing internship at MAISTER in 2019 and a sales and marketing internship at Be So Happy in 2018.
Boonefaes studied at Sint-Lodewijkscollege Brugge, where she followed the economics track until 2015, and then took a bachelor's degree in business management at Arteveldehogeschool from 2015 to 2018. She went on to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, graduating with a master's degree in business economics in 2020.
Career history
In the news
- More than half of Flemish SMEs don’t know what their contracted grid capacity is. Yet they pay hundreds to thousands of euros for it. Every single month. Our co-founder Benedicte Boonefaes explains it in under a minute. Here’s the catch with grid capacity: ⚡ You reserve capacity on the grid, and it shows up on every energy bill. ⚡ Exceed it once? You pay a penalty for the next 12 months. ⚡ Reserve way more than you use? You overpay by hundreds to thousands of euros a month. Most companies we talk to have never adjusted theirs. Many
- What I enjoy most (𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴)? Talking about Ella Energy AI at trade shows ;-)
- Some days you build, some days you go out and meet the people you’re building for. Today it’s the second one: our co-founder Benedicte Boonefaes is at Tectonic in Ghent. Proud to see Ella Energy AI out there. ⚡
- Happy to be attending Tectonic today. See you there!
- We are attending Trefdag Vlaanderen Digitaal 2026! On Thursday 22 October, Benedicte Boonefaes (Co-founder) and Louis Verleye (Energy expert) will be at Flanders Expo in Ghent. This year's theme is sovereignty in a connected world. For energy, that starts with knowing what you actually pay for. Ella reads your energy invoices, watches your meters and shows you where money leaks away, without taking up your time. Managing energy for a city, a municipality or a public organisation? Come and find us at booth 128. We'd like to hear
- Europe’s power markets now price electricity per 15 minutes. Most businesses still look at their energy once a year: when the bill arrives. On 3 November, Switzerland joins the rest of Europe in quarter-hourly day-ahead pricing. Dynamic tariffs and capacity tariffs are spreading. The cost of energy is now decided in 15-minute blocks. The good news: since 2025, EU rules let any business share its quarter-hourly meter data with a provider of its choice. The data is there. What’s missing is someone who reads it every day. That’s what we
- Sit back and relax” werkt niet in energie. Peter VYNCKE verwoordt het scherp in De Tijd: na elke energiecrisis komt er opnieuw rust, tot de volgende schok zich aandient. Maar net daar zit volgens mij het probleem. Veel bedrijven kijken vandaag nog steeds pas naar hun energie wanneer: - de factuur plots stijgt - er een nieuwe piek ontstaat - het contract moet worden vernieuwd - iemand toevallig tijd heeft om de data te bekijken Terwijl de data er elke dag is. Bij Ella Energy AI geloven we daarom dat energiebeheer continu moet
- Ella Energy AI is hiring technical power ⚡️ - Full stack engineer - Energy engineer More info on the open roles here: https://ella.energy/jobs 🔗
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