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Investment thesis
Entourage operates as both an early-stage VC and a venture studio, partnering with ambitious founders to build generational companies. Through its capital arm it invests in early-stage startups, while its studio arm builds, funds, and launches new companies. The firm positions itself as backing exceptional founders from the earliest stages onward.
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Team · 6 people
from the firm's website & public directories
Founder mafia
3 people who came through Entourage Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 35 of 43 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×23SaaS ×22Enterprise Software ×19Sales Tech ×6Fintech ×5Marketing Tech ×5Data & Infrastructure ×4Developer Tools ×4
HQs:United States×6Belgium×5Italy×2Germany×1Spain×1Finland×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 23 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×82 founders×103 founders×34+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 30 founders with education data
KU Leuven ×9Ghent University ×8EPFL ×2Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ×2Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ×2Université catholique de Louvain ×2Université de Namur ×2Vlerick Business School ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 32 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×12Engineering ×9Business & Management ×8Economics ×3Law ×3Finance & Accounting ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 37 founders with career history
Robovision ×3Aalto University ×2Block ×2Entourage ×2Google ×2Kearney ×2McKinsey & Company ×2Morgan Stanley ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
3 founders hold a PhD · 1 hold an MBA (of 33 with degree data)
Investments · 43 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 62025 · 32023 · 12018 · 111 dated
Aikido provides integrations that deliver notifications from its security platform directly into team messaging applications.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsChicago, US
Willem DelbareinRoeland DelrueinFelix GarriauinLouis JonckheereinMaarten De Schuymerin
Co-investorsNotion CapitalSyndicate OneDST GlobalInovia CapitalPitchdrivePSG Equity+1 more
Algorithmiq develops quantum algorithms that combine classical and quantum computers to solve problems in chemistry and life sciences, with a focus on drug discovery and development for rare diseases.
BiotechDeep TechQuantum ComputingHelsinki, FI
Sabrina Maniscalco(Founder)inMatteo Rossi(Director)in
BoardLauri Kokkila(Director)inHaakon Overli(Director)inJorma Jaakko Ollila(Director)Jussi Pekka Westergren(Director)
Co-investorsInventureInventureK5 GlobalUnited VenturesDawn Capital
Artion offers an AI-assisted compliance management platform that digitizes asset inventories, links legal and internal requirements to installations, and centralizes inspection certificates, findings, and follow-up tasks.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Caroline Van der Steen(Founder)in
Basalt operates managed satellite constellations controlled by artificial intelligence, serving private companies and government agencies that lack aerospace expertise and want to collect and stream satellite imagery and data to their devices.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningSpace TechSan Francisco, US
Maximillian Bhatti(Founder)in
Co-investorsCortado VenturesInitialized CapitalNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)PeakSBXiTranspose Platform Management+8 more
Bitmovin provides video infrastructure software including a player, encoding, and streaming capabilities for online video providers building streaming services.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Stefan Lederer(Founder/CEO)inChristian Timmerer(Founder/CIO)inChristopher Mueller(Founder/CTO)inKenneth Carter(Executive Officer)in
BoardFergal Mullen(Director)inBenjamin Blume(Director)in
Co-investorsAtomicoHighland EuropeSpeedinvestY CombinatorZillionizeAnorak Ventures+4 more
Byteflies provides remote vital signs monitoring solutions using certified medical devices, delivering patient data from the home into providers' workflows and handling device logistics and system integration.
Digital HealthIoTMedical DevicesAntwerpen, BE
Hans Danneels(Founder)
Chift provides a unified API platform that enables B2B software companies to integrate financial data and connect business tools through native integrations that users can activate in one click.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintechSaaSBerlin, DE
Gauthier HenrozinMatthieu HertogheinHenry Hertoghein
Co-investorsSeeder FundWING by Digital WalloniaBlackFin Capital PartnersShapers
CluedIn provides a master data management platform that unifies customer and operational data across enterprise sources using graph-based technology.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Tim Ward(Chief Executive Officer)inMartin Hyldahl(Chief Technology Officer)in
Co-investorsDawn CapitalHV Capital
Commerce Clarity provides AI-powered agents that automate retail product catalog operations, ensuring accurate product data across downstream systems like search, marketplaces, and ads.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail TechSaaSMilan, IT
Daniele Vella(Founder)in
Co-investorsItalian Founders Fund
Companion.energy provides a software platform that connects, models, and automates enterprise energy operations and procurement for large companies.
AI & Machine LearningEnergyEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Jonas Verstraeten(Founder)inThomas Vyncke(Founder)in
Co-investorsNAPCavalry VenturesRealyze VenturesÜbermorgen VenturesCaduceus Capital Partners
Conveo provides AI-moderated consumer research for enterprises, conducting ethnographic interviews and tracking studies across markets.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSAntwerp, BE
Dieter De Mesmaeker(Founder)inHendrik Van Hove(Founder)in
Co-investors6 Degrees CapitalBalderton CapitalPioneerPitchdriveSyndicate OneTeam Ignite Ventures+6 more
Converge is an AI-native growth platform for direct-to-consumer brands that automates media buying, attribution analysis, and reporting through agentic AI.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningDirect to ConsumerE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US
Jan-Henrik Lambrechts(Founder)inJerome Billiet(Founder)inThomas Holvoet(Founder)in
Co-investorsUncorrelated VenturesY CombinatorBessemer Venture PartnersGeneral CatalystMiracle PlusSARAS CAPITAL+3 more
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Dealcar is a dealership management platform with an integrated CRM that centralizes stock, leads, sales, invoicing and financing for used-car dealers.
Mobility & TransportationSaaS
Carlos Horno Santacruz(Founder)inSergio Guisado Villanueva(Founder)inCarlos Horno(CEO & Co-founder)inSergio Guisado(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsBynd Venture CapitalMission4Founders CapitalDemium Capital
DESelect offers a marketing optimization platform that lets marketers build audience segments, personalize campaigns, and manage message frequency in Salesforce Marketing Cloud without writing SQL or relying on technical teams.
AdTechEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSales Tech
Driven is an AI-powered sales commission management platform that automates commission calculations, reviews deal disputes, and generates performance reports and audit trails.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsPitchdriveQbic Fund
TrustDriven provides integrated software products for nonprofits and membership organizations, including fundraising, volunteer management, membership administration, and advocacy tools.
Enterprise SoftwareImpact & Social GoodSaaS
Co-investorsWaterloo Accelerator CentreAndreessen HorowitzBHP VenturesBreakthrough Energy VenturesEarthshot VenturesGreenoaks+6 more
Emma Legal is an AI-powered due diligence workspace for M&A deal teams and law firms that connects to virtual data rooms to detect missing documents, scan clauses for legal risks, and generate due diligence reports.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Rick van Esch(Co-Founder & CEO)inPieter Buteneers(Co-Founder)in
Epiminds builds Lucy, an AI system of 20+ autonomous agents that handle marketing tasks such as reporting, optimization, bidding, and creative analysis for advertising and marketing agencies.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechStockholm, SE
Elias Malm(Founder)in
Co-investorsLightspeed Venture PartnersAngel InvestEWORAndreessen Horowitz
Handhold builds AI agents that run tailored product demos and onboarding for prospects and new customers, available 24/7 in over 50 languages.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Uku Tammet(Founder)in
Co-investorsChange Ventures
Karomia develops ESG reporting software that helps sustainability leaders create insights and manage corporate responsibility reporting with greater efficiency.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Luc M.(Founder)in
Co-investorsimec.istart
Lexroom is a legal technology company that combines AI and legal expertise to modernize legal services.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTech
Martina Domenicali(CRO)inPaolo Fois(CEO)inAndrea Lonza(CTO)in
Co-investorsVerve VenturesAcurio VenturesBanyan VenturesBase10 PartnersLeft Lane Capital
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Loctax is an AI-assisted tax research platform that combines verified tax intelligence from IBFD with company data to provide jurisdiction-specific answers on corporate tax, transfer pricing, withholding tax, and other compliance issues.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTech
Co-investors3cubed VenturesCavalry VenturesIndex VenturesMSMNAPTapestry VC+1 more
9ID provides company-level verification and compliance checking for external workforces at industrial and enterprise sites, automatically blocking access when employers fail verification against live registries.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Co-investorsPitchdrive
OneCrew is a CRM and job-management system built specifically for paving contractors, connecting leads, customer records, and job sites to estimates, proposals, scheduled jobs, and invoices.
Construction TechEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Max Kostow(Founder)inAri Bleemer(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Omri Bloch(Director)
Co-investorsStage 2 Capital
Acquired by Collibra (exited).
Co-investorsCrane Venture PartnersDawn Capital
Reiterate builds a financial operations platform that automates transaction reconciliation, billing operations, and month-end close processes for finance teams.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Jaan-Aaron VahlberginJoonatan Samuelin
Co-investorsHummingbird Ventures
SereneDB is a database system with a PostgreSQL-compatible interface that combines vectorized SQL execution, search indexing, and columnar storage for large-scale analytics workloads.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Alexander Malandin(CEO)inAndrey Abramov(CTO)in
Showpad connects sales teams with AI-powered tools to enhance learning and performance.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechChicago, US
Pieterjan Bouten(Executive Officer, Director)inLouis Jonchkeere(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJeff Horing(Director)inBarend Van de Brande(Director)inNorman Fiore(Director)in
Co-investorsInsight PartnersColumbia Lake PartnersDawn CapitalHummingbird VenturesKorelya CapitalVector Capital
Belgian cloud accounting platform that unifies businesses' financial data, reporting and communication for accountancy firms.
Co-investorsIndex VenturesSmartFin
Spendesk offers an all-in-one spend management platform that covers procurement, company cards, invoices, expenses, approvals, budgets, and reporting for finance teams.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSParis, FR
Guilhem Bellion(Co-founder)inRodolphe Ardant(Founder & President)in
Co-investors3foundersFundersClubGeneral AtlanticIndex VenturesWind VentureYaday
Squire is an AI tool that analyzes consultation conversations, documents, patient history, and dictations to generate medical reports, forms, and codings in standards like FHIR, SNOMED CT, and ICD-10.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Co-investors645 VenturesICONIQ CapitalTiger Global Management
Tekst provides AI-driven automation for medtech companies to handle product incident reporting, complaint management, and email routing.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainMedical DevicesSaaS
Tiebe Parmentier(Founder)inWouter Janssen(Founder)in
Co-investorsSyndicate OneElephant Partners
TextYess provides AI agents and unified customer data for eCommerce brands to run conversational sales and support across messaging channels like WhatsApp.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing Tech
Riccardo Russo(Founder)in
Co-investorsAngel InvestGrowth CapitalGrowth EngineMoonstone Venture CapitalFrontline Ventures
Warren offers a team of certified financial experts covering topics such as mortgages, taxes, inheritance, insurance, real estate, and budgeting, providing commission-free advice to its members.
FintechHR TechSaaSGhent, BE
Cedric De Vleeschauwer(CEO)inPieterjan Behaeghe(Co-founding sales)Jos Polfliet(CTO)inDavid Du Pré(CCO)inTijs Deryckere(CIO)in
Co-investorsPitchdriveSyndicate OneMotive Partners
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AI Evaluations and Observability platformAlgoritmiqDyttoHenchmanSightera BiosciencesSwan
Exits · 2
2 acquisitions · showing 1Raitoacq. by Collibra
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesChift · eu-startups.com · Sep 14, 2026
Conveo · finsmes.com · Sep 3, 2026
Companion · thesaasnews.com · Jun 8, 2026
Lexroom · eu-startups.com · May 19, 2026
Algorithmiq · finsmes.com · May 11, 2026
Tekst · finsmes.com · May 8, 2026
Aikido Security · fintech.global · Jan 15, 2026
TextYess · thesaasnews.com · Sep 23, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Entourage Ventures made?
- Entourage Ventures has 43 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 9 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Entourage Ventures invest at?
- Entourage Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Entourage Ventures focus on?
- Entourage Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Does Entourage Ventures lead rounds?
- Entourage Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Entourage Ventures co-invest with?
- Entourage Ventures most often shares deals with Pitchdrive, Syndicate One, Index Ventures, among 52 tracked co-investors.
- What size deals does Entourage Ventures back?
- Across 5 deals with disclosed amounts, Entourage Ventures has joined rounds of $2M – $14M (median $2M).
Co-investors · 13
Pitchdrive is a Belgian venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups across Europe. The firm is led by entrepreneurs and provides active support to portfolio companies.
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs founders across industries and geographies, emphasizing the people behind ideas as much as the businesses themselves.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
DST Global is a global internet-focused investment firm that backs fast-growing, high-value internet companies. It does not solicit or accept retail investors.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that backs founders from Seed through Series F and beyond, emphasizing deep, immersive partnerships with the companies it invests in.
Base10 Partners is a venture capital firm investing in automation technologies for the real economy, backing companies that solve problems for the '99%'. The firm donates a portion of its proceeds to support the next generation of technology founders.
Notion Capital is a London-based venture capital firm focused on B2B SaaS and cloud technology companies, backing founders on the journey to scale.
Elephant is a venture capital firm that invests in fast-growing, capital-efficient technology companies.
Banyan Ventures is a New York City-based, AI-native venture capital firm investing at the pre-seed/idea stage in AI-native infrastructure and AI-native application startups.
Headline is a global venture capital firm investing in early- and growth-stage founders, with teams on the ground across multiple continents.
Project A Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm backing founders across sectors, combining thematic expertise with a generalist operational platform. It also runs Project A Studio, a pre-investment platform for founders to validate ideas.
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Firms observed investing alongside Entourage Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Entourage Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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