Pitchdrive
Venture capitalAntwerp · Pre-Seed–Growth · 11 people tracked
Investment thesis
Pitchdrive is a 100% entrepreneur-backed pre-seed and seed fund that invests in exceptional, AI-native founders on an industry-agnostic basis. It provides first cheques from day one and positions itself as 'Co-founder Capital,' offering far more than money through a 24/7 mentor pool of successful operators. The model is designed as a compounding flywheel: entrepreneurs back the fund, founders outperform with earlier and bigger outcomes, and winners return as mentors and LPs. Pitchdrive has raised Funds I-IV and backed over 70 startups globally, ranking its earlier funds among top-performing venture funds worldwide.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 11 people
from the firm's website & curated & public directoriesFounder mafia
3 people who came through Pitchdrive went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 56 of 58 portfolio companiesSaaS ×38AI & Machine Learning ×30Enterprise Software ×15Fintech ×10Consumer ×7E-commerce ×7Marketing Tech ×6PropTech ×6
HQs:Belgium×8United States×5United Kingdom×3Spain×2Netherlands×2Germany×1
Investments · 58 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2024 · 12023 · 12017 · 13 dated
Nalvin developed AI agents for enterprise businesses to automate processes according to how they actually operate.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
Co-investorsPeople Ventures
Adelaide provides an attention-based media quality metric called AU that scores advertising placements on a 0–100 scale using a machine learning model trained to business outcomes.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechNew York, US
Marc Guldimann(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Tony Talal(Executive Officer)Diane deCordova(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJoe Marchese(Director)Harmon Lyons(Director)
Co-investorsBlueTree Venture CapitalGOAL VenturesHuman Ventures
Donna is a voice-first AI assistant for field sales reps that prepares meetings, takes notes, updates the CRM, and drafts follow-up emails automatically.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Montegrappa is a platform that helps businesses manage operational complexity through unified tools designed to deliver clarity, alignment, and control at every growth stage.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Co-investorsACADEMY INVESTORAIN Ventures
BOOM.brush sells electric toothbrushes for consumers, including models for babies and toddlers, featuring long battery life (up to a year) and multiple brushing modes.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Cashfeed is an accounts payable automation platform that retrieves invoices from email and portals, removes duplicates, routes them for approval via Slack, Teams or email, matches lines to ledger accounts and cost centers, and processes payments.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSGent, BE
Cashplannr is a cash-flow monitoring tool that proactively sends users alerts and a weekly Monday digest covering items such as buffer thresholds, late payers, balance drift, credit due dates, and unusual transactions.
FintechSaaS
Cassandra is a self-service marketing measurement platform that combines marketing mix modeling (using open-source foundations like Project Robyn and Google Meridian) with geo-lift incrementality experiments to help marketing teams measure advertising impact without consultants or technical expertise.
AdTechMarketing TechSaaS
Gabriele Franco(Co-founder)
Co-investorsItalian Founders Fund
Claimit.ai is an AI platform that automates courier and shipping claims for businesses, handling lost and damaged parcel claims, invoice auditing against contracted carrier rates, and analytics for supply chain visibility.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Andy W.(Founder)in
Co-investorsFuel VenturesHeartfelt Capital
Contractify is a contract management platform that helps procurement teams organize, search, and collaborate on contracts across the company.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaS
Steven Debrauwere(Founder)Herlinde De Buck(Founder)
Co-investorsSeeder Fund
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-investorsEntourage VenturesSyndicate OneTeam Ignite VenturesY Combinator
Datapad provides AI-powered dashboard generation that automatically creates business dashboards by analyzing data sources and business context.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS
Co-investors500 Emerging Europe
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
Provider of financial crime compliance and risk management solutions, offering AML, sanctions, PEP, adverse media screening, identity verification, and fraud detection tools across the customer lifecycle.
CybersecurityFintechSaaSChandler, US
Reinaldo Carvalho(Executive Officer, Director)Amador Testa(Director)
BoardAydin Senkut(Director)in
Co-investorsMillennium Technology Value PartnersMucker CapitalRadian CapitalFelicis VenturesWipro Ventures
FixForm is a facility management platform where anyone in a building can report an issue by scanning a QR code without an app or account, and reports become structured tickets in a back-office system.
Enterprise SoftwarePropTechSaaS
Heltia is a preventive digital health app that connects employees with psychologists, dietitians, physiotherapists, birth coaches and other specialists for online sessions, along with personalized content, check-ups and community activities.
Digital HealthMental HealthWellness & Fitness
Greenspark provides a no-code integration platform that enables e-commerce businesses to automate environmental impact actions—such as tree planting, plastic rescue, and carbon offsetting—at the point of sale.
Circular EconomyClimate TechE-commerceImpact & Social GoodSaaS
Lenny Leemann(Co-Founder & CEO)
Co-investors1818 Venture CapitalGreat Stuff VenturesPerivoli InnovationsQC·VENTURESFuel Ventures
Happl is an AI-native platform that helps global companies manage, automate, and personalize employee benefits across multiple countries.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechInsurTechSaaSLondon, GB
Ben Towers(Founder)in
Co-investorsHaatchY Combinator6 Degrees CapitalAscensionPortage VenturesVentures Together
Hotel Manager is a guest operating system for luxury hotels that integrates with Oracle OPERA Cloud and Simphony to capture pre-arrival and in-stay revenue and manage service delivery.
HardwareSaaSTravel & Hospitality
Ajwad Hashim(Founder)in
Co-investorsCOREangelsFuel Ventures
Impactbytes aggregates and makes accessible sustainability and impact data for products at the product level, enabling ecommerce platforms, search tools, and marketplaces to help consumers and businesses make informed purchasing decisions.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate TechData & InfrastructureE-commerceImpact & Social GoodAmsterdam, NL
Melissa WijngaardeninNoor VeenhoveninMarcella Wijngaardenin
Co-investorsTechstars
Introw is an AI-native partner relationship management (PRM) platform that runs inside a company's CRM, letting teams build no-code partner portals, register and track deals, co-sell, and support partners through AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsVisionaries Club
MAAT is a gym management software platform for combat sports academies, handling memberships, payments, scheduling, and student sign-ups.
FintechSaaSSports Tech
Koble applies algorithmic analysis to identify and invest in early-stage founders, using a probabilistic decision engine to rank founders and select outlier performers.
AI & Machine LearningFintech
Co-investorsModus CapitalGarage CapitalPanache Ventures
Lette is an AI platform for property operations that automates leasing, maintenance, and resident support workflows, including lead qualification, viewings, work orders, and analytics.
AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaSLondon, GB
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-investorsEntourage Ventures
Oper provides AI-powered software for mortgage lenders to automate operational tasks and streamline the loan application process for borrowers.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechPropTechSaaSAntwerpen, BE
GeertWouter
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersTechstarsTriton Capital
OTIV develops assisted, remote-control, and autonomous technology for rail freight operations to improve safety and efficiency while reducing carbon emissions and congestion.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate TechDeep TechHardwareIoTLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationRobotics
Co-investorsFinindusSHIFT Invest
Pibox is a collaboration and project management platform for audio and video production that centralizes review feedback, file management, and team communication.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaSHelsinki, FI
Ivan Talaichuk(Founder)in
Co-investorsPresto VenturesTechstarsIndex Ventures
Pleasefix builds an AI operating system that executes complex workflows from natural-language instructions, automating repetitive manual tasks to reduce errors and save time.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNew York, US
Séverine Nolf(CEO)inMaxime Lahy(CTO)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneur FirstSyndicate OneTranspose Platform Management
Powernaut offers a Virtual Power Plant platform that lets energy retailers and independent power producers connect and aggregate distributed energy resources, forecast and optimize their portfolios, and trade across energy markets from a single workspace.
CleantechEnergySaaS
Florentijn Degroote(Founder)in
Co-investorsReventSyndicate One
Privasee offers AI-powered software that automatically generates responses to RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs by learning from a company's historical proposals.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsStartupbootcamp FinTech Mexico
PULT offers a desk booking and office space management platform that provides occupancy and booking data, letting employees reserve seats in specific zones and helping teams plan and optimize open-concept and hybrid workspaces.
Future of WorkPropTechSaaS
A control room platform that provides visibility and governance over AI systems used in professional firms, enabling audit, explainability, and compliance oversight of AI-generated decisions and communications.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsSyndicate One
Salus is a policy-aware proxy that intercepts and manages AI agent actions, allowing, clarifying, repairing, or escalating tool calls without requiring changes to the underlying agent or stack.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Vedant Singh(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator500 Emerging EuropeAnterra CapitalCollective SparkNorthzoneWamda Capital
Silo is a workflow automation platform that generates how-to guides, onboarding journeys, and role-based access management for employee lifecycle events.
Future of WorkHR TechSaaS
Co-investorsFuel Ventures
Smooved provides a digital service that lets real estate agents offer utility services—energy and telecom contracts and moving support—to their clients as part of property transactions, earning agents extra commission.
EnergyPropTechSaaS
Stryza provides operational agility and workforce management software for frontline manufacturing workers.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS
Co-investorsHeartfelt Capital
Swave operates the "Beleef" loyalty app that gives shoppers automatic rewards — free consumptions at local hospitality venues and free parking — when they spend in participating city-center stores, either by paying with a linked bank card/Payconiq or by scanning receipts.
ConsumerFintechRetail TechKortrijk, BE
Toqua provides AI-based ship performance models that convert raw vessel data (noon reports and/or sensor data) into performance metrics used for warranty monitoring, operational monitoring, and voyage decisions.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechLogistics & Supply Chain
Vendorvue is an AI-powered vendor management platform that centralizes vendor records such as certificates and contracts, automates document processing, and sends real-time alerts for expiring documents and compliance gaps.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
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 TechSaaS
Co-investorsSyndicate One
Workfully is a recruiter marketplace platform that connects companies directly with vetted specialist recruiters across 30+ European markets, replacing traditional recruitment agency relationships.
B2B MarketplacesHR TechBarcelona, ES
Stefano Tacconi(Founder)
ZeroDrift provides a compliance enforcement system that governs AI-generated communications for regulated enterprises before they reach customers and regulators.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Kumesh Aroomoogan(Founder & CEO)Ashok Loganathan(Founding Head of Engineering)Anand Loganathan(Founding Head of Platforms)
Co-investorsConvergeGeek VenturesTetradA16Z SpeedrunActive CapitalFounders Future+1 more
Compliance firewall for AI-powered enterprises.
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioEmailageacq. by LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesNalvin · dossaro.com · Aug 1, 2026
ZeroDrift · techcrunch.com · Jun 2, 2026
Salus · intelligence360.news · Mar 6, 2026
Conveo · adweek.com · Mar 25, 2025
Cassandra · theaiinsider.tech · Mar 25, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Pitchdrive invest at?
- Pitchdrive invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.
- What is Pitchdrive's typical check size?
- Pitchdrive typically writes checks of $250K – $2M.
- What sectors does Pitchdrive focus on?
- Pitchdrive focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Pitchdrive located?
- Pitchdrive is headquartered in Antwerp, BE.
- Does Pitchdrive lead rounds?
- Yes, Pitchdrive leads investment rounds.
- Who does Pitchdrive co-invest with?
- Pitchdrive most often shares deals with Syndicate One, Entrepreneur First, Transpose Platform Management, among 3 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 19
Fuel Ventures is an investor founded by entrepreneur Mark Pearson that backs fast-growing technology companies, drawing on its team's operational and founding experience to support portfolio companies. It also runs a VCT listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Entourage is an early-stage venture capital firm and venture studio that backs founders from inception onward, and also builds, funds, and launches its own companies.
Visionaries Club is a European venture capital firm backing early-stage B2B and AI-driven technology companies, connecting top founders with a network of leading tech operators and industrial family entrepreneurs who serve as LPs, mentors and customers.
GV (Google Ventures) is a venture capital firm that has invested in artificial intelligence and machine learning since its early days, building a global portfolio of more than 100 AI companies across infrastructure, life sciences, and applications.
Accel is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional teams, positioning itself as a first partner to founders globally.
Unknown Ventures is a venture studio based in Austin that provides funding and operational support to early-stage startups at the pre-seed to Series A stage. The firm backs founders seeking to create innovative solutions that improve human experience.
Everywhere Ventures is an early-stage venture firm, backed by a community of founders and operators as LPs, that writes early checks (including pre-seed) into startups across many sectors and geographies.
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.
Believes that best ideas happen offline. Offline Ventures is Interested in companies that are driven by both profit and purpose while taking great care of the world around them
Notion Capital is a B2B software-focused venture capital firm built by operators, backing SaaS, cloud and enterprise technology companies.
Freigeist Capital is an early-stage technology investor that partners with founders at the Seed and pre-Series A stages, providing capital alongside hands-on operational support.
Dawn Capital is a European venture capital firm backing companies with global ambitions.
▶7 more co-investors
Graph VenturesIterative Instinct CapitalBusiness Growth FundRoosh VenturesVerve VenturesFlashpoint Venture CapitalFortino Capital
Firms observed investing alongside Pitchdrive, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Pitchdrive's recorded portfolio.
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