Ghent · Pre-Seed–Seed · 16 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Volta Ventures backs ambitious B2B software founders from day one, investing at the pre-seed and seed stages. The firm targets software startups building scalable solutions for business customers, with a geographic focus on companies originated in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (the Benelux region). Initial checks range from €100k to €1M, with substantial follow-on potential. Beyond capital, Volta provides hands-on support across go-to-market strategy, hiring and international growth, emphasizing a founder-focused, personal and no-nonsense approach.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 7, 2026.
Team · 16 people
from the firm's website & public directories
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Volta Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 40 of 50 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×27SaaS ×27Enterprise Software ×20Fintech ×11Data & Infrastructure ×8Developer Tools ×7Cleantech ×4Cloud Computing ×4
HQs:Belgium×9Netherlands×7United Kingdom×2United States×2Germany×1European Union×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 28 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×142 founders×93 founders×44+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 32 founders with education data
KU Leuven ×7Delft University of Technology ×3Vlerick Business School ×3Ghent University ×2Stockholm School of Economics ×2University of Antwerp ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 30 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×17Business & Management ×10Finance & Accounting ×6Engineering ×5Economics ×4Mathematics & Statistics ×3Physics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 36 founders with career history
Aviatrix ×2Deutsche Bank ×2KU Leuven ×2Santander ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
3 founders hold a PhD · 7 hold an MBA (of 33 with degree data)
Investments · 50 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 12023 · 62021 · 52020 · 316 dated
Blanco provides a wealth management platform that automates the complete asset management cycle for professional investment managers while keeping human expertise central to investment decisions.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNetherlands, NL
Joost Walgemoedin
Co-investorsDFF VenturesKrealo
StackGuardian provides an AI-powered platform that automatically discovers cloud resources and converts them into infrastructure-as-code (Terraform and OpenTofu) for AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Akshat TandoninJohannes ScheuererinFrank Bergmannin
BoardKarl Driesen
Co-investorsTIIN Capital
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Co-investorsCapria VenturesFEMSA VenturesAngel VenturesClosed Loop PartnersDalus Capital
Belgian SaaS company offering a back-of-house F&B management platform for multi-site restaurants, catering and hotels.
Carl Jacobs(Founder)inPieter Wellens(Founder)in
AxonIQ provides enterprise infrastructure for event sourcing and AI-native systems, enabling applications to maintain complete transaction history while supporting intelligent learning and decision-making.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Allard Buijze(Co-Founder, CTO)inJeroen Speekenbrink(Co-Founder)inJessica Reeves(CEO)in
Co-investorsAtlantic Vantage PointAXA Venture PartnersVolta
Frankfurt-based index technology company providing indexes, crypto benchmarks and end-to-end self-indexing infrastructure.
Co-investorsETFS Capital
Caretta is a real-time sales AI assistant that helps salespeople conduct technical and product-focused conversations during sales calls by pulling from internal documentation, knowledge sources, and organizational data.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Kayra Bahadir(Founder)inOmar Elamin(Founder)inPavlos Markesinis(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorTreeo VC
Cascador Health provides real-world data analytics and clinical research services to pharmaceutical companies and healthcare organizations, focusing on market access, clinical evidence generation, and therapy adoption in healthcare.
BiotechData & InfrastructureDigital HealthHealthtechMedical Devices
Philip Taillieu(Founder & CEO)
CHILI publish provides data-driven visual content production software that automates the creation of multichannel retail marketing assets from product data.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechRetail TechSaaSAalst, BE
Bram Verniest(Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist)in
Churned offers an AI-powered platform that unifies customer data from CRM, support, usage, financial, and marketing sources to predict at-risk customers and recommend automated retention, reactivation, and upsell actions.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSAmsterdam, NL
Co-investorsNewion
Ecochain provides LCA (life cycle assessment) automation software that lets industrial manufacturers model their products and production processes to calculate product footprints and generate verified EPDs, PCFs and environmental profiles at scale.
Advanced ManufacturingCleantechSaaS
FERO provides an AI-driven checkout engine for e-commerce retailers that personalizes and adapts the checkout flow in real time to reduce cart abandonment and increase conversions.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail TechLondon, GB
Chris S(Founder)Craig Savage(Founder)inPaul-Christian Stoy(Founder)in
Co-investorsCoatue ManagementAntlerInnovation Endeavors
Gameye is a game server orchestration platform that lets multiplayer game studios start dedicated game server containers on bare metal and cloud via a REST API, spanning 21 providers and 200+ datacenters worldwide.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsGamingRotterdam, NL
Sebastiaan Heijne(Founder)in
Co-investorsMakers FundLakestar
Hyperfox is an AI-native customer operations platform that automates order-to-cash processes for distributors, manufacturers, and wholesalers by integrating directly with their existing ERP systems.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSHasselt, BE
Brussels-founded digital asset investment group providing market making, OTC, options trading and asset management.
Co-investorsSC VenturesMiddlegame VenturesRipple
Belgian company behind A-Inside, an AI-driven customer data platform for life sciences, acquired by DLI Market Intelligence.
Co-investorsimec.istart
LangWatch's Scenario is an open-source tool that runs multi-turn adversarial "red-team" tests against AI agents, simulating jailbreaks, prompt extraction, data exfiltration, and other attacks to find vulnerabilities before deployment.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSAmsterdam, NL
RogerioinRogério Chaves(Co-founder & CTO)inManouk Draisma(Co-founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsPassion Capital
Lupovis is a cybersecurity platform that captures real attacker activity and threat intelligence to provide context for security operations teams.
CybersecurityEnterprise Software
Co-investorsNauta CapitalTechstart Ventures
NannyML provides machine learning model monitoring and degradation detection for financial institutions, helping prevent costly model failures in lending, fraud detection, and risk assessment.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Hakim Elakhrass(Founder)inWojtek Kuberski(Founder)in
Co-investorsLunar Ventures
Next Gate Tech provides intelligent automation and portfolio data analytics solutions for asset managers, owners, and servicers to enhance their operational efficiency.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSLuxembourg, LU
Co-investorsExpon CapitalSeeder Fund
Nodalview provides a platform with AI-powered tools for real estate professionals and agents to modernize property marketing and visual presentation.
AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaS
Thomas(CEO & Co-Founder)Mickaël(Co-Founder & Head of R&D)Jean(CEO & Co-Founder of Flaash)Enguerand(Co-Founder of Flaash)Sébastien(CTO & Co-Founder of Flaash)
Predikt provides an AI-based direct spend forecasting tool that uses feedstock and cost-model data to connect market conditions with a company's P&L.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechFoodTechSaaS
Nick Vandesype(Founder)in
Propellant provides advanced data analytics and institutional-grade APIs to the fixed income market, helping financial institutions gain transparency and optimize trading performance through aggregated market data.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSLondon, GB
Vincent Grandjean(Founder & CEO)inAllan Horganin
Qualifio operates a European first- and zero-party data collection platform that lets consumer brands' marketing teams build interactive and gamified experiences to engage audiences and collect consented data.
AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaS
Serge Rapaille
BoardOlivier Simonisin
Quinyx offers an all-in-one frontline platform for workforce management, providing AI-driven forecasting and scheduling, time reporting, task management, and employee communication and engagement tools.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
Erik Fjellborg(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsBattery VenturesAlfvén & DidriksonIdékapital
Responsum provides a modular privacy management platform that automates governance policies, Records of Processing Activities (RoPA), Data Subject Requests, and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for organizations subject to data protection regulation.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityLegalTechSaaS
Co-investorsNorth Texas Angel Network
Ringtime is an AI voice and WhatsApp assistant that automatically screens and qualifies job candidates through real conversations in 22 languages, contacting them across phone and messaging with retries.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
Diederik Syoen(Founder)in
Co-investorsSyndicate OneAllusion
Provides developer tools and SDKs for the Nx video management system (Nx EVOS/Nx Meta), including a RESTful HTTP Server API, a Metadata SDK for integrating third-party video analytics, Video Source and Storage SDKs, and the Nx AI Manager for deploying AI/ML models.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsIoT
Co-investorsBOM
Segments.ai provides a multi-sensor labeling platform for robotics and automotive companies.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsBrussels, BE
Otto Debals(Founder)inBert De Brabandere(Founder)in
Co-investorsMerus CapitalY Combinator
Sentiance provides AI-powered on-device behavioral intelligence for mobile applications, turning sensor data into real-time insights about driving patterns, mobility, and lifestyle.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureInsurTechIoTMobility & TransportationSaaS
Co-investorsKPN VenturesSamsung Catalyst Fund
Spotr.ai operates a platform that continuously organizes and updates building data, enabling visual inspection and research of buildings and their surroundings to be done remotely and at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureInsurTechPropTech
Co-investorsConcrete VenturesEDF Pulse Ventures
Sprinque was an Amsterdam-based B2B payments platform offering pay-by-invoice with net terms; it ceased operations in 2024.
Co-investorsGreat Stuff VenturesKraken VenturesMMC Ventures
Staxxer provides automated VAT and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compliance software for European e-commerce businesses selling internationally.
E-commerceFintechSaaSBerlin, DE
PeterTies den Dekker(CEO Staxxer)in
Co-investorsNV NOM
Supplied provides a platform that automates digital platform reporting compliance for online marketplaces and gig economy platforms across multiple tax jurisdictions including the EU, UK, Australia, Canada, and the US.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechGovTechSaaS
Johann Rozario(Founder)inVladimir Ivanov(Founder)in
Co-investorsRethink VenturesVolve Capital
SweepBright is a mobile-first CRM designed for real estate agents, enabling them to manage transactions and client relationships from their phones while eliminating duplicate data entry.
Enterprise SoftwarePropTechSaaS
Co-investorsCAP HORN VC
TIS provides cloud-native financial software solutions with a commitment to environmental responsibility, diversity, and ethical governance.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Jörg Wiemer(Co-Founder & Lead Advisor)inZlatko Vucetic(CEO)in
Co-investorsGolub Growth83NorthTarget Partners
Ubuntoo runs a platform combining AI and expert networks to connect corporations with vetted sustainability solutions.
CleantechAtlanta, US
Peter Schelstraete(Executive Officer, Director)inVenkatesh Kini(Executive Officer, Director)in
A company that builds interactive video experience (iVX) solutions designed to engage audiences and deliver measurable results for brands and agencies.
AdTechHealthtechMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaSTurku, FI
Matias Mäenpää(Founder)in
Co-investorsExpon CapitalSuperhero Capital
Wizata provides AI solutions for lime manufacturing that optimize calcination processes, improve product quality, and reduce energy consumption.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningCleantechFoodTechIoT
Co-investorsExpon CapitalFinindusKBC Focus Fund
Yields provides software for managing risks and compliance in traditional and AI models across their entire lifecycle, serving regulated organizations like financial institutions and companies preparing for AI regulation.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSFlanders, BE
Jos Gheerardyn(CEO and Co-founder)inSébastien Viguié(Head of Regulatory Affairs & Co-founder)in
Co-investorsimec.istartPamica NV
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Yields · seekingalpha.com · Sep 13, 2026
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Supplied · dutchstartup.ai · Sep 4, 2026
Keyrock · cryptonews.net · Aug 22, 2026
Whale · bitcoinworld.co.in · Aug 17, 2026
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Blanco · latamrepublic.com · Jul 13, 2026
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Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Volta Ventures made?
- Volta Ventures has 50 tracked investments, 5 of which have exited, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Volta Ventures invest at?
- Volta Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Volta Ventures's typical check size?
- Volta Ventures typically writes checks of $108K – $1.1M.
- What sectors does Volta Ventures focus on?
- Volta Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Volta Ventures located?
- Volta Ventures is headquartered in Ghent, BE.
- Does Volta Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Volta Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Volta Ventures co-invest with?
- Volta Ventures most often shares deals with Newion, Expon Capital, PMV, among 29 tracked co-investors.
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