What sets us apart
Network Venture Partners is a distinctive initiative by and for entrepreneurs.
Network Venture Partners combines the hands-on experience of founders of a successful global scale-up with the active support of a network of entrepreneurial investors and family offices.
Leveraging this unique ecosystem, Network Venture Partners seeks to invest in, and actively contribute to, high potential start-up companies and help them scale and leapfrog their business.
We participate as genuine co-founders in all our companies and seek to support them however and whenever we can through the experience and connections of Network Venture Partners.
Our unique approach
We are looking for exceptional entrepreneurs that we can help to accelerate and scale their business by actively supporting all aspects of their company through the full journey.
Our commitment towards these entrepreneurs is that we join their forces as long-term co-founders, and not just as short-term investors. Our true added value is not shown in the board room, but during weekly meetings with our founders.
Do you share this vision? Let’s meet up! We are always happy to brainstorm with you and share our experience and network without any strings attached.
Our investment criteria
Product-led tech companies
We are looking for tech infused companies that can achieve global product-led growth irrespective of the sector in which they operate.
Added Value
We will exclusively invest in companies where we can bring added value as co-founders, leverage our investors’ network and have a deep understanding to scale it globally. This implies that we will only make a hand-full of investments, whereby we triple down our efforts on these companies.
Early stage
We are ready to back entrepreneurs at the outset of their journey (stage minus 1 or 0). We are frequently acting as sounding board for both student-teams as well as global scale-ups, and get equally energized by both.
Long term
We are backed by like-minded entrepreneurial investors and family offices that put founders first. This implies that we have no need to deploy capital neither are we bounded by holding periods. We remain committed as long as necessary to support your growth.
Our kick-ass portfolio companies
Optioryx (Ghent, Belgium) adds an intelligence layer to WMS, TMS, or ERP systems, boosting warehousing and shipping operations. They help companies:
- Collect and enrich item dimensions and master data with a mobile dimensioning app;
- Pack and transport less air in boxes, on pallets, and in containers & trucks;
- Reduce walking distances on the warehouse floor, optimizing stacking for order picking; and
- Tailor box assortments to the orders you usually fulfill.
Through API integration into existing systems or stand-alone use in their mobile and web apps, companies can easily improve supply chain efficiency.
Marple (Antwerp, Belgium) is a web-based time series data analysis platform designed for engineers to analyse data 3 times faster. They help companies:
- Optimize the storage of large time series data sets;
- Create data visualizations, making data accessible to anyone;
- Get complex insights in data using data mining;
- Transform data into reports automatically.
The Marple data platform transforms complex analysis into an efficient, actionable process.
Jobr (Kortrijk, Belgium) is an app that connects candidates with hospitality & retail companies directly, eliminating unnecessary intermediaries. Jobr's algorithms and AI ensure accurate and efficient matchmaking between companies and potential employees. They help companies:
- Access the right candidates tailored to their needs;
- Gain full transparency into the candidate pool;
- Build direct connections with potential hires;
- Save significantly on high recruitment fees.
Jobr's mission is to create the simplest, most affordable, and efficient recruitment platform for hospitality and retail businesses—without intermediaries.
Dodona (Ghent, Belgium) is an innovative online platform that transforms the way coding is taught and learned. Originally developed at Ghent University (Belgium), it is now widely adopted in K12 schools and universities across the world.
- Dodona provides students with immediate feedback on their coding submissions, interactive debugging, and a cloud-based IDE, ensuring an engaging, hands-on learning experience;
- Teachers benefit from powerful learning analytics, plagiarism detection, and flexible course management tools, enabling smarter instruction and personalized guidance.
Built by educators for educators, Dodona combines scalability, usability, and educational integrity, making it a trusted partner in modern coding education worldwide.
Alkmist (Ghent, Belgium) is a secure collaboration platform that streamlines complex, multi-party workflows like audits, due diligence, and financial/legal reviews by centralizing requests, documents, tasks, and approvals in one place, reducing email back-and-forth and chasing updates. It emphasizes clarity and speed with real-time tracking, automated reminders, and behaviorally informed UX elements to nudge timely follow-up, helping teams and external stakeholders move faster with less friction.
Beyond audits, Alkmist is expanding into broader finance, tax, legal, and insurance use cases, and is building AI-driven agents to automatically check, link, and fetch documents from sources like OneDrive while maintaining strong security practices such as ISO 27001 certification. The product can be white-labeled so organizations keep their own identity, and it targets significant efficiency gains by bringing order to disorganized documents and communications across enterprises.
TCOFLEET (Antwerp, Belgium) has built a mobility platform that cuts through automotive complexity like a hot knife through butter, turning confusing car costs into crystal-clear insights. TCOFLEET's smart algorithms and 20+ years of automotive street smarts deliver spot-on TCO calculations that actually make sense. They help companies:
- Unlock the real story behind every vehicle's true costs;
- Transform sales conversations from guesswork into data-powered confidence;
- Turn mobility budgets from mysterious black holes into predictable investments.
Ditch the spreadsheet chaos and embrace calculation clarity.
TCOFLEET's mission is to make mobility math so simple and reliable that even your grandmother could pick the perfect company car—without breaking a sweat.
Through plug-and-play integration or their intuitive web platform, automotive pros can finally stop explaining complicated costs and start closing deals with the power of transparency on their side.
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Press coverage
De Tijd article (NL)
"Gentse start-up Alkmist haalt 1,8 miljoen op om audits te stroomlijnen.
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Bloovi article (NL)
"Marple, of hoe een Antwerpse start-up data-analyse naar een hoger niveau tilt.
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CMA CGM Startup Awards
"Optioryx is awarded the Logistics CMA CGM Startup Award during the AIM Summit in Marseille!
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MariFish
"Network Venture Partners' co-founder Willem Dumon was invited by Marifish.Inc incubator to an expert session to share his feedback and view on vision3F BV. Good session in Ostend, thanks for the invitation!
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Tech Entrepreneurship UGent
"Network Venture Partners' co-founder Frederik De Witte was invited by professor Sarah Boone to kick-off the new Tech Entrepreneurship course at the University of Ghent!
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