Inventures SA

Inventures is a European venture capital fund that builds a better world through a portfolio of investments in sustainable businesses. The firm has two funds: Inventures I & Inventures II. Inventures was created to support early stage smart and innovative European businesses, to support sustainable job growth and empower entrepreneurs. Inventures empowers citizenship co-investments through a crowdfunding platform, MyMicroInvest.

Olivier de Duve

Managing Partner

AH

Alex Houtart

Principal

Laurent Jouret

Partner

SK

Sarah Kawa

Senior Associate

Ines Mertens

Principal

Bruno de Radzitzky

Partner

LW

Lauren Wyman

Associate

42 past transactions

Zencar

Seed Round in 2015
Zen Car is a Brussels-based carsharing service delivered through a 100% electric vehicle fleet and numerous charging stations. Basically it is a rental service offering shared cars any time and for a time period of your choice. They rent their vehicles directly to end users or businesses. Those cars are available at various self-service charging stations across Brussels. On the short term, the rental is possible through monthly subscriptions, pay-as-you-go or fixed monthly fee; while on the long term there is a possibility of terminal access sales to owners of electric cars. From €9/hour you have the use of a car whenever you need it. Moreover, every Zen Car vehicle is equipped with an Interparking card that allows to park free of charge; the mileage is unlimited (within the limit of the car's battery), and the cleaning and insurance are looked after by Zen Car.

AllerInvest

Venture Round in 2017
AllerInvest develops and design a trap device designed to extract and kill the allergenic dust mites living in mattresses, chairs, carpets and other upholstered furniture.

OncoDNA SA

Series A in 2016
OncoDNA, with over 60 years’ expertise in medical diagnostics, was founded by a team of experts with many years of experience in DNA sequencing and diagnostic analyses in oncology.

Origin.Bio

Seed Round in 2021
Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as the programming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.

Domoscio

Seed Round in 2015
Domoscio is a solution to solidify your learning and measure your training's impacts. It offers an adaptive memorization solution to efficiently remember more and for longer. The point is thus to improve the development of skills and be able to measure its impact in the long term. The Domoscio's method combines cognitive science research studies and neurosciences with the advances in computer sciences (big data, statistics…) to develop an adaptive algorithm for learning and memorization.

Origin.Bio

Seed Round in 2021
Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as the programming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.

Opinum

Series A in 2016
Opinum has created and ensures the continuous development of the "Opinum Data Hub" platform, designed for energy and environmental actors. Opinum is the key partner of these actors in their digital transformation journey. Opinum Data Hub covers all stages of the data management value chain to allow its users to look beyond the complexity of data and focus on their core value and expertise. Opinum Data Hub is mainly intended for large private and public service companies, energy suppliers and companies with expertise in energy management (ESCO).

YouScribe

Venture Round in 2014
YouScribe operates as a French community platform for sharing and selling digital publications. Its YouScribe is a community Website which encourages sharing, discussion, and encounters about the joy of reading; an exportable reader for disseminating documents anywhere on the Web; a service that allows users to build personal digital library drawing from the several tens of thousands of publications; and a way of publishing writings or any kind of digital documents to make them public and visible to as many people as possible. YouScribe was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.

Auctelia SA

Series B in 2015
Auctelia offers industrial companies a simple way to manage efficiently their assets throughout their life cycle. Auctelia currently allows companies and intermediaries to sell and buy industrial assets through an effective online auction process. More than 30,000 members from 30 countries are logged in as buyers and Auctelia already managed sales of over EUR 10 of millions worth in assets.

Velco SAS

Venture Round in 2021
Velco SAS provides a mobile application that tracks and prevents bike theft. It offers Wink, a handlebar paired with smartphone that tracks the trips and prevents bike theft. The company’s application also guides users through its navigation technology. Velco SAS was founded in 2015 and is based in Nantes, France.

Opinum

Seed Round in 2015
Opinum has created and ensures the continuous development of the "Opinum Data Hub" platform, designed for energy and environmental actors. Opinum is the key partner of these actors in their digital transformation journey. Opinum Data Hub covers all stages of the data management value chain to allow its users to look beyond the complexity of data and focus on their core value and expertise. Opinum Data Hub is mainly intended for large private and public service companies, energy suppliers and companies with expertise in energy management (ESCO).

Origin.Bio

Series A in 2021
Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as the programming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.

Santech SAS

Seed Round in 2015
Santech is a customizable medical platform, specialized in prevention and support. It is a software editor for the health reserves management. They conceived a software platform with 4 lines of configurable products in the health sector. Thanks to digital tools (on mobile and tablet), they encourage the users to have a more responsible management of their health, and they support them in order to succeed in this. It is about helping them to change their behavior, with an objective of preventing the common daily accompanying of chronic patients and providing home care for the elderly.

MySkillCamp

Series A in 2021
SA MySkillCamp develops LCMS software to train employees, customers, and partners. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tournai, Belgium.

Social Stock Exchange

Venture Round in 2017
The Social Stock Exchange provides access to the world’s first regulated exchange dedicated to businesses and investors seeking to achieve a positive social and environmental impact through their activities. The Social Stock Exchange stands for something. It stands for change. Change in the way that investments are sought – and sold. To be listed here, a company must pass their stringent validation process. These companies can be big or small; so long as they have the potential to deliver viable returns and can demonstrate how they will adhere to their own social and/or environmental mandates and missions. They are companies that they believe in and can honestly get behind.

Fear Hunters

Seed Round in 2012
Fear Hunters makes fearless plush-toys. They are here to help you overcome your fears. They conceive toys with a positive influence on children's personal development. Their approach is global. Our ideas aim at stimulating the mind and the body equally through playing, thinking and feeling.

YouScribe

Venture Round in 2017
YouScribe operates as a French community platform for sharing and selling digital publications. Its YouScribe is a community Website which encourages sharing, discussion, and encounters about the joy of reading; an exportable reader for disseminating documents anywhere on the Web; a service that allows users to build personal digital library drawing from the several tens of thousands of publications; and a way of publishing writings or any kind of digital documents to make them public and visible to as many people as possible. YouScribe was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.

CitizenLab

Series A in 2019
CitizenLab (https://www.citizenlab.co) is a civic engagement platform on which citizens co-create their city. The platform facilitates a two-way communication between the city and its citizens. Citizens post ideas, interact on them and upvote the best ideas. On the other hand, the city uses CitizenLab to consult the opinion of its citizens via polling or to ask their creative solutions to an existing problem. Our SaaS solution is the medium for cities to make decision-making more democratic, more transparent and more collaborative through citizensourcing.

Opinum

Series A in 2016
Opinum has created and ensures the continuous development of the "Opinum Data Hub" platform, designed for energy and environmental actors. Opinum is the key partner of these actors in their digital transformation journey. Opinum Data Hub covers all stages of the data management value chain to allow its users to look beyond the complexity of data and focus on their core value and expertise. Opinum Data Hub is mainly intended for large private and public service companies, energy suppliers and companies with expertise in energy management (ESCO).

Fear Hunters

Series A in 2014
Fear Hunters makes fearless plush-toys. They are here to help you overcome your fears. They conceive toys with a positive influence on children's personal development. Their approach is global. Our ideas aim at stimulating the mind and the body equally through playing, thinking and feeling.

Univercells

Series B in 2018
Univercells is a One-stop-shop for high-density low-cost biomanufacturing "end-to-end" solutions, with innovative engineering able to decrease the needs for investments of over 75% and the cost of goods of up to 90%. Univercells' technologies, aimed at low cost manufacturing of antibodies/proteins/vaccines, is based on single-use technologies, and chaining of three manufacturing steps into simulated continuous mode : cell culture under perfusion, clarification and capture.

2-Observe

Seed Round in 2014
2-Observe company is active in observational research and validation of innovative concepts in the biotechnology sector and private health care. Founded in 2010, 2-Observe company was born from the concern of its founders of meeting the needs observed in the field by providing effective solutions to improve quality of life. It was built from the experience of its associates from the medical community, the research sector and the industry field of life sciences. Jean-Philippe Hermanne MD, Internist and Head of Department of Oncology in the Centre Hospitalier Régional of Namur (Belgium), with expertise in intensive care and emergency services. Isabelle Joslet, Specialist in Public Health with a long experience as Coordinator of university research programs. Pierre Bothy, Senior Consultant in the medical device industry.

APROPLAN S.A.

Series A in 2017
As of February 6, 2019, APROPLAN S.A. was acquired by GenieBelt ApS. APROPLAN S.A. develops a construction and renovation management application. Its application is available on mobile phones, smart tabs, and desktops to architects, contractors, engineers, subcontractors, and other clients. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Brussels, Belgium with additional offices in La Hulpe, Belgium; and Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong.

Auctelia SA

Seed Round in 2011
Auctelia offers industrial companies a simple way to manage efficiently their assets throughout their life cycle. Auctelia currently allows companies and intermediaries to sell and buy industrial assets through an effective online auction process. More than 30,000 members from 30 countries are logged in as buyers and Auctelia already managed sales of over EUR 10 of millions worth in assets.

Domobios S.A.

Seed Round in 2016
Domobios S.A. specializes in the development, manufacturing, and sale of products for eradicating domestic pests. It offers sprays and technical textiles that attract dust mites and catches them. The company offers its products through pharmacies, medical supply stores, and online in Belgium and internationally. Domobios S.A. was founded in 2013 and is based in Brussels, Belgium.

Shiftmeapp

Seed Round in 2017
Shiftmeapp operates as a web and mobile application providing a virtual scheduling assistant. Shiftmeapp was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium with an additional office in Paris, France.

2houses SPRL

Seed Round in 2011
2houses.com is an online communication, scheduling and reporting tool for separated or divorced parents with respect to their children. 2houses.com offers: - a shared calendar with the parenting schedule and any special event or appointment - an expense module allowing for efficient tracking and balancing of the expenses - a journal in which parents can add quick notes like the feedback of a teacher - an information bank allowing to store every information about the children ranging from their shirt size to the vaccination record

2houses SPRL

Series B in 2016
2houses.com is an online communication, scheduling and reporting tool for separated or divorced parents with respect to their children. 2houses.com offers: - a shared calendar with the parenting schedule and any special event or appointment - an expense module allowing for efficient tracking and balancing of the expenses - a journal in which parents can add quick notes like the feedback of a teacher - an information bank allowing to store every information about the children ranging from their shirt size to the vaccination record

YouScribe

Series B in 2015
YouScribe operates as a French community platform for sharing and selling digital publications. Its YouScribe is a community Website which encourages sharing, discussion, and encounters about the joy of reading; an exportable reader for disseminating documents anywhere on the Web; a service that allows users to build personal digital library drawing from the several tens of thousands of publications; and a way of publishing writings or any kind of digital documents to make them public and visible to as many people as possible. YouScribe was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.

2houses SPRL

Series B in 2014
2houses.com is an online communication, scheduling and reporting tool for separated or divorced parents with respect to their children. 2houses.com offers: - a shared calendar with the parenting schedule and any special event or appointment - an expense module allowing for efficient tracking and balancing of the expenses - a journal in which parents can add quick notes like the feedback of a teacher - an information bank allowing to store every information about the children ranging from their shirt size to the vaccination record

YouScribe

Series A in 2012
YouScribe operates as a French community platform for sharing and selling digital publications. Its YouScribe is a community Website which encourages sharing, discussion, and encounters about the joy of reading; an exportable reader for disseminating documents anywhere on the Web; a service that allows users to build personal digital library drawing from the several tens of thousands of publications; and a way of publishing writings or any kind of digital documents to make them public and visible to as many people as possible. YouScribe was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.

Domobios S.A.

Seed Round in 2013
Domobios S.A. specializes in the development, manufacturing, and sale of products for eradicating domestic pests. It offers sprays and technical textiles that attract dust mites and catches them. The company offers its products through pharmacies, medical supply stores, and online in Belgium and internationally. Domobios S.A. was founded in 2013 and is based in Brussels, Belgium.

Domobios S.A.

Seed Round in 2015
Domobios S.A. specializes in the development, manufacturing, and sale of products for eradicating domestic pests. It offers sprays and technical textiles that attract dust mites and catches them. The company offers its products through pharmacies, medical supply stores, and online in Belgium and internationally. Domobios S.A. was founded in 2013 and is based in Brussels, Belgium.

Domoscio

Seed Round in 2016
Domoscio is a solution to solidify your learning and measure your training's impacts. It offers an adaptive memorization solution to efficiently remember more and for longer. The point is thus to improve the development of skills and be able to measure its impact in the long term. The Domoscio's method combines cognitive science research studies and neurosciences with the advances in computer sciences (big data, statistics…) to develop an adaptive algorithm for learning and memorization.

2houses SPRL

Series A in 2012
2houses.com is an online communication, scheduling and reporting tool for separated or divorced parents with respect to their children. 2houses.com offers: - a shared calendar with the parenting schedule and any special event or appointment - an expense module allowing for efficient tracking and balancing of the expenses - a journal in which parents can add quick notes like the feedback of a teacher - an information bank allowing to store every information about the children ranging from their shirt size to the vaccination record

Social Stock Exchange

Venture Round in 2016
The Social Stock Exchange provides access to the world’s first regulated exchange dedicated to businesses and investors seeking to achieve a positive social and environmental impact through their activities. The Social Stock Exchange stands for something. It stands for change. Change in the way that investments are sought – and sold. To be listed here, a company must pass their stringent validation process. These companies can be big or small; so long as they have the potential to deliver viable returns and can demonstrate how they will adhere to their own social and/or environmental mandates and missions. They are companies that they believe in and can honestly get behind.

2-Observe

Series A in 2015
2-Observe company is active in observational research and validation of innovative concepts in the biotechnology sector and private health care. Founded in 2010, 2-Observe company was born from the concern of its founders of meeting the needs observed in the field by providing effective solutions to improve quality of life. It was built from the experience of its associates from the medical community, the research sector and the industry field of life sciences. Jean-Philippe Hermanne MD, Internist and Head of Department of Oncology in the Centre Hospitalier Régional of Namur (Belgium), with expertise in intensive care and emergency services. Isabelle Joslet, Specialist in Public Health with a long experience as Coordinator of university research programs. Pierre Bothy, Senior Consultant in the medical device industry.

SAM Labs Limited

Series A in 2019
SAM Labs Limited operates as an education technology company, which provides teaching resources to educators, including lesson plans, applications, and electronics. The company manufactures blocks and accessories, including buttons, sensors, motors, and sliders. It also develops SAM Space, a software application that allows for blocks to be visualized and coded together in an intuitive way. In addition, the company also offers solutions for in-classroom support by providing curriculum-based lesson plans and hands-on educator support. Further, it sells course kits and electronic products online. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Elysia

Venture Round in 2014
Elysia developed solution dedicated to quality control laboratories for the production of Radio Pharmaceuticals.

OncoDNA SA

Series B in 2020
OncoDNA, with over 60 years’ expertise in medical diagnostics, was founded by a team of experts with many years of experience in DNA sequencing and diagnostic analyses in oncology.

Santech SAS

Series A in 2016
Santech is a customizable medical platform, specialized in prevention and support. It is a software editor for the health reserves management. They conceived a software platform with 4 lines of configurable products in the health sector. Thanks to digital tools (on mobile and tablet), they encourage the users to have a more responsible management of their health, and they support them in order to succeed in this. It is about helping them to change their behavior, with an objective of preventing the common daily accompanying of chronic patients and providing home care for the elderly.

Elysia

Series A in 2015
Elysia developed solution dedicated to quality control laboratories for the production of Radio Pharmaceuticals.