Korys

Korys is the name chosen by the Colruyt family for their investment structure. The name Korys is derived from the Latin word for hazelnut tree – Corylus - which is at the origin of the Colruyt name. Their multi-disciplinary approach enables us to create a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, and direct participations in small and medium-sized companies. Through their investments, they aim to make a positive impact on people and the planet, while generating attractive returns. A “three P” approach (People, Planet, Profit) forms the cornerstone of their investment strategy. They invest for the long term, as they realize that it takes time to achieve the sustainable impact they are aiming for. They focus their investments in sectors in which they have built substantial expertise as a team: Cleantech, consumer goods & retail and life sciences.

Griet Aerts

Partner

Frederik Bauwens

Investment Director

Karel Van Cleemput

Senior Investment Manager

Dries Crevits

Partner

David Devigne

Investment Director

Quentin Dupont

Investment Manager

Brieuc de Hults

Investment Director

Daniel Leuthardt

Investment Director

Katti Van Oosterwijck

Senior Investment Manager

Eva Van Overmeire

Senior Investment Manager

Pablo Queriat

Senior Investment Manager

Gert Ryckmans

Senior Investment Manager

Vincent De Smet

Investment Manager

Richard Stadler

Investment Manager

Hilde Van der Straeten

Investment Director

Jérôme Thomas

Investment Director

Vincent Vliebergh

Managing Partner

Christoph Waer

Senior Investment Manager

36 past transactions

Sahyadri Farms

Venture Round in 2022
Sahyadri Farms is a integrated fruits and vegetables value chain. Sahyadri Farms is an initiative fully led and managed by farmers who have complete understanding of the problems faced by small-landholding farmers. Sahyadri Farms was established on January 11, 2011 by Shitij Agrawaal in Nasik, Maharashtra.

Trunkrs

Series B in 2022
Trunkrs is offers same-day delivery to webshops, is investing in the electrification of the distribution and distribution centers.

Sensorfact

Venture Round in 2022
Sensorfact offers smart energy savings in the manufacturing industry. The company is a smart advisor for the industry who translates sustainability to day-to-day language and specific actions. No complex sensor technology, no complex software and no complex business models. We make sustainability understandable and transparant.

Protealis

Series A in 2021
Protealis creates improved seeds and seed technologies for legume crops in order to improve their adaptability to the European environment. The objective of the company is to be Europe's best germplasm provider for sustainable plant proteins.

VoltStorage

Series B in 2021
VoltStorage develops and produces solar energy storage systems based on the eco-friendly Redox Flow technology to store surplus solar energy by day and use it during periods of low sunshine. With its sustainable energy storage solutions, VoltStorage follows the vision of making 100 percent renewable energy available around the clock – and thus making the world cleaner and fairer for future generations.

Sensorfact

Series A in 2021
Sensorfact offers smart energy savings in the manufacturing industry. The company is a smart advisor for the industry who translates sustainability to day-to-day language and specific actions. No complex sensor technology, no complex software and no complex business models. We make sustainability understandable and transparant.

reMYND

Series B in 2021
Their Contract Research Organization (CRO) helps their clients assess the effects of their experimental Alzheimer treatments in their proprietary mouse models. They serve the majority of the Top 10 pharmaco’s worldwide with clients in the US, Europe and Japan. They have provided pivotal in-vivo proof-of-concept data for several candidate drugs currently in clinical development, and work actively together with Dr. Sugimoto, the inventor of Aricept.

Inscripta

Venture Round in 2020
Inscripta is developing the first benchtop platform for scalable digital genome engineering. The company’s advanced CRISPR-based platform, consisting of an instrument, consumables, software, and assays, offers a fully automated workflow that enables massively parallel, trackable editing of single cells at an unprecedented scale. Inscripta’s goal is to empower scientists whose gene editing research is stifled by current technical and licensing limitations. By providing this unique platform and engaging in collaborative business practices, such as making its MAD7 CRISPR nuclease-free for research and development purposes, the company enables scientists to realize a new era of biological discovery.

Eneida

Series A in 2020
Eneida designs and develops smart sensors and artificial intelligence applications for resilient and agile low voltage grid. Its product called Deep Grid is a collaborative energy IoT platform for the remote and online optimization of the low voltage network. The company aims to help electric utilities to make the most of their low voltage network. Eneida was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Coimbra, Portugal.

Ampacimon

Venture Round in 2020
Ampacimon SA manufactures line rating systems for transmission/distribution systems operators worldwide. It offers ADR View, a quantification and modeling tool based on historical weather data; ADR Sense, a self-powered vibration sensor with GSM data transmission; ADR Operate, a data-acquisition and ampacity computation real-time engine that allows users to retrieve key operational real-time parameters for a sensor, including the perpendicular wind speed; ADR Trend, one-four hours ampacity forecast software; and ADR Horizon, a medium-term (60 hours) ampacity forecast software. Its solutions allow grid operators to foresee congestion problems and address them through low cost reconfiguration actions. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Grace-Hollogne, Belgium with additional office in Cumming, Georgia.

VoltStorage

Venture Round in 2020
VoltStorage develops and produces solar energy storage systems based on the eco-friendly Redox Flow technology to store surplus solar energy by day and use it during periods of low sunshine. With its sustainable energy storage solutions, VoltStorage follows the vision of making 100 percent renewable energy available around the clock – and thus making the world cleaner and fairer for future generations.

Urbantz

Series A in 2020
Urbantz is a last-mile delivery management platform for enterprises designed to respond to the delivery needs of retailers, logistics operators, e-commerce, grocery players, among others. Urbantz provides an enterprise SaaS solution for real-time visibility and complete control over the entire last-mile delivery chain. More than 100 retail, grocery, eCommerce, and logistics brands – including Asda, PostNord, Westwing, Auchan Retail and Al-Futtaim use URBANTZ every day to manage mission-critical deliveries across EMEA and beyond.

Amphivena Therapeutics

Series C in 2019
Amphivena Therapeutics is a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company that develops a platform of dual-function biologics. Its Amphivena ReSTORE platform provides dual-action biologics that relieve immune suppression and activate T cell effector function in cancer patients. The platform design integrates elements of avidity, target selectivity, and enhanced safety within a single molecule. It is also can be engineered with additional solid tumor targeting modalities to add functionality such as directed tumor cell killing. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

Sitemark

Series A in 2019
Sitemark provides software and services to streamline and optimize the engineering, construction and operation of solar sites. Asset Owners, EPC contractors and O&M providers use Sitemark to increase productivity and mitigate risks. Founded in 2016, Sitemark is used across more than 3000 sites in over 35 countries by the world's leading renewable energy companies including TotalEnergies, ENEL, EDF, Sonnedix and Enerparc.

SET Ventures

Funding Round in 2019
Since 2007 Amsterdam-based SET Ventures has invested in digital technology for a carbon-free energy system by backing pioneering founders with capital, community, and insights. SET Ventures invests in companies with sustainable solutions and a strong digital DNA leading the systemic change of how energy is generated, distributed, stored, and consumed in sectors such as distributed infrastructure, energy retail, buildings, mobility, and industry as well as enabling technologies.

reMYND

Venture Round in 2018
Their Contract Research Organization (CRO) helps their clients assess the effects of their experimental Alzheimer treatments in their proprietary mouse models. They serve the majority of the Top 10 pharmaco’s worldwide with clients in the US, Europe and Japan. They have provided pivotal in-vivo proof-of-concept data for several candidate drugs currently in clinical development, and work actively together with Dr. Sugimoto, the inventor of Aricept.

Mimetas

Series B in 2018
MIMETAS develops predictive Organ-on-a-Chip cell culture models for better, more reliable and tailored medicines. A significant gap exist between the predictive value of various in vitro and animal screening models and a patient. MIMETAS fills this gap with its OrganoPlates featuring organotypic screening models that have an improved predictability and can be screened at a high throughput.

Greenbyte

Venture Round in 2018
Greenbyte AB is a company based in Gothenburg, Sweden, that specializes in cloud-based software solutions for the renewable energy sector. Established in 2008, Greenbyte develops a software platform designed for the owners, operators, and developers of wind turbines and solar energy plants. Their offerings include a wind farm management system and a solar photovoltaics management system, which provide insights aimed at enhancing power output from these renewable energy assets. Additionally, Greenbyte offers a wind resource monitoring system that supports the management of wind measurement campaigns, enabling clients to optimize the performance and efficiency of their energy operations.

ONTOFORCE

Series A in 2018
ONTOFORCE helps life sciences organizations accelerate research and drug development for improved patient outcomes by unlocking hidden insights from data. Founded on semantic technology and an ontology-based knowledge graph, their flagship product, DISQOVER, is a data and knowledge platform developed specifically for the life sciences industry. DISQOVER seamlessly connects an organization’s internal, siloed data with licensed data and public data in one easy-to-use, customizable platform, enabling efficient data exploration and analysis. DISQOVER has over 10,000 users across the globe and is deployed by many leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Users include scientific researchers, bioinformaticians, data scientists, and many other roles. ONTOFORCE is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium and has a secondary office in the United States in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Learn more about ONTOFORCE at ontoforce.com and try DISQOVER at disqover.com.

ProDigest

Venture Round in 2017
ProDigest provides customized solutions related to gastrointestinal research to the operators in the market of food/feed, functional food/feed and pharmaceutical industry. Our expertise in the field of gastrointestinal transit, bioavailability and metabolism of food/feed compounds and pharmaceuticals, in relation to their fate and function in the body, makes ProDigest an essential partner for innovative product development.

Greenbyte

Venture Round in 2017
Greenbyte AB is a company based in Gothenburg, Sweden, that specializes in cloud-based software solutions for the renewable energy sector. Established in 2008, Greenbyte develops a software platform designed for the owners, operators, and developers of wind turbines and solar energy plants. Their offerings include a wind farm management system and a solar photovoltaics management system, which provide insights aimed at enhancing power output from these renewable energy assets. Additionally, Greenbyte offers a wind resource monitoring system that supports the management of wind measurement campaigns, enabling clients to optimize the performance and efficiency of their energy operations.

Ojah

Acquisition in 2017
Ojah produces gluten-free foods and meat. Frank Giezen, Jeroen Willemsen, and Wouter Jansen founded it in 2009, with its headquarters in Ochten in the Netherlands.

Greenbyte

Venture Round in 2016
Greenbyte AB is a company based in Gothenburg, Sweden, that specializes in cloud-based software solutions for the renewable energy sector. Established in 2008, Greenbyte develops a software platform designed for the owners, operators, and developers of wind turbines and solar energy plants. Their offerings include a wind farm management system and a solar photovoltaics management system, which provide insights aimed at enhancing power output from these renewable energy assets. Additionally, Greenbyte offers a wind resource monitoring system that supports the management of wind measurement campaigns, enabling clients to optimize the performance and efficiency of their energy operations.

Smartmat

Venture Round in 2016
Smartmat N.V. provides food delivery services in the form of dinner boxes. The company focuses on local and biological ingredients.

Bluebee

Series A in 2016
Bluebee is a leading provider of high performance genomics solutions, enabling research and clinical labs to substantially reduce cost and time-to-diagnose. Bluebee provides a unique cloud-based accelerated genomics platform to enable fast, efficient and affordable processing of large volumes of genomics data. Genetic analyses are currently undergoing extreme changes as a result of revolutionary developments in next generation DNA sequencing technology. While personalized treatment comes with great promises, routine clinical implementation of whole genome based diagnostics is still faced with major technological and biological challenges: the ever-growing amounts of data generated, the inherent need for faster data processing and deep analytics, and the increasing necessity of flexibility and reliability resulting from the vastness of the application spectrum.

Genae

Venture Round in 2016
genae is the leading medical device Contract Research Organization (CRO) that accelerates innovation through collaborative insights & global expertise with results that matter. Dedicated to Medical Devices, delivering what is promised.

MyOptique Group

Venture Round in 2015
The MyOptique Group is revolutionising the £20bn European optical industry by cutting out the high street middle man – and providing its customers a superior service and significant savings. The group is the clear European leader in the growing online optical segment with a full offering covering all three major segments in the eyewear market - prescription glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses via its online retail brands Glasses Direct, Sunglasses Shop, MyOptique.com, LensOn, Netzoptiker, Eyewearbrands and Lensbest.de. More than two-thirds of sales are outside of the UK market. It carries over 150 brands and 7,000 styles.

Voltalia

Post in 2015
Voltalia is a power producer and service provider in renewable electricity production from solar, wind, hydro and biomass energies (combining storage solutions). Voltalia has developed a strong expertise throughout the value chain of a renewable project: project development, project financing, EPC and operation & maintenance. The Group is active in 20 countries and is able to offer services to its clients worldwide. As of December 31, 2018, Voltalia has developed and sold more than 1.8 GW and built more than 1.3 GW. It operates more than 1 GW and owns more than 0.5 GW of consolidated installed capacity.

Eurowatt

Acquisition in 2014
Eurowatt is an independent producer of electricity produced from renewable energy. Actor recognized in France and in Europe, the group ensures all the phases of a project and masters all the activities of the wind: Development Construction exploitation With more than 10 years of experience in the development and production of renewable energy, he is now one of the fifteen main developers of wind farms in France, with more than 160 wind turbines (300 MW) and 78 in operation (154 MW).

MyOptique Group

Series C in 2014
The MyOptique Group is revolutionising the £20bn European optical industry by cutting out the high street middle man – and providing its customers a superior service and significant savings. The group is the clear European leader in the growing online optical segment with a full offering covering all three major segments in the eyewear market - prescription glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses via its online retail brands Glasses Direct, Sunglasses Shop, MyOptique.com, LensOn, Netzoptiker, Eyewearbrands and Lensbest.de. More than two-thirds of sales are outside of the UK market. It carries over 150 brands and 7,000 styles.

Parkwind

Seed Round in 2013
Parkwind specializes in the development, funding, and operation of wind farms and has established a distinctive position within the industry. The company currently manages over 771 MW of operational capacity and is committed to further increasing the proportion of renewable energy through its collaborative approach with local communities, government bodies, and suppliers. Parkwind's international presence is growing, with involvement in projects such as the 257 MW Arcadis Ost I in Germany and the 330 MW Oriel Windfarm in Ireland. Parkwind is dedicated to the use of innovative technologies, designs, and installation techniques, ensuring that the transition to renewable energy sources is both environmentally friendly and beneficial to all stakeholders.

Biocartis

Series D in 2012
Biocartis SA, a molecular diagnostics company, develops diagnostics technology platform for multiplexed detection of bio-analytes. It focuses on integrated molecular and immunodiagnostics based on its proprietary micro-technology platform. The company develops and licenses a series of technologies to build a diagnostics platform for multiplexed detection, quantification, and amplification of bio-analytes, including proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules. Its products are used for various applications, including analysis of bio-molecules associated with risks factors, early detection, staging, treatment selection, and monitoring of a disease. Biocartis SA was founded in 2007 and is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Agendia

Private Equity Round in 2012
Agendia's molecular diagnostic technology provides cancer patients and their physicians with a glimpse into their genome, answers to the most pressing questions and enables personalized treatment plans. Agendia’s breast cancer tests were developed using an unbiased gene selection by analyzing the complete human genome. Agendia’s tests can help physicians assess a patient’s individual risk for metastasis, which patients may benefit from chemo, hormonal or combination therapy, and which patients may not require these treatments and can instead be treated with other, less arduous and less costly methods.

Planet-eco

Venture Round in 2010
Planet-eco is an installation company of sustainable energy technologies such as heat pumps, gas condensing boilers, solar boilers, heat pump boilers and solar panels, we would like to inspire you. We analyze your current or future energy consumption and install unique, tailor-made solutions that explain the technical, financial, fiscal and subsidy related aspects.

Bricsnet

Venture Round in 2007
A comprehensive and easy-to-use Integrated Workplace Management System. Bricsnet brings your real estate portfolio into perspective, so that you can better understand and manage its impact on your business. Whether your focus is financial oversight, operations or planning, Bricsnet Enterprise provides both global oversight and detailed insight into the issues that keep you awake. Their comprehensive application suite addresses Project Management, Lease Administration, Real Estate Transactions, Budgeting, Planning, Space Occupancy and Utilization, Maintenance, Repairs, Operations and more – all completely modular so you can get to work fast and focus on what's critical to your business.

Inge Watertechnologies

Series B in 2007
Inge Watertechnologies develops ultrafilteration technology to treat drinking, processed, sea, and waste water.
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