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Korys

Korys, established in 2000, is the investment vehicle of the Colruyt family based in Belgium. Named after the Latin term for hazelnut tree, the firm pursues a multi-disciplinary strategy to create a diversified portfolio that includes listed stocks, bonds, private equity funds, and direct investments in small and medium-sized enterprises. Korys places a strong emphasis on making a positive impact on society and the environment, guided by a commitment to the principles of People, Planet, and Profit. The firm focuses on long-term investments, recognizing that sustainable change requires time. Its areas of expertise include Cleantech, consumer goods and retail, and life sciences, enabling Korys to make informed investment decisions that align with its mission.

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Frederik Bauwens

Investment Director

Karel Van Cleemput

Investment Manager

Dries Colpaert

Senior Advisor

Dries Crevits

Partner

Bart Elst

Investment Director

Sofie Gabriëls

Chief Financial Officer and Director of Administration

Guillaume Hollanders

Chief Financial Officer

Brieuc de Hults

Investment Director

Thomas De Kempeneer

Senior Investment Manager

Joost Van Laer

Investment Manager

Daniel Leuthardt

Investment Director

Katti Van Oosterwijck

Investment Manager

Pablo Queriat

Senior Investment Manager

Raf Roelands

Investment Manager

Gert Ryckmans

Senior Investment Manager

Loïc de Schaetzen

Investment Director

Vincent De Smet

Investment Manager

Richard Stadler

Investment Manager

Jérôme Thomas

Investment Director

Vincent Vliebergh

Managing Partner

Christoph Waer

Senior Investment Manager

51 past transactions

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ampacimon

Venture Round in 2020
Ampacimon develops dynamic line rating systems for transmission and distribution systems operators. Ampacimon’s products address grid infrastructure challenges such as aging assets, transmissions congestion, renewable integration, interconnectors.

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.

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.

VoltStorage

Private Placement 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.

Cell-Easy

Private Placement in 2020
Cell-Easy SAS operates as a stem cell contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that provides ready-to-inject adipose derived allogeneic stem cells for preclinical and clinical development projects. The company’s allogeneic production process allows using the biological material of a healthy donor to help thousands of patients. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Toulouse, France.

Greenbyte

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
Greenbyte AB develops and operates a cloud based software platform to developers, owners, and operators of wind turbines and solar energy plants that provides insight to increase power output. The company offers a wind farm management system, and a solar photovoltaics management system to assist wind turbine and solar PV owners and operators in capturing the potential of their assets. It also offers a wind resource monitoring system to manage wind measurement campaigns. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Eneida

Private Placement 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.

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.

Greenbyte

Venture Round in 2017
Greenbyte AB develops and operates a cloud based software platform to developers, owners, and operators of wind turbines and solar energy plants that provides insight to increase power output. The company offers a wind farm management system, and a solar photovoltaics management system to assist wind turbine and solar PV owners and operators in capturing the potential of their assets. It also offers a wind resource monitoring system to manage wind measurement campaigns. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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.

Urbantz

Series A in 2020
Urbantz is a delivery management platform to optimize and control first and last mile operations, from the initial order to the final recipient. The award-winning SaaS solution enables retailers, e-commerce players and carriers to provide recipients an outstanding delivery experience.

Greenbyte

Venture Round in 2018
Greenbyte AB develops and operates a cloud based software platform to developers, owners, and operators of wind turbines and solar energy plants that provides insight to increase power output. The company offers a wind farm management system, and a solar photovoltaics management system to assist wind turbine and solar PV owners and operators in capturing the potential of their assets. It also offers a wind resource monitoring system to manage wind measurement campaigns. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

ONTOFORCE

Private Placement in 2018
ONTOFORCE N.V. provides disQover, a search engine that establishes intelligent links between different autonomous sources of information. Its disQover connects internal and private data with external and public information. The company offers schoolKID, a platform that contains students’ information and is accessible to various schools; and consultancy services. ONTOFORCE N.V. was founded in 2011 and is based in Gent, Belgium.

SET Fund III

Funding Round in 2019
Since 2007, Amsterdam-based SET Ventures has invested in European technology companies that impact the future of the energy system. SET Ventures focuses broadly on innovative energy generation, energy distribution and storage and energy efficiency. SET Fund III provides early growth-stage capital to ventures that shape the energy system transition through smart software and services-based business models.

Ampacimon

Series C in 2023
Ampacimon develops dynamic line rating systems for transmission and distribution systems operators. Ampacimon’s products address grid infrastructure challenges such as aging assets, transmissions congestion, renewable integration, interconnectors.

Aphea.Bio

Series C in 2023
Aphea.Bio will develop next generation ‘biopesticides’ based on natural microorganisms. These products will provide an alternative for chemical pesticides, which are currently under serious pressure. In addition, the company will develop novel ‘biostimulants’, i.e. microorganisms that stimulate crop growth, for example through promoting the uptake of nutrients from the soil.

Eneida

Series B in 2024
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.

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. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Antwerp, Belgium.

Sitemark

Series A in 2019
Sitemark develops a platform and application that help its users improve operational efficiency through high quality aerial data. The platform provides services, such as precise measurements of distance, area, volume, gradient, and temperature. The application developed by the company helps users plan automated flight paths. The company caters to industries, such as solar, construction, and mining and aggregates. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Amphivena Therapeutics

Series C in 2019
Amphivena Therapeutics, Inc. develops bifunctional antibody therapies for hematologic malignancies. It eradicates blood cancers with a therapy that harnesses the patient’s own immune system to destroy tumor cells and their precursors. Amphivena Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Affimed Spinco Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. Amphivena Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Affimed N.V.

MRM Technologies N.V.

Private Placement in 2020
MRM Technologies N.V. develops microbiome-based therapeutics for the treatment of metabolic diseases. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Zwijnaarde, Belgium.

Ampacimon

Private Placement in 2020
Ampacimon develops dynamic line rating systems for transmission and distribution systems operators. Ampacimon’s products address grid infrastructure challenges such as aging assets, transmissions congestion, renewable integration, interconnectors.

Newpharma

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
Newpharma is the online extension of a traditional Belgian pharmacy. The online pharmacy follows a strong European strategy with 750.000 patients across 12 countries, as well as five local websites for Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Germany and Austria. Newpharma stands out on its market thanks to the width of its catalogue, with over 30.000 products and 750 brands, and the efficiency of its logistics that allows the company to deliver most orders placed before noon within 24 hours.

Greenbyte

Private Placement in 2018
Greenbyte AB develops and operates a cloud based software platform to developers, owners, and operators of wind turbines and solar energy plants that provides insight to increase power output. The company offers a wind farm management system, and a solar photovoltaics management system to assist wind turbine and solar PV owners and operators in capturing the potential of their assets. It also offers a wind resource monitoring system to manage wind measurement campaigns. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Mimetas

Series B in 2018
MIMETAS B.V. develops microfluidics-based culture plates that enable culturing and screening of a range of 3D organ and tissue models. The company's product portfolio includes OrganoPlate 2-lane, OrganoPlate 3-lane, and perfusion rocker. It offers OrganoPlates microfluidics-based culture plates that serve as early stage screening models predicting toxic side effects and drug efficacy. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Leiden, the Netherlands.

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.

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.

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.

Bluebee

Series A in 2016
Bluebee Holding B.V. develops cloud-based accelerated genomics analysis platform that enables processing of sequencing data. The company’s Bluebee genomics platform supports cross-functional teams of life science researchers and clinicians in processing, managing, and sharing sequence data. The company also offers data analytics and aggregation and customized user experience. It serves research centers, sequencing service providers, clinical labs, and kit providers. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Rijswijk, the Netherlands. As of June 17, 2020, Bluebee Holding B.V. operates as a subsidiary of Illumina, Inc.

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.

ONTOFORCE

Series A in 2018
ONTOFORCE N.V. provides disQover, a search engine that establishes intelligent links between different autonomous sources of information. Its disQover connects internal and private data with external and public information. The company offers schoolKID, a platform that contains students’ information and is accessible to various schools; and consultancy services. ONTOFORCE N.V. was founded in 2011 and is based in Gent, Belgium.

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.

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.

Parkwind

Seed Round in 2013
Parkwind NV develops, finances, builds, and operates wind farms in the North Sea. Parkwind NV has a strategic partnership with Sumitomo Corporation.

Mimetas

Private Placement in 2018
MIMETAS B.V. develops microfluidics-based culture plates that enable culturing and screening of a range of 3D organ and tissue models. The company's product portfolio includes OrganoPlate 2-lane, OrganoPlate 3-lane, and perfusion rocker. It offers OrganoPlates microfluidics-based culture plates that serve as early stage screening models predicting toxic side effects and drug efficacy. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Leiden, the Netherlands.

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).

Ojah

Acquisition in 2017
Ojah b.v. produces gluten free foods and meat. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Ochten, the Netherlands. As of June 30, 2018, Ojah b.v. operates as a subsidiary of Kerry Group plc.

Greenbyte

Venture Round in 2016
Greenbyte AB develops and operates a cloud based software platform to developers, owners, and operators of wind turbines and solar energy plants that provides insight to increase power output. The company offers a wind farm management system, and a solar photovoltaics management system to assist wind turbine and solar PV owners and operators in capturing the potential of their assets. It also offers a wind resource monitoring system to manage wind measurement campaigns. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Inge watertechnologies

Series B in 2007
Inge develops ultrafiltration technology for drinking water, sea water, waste water, and processed water.

BORA WIND ENERGY MANAGEMENT S.L.

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
BORA WIND ENERGY MANAGEMENT S.L. owns and manages wind energy plants in Spain. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Madrid, Spain.

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.

Ojah

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
Ojah b.v. produces gluten free foods and meat. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Ochten, the Netherlands. As of June 30, 2018, Ojah b.v. operates as a subsidiary of Kerry Group plc.

Sensorfact

Venture Round in 2023
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.