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The Faktory

The Faktory is a venture capital firm and startup accelerator based in Angleur, Belgium, founded in 2013 by Pierre L’Hoest. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage investments, focusing on sectors such as Information and Communication Technology, Health, Media, leisure technology, and the Internet of Things. The Faktory targets companies primarily in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, investing between €0.2 million and €1 million per transaction, while typically taking a minority stake of around 30%. With over €4.5 million under management, The Faktory has invested in 11 companies that serve niche markets in areas like consumer electronics, gaming, and SaaS products. The firm's approach incorporates methodologies such as the Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas to support the growth of startups by identifying market niches and facilitating customer-centric development. The Faktory also collaborates with Boldstart Ventures, leveraging their extensive experience in venture capital to enhance the success of its portfolio companies.

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Simon Alexandre

EVP General Manager and Partner

26 past transactions

e-peas

Seed Round in 2015
e-peas is a disruptive semiconductor company that enables the seamless operation of all connected nodes. The company is developing ultra-low-power high performances circuits such as energy harvester interfaces and microcontrollers that help companies make their IoT devices smarter and more energy-efficient by either prolonging battery life or making the devices live forever. e-peas also develops energy harvesting solutions which extend rechargeable batteries' life of portable devices by harvesting energy from solar, thermal, vibration, radiofrequency, and other sources. These solutions help industries to build products that free users and industries from a burden of replacing non-rechargeable batteries The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mont-saint-guibert, Brabant Wallon, Belgium.

MyCellHub

Private Placement in 2019
MyCellHub.com is a pre-startup from the KULeuven in the biotherapeutics industry that aspires to reform the way cell production processes are organised. With a regulatory compliant Saas-platform for data management and analytics, we increase the efficiency of your manufacturing processes, provide actionable insights via cell culture specific process analytics and facilitate regulatory compliance by means of a real-time audit trail and automated batch records.

Abrakam SA

Seed Round in 2014
ABRAKAM SA develops games. It offers Faeria, a strategy card game that meets living board, which gives users the ability to shape the board as they play to create strategies. The company’s game is compatible with Mac OSX and Windows (7, 8, 9, and 10 versions). ABRAKAM SA was founded in 2013 and is based in Seraing, Belgium.

Altostratus

Seed Round in 2016
Altostratus is the maker of Pioupiou, a connected wind gauge that reads the speed and the direction of the wind and is ready for deployment practically anywhere. Pioupiou can sustain itself in remote areas therefore it needs no electrical nor WiFi connections. With Pioupiou, you can read wind measurements in real-time via your smartphone, tablet or computer and share reliable data within Pioupiou’s community.

Zozio

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a digital companion designed for industrial operators based on AI algorithms. The company's platform intends to change the way people work in the factory by creating Factory 4.0, which is a connected, high-performance factory where the employee flourishes in a facilitated and digitalized environment, allowing customers to optimize the flows of their factories, by collecting, visualizing, and analyzing field data in real-time within your industrial site and outside making the factory more efficient, improving the working conditions of the operators and minimizing the waste of resources and revolutionize the supply chain of manufacturers to improve their competitivenessmore

Nestwave

Venture Round in 2021
Nestwave SAS provides advanced, IoT geolocation solutions to IoT modem and DSP vendors. Nestwave's patented, hybrid-signal technology significantly improves localization accuracy in critical indoor and dense urban environments while greatly reducing power consumption and solution footprint compared to existing solutions.

BDM Reco

Seed Round in 2017
BDM Reco is a data science company developing a real time content and user recommendation engine.

Kanopy Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
Kanopy Technologies reinvents the way we care for plants with the smart and reliable Kanopy25. Connected to our smartphones, Kanopy25 monitors your plant's watering needs by measuring its weight permanently. Equipped with an automatic watering pump, all you need to do left is to enjoy your plant and to fill up the water tank every now and then. Thanks to this innovative system, we are now able to give our plants exactly what it needs to survive and also to grow in the long-term.

IVEX

Seed Round in 2020
IVEX NV develops artificial intelligence (AI) products for autonomous vehicles. The company products include cloud-based tools that assess safety; and co-pilot software for control, planning and decision making, and communication. The clients of the company include Renault, VDL, and Kobi. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Heverlee, Belgium with an additional office in California, the United States.

Foobot

Seed Round in 2014
Airboxlab S.A.S.,doing business as Foobot, develops and manufactures air quality monitoring device for households. The company also offers mobile application software which reflects the data collected by the air quality monitoring device to users. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Sanem, Luxembourg.

Riiot Labs

Seed Round in 2015
RIIOT LABS and its smart pool analyser, blue by Riiot, tell the user in real time if his/her pool is fine for a dip. The sensor continuously measures the key parameters of swimming pools, such as temperature, pH, active chlorine or salinity levels. Data are instantly analyzed and communicated to the user via a mobile application or through notifications to people who take care of the pool.

Kensu

Seed Round in 2018
Kensu is in the business of fast-forwarding companies to digital maturity. We help you discover the possibilities that lay behind your business data processes. Kensu is a Data Intelligence Manager that provides a real-time, contextual, as-is view of your business data processes. Ranging from the origin, movement and transformation of your data to fully understanding its quality.

Wishbone

Seed Round in 2014
Wishbone biomaterial is the avant-garde bone substitute for dental implants. Wishbone is an innovative medical device company founded by internationally renowned clinicians in the sector of periodontology and dental surgery. Wishbone biomaterial is a novel range of bone graft substitute for dental implants made of pure and optimized bovine hydroxyapatite, the mineral part of bovine bones (veal originating from Belgian cattle). Wishbone developed an innovative manufacturing process, which guarantees organic constituent removal while preserving the hydroxyapatite structure similar to human bone. The structure, granulometry and purity of Wishbone biomaterials are optimized to improve biocompatibility, ostegenesis and handling.

Nestwave

Private Placement in 2019
Nestwave SAS provides advanced, IoT geolocation solutions to IoT modem and DSP vendors. Nestwave's patented, hybrid-signal technology significantly improves localization accuracy in critical indoor and dense urban environments while greatly reducing power consumption and solution footprint compared to existing solutions.

IVEX

Private Placement in 2020
IVEX NV develops artificial intelligence (AI) products for autonomous vehicles. The company products include cloud-based tools that assess safety; and co-pilot software for control, planning and decision making, and communication. The clients of the company include Renault, VDL, and Kobi. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Heverlee, Belgium with an additional office in California, the United States.

e-peas

Venture Round in 2024
e-peas is a disruptive semiconductor company that enables the seamless operation of all connected nodes. The company is developing ultra-low-power high performances circuits such as energy harvester interfaces and microcontrollers that help companies make their IoT devices smarter and more energy-efficient by either prolonging battery life or making the devices live forever. e-peas also develops energy harvesting solutions which extend rechargeable batteries' life of portable devices by harvesting energy from solar, thermal, vibration, radiofrequency, and other sources. These solutions help industries to build products that free users and industries from a burden of replacing non-rechargeable batteries The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mont-saint-guibert, Brabant Wallon, Belgium.

xyzt.ai

Seed Round in 2023
xyzt.ai is a SaaS platform for ANALYTICS, REPORTING and VISUALIZATION of big location data in the Maritime & Ports, Smart City and Logistics industries. EASY & EFFORTLESS

Herrmutt Lobby

Venture Round in 2014
Herrmutt Lobby is a collective of musicians, handymen and programmers whose main objective is to develop hardware and software devices.

Sharebox

Seed Round in 2013
Sharebox SPRL operates a platform that helps HR to improve the links between their employees by creating a community in which they can share their passions. It offers Sharebox, which helps client’s enterprise to build the social graph inside the building. The company is based in Brussels, Belgium.

Nestwave

Venture Round in 2019
Nestwave SAS provides advanced, IoT geolocation solutions to IoT modem and DSP vendors. Nestwave's patented, hybrid-signal technology significantly improves localization accuracy in critical indoor and dense urban environments while greatly reducing power consumption and solution footprint compared to existing solutions.

MyCellHub

Seed Round in 2019
MyCellHub.com is a pre-startup from the KULeuven in the biotherapeutics industry that aspires to reform the way cell production processes are organised. With a regulatory compliant Saas-platform for data management and analytics, we increase the efficiency of your manufacturing processes, provide actionable insights via cell culture specific process analytics and facilitate regulatory compliance by means of a real-time audit trail and automated batch records.

WhiteCrow Tech

Seed Round in 2015
WhiteCrow Tech offers WhiteCrow Hub, a mountain bike wheel that enables its users to change the tire pressure while riding. It is used in fat and plus bikes. WhiteCrow Tech develops a closed air system that is able to hold a pressure level higher than that of the tire. WhiteCrow Tech was founded by Xavier Serret in 2014. It is based in Seraing, Belgium.

Dgenious

Private Placement in 2020
dgenious SA develops a software solution that provides live and secure mobile access to business data in real time. It provides self-service mode; data access to all the users according to their roles and responsibilities; and unifies the systems. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Sierre, Switzerland.

e-peas

Convertible Note in 2016
e-peas is a disruptive semiconductor company that enables the seamless operation of all connected nodes. The company is developing ultra-low-power high performances circuits such as energy harvester interfaces and microcontrollers that help companies make their IoT devices smarter and more energy-efficient by either prolonging battery life or making the devices live forever. e-peas also develops energy harvesting solutions which extend rechargeable batteries' life of portable devices by harvesting energy from solar, thermal, vibration, radiofrequency, and other sources. These solutions help industries to build products that free users and industries from a burden of replacing non-rechargeable batteries The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mont-saint-guibert, Brabant Wallon, Belgium.

IVEX

Seed Round in 2023
IVEX NV develops artificial intelligence (AI) products for autonomous vehicles. The company products include cloud-based tools that assess safety; and co-pilot software for control, planning and decision making, and communication. The clients of the company include Renault, VDL, and Kobi. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Heverlee, Belgium with an additional office in California, the United States.

MyCellHub

Funding Round in 2022
MyCellHub.com is a pre-startup from the KULeuven in the biotherapeutics industry that aspires to reform the way cell production processes are organised. With a regulatory compliant Saas-platform for data management and analytics, we increase the efficiency of your manufacturing processes, provide actionable insights via cell culture specific process analytics and facilitate regulatory compliance by means of a real-time audit trail and automated batch records.