
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) builds a high-performance data platform for engineering time series data, used by teams in automotive, motorsport, aerospace and defense. Its core, Marple DB, helps engineers:
- Ingest and store large test and telemetry data sets (MDF, TDMS, ...) efficiently;
- Query and visualise sensor data fast, making it accessible to anyone;
- Automate analysis and reporting;
- Enable AI use cases on structured engineering data.
Marple turns 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.
Shiftbox (Antwerp, Belgium) is the digital workplace for the fleet manager who's done managing a fleet across five browser tabs and a shared Excel. Shiftbox Fleet, our platform, brings every vehicle, contract, cost and communication into one place — built on years of TCO expertise most fleet software never bothered to get right.
Two pillars, one partner:
- Software — Shiftbox Fleet. The platform that replaces the spreadsheet chaos: assets, contracts, alerts and costs in one system, with the TCO engine we built into the Mobility Calculator now doing the heavy lifting under the hood.
- Fleet Management Services. Hands-on consultancy on mobility budget rollout and operational and strategic fleet management — for the moments a platform alone can't steer 500 vehicles through an EV transition.
Ditch the spreadsheet chaos. Shiftbox's mission is one system that actually keeps up with your fleet, and expertise on tap when a dashboard isn't enough.
Run on the platform, lean on our consultants, or both — Shiftbox turns fleet complexity into decisions you can defend in the boardroom.

Cloudpiling (Brugge, Belgium) is a SaaS platform that digitises and automates geotechnical design for deep foundations, retaining walls and soil anchors. Built by and for civil engineers, it replaces fragmented Excel sheets and desktop tools with one integrated, web-based calculation environment that is fully compliant with Eurocode and national standards.
Cloudpiling helps engineering firms and foundation contractors to:
Design pile foundations, sheet pile walls, bored pile walls, soil anchors and related structures in a single platform;
Run multiple design alternatives in minutes instead of days, and automatically optimise for material use and cost;
Work from a single source of truth, with all loads, soil data, geometry and calculation results centrally stored and versioned;
Reduce manual data entry and copy‑paste errors by integrating vertical and horizontal behaviour, structural design and reporting in one workflow;
Scale expertise across teams, as junior engineers can leverage built‑in templates and checks while seniors focus on concept and judgement.
By automating repetitive calculations and standardising workflows, Cloudpiling enables geotechnical teams to complete more projects with the same resources, while cutting both engineering time and material consumption on site.

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