Benny E. Eddo

WizeCap provides specialist independent corporate finance advice to entrepreneurs, founder-led companies, growth investors, and category leaders active within the digital economy — including software, digital transformation services, and disruptive technologies. As trusted advisor, WizeCap takes a long-term view. Instead of only focusing on a single transaction, we provide value creation insights and function as a sounding board to our clients helping them make informed strategic decisions, ensure future growth and reach their goals during their entire journey from seed to exit. WizeCap assists companies with the preparation of a strategic transaction by fine-tuning its strategy, its organisation and scaling processes as well as other fundamental building blocks. It is essential to have a comprehensive preparation process with a longer-term view, as it is important to ensure that the quality of the opportunity transcends investors expectations. We are not a high-volume player and deploy the right team with the right mix of experience to each of our selected projects. The team’s combined skillsets and pragmatism brings together an impressive mix of segment and sector knowledge with execution expertise. Our passion for technology, market and business expertise, together with our experience-driven approach and international onset are augmented by access to a community of strategic advisors - proven entrepreneurs and best experts in their fields.

Down2Earth Capital is an independent private equity fund established in 2013. D2E Capital focusses on small and medium sized equity transactions in Belgium. The partners of D2E Capital combine their successful private equity experience with a top level industry experience. The knowledge of the SME environment and their typical challenges makes D2E Capital the pre-eminent partner of entrepreneurs and managers for the further expansion of their company. In addition, the team of D2E Capital can rely on the expertise of a large network of CEOs and entrepreneurs. D2E Capital invests in both buy-out transactions and growth capital. As investor, D2E Capital emphasizes a solid partnership with the management team of our participations in order to achieve future value creation through growth, international expansion and further professionalization.. D2E Capital actively supports its companies on a financial and operational level, always in a no-nonsense approach.

Backed by entrepreneurs, run by entrepreneurs: Maxus is a pioneering private equity platform, backing the next generation top small and mid-cap fund managers. We target hard-to-access, hungry and emerging fund managers in the small and mid-cap market across Europe and the US. We go beyond fund investing: leveraging on our ecosystem, we unlock greater value through co-investments and secondaries. We’re backed by a powerful yet selective ecosystem of 35 investors - from leading entrepreneurs to unicorn founders across Belgium and the Netherlands. We bring deep expertise across technology, software, business services, energy & renewables, health and beyond. We don’t just tap into this network to source and evaluate opportunities - we stay engaged post-investment, providing valuable insights and strategic support to the managers we back.

WizeCap provides specialist independent corporate finance advice to entrepreneurs, founder-led companies, growth investors, and category leaders active within the digital economy — including software, digital transformation services, and disruptive technologies. As trusted advisor, WizeCap takes a long-term view. Instead of only focusing on a single transaction, we provide value creation insights and function as a sounding board to our clients helping them make informed strategic decisions, ensure future growth and reach their goals during their entire journey from seed to exit. WizeCap assists companies with the preparation of a strategic transaction by fine-tuning its strategy, its organisation and scaling processes as well as other fundamental building blocks. It is essential to have a comprehensive preparation process with a longer-term view, as it is important to ensure that the quality of the opportunity transcends investors expectations. We are not a high-volume player and deploy the right team with the right mix of experience to each of our selected projects. The team’s combined skillsets and pragmatism brings together an impressive mix of segment and sector knowledge with execution expertise. Our passion for technology, market and business expertise, together with our experience-driven approach and international onset are augmented by access to a community of strategic advisors - proven entrepreneurs and best experts in their fields.

BRIKS is a Belgian investment club for students engaged in value investing. BRIKS was founded in 2011 by four entrepreneurial engineering students and has as mission to bring ambitious students and investors together in order to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and contacts. BRIKS consists of two branches: 1) BRIKS Leuven: a local branch based in Leuven run by students and 2) BRIKS Alumni a more international branch run by professionals. BRIKS Leuven offers opportunities to students who are relatively new to the financial markets as well as to students who are well experienced. BRIKS Leuven assembles every week in the center of Leuven to discuss the current portfolio, investment opportunities and asset allocation strategies. The main focus lies on equities, but investments in bonds and derivatives are not excluded. BRIKS Alumni consists of a diverse and international network of professionals active in inter alia consulting, investment banking and law. Members of BRIKS Alumni support BRIKS Leuven with career support and relevant industry knowledge. More information on www.briks.be! You can direct any questions, suggestions or requests for further information to info@briks.be.