Clément Vanden Driessche

Investor | Elaia Partners | Europe & Israël

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2026
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Jul 2026
By leveraging decades of proven semiconductor fabrication technology, weve developed a fundamentally new optical frequency comb laser architecture, one that delivers unprecedented wavelength stability, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Introducing the Quantum Walk Comb Laser: a breakthrough that shifts a 60-year-old paradigm in semiconductor laser design.
Investor & Board member
Nov 2025
Physical AI to scale your most tedious tasks from manufacturing to logistics. Our robots intuitively learn new skills from you and operate autonomously in any environment.
Investor
Jun 2025
Proxima Fusion is Europes leading fusion company, building the first generation of stellarator fusion power plants.
Board Member
Nov 2024
GetVocal AI transforms customer conversations with precision and control. Our hybrid approach combines predefined conversational graphs with AI that adapts on the fly, ensuring accurate and seamless dialogues. Unlike standard solutions, our AI excels in complex scenarios, learning and improving with each call to achieve expert-level performance. Whether qualifying leads or managing customer success, GetVocal provides unmatched transparency through in-depth conversational analysis. With our human-piloted AI agents, businesses experience continuous improvement and scalability, reducing operational burdens while driving results.
Board Member
Apr 2024
At NcodiN, we are redefining how chips communicate. We unlock a new era of ultra-fast, energy-efficient optical interconnects, powered by a breakthrough technology: the world’s smallest laser integrated on silicon. This means AI hardware that is smaller, faster and dramatically more efficient, enabling limitless scalability while consuming less power. In a world that demands speed, optical interconnects are the express lanes of the future, built for AI’s full potential. The shift is inevitable, and at NcodiN we are making it happen.
Board Member
Jan 2024
We provide a fast, reliable model that generates valid JSON 100% of the time via an API. For information extraction, classification, agents workflows, synthetic data generation.
Board Member
Nov 2023
Pili, carbon conscious color company By proposing renewable colors from the edge of biotechnology and organic chemistry, PILI is tackling the problem of color industry pollution. We take part in a long-term revolution regarding the way we produce, use and recycle products. This new era will be partly ruled by microorganisms that can be cultivated to produce a wide variety of renewable materials at industrial scale. This technology has been used for ages, mostly in the food industry through fermentation (beer, bread, cheese, chocolate, vinegar..) and more recently in health care, where engineered microorganisms produce pharmaceutical molecules (such as insuline), these champions now show up again in the production of smart and renewable materials. PILI is focused on the biofabrication of a wide range of colors produced by microorganisms as an alternative to the petrochemical versions (non-renewable, toxic to work with..) and without the drawbacks of the vegetal ones (non scalable, expensive, dependant on weather..). A lot of industrial sectors have been waiting for such a product and they are now cooperating with us, eager to use our living colors, from textile to plastic factories, in order to develop the future of colors in which we can already predict that affordable and sustainable products will lead the way! Our team at PILI is composed of sucessful scientists and engineers, experts in the fields of synthetic biology, bioproduction, chemistry and design. We are now working in two French-based laboratories : at Toulouse White Biotechnologies (South of France), where we bioengineer our microorganisms, and Le CNAM in Paris, where we develop sustainable synthesis and extraction methodologies and we test the properties of our biobased dyes and pigments.
Board Member
Sep 2023
Phospho is the first LLM app monitoring platform. We are providing developers consolidated metrics at the semantic level on the interactions between the end users and the LLM app. Our tool can be leverage both by tech teams and business teams to provide a better GenAi experience to their users. We are enabling AI builders to ship better LLM apps We are hiring -> jobs@phospho.app
Board Member
Sep 2023
Olympe.legal - AI legal services
Board Member
Jun 2023
hema.to is the worlds first software service to provide end-to-end decision support: from raw flow files to a diagnostic report.
Board Member
May 2023
Arsen is a phishing training and awareness solution, leveraging realistic simulation, microlearning and reporting.
Board Member
May 2023
Azalea Vision is a pioneering startup on the verge of revolutionizing eye care through our innovative smart contact lens technology. We are developing a Smart Contact Lens for patients suffering from Corneal Irregularities, Keratoconus, Presbyopia, and Light Sensitivity. This innovative design is a groundbreaking solution integrating a micro-controller, liquid-crystal technology, an RF antenna, a micro-battery, and a configurable light control. More than 1 million patients can be addressed only in EU and USA, representing a market potential of more than 2 billion euro per year.
Shareholder
Jul 2020
Entrepreneurship in the service of the climate emergency! We identify, fund, and launch 100 companies designed and structured from start to finish to combat greenhouse gases. Our mission: > identify high-impact innovations; > recruit experienced entrepreneurs to transform these innovations into companies with solid business models; > inject financial resources to maximize and accelerate deployment. All innovations are made available as open source. Every euro raised is used to combat climate change. Any individual or organization can join the effort starting at €1 on our website (in just a few minutes) and take concrete action, on a global scale, against climate change. Everything is detailed (and you can contact us) at team-planet.com
Investor
Mar 2020
We are a Software Deep Tech start-up on a mission to revolutionize the world of robotics with Wandelbots Nova an agnostic robot operating system. Our vision is to make robotics accessible to everyone, empowering businesses to turn everyday tasks into opportunities for growth and creativity. We simplify human-robot interaction through user-centric design and cutting-edge technology. Our developer platform provides the tools you need to create custom automation solutions, helping you overcome challenges and optimize operations with ease. We envision a future where automation transforms industries, increasing productivity and efficiency. By bridging the gap between vision and reality, we enable you to unleash your creativity and experience automation like never before. Our approach is driven by a commitment to making robotics more accessible, addressing labor shortages, and turning routine tasks into enriching experiences.
Investor
Sep 2019
sennder – Europe’s #1 digital freight-forwarder platform for Full Truck Loads. sennder, a leading digital road freight forwarder in Europe, is offering shippers access to a connected fleet of thousands of trucks. In a traditional industry, we are moving fast and focus on the digitalization and automation of all road logistics processes. sennder deploys over 40,000 trucks across Europe, with access to more than 120,000 vehicles, and has a team of over 1,600 people. By leveraging our proprietary technology and offering advanced green transport solutions, we are creating a transparent, flexible and efficient road freight network. sennder is backed by some of Europe’s leading investors including Baillie Gifford, Accel, HV Capital and Lakestar along with industry experts Poste Italiane and Scania to assure innovation and state of the art offerings. Imprint: https://www.sennder.com/imprint Privacy Policy: https://www.sennder.com/privacy-policy
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2026
Investor and board member
Jul 2026
By leveraging decades of proven semiconductor fabrication technology, weve developed a fundamentally new optical frequency comb laser architecture, one that delivers unprecedented wavelength stability, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Introducing the Quantum Walk Comb Laser: a breakthrough that shifts a 60-year-old paradigm in semiconductor laser design.
2025
Investor & Board member
Nov 2025
Physical AI to scale your most tedious tasks from manufacturing to logistics. Our robots intuitively learn new skills from you and operate autonomously in any environment.
Investor
Jun 2025
Proxima Fusion is Europes leading fusion company, building the first generation of stellarator fusion power plants.
2024
Board Member
Nov 2024
GetVocal AI transforms customer conversations with precision and control. Our hybrid approach combines predefined conversational graphs with AI that adapts on the fly, ensuring accurate and seamless dialogues. Unlike standard solutions, our AI excels in complex scenarios, learning and improving with each call to achieve expert-level performance. Whether qualifying leads or managing customer success, GetVocal provides unmatched transparency through in-depth conversational analysis. With our human-piloted AI agents, businesses experience continuous improvement and scalability, reducing operational burdens while driving results.
Board Member
Apr 2024
At NcodiN, we are redefining how chips communicate. We unlock a new era of ultra-fast, energy-efficient optical interconnects, powered by a breakthrough technology: the world’s smallest laser integrated on silicon. This means AI hardware that is smaller, faster and dramatically more efficient, enabling limitless scalability while consuming less power. In a world that demands speed, optical interconnects are the express lanes of the future, built for AI’s full potential. The shift is inevitable, and at NcodiN we are making it happen.
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