Gauthier Van Der Elst

Partner @ ScaleFund | Startup Investment

📍 Brussels Region, Brussels Region, Belgium🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
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Board Member
Dec 2025
XFA is a device security solution that seamlessly identifies every device used for work, increases user awareness, and verifies compliance with the security policy for each device during login — all without needing direct control or management of the devices.
Board Observer
Oct 2023
Wooclap’s objective is clear: to turn students into actors of their learning. Beyond making classes more interactive and effective, the start-up wants to radically change the learning experience, whether it is face-to-face or remote, synchronous or asynchronous. Wooclap was founded in 2015 by Jonathan Alzetta and Sébastien Lebbe, two engineers from the Ecole Polytechnique de Bruxelles passionate about education and technology. They came up with the idea of using smartphones, often seen as a source of distraction during classes, to allow students to interact with their teachers. Rather than fighting smartphones, Wooclap turns them into an exceptional learning tool. From the outset, they surrounded themselves with neuroscientists, teachers, and learning technologists to develop a tool that would improve students retention of information and comprehension. How? By making them active contributors to the learning process. The result is a simple and interactive platform that can be integrated into the teachers Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It allows teachers to create questionnaires and surveys, and collect comments and questions during face-to-face or online lessons, live and asynchronously. Today, Wooclap is available in seven languages to cater to its growing community. More than 1,000,000 teachers in more than 150 countries, and more than a hundred higher education institutions (Singapore Management University, Maastricht University, ESCP Europe Business School, Ecole Polytechnique, Università di Verona, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, etc...) use Wooclap to support their pedagogical strategy. In 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, the two engineers came up with a new tool to help teachers and students get the most out of distance learning. Wooflash is a revision platform based on neuroscience and artificial intelligence, which allows teachers to track their learners’ progress and offers each student a personalised learning path.
Board Member
Apr 2023
IONNYK is the only art photography platform that uplifts the experience of art, leaving room for creativity & imagination. Uncover the magic of wireless e-paper technology through the lens of timeless and high- quality art photography. Any time, any place. For the love of art.
Board Member
Dec 2022
We want to be the leading digital platform for organizations to efficiently share and implement best practices, resulting in improved collaboration and increased profitability. Our mission is to transform the way companies approach sharing and scaling best practices. We believe that by empowering teams to easily share their knowledge and experience, we can help drive ROI and margin growth. We want to make the process engaging and even fun, so that people are motivated to participate and contribute their insights. By doing so, we can help businesses unlock the full potential of their teams and drive lasting success. Drive measurable results. Central teams often spend a lot of time, effort, and money organizing knowledge sharing between markets, without dedicated and efficient tools. Meanwhile, local teams spend too much time searching for proven initiatives to replicate and end up reinventing the wheel on their side. This ultimately results in financial loss and criticism towards central teams.
Board Member
Mar 2022
Aquilon Pharma is engaged in the improvement of the efficacy of inhaled drugs by developing value-added medicines.
Board Member
Mar 2022
A network of points of sale is complex by nature. Different points of sale, some managed by the company itself and others franchised, different computer systems, many users with different profiles and needs. And of course a lot of data generated every day. dgenious is the Business Monitoring Platform to enable retail managers to manage their physical and online point of sales dynamically and in real time. Thanks to degnious, retail managers are where the business is done! In Real Time, they know which customer, when was his last visit, what did he buy this time compared to the last time? At what price? What am I going to sell him next time knowing that this week the best selling product is this one? Analyze your franchises, points of sale, campaigns, launches, stock, consumers… Juggle with your data. Create, modify, adapt and share your reports on demand, easily and quickly. In real time, without any special IT knowledge. dgenious reconciles data from your different systems in real time (cash register, stock, erp, crm,...) and makes it available on your mobile, tablet or desktop computer dgenious has an advanced technology for managing permissions and authentication. It allows you to build permission profiles by mixing and matching various sources at will (AD/ldap, ERP, different POS systems, manual management of some users, …). With this system, a franchisee only sees the sales and stock data of his points of sale, whereas a logistics manager can see orders and stock data for an entire country but has no access to sales or commercial conditions. A network manager or product manager can prepare a report and share it with categories of users (all franchisees and all logistics managers) and is assured that everyone will only have access to the appropriate scope of data. - Available in 1 month - Use case retail included - Self-service mode included - between 50€ and 150€*/month/location - # unlimited users - no code, no IT knowledge required - Dedicated app
Board Member
Dec 2020
Finally, a password manager built for organizations that take their security and privacy seriously. Passbolt is trusted by 15 000 of them worldwide, including F500 companies, the defense industry, universities, startups and many others.
Board Member
Apr 2019
Utopix is a team determined to find the perfect photographer/videographer for you and will help carry out all your business projects. At Utopix, we know that a picture is worth a thousand words. But we also know that it is difficult to find the right professional who is able to transform your ideas into images quickly and easily. For these reasons, we have developed, and continue to develop, a qualitative network of photo and video professionals every day, near you and throughout Europe. Email : hello@utopix.io Phone : +32.470.53.08.20
mid stagePhotography
Board Member
Dec 2018
Phasya is now a part of Tobii, the world leader in eye tracking and a pioneer in attention computing. Our combined expertise and decades of experience enable us to deliver disruptive solutions to the automotive industry and others. Visit tobii.com to find out more about Tobii's mission
Board Observer
Jun 2018
Musimap is a b2b cognitive technologies company that revolutionizes personalized content recommendation thanks to its humanized algorithm. Through its API, Musimap offers its clients curation at scale, evolutive playlisting, advanced search features, multi-entry soundalikes, artists’ similarities/influences network, psych-emotional profiling and matching as well as innovative discovery and navigation tools. Musimap works with all businesses that use music as part of their offering, hence: Media (digital TV, digital radio) / e-commerce (search engines, cultural products), AI (virtual digital assistants) / Advertising (communication agencies, sound branding agencies) / Automotive (connected cars, self-driving cars) / Social Networks (dating platforms) / Healthcare (well-being & therapy) / Music (streamers, catalogue owners).
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2025
Board Member
Dec 2025
XFA is a device security solution that seamlessly identifies every device used for work, increases user awareness, and verifies compliance with the security policy for each device during login — all without needing direct control or management of the devices.
2023
Board Observer
Oct 2023
Wooclap’s objective is clear: to turn students into actors of their learning. Beyond making classes more interactive and effective, the start-up wants to radically change the learning experience, whether it is face-to-face or remote, synchronous or asynchronous. Wooclap was founded in 2015 by Jonathan Alzetta and Sébastien Lebbe, two engineers from the Ecole Polytechnique de Bruxelles passionate about education and technology. They came up with the idea of using smartphones, often seen as a source of distraction during classes, to allow students to interact with their teachers. Rather than fighting smartphones, Wooclap turns them into an exceptional learning tool. From the outset, they surrounded themselves with neuroscientists, teachers, and learning technologists to develop a tool that would improve students retention of information and comprehension. How? By making them active contributors to the learning process. The result is a simple and interactive platform that can be integrated into the teachers Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It allows teachers to create questionnaires and surveys, and collect comments and questions during face-to-face or online lessons, live and asynchronously. Today, Wooclap is available in seven languages to cater to its growing community. More than 1,000,000 teachers in more than 150 countries, and more than a hundred higher education institutions (Singapore Management University, Maastricht University, ESCP Europe Business School, Ecole Polytechnique, Università di Verona, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, etc...) use Wooclap to support their pedagogical strategy. In 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, the two engineers came up with a new tool to help teachers and students get the most out of distance learning. Wooflash is a revision platform based on neuroscience and artificial intelligence, which allows teachers to track their learners’ progress and offers each student a personalised learning path.
Board Member
Apr 2023
IONNYK is the only art photography platform that uplifts the experience of art, leaving room for creativity & imagination. Uncover the magic of wireless e-paper technology through the lens of timeless and high- quality art photography. Any time, any place. For the love of art.
2022
Board Member
Dec 2022
We want to be the leading digital platform for organizations to efficiently share and implement best practices, resulting in improved collaboration and increased profitability. Our mission is to transform the way companies approach sharing and scaling best practices. We believe that by empowering teams to easily share their knowledge and experience, we can help drive ROI and margin growth. We want to make the process engaging and even fun, so that people are motivated to participate and contribute their insights. By doing so, we can help businesses unlock the full potential of their teams and drive lasting success. Drive measurable results. Central teams often spend a lot of time, effort, and money organizing knowledge sharing between markets, without dedicated and efficient tools. Meanwhile, local teams spend too much time searching for proven initiatives to replicate and end up reinventing the wheel on their side. This ultimately results in financial loss and criticism towards central teams.
Board Member
Mar 2022
Aquilon Pharma is engaged in the improvement of the efficacy of inhaled drugs by developing value-added medicines.
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