Koen De Waele

General Partner at Volta Ventures

📍 Belgium🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025
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Mar 2025
Predikt helps manufacturers secure stable margins in a volatile world. For most companies, 50–80% of revenues are tied up in volatile commodities. Procurement and finance teams know the risks but often lack the tools to anticipate them. Data is fragmented, forecasts are static, and cost models are buried in spreadsheets — leaving organizations reactive when they need to be proactive. Predikt changes this. Our AI-powered platform connects market signals, cost models, and procurement decisions into one living system. It continuously forecasts commodities, quantifies exposure, and simulates scenarios so teams can act with foresight instead of reacting after the fact. Our value lies in clarity, transparency, and resilience: • From Uncertainty to Resilience — anticipate risks before they erode margins. • Always Visible, Always Up to Date — forecasts and cost models that move with the market. • Radical Transparency — one truth shared across procurement, finance, and suppliers. • Decision-Making Intelligence — complex market shifts turned into actionable strategies. This is just the beginning. Predikt’s ambition is to build the world’s first Profitability Twin: a digital twin of the enterprise that connects the dots between people, markets, and profitability. Step by step, we are transforming procurement from a cost function into a driver of resilience and long-term profitability.
Board Member
Dec 2024
We help businesses eliminate manual order processing and optimise back-office workflows with AI-powered automation. Hyperfox captures, validates, and streamlines both structured (EDI, API, portal) and unstructured (e-mail, phone) orders, seamlessly integrating with your ERP, WMS, TMS, and accounting systems. Why back-office teams love Hyperfox: ✔️ AI-powered order processing – Automate order intake from email, EDI, API & portals ✔️ Accurate order validation – Ensure contract compliance, credit limits & approvals ✔️ Seamless system integration – Connect with ERP, WMS, TMS, and accounting platforms With growing demand for e-mail order processing and customer portals, Hyperfox is streamlining automation around three core order types: 📦 Stock orders – Orders fulfilled directly from warehouse inventory 🚛 Transport orders – Orders requiring a clear pickup & delivery location 🔧 Assembly orders – Orders that need to be assembled before dispatch Leading enterprises automate their back-office with Hyperfox: 🚚 Yusen Logistics 🍴 BergHOFF ☕ Selecta ⚽ Joma 🍳 Demeyere … and many more! Empower your back-office team with effortless order automation. Get started today! 🦊
Board Member
Mar 2022
Cascador Health contributes to better healthcare thanks to its platform allowing access to structured, validated and anonymised Real World Data.
Board Member
Sep 2021
Privacy management shouldn’t slow you down. Responsum helps you manage privacy, security, and risk with one smart platform. Automate manual work. Align your teams. Prove compliance faster. Organizations using Responsum increase efficiency by up to 45%. The platform covers: • Privacy • Security • Risk • Systems & AI • Awareness • Governance • Vendors • Assessments Built-in support for GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST, and more. Designed to fit how you work, not the other way around. Responsum is built around three core pillars: Collaboration – Align teams and stakeholders with smart workflows Expertise – Rely on built-in knowledge, templates, and guidance Flexibility – Adapt the platform to fit your way of working Your time is limited. Your compliance tools shouldn’t be.
Board Member
Jun 2021
As an F&B business, you might be struggling with rising food costs, monitoring inventories and unstable profit margins. And this struggle is costing you growth, productivity and profitability. Its next to impossible to keep track of all the moving parts of a fast-growing restaurant operation like ingredient usage, purchase orders, stock counts and countless other things. Just think about the instance when you need to reconcile data from numerous sources. Hours of manual work, isn’t it? Thats when Apicbase comes into the picture! Apicbase is a leading F&B management platform that helps you achieve a deeper understanding of your food business. A cloud-based platform, Apicbase provides full visibility of your back-of-house operations. Whether it’s ‣ Menu Engineering ‣ Inventory Management ‣ Procurement ‣ Production ‣ Sales Analytics ‣ Accounting ‣ HACCP & Tasks ‣ Menu Planning With our smart, transparent, and seamlessly integrated dashboard, your company can now maintain true consistency throughout all of its outlets. We make managing kitchens truly visual. Apicbase lets you examine branch performance, review inventory, check sales, create POs, generate bills of materials, everything from a single dashboard. Hundreds of top F&B brands trust Apicbase for its business-centric approach, passion for innovation, devotion to F&B business, and value for commitment. Want to increase your profit margins by more than 10% just like top brands like The Avocado Show, Citizen M, and Penta Hotels did? Let us show you how: https://get.apicbase.com/request-demo/
Board Member
Feb 2021
The fastest way 🚀 to get your team aligned! Whale 🐳 is AI-powered software for documenting processes and training employees. It helps companies systemize and scale by aligning employees with procedures and processes, while also boosting compliance with policies and regulations. 📝 Document: Improve, structure, and standardize your SOPs, processes, and policies with ease. Our AI-powered tools make it simple to create new documentation whenever needed. 🎓 Train: Automate onboarding and training flows with assignments, AI-generated quizzes, and more, ensuring your employees fully understand the necessary procedures. 🗣️ Reinforce: Deliver the right information to the right person at the right time through our Chrome extension, mobile app, and AI chat functionality, Alice. 🛠️ Update: As your company evolves, so do your processes. Set automated review intervals, gain insights on necessary knowledge updates, and maintain compliance effortlessly. Join Whale 🐳 and streamline your operations for a more efficient, aligned, and successful team 🌟
Board Member
May 2020
Wizata helps manufacturers turn data into better decisions —ì and decisions into action. Our industrial AI platform connects, contextualizes and activates production data, enabling companies to move from insights to real-time process optimization. From yield and quality to energy and stability, we support manufacturers in scaling AI from the first pilot to AI closed loop automation, without disrupting people or systems. Founded in Luxembourg. Trusted by industrial leaders worldwide. Join us in revolutionizing the manufacturing industry with cutting-edge AI technology.
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2025
Investor
Mar 2025
Predikt helps manufacturers secure stable margins in a volatile world. For most companies, 50–80% of revenues are tied up in volatile commodities. Procurement and finance teams know the risks but often lack the tools to anticipate them. Data is fragmented, forecasts are static, and cost models are buried in spreadsheets — leaving organizations reactive when they need to be proactive. Predikt changes this. Our AI-powered platform connects market signals, cost models, and procurement decisions into one living system. It continuously forecasts commodities, quantifies exposure, and simulates scenarios so teams can act with foresight instead of reacting after the fact. Our value lies in clarity, transparency, and resilience: • From Uncertainty to Resilience — anticipate risks before they erode margins. • Always Visible, Always Up to Date — forecasts and cost models that move with the market. • Radical Transparency — one truth shared across procurement, finance, and suppliers. • Decision-Making Intelligence — complex market shifts turned into actionable strategies. This is just the beginning. Predikt’s ambition is to build the world’s first Profitability Twin: a digital twin of the enterprise that connects the dots between people, markets, and profitability. Step by step, we are transforming procurement from a cost function into a driver of resilience and long-term profitability.
2024
Board Member
Dec 2024
We help businesses eliminate manual order processing and optimise back-office workflows with AI-powered automation. Hyperfox captures, validates, and streamlines both structured (EDI, API, portal) and unstructured (e-mail, phone) orders, seamlessly integrating with your ERP, WMS, TMS, and accounting systems. Why back-office teams love Hyperfox: ✔️ AI-powered order processing – Automate order intake from email, EDI, API & portals ✔️ Accurate order validation – Ensure contract compliance, credit limits & approvals ✔️ Seamless system integration – Connect with ERP, WMS, TMS, and accounting platforms With growing demand for e-mail order processing and customer portals, Hyperfox is streamlining automation around three core order types: 📦 Stock orders – Orders fulfilled directly from warehouse inventory 🚛 Transport orders – Orders requiring a clear pickup & delivery location 🔧 Assembly orders – Orders that need to be assembled before dispatch Leading enterprises automate their back-office with Hyperfox: 🚚 Yusen Logistics 🍴 BergHOFF ☕ Selecta ⚽ Joma 🍳 Demeyere … and many more! Empower your back-office team with effortless order automation. Get started today! 🦊
2022
Board Member
Mar 2022
Cascador Health contributes to better healthcare thanks to its platform allowing access to structured, validated and anonymised Real World Data.
2021
Board Member
Sep 2021
Privacy management shouldn’t slow you down. Responsum helps you manage privacy, security, and risk with one smart platform. Automate manual work. Align your teams. Prove compliance faster. Organizations using Responsum increase efficiency by up to 45%. The platform covers: • Privacy • Security • Risk • Systems & AI • Awareness • Governance • Vendors • Assessments Built-in support for GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST, and more. Designed to fit how you work, not the other way around. Responsum is built around three core pillars: Collaboration – Align teams and stakeholders with smart workflows Expertise – Rely on built-in knowledge, templates, and guidance Flexibility – Adapt the platform to fit your way of working Your time is limited. Your compliance tools shouldn’t be.
Board Member
Jun 2021
As an F&B business, you might be struggling with rising food costs, monitoring inventories and unstable profit margins. And this struggle is costing you growth, productivity and profitability. Its next to impossible to keep track of all the moving parts of a fast-growing restaurant operation like ingredient usage, purchase orders, stock counts and countless other things. Just think about the instance when you need to reconcile data from numerous sources. Hours of manual work, isn’t it? Thats when Apicbase comes into the picture! Apicbase is a leading F&B management platform that helps you achieve a deeper understanding of your food business. A cloud-based platform, Apicbase provides full visibility of your back-of-house operations. Whether it’s ‣ Menu Engineering ‣ Inventory Management ‣ Procurement ‣ Production ‣ Sales Analytics ‣ Accounting ‣ HACCP & Tasks ‣ Menu Planning With our smart, transparent, and seamlessly integrated dashboard, your company can now maintain true consistency throughout all of its outlets. We make managing kitchens truly visual. Apicbase lets you examine branch performance, review inventory, check sales, create POs, generate bills of materials, everything from a single dashboard. Hundreds of top F&B brands trust Apicbase for its business-centric approach, passion for innovation, devotion to F&B business, and value for commitment. Want to increase your profit margins by more than 10% just like top brands like The Avocado Show, Citizen M, and Penta Hotels did? Let us show you how: https://get.apicbase.com/request-demo/
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