Laurent Drion

Founder/Partner @ E-Merge

📍 Brussels Metropolitan Area, Belgium🔄 Updated September 2026💼 24 investments📅 30 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jul 2019
To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D, which means either flying cars or tunnels. Unlike flying cars, tunnels are weatherproof, out of sight and wont fall on your head. A large network of tunnels many levels deep would fix congestion in any city, no matter how large it grew (just keep adding levels). The key to making this work is increasing tunneling speed and dropping costs by a factor of 10 or more – this is the goal of The Boring Company. Fast to dig, low cost tunnels would also make Hyperloop adoption viable and enable rapid transit across densely populated regions, enabling travel from New York to Washington DC in less than 30 minutes.
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Sep 2016
Through LeoLabs Vertex™, our vertically integrated space operations stack, we’re transforming the way satellite operators, commercial enterprises, and federal agencies launch and track missions in low Earth orbit. With unmatched coverage, real-time tracking, and powerful insights, companies and governments around the world rely on us to safely execute operations in space.
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May 2016
Emburse is the global leader in spend optimization. Our expense, travel management, purchasing and accounts payable, and payments solutions are trusted by more than 12 million business professionals, including CFOs, finance teams, and travelers. More than 18,000 organizations in 120 countries, including FORTUNE 100 corporations, high-growth startups, public sector agencies, and nonprofits, count on our intelligent automation, sophisticated analytics, and unmatched spend control to streamline processes, increase spend visibility, enhance compliance, and deliver positive financial outcomes. We humanize work. We eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks, so our customers and their teams can focus on what matters most in their personal and professional lives. For more information on Emburse, visit emburse.com, or follow our social channels at @emburse.
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Feb 2016
Onfleet helps businesses around the globe power their deliveries. Onfleet’s mission is to power the future of commerce by enabling businesses of all sizes to move goods more efficiently and delightfully. Our software platform includes intuitive smartphone apps for drivers, a powerful modern web dashboard for dispatchers, and automatic notifications and real-time tracking for recipients. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every week for thousands of businesses around the world across a range of industries from grocery and prepared meals to pharmacy, flowers, and furniture. Onfleet is based in San Francisco, California.
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Feb 2016
Welcome to HappyCo! From acquisition to disposition, HappyCo provides full portfolio lifecycle support with software and services designed for PMCs of all sizes. When it comes to elevating your propertys performance, the skys the limit. HappyCos multifamily solutions to smile about enable real-time property operations for owners, property management companies, and onsite teams. Our three product lines include: - Happy Asset: Asset management solutions to evaluate and close deals - Happy Property: Onsite management solutions to optimize your operations - Happy Force: Remote maintenance solutions to retain staff and residents HappyCo currently has in-unit data on over 3.5 million rental homes. Founded in 2011 in Adelaide, Australia, were privately held with a remote workforce throughout the U.S., Canada, and Australia.
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May 2014
Authy provides strong authentication for the connected world, protecting people and the enterprise against malicious attacks. Our two-factor authentication (2FA) security solution enables organizations to minimize risk while enhancing the user experience. Authy 2FA provides a fast-to-implement, highly scalable and proven 99.999 % reliable alternative to passwords. Used by 11,000+ websites serving 2 million consumers worldwide, its designed to give users the ability to self-service or easily manage their own 2FA experience. Coinbase, CloudFlare, Humble Bundle and Twitch.tv are just some Authy clients. Authy is a Twilio company. Follow us on: Twitter at @Authy Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/authysec Google+ at https://plus.google.com/+Authy GitHub at https://github.com/authy
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Apr 2014
Satago is a flexible invoice finance, debt chasing and risk insight platform that has been designed to help businesses get paid on time - every time. By providing invoice finance Satago bridges your cash flow gaps allowing you to focus on growing your business. Our automated debtor chaser and risk insight tools will help you significantly reduce your debtor days whilst saving time. We are an accredited partner with market leaders in the world of accountancy and cloud accounting software. FIND OUT MORE: Satago.com | 020 8050 3015 | hello@satago.com
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Apr 2014
Tripping.com is the world's largest site for vacation rentals. We work with all the top vacation rental sites in the world (AirBnB, VRBO, HomeAway, Booking.com, etc) to offer nearly 12 million vacation properties in over 150,000 destinations worldwide. We’re venture-backed, growing FAST, and having fun making noise in a $100B market. To learn more, please visit https://www.tripping.com.
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Jun 2013
Nanoracks, powered by Voyager Space, is a leading provider of commercial space services. For over a decade, Nanoracks has brought commercial, academic, and government customers from over 35 nations to the International Space Station. Known for pioneering commercial space markets, Nanoracks is now developing commercial space systems and habitats, supplying payload and crew airlock systems and services, expanding space infrastructure opportunities, and more.
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Jun 2013
Build best-in-market payment systems by connecting to any payment service. Enable, optimize, and analyze online revenue with Spreedly’s flexible payments platform. See how you can start today: https://www.spreedly.com Connecting to multiple payment services, known as payment orchestration, is the new standard. Building and maintaining custom payment integrations is slow and expensive. Our PCI compliant solution lets you connect once and stay ahead of your payments strategy.
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Apr 2013
AngelList builds the infrastructure where capital, creativity, and hard work come together to accelerate the rate of innovation. Our platform supports over $171B in assets on platform, over 25K funds and syndicates, and 72K active investors. AngelList is the de facto platform for investing in the next generation of great startups. AngelLists suite of products includes: 🚀 Venture Funds 🔭 Scout Funds ⚡ SPVs 🌐 http://meridian.angellist.com 🔑 http://USVC.com
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Feb 2013
Cabify is an Ibero-American mobility company that develops technology to transform cities into better living spaces and make them more sustainable, accessible, and humane. Operating in 6 countries (Spain, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and Uruguay) and more than 40 cities, Cabify seeks to improve the way users, companies, and drivers connect in a safe, flexible, and quality way. Born in Madrid (Spain) in 2011, Cabify has been a pioneer in creating a new mobility in Latin America. It has more than 50 million registered users, 1.5 million driver partners, and more than 1,000 employees globally. In addition, it has always been committed to talent and integration with local communities, declaring 100% of its activity in each country in which it operates. In its commitment to cities, Cabify has taken on the most ambitious environmental sustainability goal in the sector worldwide: to be a zero-emissions company by 2030 globally. In 2018, it became the first company in its sector to be carbon neutral, and since then, it has and continues to offset all its emissions and those of the trips made on the app. For more information: www.cabify.com
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2013
Semantics3 has built the world’s largest product and pricing database to empower enterprises and small businesses and drive the next generation of e-commerce. Since our founding in 2012, we have gathered, from thousands of merchants, hundreds of millions of products and billions of prices to become one of the most reliable and indispensable resources for businesses in e-commerce (price comparison/intelligence, affiliate sales, rewards, next-gen shopping platforms/apps, etc.), retail, inventory management, price monitoring (MAP), analytics, logistics, insurance, financial research, and more. Because we believe each of our customers'​ challenges and needs are unique, Semantics3 offers more than just out-of-the-box solutions like bespoke datasets (Datascience-as-a-Service) or advanced developer tools (APIs) - we deliver solutions that are designed from the ground up with an emphasis on helping our customers achieve their goals.
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2013
Riskpulse is a supply chain risk analytics company that helps its clients and their partners increase the predictability and stability of their financial and physical operations globally. Many of the largest food shippers, consumer packaged goods manufacturers, automakers, and retailers trust the Riskpulse Score (RpS) and the Riskpulse suite of cloud-based software applications to standardize their quantification of risk and guide their operational planning. Commodity investment firms depend on Riskpulse probabilistic forecasts and advisory services to guide their understanding of weather's impact on supply and demand. Headquartered in Austin, TX, Riskpulse is rapidly becoming the standard way for members of the supply chain to get the signals they need to optimize for risk.
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Jul 2012
Ordoro is a 5-star rated ecommerce logistics platform used by successful SMB ecommerce merchants to manage their orders, inventory, and suppliers. Ordoro deals with everything that happens after a shopper clicks checkout on the merchant's website: print packing lists and shipping labels, sync inventory levels, manage dropshipping, manage customers, manage suppliers, and so much more — all in one platform. Thousands of retailers have processed billions of dollars worth of orders and have shipped millions of packages through Ordoro. Learn what Ordoro has to offer your ecommerce business.
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2019
Investor
Jul 2019
To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D, which means either flying cars or tunnels. Unlike flying cars, tunnels are weatherproof, out of sight and wont fall on your head. A large network of tunnels many levels deep would fix congestion in any city, no matter how large it grew (just keep adding levels). The key to making this work is increasing tunneling speed and dropping costs by a factor of 10 or more – this is the goal of The Boring Company. Fast to dig, low cost tunnels would also make Hyperloop adoption viable and enable rapid transit across densely populated regions, enabling travel from New York to Washington DC in less than 30 minutes.
2017
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Dec 2017
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. For more information, visit www.spacex.com.
2016
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Sep 2016
Through LeoLabs Vertex™, our vertically integrated space operations stack, we’re transforming the way satellite operators, commercial enterprises, and federal agencies launch and track missions in low Earth orbit. With unmatched coverage, real-time tracking, and powerful insights, companies and governments around the world rely on us to safely execute operations in space.
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May 2016
Emburse is the global leader in spend optimization. Our expense, travel management, purchasing and accounts payable, and payments solutions are trusted by more than 12 million business professionals, including CFOs, finance teams, and travelers. More than 18,000 organizations in 120 countries, including FORTUNE 100 corporations, high-growth startups, public sector agencies, and nonprofits, count on our intelligent automation, sophisticated analytics, and unmatched spend control to streamline processes, increase spend visibility, enhance compliance, and deliver positive financial outcomes. We humanize work. We eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks, so our customers and their teams can focus on what matters most in their personal and professional lives. For more information on Emburse, visit emburse.com, or follow our social channels at @emburse.
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Feb 2016
Onfleet helps businesses around the globe power their deliveries. Onfleet’s mission is to power the future of commerce by enabling businesses of all sizes to move goods more efficiently and delightfully. Our software platform includes intuitive smartphone apps for drivers, a powerful modern web dashboard for dispatchers, and automatic notifications and real-time tracking for recipients. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every week for thousands of businesses around the world across a range of industries from grocery and prepared meals to pharmacy, flowers, and furniture. Onfleet is based in San Francisco, California.
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