Lou Hermans

Partner Capital-E II

📍 Antwerp Metropolitan Area, Belgium🔄 Updated October 2026💼 8 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2025
VC🌍 Belgium
8
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Board Member
May 2025
eyeo brings unbeatable and game changing image sensors with maximum light sensitivity
Board Member
Jan 2019
Silicon Mobility, an Intel company, is a full-stack technology player that powers control solutions for cleaner, safer, and smarter mobility. The company designs, develops, and sells flexible, real-time, safe, and open semiconductor solutions for the automotive industry. These solutions are used to increase energy efficiency and reduce pollutant emissions while keeping passengers safe. Silicon Mobility’s products control electric motors, battery and energy management systems of hybrid and electric vehicles. By using Silicon Mobility’s technologies, manufacturers can improve the efficiency, reduce the size, weight, and cost of electric motors, and increase the battery range and durability. Some key benefits of using Silicon Mobility’s technologies include: - Improved efficiency of electric motors - Reduced size, weight, and cost of electric motors - Increased battery range and durability Silicon Mobility’s technologies and products accelerate the car’s powertrain electrification and the deployment of driverless vehicles for OEMs. To learn more about Silicon Mobility and its products, visit their website or contact them for more information.
Board Member
Jan 2018
Mobile Lockers, your hi-tech solution Mobile Locker is a company that invented a fully automated off-grid locker system which can be used in numerous applications all around the world. Wherever our lockers are installed, you can safely, commute, swim, ski or do any other sport or leisure activity, carefree. The system allows you to access your purchased or acquired locker all day long and enjoy a high speed WIFI in the vicinity of the unit. The unit is custom made of high grade materials, controlled by user friendly software and powered by green energy. - Fully automated - Sytem control from any place in the world - Premium quality - Completely Off-grid - Accepts all bank cards - Easy to use - Produced in EU - High after sales service - Internet of things compatible - API ready
late stageEvents Services
Board Member
Jul 2017
ISDI is a design house and manufacturer of wafer-scale image sensors and an innovator in the field of high performance CMOS imaging semiconductors. ISDI offers custom sensor designs as well as standard products, from one-off designs to high volume manufacturing.
Board Member
Jun 2017
Based on its founding vision of evolving mobile network architectures, EBlink offers mobile operators innovative, flexible and cost-effective deployment solutions. This vision led to the genesis of hybrid A/D fronthaul, a technology pioneered by EBlink and now widely considered as a key element of Centralized and Virtualized Radio Access Networks. EBlink’s R&D team is at the forefront of efficient fronthaul technologies and systems, paving the way to the transport infrastructure for 5G networks. The company's patented technology was nominated for a GSMA Award in March 2015 in the category « best mobile infrastructure », and again in 2016 at the 5G Conference in London. EBlink’s R&D operations are based just outside of Paris. The company also has offices in Antwerp and Silicon Valley. In 2017, the company’s technology was acquired by Capital-E, a European investment fund.
Board Member
Jun 2017
Based on its founding vision of evolving mobile network architectures, EBlink offers mobile operators innovative, flexible and cost-effective deployment solutions. This vision led to the genesis of hybrid A/D fronthaul, a technology pioneered by EBlink and now widely considered as a key element of Centralized and Virtualized Radio Access Networks. EBlink’s R&D team is at the forefront of efficient fronthaul technologies and systems, paving the way to the transport infrastructure for 5G networks. The company's patented technology was nominated for a GSMA Award in March 2015 in the category « best mobile infrastructure », and again in 2016 at the 5G Conference in London. EBlink’s R&D operations are based just outside of Paris. The company also has offices in Antwerp and Silicon Valley. In 2017, the company’s technology was acquired by Capital-E, a European investment fund.
Board Member
Jan 2016
Since May 2019, EpiGaN has become a business unit of Soitec. For more information about Soitec’s GaN product solutions, please visit the Soitec webpage at https://www.soitec.com/en/products/gan-epitaxial-wafers. With EpiGaN’s acquisition in May 2019, Soitec confirmed its ambition to further extend its portfolio beyond silicon. GaN technologies which are gaining significant traction in RF and power markets, represent a natural strategic fit with Soitec’s current portfolio of engineered substrates. Targeting the base stations power amplifiers market in the first place, Soitec also aims to penetrate the smartphones and power automotive markets with GaN products later on. Offering a comprehensive portfolio of silicon and non-silicon based engineered substrates, Soitec is well-positioned to support 5G deployment which is expected to be a strong growth lever. Operating as one of the company’s business units for over a year now and benefiting from Soitec’s global manufacturing footprint and exposure, the EpiGaN BU is offering its customers access to a worldwide sales and support team network. EpiGaN has become Soitec Belgium The integration of the business unit has gone one step further last month with a name change. Since June 1st, 2020, EpiGaN N.V has changed its name to Soitec Belgium N.V. and has embraced Soitec’s visual identity, allowing the BU to fully reap the benefits of the Group's ecosystem. For more information, please visit www.soitec.com and follow us on Twitter: @Soitec_EN
Co-Founder, Board Member, COO
Jan 2012
Privately held, pure play & turn-key CMOS image sensor house: design, prototyping, characterization and production. Fully customized and standard products. Novel IP on ADC's, low noise global shutter pixels, large area sensors and TDI in CMOS. Served industries: Machine vision, Biometrics, Medical, Scientific, Space, Professional Imaging,...
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2025
Board Member
May 2025
eyeo brings unbeatable and game changing image sensors with maximum light sensitivity
2019
Board Member
Jan 2019
Silicon Mobility, an Intel company, is a full-stack technology player that powers control solutions for cleaner, safer, and smarter mobility. The company designs, develops, and sells flexible, real-time, safe, and open semiconductor solutions for the automotive industry. These solutions are used to increase energy efficiency and reduce pollutant emissions while keeping passengers safe. Silicon Mobility’s products control electric motors, battery and energy management systems of hybrid and electric vehicles. By using Silicon Mobility’s technologies, manufacturers can improve the efficiency, reduce the size, weight, and cost of electric motors, and increase the battery range and durability. Some key benefits of using Silicon Mobility’s technologies include: - Improved efficiency of electric motors - Reduced size, weight, and cost of electric motors - Increased battery range and durability Silicon Mobility’s technologies and products accelerate the car’s powertrain electrification and the deployment of driverless vehicles for OEMs. To learn more about Silicon Mobility and its products, visit their website or contact them for more information.
2018
Board Member
Jan 2018
Mobile Lockers, your hi-tech solution Mobile Locker is a company that invented a fully automated off-grid locker system which can be used in numerous applications all around the world. Wherever our lockers are installed, you can safely, commute, swim, ski or do any other sport or leisure activity, carefree. The system allows you to access your purchased or acquired locker all day long and enjoy a high speed WIFI in the vicinity of the unit. The unit is custom made of high grade materials, controlled by user friendly software and powered by green energy. - Fully automated - Sytem control from any place in the world - Premium quality - Completely Off-grid - Accepts all bank cards - Easy to use - Produced in EU - High after sales service - Internet of things compatible - API ready
late stageEvents Services
2017
Board Member
Jul 2017
ISDI is a design house and manufacturer of wafer-scale image sensors and an innovator in the field of high performance CMOS imaging semiconductors. ISDI offers custom sensor designs as well as standard products, from one-off designs to high volume manufacturing.
Board Member
Jun 2017
Based on its founding vision of evolving mobile network architectures, EBlink offers mobile operators innovative, flexible and cost-effective deployment solutions. This vision led to the genesis of hybrid A/D fronthaul, a technology pioneered by EBlink and now widely considered as a key element of Centralized and Virtualized Radio Access Networks. EBlink’s R&D team is at the forefront of efficient fronthaul technologies and systems, paving the way to the transport infrastructure for 5G networks. The company's patented technology was nominated for a GSMA Award in March 2015 in the category « best mobile infrastructure », and again in 2016 at the 5G Conference in London. EBlink’s R&D operations are based just outside of Paris. The company also has offices in Antwerp and Silicon Valley. In 2017, the company’s technology was acquired by Capital-E, a European investment fund.
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