Otto Debals

Segments.ai & Uber AI Solutions | Multi-sensor labeling for self-driving vehicles/robots | PhD & ex-McKinsey | *Hiring!*

📍 Belgium🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2024
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May 2024
Syndicate One is an international network-driven fund making early-stage investments into high-potential Belgium-based and Belgian-founded tech startups. Syndicate One pools valuable expertise, a vast international network, and smart seed capital from an impressive group of experienced founders, operators and professional investors to help young Belgian startups reach the next level. Additionally, Syndicate One frequently launches targeted initiatives to strengthen Belgium’s tech ecosystem, such as the first standardised convertible note agreement fit for the Belgian market, the ‘State of Belgian Tech Report’, and industry events. In its first four years, Syndicate One has invested in two unicorns, Aikido Security and Fundamental, as well as high-growth companies like Techwolf, Conveo, Sirona Technologies, Donna, Tekst, Cosmic Aerospace, Powernaut, SAPI, Mindoo and other promising startups.
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2024
Investor & passive contributor
May 2024
Syndicate One is an international network-driven fund making early-stage investments into high-potential Belgium-based and Belgian-founded tech startups. Syndicate One pools valuable expertise, a vast international network, and smart seed capital from an impressive group of experienced founders, operators and professional investors to help young Belgian startups reach the next level. Additionally, Syndicate One frequently launches targeted initiatives to strengthen Belgium’s tech ecosystem, such as the first standardised convertible note agreement fit for the Belgian market, the ‘State of Belgian Tech Report’, and industry events. In its first four years, Syndicate One has invested in two unicorns, Aikido Security and Fundamental, as well as high-growth companies like Techwolf, Conveo, Sirona Technologies, Donna, Tekst, Cosmic Aerospace, Powernaut, SAPI, Mindoo and other promising startups.
2020
CEO & Founder
Jan 2020
Segments.ais mission is to drive the cost of image labeling to zero. We help you to drastically reduce human effort involved in labeling massive datasets. Our cloud platform & API covers efficient labeling interfaces, automated proposals, active learning with uncertainty prediction and data distillation.
2019
Associate
Jun 2019
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. We are the trusted advisor to the worlds leading businesses, governments, and institutions. We work with leading organizations across the private, public and social sectors. Our scale, scope, and knowledge allow us to address problems that no one else can. We have deep functional and industry expertise as well as breadth of geographical reach. We are passionate about taking on immense challenges that matter to our clients and, often, to the world. We work with our clients as we do with our colleagues. We build their capabilities and leadership skills at every level and every opportunity. We do this to help build internal support, get to real issues, and reach practical recommendations. We bring out the capabilities of clients to fully participate in the process and lead the ongoing work.