Pieter Van De Velde

CEO at ANY

📍 Antwerp Metropolitan Area, Belgium🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 Belgium
12
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Investor
Dec 2022
Platform to launch, operate and scale digital mobility services, designed hand in hand with Rent-a-Cars, Dealers and Fleet Managers around the world.
Investor
Mar 2022
MakerVerse is your platform for sourcing industrial parts. We're a startup located in Berlin, funded as a joint venture initiative between industry-leaders Siemens Energy and ZEISS as well as financial/venture capital investors including 9.5 ventures. At MakerVerse, we guarantee quality at price – from prototypes to production – so that you can get exactly what you ordered for a variety of use cases. To save our customers the time they would normally spend sourcing quotes, we developed an AI-based pricing algorithm providing instant quotations for a wide range of advanced manufacturing technologies, materials and post-processing methods. We automate production through a vetted network of certified producers, now scaled to 700+ printers and CNC machines. This means we can guarantee fast and reliable lead times, providing customers with end-to-end fulfillment security. For press related inquiries, please contact us at press@makerverse.ai
Investor
Mar 2022
Heylog ermöglicht die einfache Kommunikation zwischen Disponenten und Fahrern über WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger & Co. Ohne Installation, ohne Integration und keine weitere Fahrer-App notwendig.
Investor-in-residence
Jan 2022
Vlerick is a leading international business school... with a difference. Yes, we offer fully-accredited, world-class education programmes combining a healthy mix of theoretical knowledge and practical insight. Yes, we are a leading academic institution with a strong tradition of innovative and independent research. Yes, we boast internationally recognised, expert faculty with close ties to the corporate world. And yes, we are consistently ranked amongst the top business schools in Europe and the world. However, what truly sets Vlerick apart is not just what we do but the spirit in which we do it. The Vlerick spirit is defined by openness, vitality and a passion for innovation and enterprise. It is a spirit that can be found in every aspect of our school and its activities: from our enthusiastic, highly motivated staff to our innovative and pragmatic teaching methods; from our global network of students, alumni and corporate partners to our inspiring, vibrant campuses. It is all these elements together that have made Vlerick Business School the leading institution it is today: a place where people and organisations come together to shape the future of global business.
Investor
Sep 2021
We connect brands and their customers at the moment of unboxing to create the personalised experiences that every customer wants. Via our revolutionary new marketing channel, digital meets analogue to make memorable moments that build loyalty.
Investor
Jun 2021
Kando is a data intelligence platform that brings data from wastewater to support improved public health and environment. with Kando Pulse you can benefit from: • Realtime wastewater quality data across the collection system • Pinpoint sources of event • Early warnings of damaging WWTP influent quality • Machine learning that evolves with your network • Autonomous sampling units • Customized events alerts • A user-friendly, online interface • Detection of COVID-19 (and others) infection rates The combination of these actionable insights results in: • Reduced CAPEX/OPEX • Greater wastewater reuse capabilities • Improved public health • Cleaner environments Kando has been active in Los Angeles, El Paso, Milan, Brisbane, and many other cities around the world. To gain a greater understanding of how our technology can help your organization, visit our homepage at www.kando.eco.
Investor
Oct 2020
Winning Foods turns a major contributor to global warming into seriously delicious, healthy and super convenient soups and smoothies, using an odd combo of old-school and new-school tech to make it happen. Promoting plant based diet and countering GHG emissions by conserving crop surpluses.
Investor
May 2020
ROUTINELY is the personalised skincare guide, empowering everyone to uncover their skins greatest potential.
Investor and Board Observer
Nov 2018
Avail is a social shopping app. Our goal is simple: bring together individuals with an outspoken, creative or inspiring sense of style. By letting them curate their own selection of items, which they choose from exciting, small and independent brands featured on Avail, the platform has quickly become an inspiring fashion community. Curators and independent fashion brands form the cornerstones for an online community that allows fashion enthusiasts to inspire and be inspired by others with a similar passion. Download the app on the App Store & on Google Play. Avail is a joint venture between a Venture Capital firm and a leading Belgian retailer.
early stageRetail
Investor and Board Observer
May 2018
The Park is an entertainment playground to enjoy with your friends, family or colleagues. Visit one of our locations in the real world and walk onto a lifelike set that reacts to your every move. It’s technology that takes you places. Longing for new adventures with friends or family? Ready to be immersed and wondered in out-of-the-ordinary worlds? Treat yourself and your friends with an escape into virtual reality and create your very own story! Choose from 5 different adventures: Find out who’s sabotaging your mission in New Zealand in De Mol, hunt for zombies in The Hallow, dismantle a bomb, free hostages as part of a Swat team, or walk over lava and free K3 in Egypt. Tickets on booking.theparkplayground.com The Park, Explore the Impossible
Investor and Board Member
Feb 2016
Today we already live
in a hybrid world A new generation of technology is enabling us to rethink and reinvent experiences, by blending the in-person dimension with the virtual dimension. Apart from a more memorable and impactful customer experience, this is also creating efficiency and sustainability gains for companies.
 Experiences can be extended across platforms; assets can be redeployed. As experts in immersive technology and creative storytelling, we reimagine & elevate customer journeys and experiences in a hybrid world and make them more sustainable and efficient.
early stageMedia Production
Investor & Board Member
Jan 2014
We're on a mission to build the first portal to immersive experiences. Vyuu enables people to share, enjoy and celebrate literally more, of life’s greatest experiences. Recorded by themselves, friends, family or others. We believe people should be able to step into live or recorded moments and experience them in the most engaging way. Therefore we focus on a seamless integration of the latest technologies related to both the capturing and viewing experience. Vyuu will form the link between surround content and the latest generation immersive devices, like the fantastic Oculus, ushering in the age of virtual reality entertainment.
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Investor
Dec 2022
Platform to launch, operate and scale digital mobility services, designed hand in hand with Rent-a-Cars, Dealers and Fleet Managers around the world.
Investor
Mar 2022
MakerVerse is your platform for sourcing industrial parts. We're a startup located in Berlin, funded as a joint venture initiative between industry-leaders Siemens Energy and ZEISS as well as financial/venture capital investors including 9.5 ventures. At MakerVerse, we guarantee quality at price – from prototypes to production – so that you can get exactly what you ordered for a variety of use cases. To save our customers the time they would normally spend sourcing quotes, we developed an AI-based pricing algorithm providing instant quotations for a wide range of advanced manufacturing technologies, materials and post-processing methods. We automate production through a vetted network of certified producers, now scaled to 700+ printers and CNC machines. This means we can guarantee fast and reliable lead times, providing customers with end-to-end fulfillment security. For press related inquiries, please contact us at press@makerverse.ai
Investor
Mar 2022
Heylog ermöglicht die einfache Kommunikation zwischen Disponenten und Fahrern über WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger & Co. Ohne Installation, ohne Integration und keine weitere Fahrer-App notwendig.
Investor-in-residence
Jan 2022
Vlerick is a leading international business school... with a difference. Yes, we offer fully-accredited, world-class education programmes combining a healthy mix of theoretical knowledge and practical insight. Yes, we are a leading academic institution with a strong tradition of innovative and independent research. Yes, we boast internationally recognised, expert faculty with close ties to the corporate world. And yes, we are consistently ranked amongst the top business schools in Europe and the world. However, what truly sets Vlerick apart is not just what we do but the spirit in which we do it. The Vlerick spirit is defined by openness, vitality and a passion for innovation and enterprise. It is a spirit that can be found in every aspect of our school and its activities: from our enthusiastic, highly motivated staff to our innovative and pragmatic teaching methods; from our global network of students, alumni and corporate partners to our inspiring, vibrant campuses. It is all these elements together that have made Vlerick Business School the leading institution it is today: a place where people and organisations come together to shape the future of global business.
2021
Investor
Sep 2021
We connect brands and their customers at the moment of unboxing to create the personalised experiences that every customer wants. Via our revolutionary new marketing channel, digital meets analogue to make memorable moments that build loyalty.
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