Volta Ventures

With an ever-growing population, climate change, and growing compliance obligations globally, real estate is eager for better solutions. Spotr.ai monitors and inspects over 250.000 buildings in the Netherlands and recently launched in the UK with 10 prominent UK housing corporations that will start inspecting their real estate portfolios with Spotr’s software solution. Spotr.ai offers a platform for banks, insurance companies, large real-estate owners, and the government to monitor building characteristics in a fast, precise, and easily accessible platform. This contributes to optimizing their client’s portfolios and activities. “It’s about knowing and understanding your portfolio.” Says Dirk Huibers, CEO at Spotr.ai. “Think of the dimensions, quantities, and conditions of buildings and their specific components. This information is crucial to make smart decisions when achieving sustainability goals. But it’s also about asking yourself the basic questions. On which buildings can you place external wall insulation? How many floors does a building have? Can you still reach that high floor with a fire truck? Are there trees close to the gutters that could cause water damage? You need accurate data to make the right decisions for your portfolio and wallet. And that data simply doesn’t exist today.” With only 8% of buildings currently being inspected every year due to budget and time constraints of building owners and facility managers, there’s much to gain. “It’s our ambition to inspect every building in the world every year,” says Huibers. “In the largest global sector in the world, a small deviation can have a major impact on maintenance costs and valuations. Our smart software can make better, faster, and cheaper budget estimations than humans alone, which makes us a reliable and trustworthy partner.”

Propellant.digital is a Netherlands-based FinTech company, established in 2021, that specializes in integrating public and private data to enhance business decision-making at a low cost. The company aims to organize financial markets information, making it transparent, accessible, affordable, and useful for all stakeholders in the ecosystem. Propellant.digital develops market data analysis software that consolidates publicly available financial data alongside clients' proprietary information. Its platform offers various features, including data management, dashboards, graphing, and visualization tools, equipping clients with essential insights for informed decision-making. Founded by industry professionals Vincent Grandjean and Allan Horgan, Propellant.digital seeks to leverage their extensive experience in financial market technology to deliver effective solutions that drive efficiency and transparency in the financial sector.

Next Gate Tech provides cloud-based software-as-a-service automation solutions for the asset management industry. Its platform harmonizes data from disparate sources and delivers analytics to support automated NAV oversight, risk oversight, and ESG oversight, as well as governance and controls across middle- and back-office operations. By consolidating data and eliminating legacy point solutions, the platform aims to streamline processes, reduce technology and manual spend, and improve regulatory compliance and overall operational efficiency, enabling firms to gain actionable insights and enhance client experience. The company is based in Luxembourg City and was founded in 2015.

Sprinque is an Amsterdam-based company founded in 2021 by Juan Espinosa, Manoj Tutika, and Mark Holleman. It specializes in providing a B2B checkout platform tailored for merchants and marketplaces. The platform allows these businesses to offer pay-by-invoice options with net payment terms to their online buyers without incurring additional risk or operational overhead. This solution enables business buyers to choose their preferred payment method and timing, while ensuring that sellers receive instant upfront payments regardless of the buyer's payment schedule.

Nodalview is a real estate visual content platform that designs and develops software for creating high-quality property visuals. Leveraging smartphone technology, AI and cloud computing, it enables real estate agents to capture HDR photos, 360-degree virtual tours, videos, 2D floor plans, and virtual staging, with automatic 3D model extraction. The mobile app and web platform support agents ranging from small agencies to large groups, helping them produce engaging content for thousands of properties each month—over 6,000 agents and more than 30,000 properties monthly according to product profiles. The company serves real estate agencies in France, Belgium and Switzerland and was founded in 2016, with headquarters in Rixensart, Belgium.

Next Gate Tech provides cloud-based software-as-a-service automation solutions for the asset management industry. Its platform harmonizes data from disparate sources and delivers analytics to support automated NAV oversight, risk oversight, and ESG oversight, as well as governance and controls across middle- and back-office operations. By consolidating data and eliminating legacy point solutions, the platform aims to streamline processes, reduce technology and manual spend, and improve regulatory compliance and overall operational efficiency, enabling firms to gain actionable insights and enhance client experience. The company is based in Luxembourg City and was founded in 2015.

Blanco Services B.V., founded in 2015 and based in Amsterdam, specializes in developing innovative software solutions for client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes tailored for asset managers. The company focuses on streamlining asset management procedures, making them faster, more efficient, and cost-effective. Blanco's flagship offerings include a rapid 60-minute client onboarding solution and a fully automated KYC tool that assesses clients' risk appetites through a straightforward online interface. In addition to its technological products, Blanco provides essential compliance services to help wealth and asset managers adhere to regulations, including the Financial Supervision Act and the Money Laundering and Terrorist Prevention Act, as well as upcoming requirements under MiFID II. Through its expertise in the e-brokerage and banking sectors, Blanco aims to enhance operational efficiency and regulatory compliance for its clients.

Sprinque is an Amsterdam-based company founded in 2021 by Juan Espinosa, Manoj Tutika, and Mark Holleman. It specializes in providing a B2B checkout platform tailored for merchants and marketplaces. The platform allows these businesses to offer pay-by-invoice options with net payment terms to their online buyers without incurring additional risk or operational overhead. This solution enables business buyers to choose their preferred payment method and timing, while ensuring that sellers receive instant upfront payments regardless of the buyer's payment schedule.

With an ever-growing population, climate change, and growing compliance obligations globally, real estate is eager for better solutions. Spotr.ai monitors and inspects over 250.000 buildings in the Netherlands and recently launched in the UK with 10 prominent UK housing corporations that will start inspecting their real estate portfolios with Spotr’s software solution. Spotr.ai offers a platform for banks, insurance companies, large real-estate owners, and the government to monitor building characteristics in a fast, precise, and easily accessible platform. This contributes to optimizing their client’s portfolios and activities. “It’s about knowing and understanding your portfolio.” Says Dirk Huibers, CEO at Spotr.ai. “Think of the dimensions, quantities, and conditions of buildings and their specific components. This information is crucial to make smart decisions when achieving sustainability goals. But it’s also about asking yourself the basic questions. On which buildings can you place external wall insulation? How many floors does a building have? Can you still reach that high floor with a fire truck? Are there trees close to the gutters that could cause water damage? You need accurate data to make the right decisions for your portfolio and wallet. And that data simply doesn’t exist today.” With only 8% of buildings currently being inspected every year due to budget and time constraints of building owners and facility managers, there’s much to gain. “It’s our ambition to inspect every building in the world every year,” says Huibers. “In the largest global sector in the world, a small deviation can have a major impact on maintenance costs and valuations. Our smart software can make better, faster, and cheaper budget estimations than humans alone, which makes us a reliable and trustworthy partner.”

Wizata is a platform as a service provider for manufacturing, offering an AI driven platform that improves efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of industrial operations. The solution supports quality control, maintenance, and performance monitoring, with features for early issue detection, predictive maintenance, energy management, and data visualization to boost return on investment. Wizata applies vertical data science approaches and delivers sector specific solutions across manufacturing and related domains, collaborating with client teams to uncover hidden opportunities within internal and external data. Based in Capellen, Luxembourg, the company combines advanced analytics with practical collaboration to tailor services to each sector, focusing on Industry 4.0 capabilities while expanding predictive and optimization capabilities to broader industrial applications.

Founded in Amsterdam in 2017, AxonIQ specializes in event-driven architecture solutions. Their platform offers extensive tooling, professional support, and education to build distributed, dynamic applications.

SweepBright NV, established in 2016 and headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, develops a mobile application tailored for real estate agents and brokers. The SweepBright app streamlines real estate transactions by simplifying sales processes, saving time and costs. Key features include creating new listings on location, editing images, booking photographers, generating professional-looking plans of listings, automatically matching listings with leads, scheduling visits, and interacting with buyers and sellers. The application is designed for mobile usage and integrates seamlessly with third-party applications, enabling real estate agencies to enhance efficiency and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

Nodalview is a real estate visual content platform that designs and develops software for creating high-quality property visuals. Leveraging smartphone technology, AI and cloud computing, it enables real estate agents to capture HDR photos, 360-degree virtual tours, videos, 2D floor plans, and virtual staging, with automatic 3D model extraction. The mobile app and web platform support agents ranging from small agencies to large groups, helping them produce engaging content for thousands of properties each month—over 6,000 agents and more than 30,000 properties monthly according to product profiles. The company serves real estate agencies in France, Belgium and Switzerland and was founded in 2016, with headquarters in Rixensart, Belgium.

NannyML develops enterprise software to monitor machine learning models in production, enabling decision-makers to understand how AI decisions evolve and how changes affect business outcomes. The platform detects data drift and concept drift, estimates potential model degradation, and provides actionable insights through a dashboard that communicates model decisions to both business and technical stakeholders. It focuses on bridging the gap between business use and AI, helping organizations keep ML systems reliable, maintain value, and act on insights. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Leuven, Belgium.

KeyRock, established in 2017, is a Belgian-based company specializing in crypto asset financial infrastructure. It offers market making and liquidity services to the cryptocurrency ecosystem, utilizing in-house algorithmic trading bots and high-frequency trading infrastructure. The company's services, including order book replication, trade execution, and spot execution, enable clients to operate exchanges and brokerages efficiently within the cryptocurrency market.

Blanco Services B.V., founded in 2015 and based in Amsterdam, specializes in developing innovative software solutions for client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes tailored for asset managers. The company focuses on streamlining asset management procedures, making them faster, more efficient, and cost-effective. Blanco's flagship offerings include a rapid 60-minute client onboarding solution and a fully automated KYC tool that assesses clients' risk appetites through a straightforward online interface. In addition to its technological products, Blanco provides essential compliance services to help wealth and asset managers adhere to regulations, including the Financial Supervision Act and the Money Laundering and Terrorist Prevention Act, as well as upcoming requirements under MiFID II. Through its expertise in the e-brokerage and banking sectors, Blanco aims to enhance operational efficiency and regulatory compliance for its clients.

CHILI Publish is a software company that specializes in online document editing solutions, transforming original designs into Smart Templates. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Erembodegem, Belgium, CHILI Publish aims to simplify and automate graphic creation for businesses across various sectors, including marketing, retail, cosmetics, and food and beverage. Its innovative platform allows clients to generate on-brand visual communication for both print and packaging, significantly improving operational efficiency by eliminating repetitive tasks. The software is widely adopted by major and niche brands globally and integrates seamlessly with a broad network of third-party partners, providing a self-service environment for producing graphics efficiently.

Qualifio SA, established in 2011 and headquartered in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, operates a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enables businesses to engage digital audiences and collect data. The platform facilitates the creation and publication of interactive campaigns, such as quizzes, polls, and contests, across various channels including websites, mobile apps, and social media. Qualifio's solution allows customers to integrate the platform with their existing CRM, DMP, or SSO systems, enabling real-time data collection and segmentation. The company's offerings also extend to increasing registrations and monetizing audiences.

Wizata is a platform as a service provider for manufacturing, offering an AI driven platform that improves efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of industrial operations. The solution supports quality control, maintenance, and performance monitoring, with features for early issue detection, predictive maintenance, energy management, and data visualization to boost return on investment. Wizata applies vertical data science approaches and delivers sector specific solutions across manufacturing and related domains, collaborating with client teams to uncover hidden opportunities within internal and external data. Based in Capellen, Luxembourg, the company combines advanced analytics with practical collaboration to tailor services to each sector, focusing on Industry 4.0 capabilities while expanding predictive and optimization capabilities to broader industrial applications.

Widget Brain B.V., founded in 2015 and headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands, specializes in developing software that facilitates autonomous decision-making for various industries, including quick service restaurants, hotels, retail, and facility services. The company offers workforce optimization and predictive maintenance management solutions, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance operational efficiency. Its software enables clients to make optimized decisions in areas such as capacity planning, logistics, service planning, root cause analysis, and fault diagnosis. By streamlining planning processes, Widget Brain aims to improve business performance and save time for its clients. In addition to its headquarters, the company maintains offices in Canberra, Australia, and Burlington, Vermont, United States. As of October 2020, Widget Brain operates as a subsidiary of Quinyx AB.

Cashforce BV, established in 2013, is a Belgian company with offices in Antwerp, New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and London. It specializes in a smart cash flow management and forecasting platform, enabling users to predict cash inflows and outflows across multiple companies, bank accounts, and currencies. The platform integrates seamlessly with various ERPs and banking systems, providing detailed transaction-level insights and AI-based cash flow scenario simulations. Cashforce serves multinational corporations across diverse industries in over 120 countries, empowering CFOs, finance teams, and treasury departments to enhance cash visibility, optimize working capital, and make data-driven decisions.

Nodalview is a real estate visual content platform that designs and develops software for creating high-quality property visuals. Leveraging smartphone technology, AI and cloud computing, it enables real estate agents to capture HDR photos, 360-degree virtual tours, videos, 2D floor plans, and virtual staging, with automatic 3D model extraction. The mobile app and web platform support agents ranging from small agencies to large groups, helping them produce engaging content for thousands of properties each month—over 6,000 agents and more than 30,000 properties monthly according to product profiles. The company serves real estate agencies in France, Belgium and Switzerland and was founded in 2016, with headquarters in Rixensart, Belgium.

Founded in Amsterdam in 2017, AxonIQ specializes in event-driven architecture solutions. Their platform offers extensive tooling, professional support, and education to build distributed, dynamic applications.

Blanco Services B.V., founded in 2015 and based in Amsterdam, specializes in developing innovative software solutions for client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes tailored for asset managers. The company focuses on streamlining asset management procedures, making them faster, more efficient, and cost-effective. Blanco's flagship offerings include a rapid 60-minute client onboarding solution and a fully automated KYC tool that assesses clients' risk appetites through a straightforward online interface. In addition to its technological products, Blanco provides essential compliance services to help wealth and asset managers adhere to regulations, including the Financial Supervision Act and the Money Laundering and Terrorist Prevention Act, as well as upcoming requirements under MiFID II. Through its expertise in the e-brokerage and banking sectors, Blanco aims to enhance operational efficiency and regulatory compliance for its clients.

CHILI Publish is a software company that specializes in online document editing solutions, transforming original designs into Smart Templates. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Erembodegem, Belgium, CHILI Publish aims to simplify and automate graphic creation for businesses across various sectors, including marketing, retail, cosmetics, and food and beverage. Its innovative platform allows clients to generate on-brand visual communication for both print and packaging, significantly improving operational efficiency by eliminating repetitive tasks. The software is widely adopted by major and niche brands globally and integrates seamlessly with a broad network of third-party partners, providing a self-service environment for producing graphics efficiently.

SweepBright NV, established in 2016 and headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, develops a mobile application tailored for real estate agents and brokers. The SweepBright app streamlines real estate transactions by simplifying sales processes, saving time and costs. Key features include creating new listings on location, editing images, booking photographers, generating professional-looking plans of listings, automatically matching listings with leads, scheduling visits, and interacting with buyers and sellers. The application is designed for mobile usage and integrates seamlessly with third-party applications, enabling real estate agencies to enhance efficiency and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

KeyRock, established in 2017, is a Belgian-based company specializing in crypto asset financial infrastructure. It offers market making and liquidity services to the cryptocurrency ecosystem, utilizing in-house algorithmic trading bots and high-frequency trading infrastructure. The company's services, including order book replication, trade execution, and spot execution, enable clients to operate exchanges and brokerages efficiently within the cryptocurrency market.

Blanco Services B.V., founded in 2015 and based in Amsterdam, specializes in developing innovative software solutions for client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes tailored for asset managers. The company focuses on streamlining asset management procedures, making them faster, more efficient, and cost-effective. Blanco's flagship offerings include a rapid 60-minute client onboarding solution and a fully automated KYC tool that assesses clients' risk appetites through a straightforward online interface. In addition to its technological products, Blanco provides essential compliance services to help wealth and asset managers adhere to regulations, including the Financial Supervision Act and the Money Laundering and Terrorist Prevention Act, as well as upcoming requirements under MiFID II. Through its expertise in the e-brokerage and banking sectors, Blanco aims to enhance operational efficiency and regulatory compliance for its clients.

Cashforce BV, established in 2013, is a Belgian company with offices in Antwerp, New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and London. It specializes in a smart cash flow management and forecasting platform, enabling users to predict cash inflows and outflows across multiple companies, bank accounts, and currencies. The platform integrates seamlessly with various ERPs and banking systems, providing detailed transaction-level insights and AI-based cash flow scenario simulations. Cashforce serves multinational corporations across diverse industries in over 120 countries, empowering CFOs, finance teams, and treasury departments to enhance cash visibility, optimize working capital, and make data-driven decisions.

Qualifio SA, established in 2011 and headquartered in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, operates a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enables businesses to engage digital audiences and collect data. The platform facilitates the creation and publication of interactive campaigns, such as quizzes, polls, and contests, across various channels including websites, mobile apps, and social media. Qualifio's solution allows customers to integrate the platform with their existing CRM, DMP, or SSO systems, enabling real-time data collection and segmentation. The company's offerings also extend to increasing registrations and monetizing audiences.

Yields.io is a pioneering FinTech company that has developed an AI-driven platform for automated model risk management across the financial sector. Founded in 2017 by industry veterans Jos Gheerardyn and Sébastien Viguié, the company aims to streamline model validation processes, generate regulatory-compliant documentation, and enhance model monitoring on an enterprise scale. The platform is versatile and compatible with various models utilized in finance, including credit models, AI applications, valuation algorithms, market risk assessments, anti-money laundering measures, and behavioral models. Yields.io has experienced rapid growth and operates offices in Brussels and London, serving a diverse international clientele that includes both investment banks and regional financial institutions.

Founded in Amsterdam in 2017, AxonIQ specializes in event-driven architecture solutions. Their platform offers extensive tooling, professional support, and education to build distributed, dynamic applications.

CHILI Publish is a software company that specializes in online document editing solutions, transforming original designs into Smart Templates. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Erembodegem, Belgium, CHILI Publish aims to simplify and automate graphic creation for businesses across various sectors, including marketing, retail, cosmetics, and food and beverage. Its innovative platform allows clients to generate on-brand visual communication for both print and packaging, significantly improving operational efficiency by eliminating repetitive tasks. The software is widely adopted by major and niche brands globally and integrates seamlessly with a broad network of third-party partners, providing a self-service environment for producing graphics efficiently.

SweepBright NV, established in 2016 and headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, develops a mobile application tailored for real estate agents and brokers. The SweepBright app streamlines real estate transactions by simplifying sales processes, saving time and costs. Key features include creating new listings on location, editing images, booking photographers, generating professional-looking plans of listings, automatically matching listings with leads, scheduling visits, and interacting with buyers and sellers. The application is designed for mobile usage and integrates seamlessly with third-party applications, enabling real estate agencies to enhance efficiency and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

BitSensor B.V., founded in 2015 and headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, specializes in cybersecurity solutions that protect web applications from security vulnerabilities. The company offers both cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) and on-premise solutions, employing real-time blocking and visual insights to enhance security. BitSensor's technology focuses on big data correlation and attack detection, enabling applications to defend themselves against threats. Their network security platform not only blocks attacks in real-time but also provides clients with detailed visual data analytics to identify anomalies and locate data leakages with precision. Through these capabilities, BitSensor empowers organizations to safeguard their data and applications effectively.

Cashforce BV, established in 2013, is a Belgian company with offices in Antwerp, New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and London. It specializes in a smart cash flow management and forecasting platform, enabling users to predict cash inflows and outflows across multiple companies, bank accounts, and currencies. The platform integrates seamlessly with various ERPs and banking systems, providing detailed transaction-level insights and AI-based cash flow scenario simulations. Cashforce serves multinational corporations across diverse industries in over 120 countries, empowering CFOs, finance teams, and treasury departments to enhance cash visibility, optimize working capital, and make data-driven decisions.