About Pitchdrive
Pitchdrive is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. It is primarily based out of Antwerp, Belgium. As of Jun 2026, Pitchdrive is an active investor, having invested in 73 companies, with 6 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in Belgium based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Retail. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Zero Drift Overall, Pitchdrive portfolio has seen 5 acquisitions including key companies like Henchman AI, Rita and DataPad. A lot of funds co-invest with Pitchdrive, with names like Syndicate One sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Pitchdrive has team of 14 people including 7 partners.Key Metrics
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Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series A
Portfolio Acquisitions
Deals in last 12 months
Pitchdrive's List of Top Investments
Pitchdrive has a portfolio of 73 companies. Their most notable investments are in Liftos and Introw.Their portfolio spans across Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany and 14 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Retail and 21 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Pitchdrive:
1. Greenspark
SaaS-based platform to offset the carbon footprint. Its platform allows users to easily plant trees and offset their carbon emissions. It allows businesses to directly integrate their store and create automated impact per order, customer, product or spend.
Key facts about Greenspark
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Deal (United Kingdom)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $11.2M
- Employee Count: 26 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Third Prime, Zone2boost and 21 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jan 26, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Henchman AI
AI and cloud based contract drafting platform for legal firms. It offers software to classify and extract data from documents. Its offering includes clause analytics, integration, penetration testing tools, data fragmentation. The platform allows users to review the contracts in real time.
Key facts about Henchman AI
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Ghent (Belgium)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $10.4M
- Employee Count: 36 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Acton Capital, Conviction and 12 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Mar 21, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Happl
Cloud based employee benefits and engagement platform. It simplifies compliance, tax, and admin tasks for businesses while prioritizing employee engagement. The platform offers features such as continuous improvement, flexible spending allowances, a marketplace for managing expenses, and resources for engaging teams, providing compliance, managing taxes, and more.
Key facts about Happl
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: London (United Kingdom)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $16.5M
- Employee Count: 8 as on Jan 31, 2025
- Investors: Sagard, Portage and 13 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, May 13, 2026, $*****
4. Conveo
AI-powered platform for conducting voice interviews. It helps recruiters in conducting and analyzing in-depth voice interviews of candidates and provides insights. It supports multiple language interviews through web, whatsapp and phone calls.
Key facts about Conveo
- Founded Year: 2024
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $5.75M
- Employee Count: 62 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: 6 Degrees Capital, Team Ignite Ventures and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Mar 06, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Workfully
Workfully is a recruitment platform that aims to create a trusted hiring experience for innovation-led companies. They offer services to help companies hire and upskill talent globally.
Key facts about Workfully
Pitchdrive's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Pitchdrive has invested in 73 companies over the last 6 years, with an average of 9 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 16 investments, while as of Jun 2026, it has made 2 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Zero Drift and most recent follow-on round was in Donna.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2025 | 12 | 4 | 16 |
2024 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
2023 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
2022 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
2021 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Pitchdrive's Investments by Stage
Pitchdrive has made 46 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.18M and 3 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $3.76M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 46 |
Series A | 3 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Pitchdrive's Investments by Sector
Pitchdrive has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Vertical SaaS, High Tech, Consumer and FinTech. Notably, it has invested in 63 Tech companies, 57 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 53 Software companies and at least 38 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 36 |
Vertical SaaS | 10 |
High Tech | 7 |
Consumer | 6 |
FinTech | 6 |
Others | 34 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Pitchdrive's Investments by Geography
Pitchdrive has made most investments in Belgium (17), followed by United Kingdom where it has made 8 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Belgium | 17 |
United Kingdom | 8 |
Germany | 5 |
United States | 5 |
Spain | 3 |
Others | 11 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Pitchdrive's recent investments
Pitchdrive has made 2 investments in 2026 so far - Zero Drift and Pleasefix.ai.Here are the most recent investments by Pitchdrive:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jun 02, 2026 | United States | Seed | 6016 | [+7] | |
Feb 04, 2026 | United States | Seed | 5657 | [+2] | |
Dec 02, 2025 | Belgium | Seed | 4979 | [+5] | |
Nov 13, 2025 | Belgium | Series A | 5451 | ||
Nov 03, 2025 | Germany | Seed | 9607 |
Acquired companies in Pitchdrive's Portfolio
5 companies from Pitchdrive's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Utopian Lab in Oct 2025 by Zapier for $*****.Here are Pitchdrive's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 20, 2025 | - | - | 1124 | |
Aug 19, 2024 | Apr 26, 2022 | Seed | 2062 | |
Jun 17, 2024 | Feb 17, 2022 | Seed | 7288 | |
Jun 12, 2024 | Oct 16, 2020 | Seed | 9295 | |
Sep 30, 2014 | Dec 05, 2024 | Seed | 1409 |
Team profile of Pitchdrive
Pitchdrive has a team of 14 members including 7 Partners, 1 Venture Partner and 1 Principal located in Belgium and United States. Pitchdrive's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in Pitchdrive:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | Ghent | - | ||
Partner | Antwerp | - | ||
Partner | Ghent | - | ||
Partner | - | - | ||
Partner | Belgium | - | - | |
Partner | - | - | - | |
Partner | Belgium | - | ||
Venture Partner | Belgium | - | ||
Principal | Amsterdam | - |
Co-investors of Pitchdrive
Over the past 6 years, 190 investors have co-invested in Pitchdrive's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Pitchdrive: Y Combinator, imec.istart and 18 others have invested in rounds before Pitchdrive. There are 2 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Pitchdrive and 2 companies where imec.istart has invested before Pitchdrive.
- Top Co-investors of Pitchdrive: 126 investors entered a company along with Pitchdrive. These include investors like Syndicate One (6 companies).
- Invested after Pitchdrive: A total of 44 investors have invested in Pitchdrive's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Louis Jonckheere (2 companies), Pieterjan Bouten (2 companies) and Techstars (2 companies).
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PleaseFix.ai Secures $2.1M to Eliminate Manual Work in Finance Teams
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Former Nory execs raise $1.4m for Lette AI, property management start-upSilicon Republic•Oct 21, 2025•Nory AI, Pitchdrive, Grammarly, Baseline Ventures and 2 others
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NineID raises €3.5M to fuel European expansion of its contractor management platformEU-Startups•Jul 04, 2025•NineID, Aconterra, Pitchdrive
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