Entourage is a Ghent-based early-stage VC firm and venture studio founded in 2024 by Showpad co-founder Pieterjan Bouten. It backs and builds high-growth B2B SaaS and software companies, operating through Entourage Capital for direct investments and Entourage Studio for company building.
Founded 2024
Type Venture capital 1 2024 launch fund and venture studio Announced 2024-03-01
RaisedoverUSD30m /overEUR25m launchcapital reports samefund/studiomodel notadditive. Legalname/studio-vsVCsplit/finalcloseunverified. LaterEUR40msecondclosingpodcastlead notverified.
— — $5K – $50K Gent, Belgium — — – — — — – — — — – — — — – — — — – —
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$3M 2026-04-08 Handhold Entourage , Inovia Capital $2M 2025-12-03 SereneDB Entourage $5M 2025-12-02 Basalt Entourage , Pieterjan Bouten $— 2025-11-12 CommerceClarity Entourage $7M 2025-10-14 Epiminds Lightspeed , Entourage , EWOR , Mandeep Singh , Pieterjan Bouten $— 2025-09-29 Lexroom Acurio Ventures , Entourage $7M 2025-08-20 OneCrew Entourage $— 2025-03-20 Warren Entourage $— 2025-03-11 Lexroom Entourage $5M 2025-03-06 Conveo Y Combinator , Syndicate One , Entourage , Pitchdrive , Lucas Stoops , Wouter Volckaert $— 2025-02-24 Karomia Entourage $— Unknown date TextYess Entourage $— Unknown date Tekst Entourage $— Unknown date Dytto Entourage $— Unknown date Chift Entourage $5M Unknown date Basalt Entourage $— Unknown date Artion Entourage €12M 2026-07-23 kausable Entourage €3M 2026-07-17 Sightera Entourage $— 2024-05-02 Tekst.com Entourage
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team@apexlogos.ai · 48 minutes ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / GoldiEntourage / sha256:82187a2468c16b65c3bfedd2922e4d22411df35147bbd6299babfd72a766e738 / part 2 of 2
Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats.
**Other technology investments and classification limits:** [Peak's Basalt announcement, 2025-12-02](https://peak.capital/basalt-raises-5m-to-fix-ais-reliability-problem/ ) expressly states a US$5m round **led by Entourage and Peak**. Basalt builds monitoring, evaluation and reliability infrastructure for AI agents. This verifies firm attribution and contradicts the snapshot's nonlead flags, but the available evidence does not prove scientific defensibility sufficient for a strict deep-tech designation. Similarly, Tekst's agentic workflow automation is verified through Cresco's above announcement; neither automation nor an AI label alone establishes deep tech. Conveo, Lexroom, Handhold, Karomia and other application software should not automatically be labeled deep tech.
## Neurotech and attribution caveats
**No verified neurotech investment found in the sources checked.** The checked set includes the exact Adex snapshot, current official portfolio, NFX firm/person evidence, official investee/co-investor material and targeted searches combining Entourage/Bouten with neurotech, brain and historical portfolio names. This is an evidence gap, not proof that no investment exists.
Sightera's official named pipeline concerns cancer and fibrosis. AI drug discovery generally is adjacent life-science technology; no brain interface, neural recording/stimulation, brain-specific diagnostic or neuroscience program was demonstrated for this company. Kausable's causal AI and Basalt's AI reliability systems likewise do not establish neurotech investment.
**Byteflies and Algorithmiq require care.** TechWiki's past portfolio and other aggregators list them under Entourage, but no direct Entourage transaction was verified here. The 2024 Dutch IT Leaders launch article explicitly calls Byteflies part of Bouten's existing **angel** investments. Treat Byteflies as a personal prior-investment lead, not a confirmed current-firm neurotech holding. Algorithmiq is a quantum-software lead; firm attribution remains unverified. Neither company is used to inflate this report's verified deep-tech/neurotech record.
## Conflicts, missing information and concrete review notes
- Preserve the exact ID `GoldiEntourage`; the French film/content investor [entourage.ventures](https://entourage.ventures/fr/ ) is a different business founded in 2015 by Julien Delajoux and Matthias Nicodeme. Its €100m invested and fund count do not belong to this Belgian firm. NFX's display name “Entourage Ventures” alone is insufficient to select the French domain.
- Verify the €40m closing and €300k–€1.5m tickets against the original March 2025 podcast, especially whether capital spans studio and fund and whether “second closing” was final. Do not promote a secondary summary into confirmed current AUM.
- Review Sightera's co-lead attribution, 2026-07-17 announcement date and €3m round; restore date/amount only after source review. Some aggregators use July 20 or classify it as seed; primary university reporting specifically says pre-seed on July 17.
- Review adding kausable's €12m July 2026 seed with direct co-lead evidence. No individual check amount found.
- Reconcile duplicate Basalt participations/rounds and lead flags: Peak's dated primary co-investor announcement supports Entourage co-leadership.
- Reconcile Tekst and Tekst.com identity across the 2024 seed and 2026 Series A. Firm financing and personal angel history must remain separate.
- Official portfolio inclusion verifies a relationship but by itself does not establish purchase date, fund vintage, round amount or partner's prior- versus current-firm allocation.
- No complete legal fund documents, portfolio census, actual contribution sizes or dedicated neurotech thesis were available. This is a focused public-source review, not an exhaustive private-investment audit.
All linked sources were accessed **2026-10-06**; publication dates are stated above where available. The saved Adex source remains baseline evidence only. No code, database, manifest or unrelated files were changed. SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 48 minutes ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / GoldiEntourage / sha256:82187a2468c16b65c3bfedd2922e4d22411df35147bbd6299babfd72a766e738 / part 1 of 2
Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats.
# Entourage — GoldiEntourage
Research date: **2026-10-06**. Exact Adex ID: `GoldiEntourage`. Canonical Adex URL: https://adex.page/firms/GoldiEntourage . This is the Ghent, Belgium VC and venture studio associated with Showpad co-founder Pieterjan Bouten, using https://www.entourage.io/ . Research only; no Adex or database changes made.
## Summary
Entourage's official current mandate is **pre-seed and seed**. Its 2024 launch was reported as over **US$30 million** raised; Dutch reporting put the launch capital at over **€25 million**. A later **€40 million second closing** and **€300,000–€1.5 million initial tickets** are attributed to Bouten's March 2025 podcast by a secondary aggregator, but the primary audio/transcript was not verified here, so these remain review leads rather than confirmed figures. Verified firm investments include **Sightera Biosciences** (scientific drug discovery) and **kausable** (foundational causal AI), both defensible deep-tech examples. **No verified neurotech investment found in the sources checked.** Sources and attribution limits follow.
## Starting Adex and NFX Signal evidence
The existing exact-ID snapshot, `data/research/_sources/GoldiEntourage.adex.json`, was retrieved 2026-10-06 at 19:29 UTC through read-only Adex Search. It describes a firm founded in 2024 with Entourage Capital investing and Entourage Studio building B2B SaaS/software companies. Check-size fields are null. Named partners include Pieterjan Bouten, Maarten Mortier and Evert Beeckman; the official team confirms those people and also lists Sixtine Riescher, absent from the snapshot. [Official site](https://www.entourage.io/ ) and [team](https://www.entourage.io/team ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06.
Snapshot firm participations name Handhold, SereneDB, Basalt (twice), CommerceClarity, Epiminds, Lexroom (two rounds), OneCrew, Warren, Conveo, Karomia, Tekst.com, Artion, Chift, Dytto, Sightera, Tekst and TextYess. Snapshot source links include trade reporting, official/co-investor pages and Goldi. These are starting claims, not independent confirmations. Tekst/Tekst.com may represent the same company across rounds; the duplicate Basalt records require reconciliation.
The supplied [NFX Signal firm URL](https://signal.nfx.com/firms/entourage-ventures ) failed direct browser access. The [Pieterjan Bouten profile](https://signal.nfx.com/investors/pieterjan-bouten ) was directly readable: it calls him General Partner at Entourage Ventures in Gent and displays $5,000–$50,000 investment range and $25,000 sweet spot. These are **personal investor-profile numbers**, not verified firm tickets. The rendered page says both 25 investments and 22 investments, with detailed investments gated by login. Search-index content for the same URL exposed kausable, Sightera, Lexroom, Tekst, Dytto, Aikido and SereneDB rounds, but those personal-history entries do not establish firm attribution. Accessed 2026-10-06; no publication date.
## Fund size and stages
| Item | Evidence and status |
| --- | --- |
| Launch fund/studio capital, 2024 | [TechFundingNews, 2024-03-01](https://techfundingnews.com/showpad-co-founder-launches-entourage-a-30m-fund-and-venture-studio-to-back-european-saas-founders/ ) reports over US$30m raised for the venture studio and early-stage VC fund. Raised capital, rather than an unfulfilled target; the report does not provide a legal fund name, final-close certification or split between studio and investment vehicle. |
| Euro launch reporting | [Dutch IT Leaders, 2024-03-03](https://www.dutchitleaders.nl/news/424117/investeringsfonds-helpt-nederlandse-softwareondernemers-op-weg ) reports over €25m raised from software entrepreneurs and family offices. Do not add this to the dollar amount: these are launch-period accounts of the same vehicle/model, not separate funds. |
| Later closing lead | [TechWiki Entourage](https://techwiki.be/investors/entourage ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06, attributes a second closing bringing the fund to €40m to SuperNova's *SuperHero Conversations EP6*, dated 2025-03-14, at 23:47. [Underlying video and timestamp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYFEZZiskpo&t=1427s ). Primary spoken evidence was not directly verified. A second **closing** is not a second **fund**. Keep this as provisional and verify before updating a fund-size field. |
| AUM and newer funds | No independently verified current AUM, formally named Fund II, new fund target or final-close announcement found in focused 2025/2026 searches. The latest solid reporting verified here is the 2024 launch, with the provisional 2025 expansion lead above. Do not assert that the launch amount is the current or latest fund size. |
| Current entry stages | [Official homepage](https://www.entourage.io/ ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06, explicitly states pre-seed and seed and preference for teams with initial traction. |
| Broader historical participation | Launch-era Dutch reporting says seed through Series A; [Cresco, 2026-05-19](https://crescolaw.com/news/cresco-advised-elephant-on-leading-teksts-e11-5-million-series-a/ ) confirms existing investor Entourage joining Tekst's €11.5m Series A. Follow-on participation does not override the current early entry-stage mandate. |
| Firm tickets | No verified official current ticket range. TechWiki attributes €300k–€1.5m tickets to the above podcast; unverified primary audio. Neither NFX personal tickets nor total investee round sizes should populate firm check-size fields. |
A [May 14, 2026 EU-Startups interview description](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/the-eu-startups-podcast-interview-with-pieterjan-bouten-founding-and-managing-partner-at-entourage/ ) corroborates the continuing studio/capital model and B2B SaaS positioning. It does not disclose fund size in the page text.
## Named previous deep-tech investments
| Company | Technology rationale and firm attribution | Round/date and evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Sightera Biosciences** | Strong science-based deep-tech example: University of Antwerp/UZA spin-off combining patient-derived experimental biology with AI to discover small-molecule medicines. The official current pipeline targets oncology and fibrotic disease; this is not established neurotechnology. Entourage itself lists Sightera as portfolio, and university science-park reporting names the fund with Anacura and QBIC. | **€3m pre-seed, 2026-07-17 announcement**. [University Antwerp Science Park, 2026-07-17](https://www.wetenschapsparkuantwerpen.be/nl/home/sightera-biosciences-haalt-3-miljoen-euro-op/ ) identifies all three investors and the first external round. [EU-Startups, 2026-07-17](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/07/antwerps-sightera-biosciences-raises-e3-million-to-scale-its-patient-derived-ai-drug-discovery-platform/ ) reports their co-leadership. [Official Sightera site](https://sightera-biosciences.com/ ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06, supports scientific platform/pipeline. This fills the snapshot's missing date and amount without assuming its unlabeled/nonlead field is authoritative. |
| **kausable** | Foundational causal AI, rather than an ordinary AI application: develops models intended to reason and adapt to changing contexts with limited new information. Scientific development risk and foundational-model architecture justify the deep-tech classification. Official Entourage portfolio lists Kausable; participating investor HTGF expressly identifies Entourage as co-lead. | **€12m seed, July 2026**. [Transaction counsel NEON, 2026-07-23](https://neon.law/news/neon-advises-uvc-partners-on-e12m-seed-financing-round-of-kausable ) verifies round size, seed stage and causal AI development. [HTGF founder/investor interview, 2026-08-31](https://www.htgf.de/kausable-interview/ ) confirms UVC Partners and Entourage led the completed seed round, with HTGF and Mätch VC participating. This investment is absent from the saved firm's participation list and merits later Adex review. |
These are verified firm investments, not allocations inferred from a partner's personal investment page. The cited amounts are total financing rounds; Entourage's individual contribution is undisclosed. SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 22 days ago
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