NewSchool VC closes €10M debut fund to back Europe’s next B2B tech companies — TFN

• NewSchool VC has closed its debut fund at €10 million, hitting the goal it set at a 6.1 million euro first shut final September.

• The Belgian fund has made 32 investments, together with Warren, Ravical and Alice, with three extra in its pipeline.

• NewSchool was essentially the most energetic investor in Belgium within the first half of 2026, a yr through which Belgian startups raised €1.1 billion, up almost sixfold on the identical interval in 2025.

Christophe Morbee spent years writing angel checks earlier than he determined a spreadsheet of facet bets wasn’t a technique. Now his construction has a reputation, a goal hit and 32 corporations on the board: NewSchool VC has closed its debut fund at €10 million euros, reaching the objective it set at a 6.1 million euro first shut final September.

Round 50 traders again the fund, together with six household workplaces, amongst them The Millers Workplace, alongside Belgian entrepreneurs reminiscent of Willem Delbaere and Roeland Delrue of Aikido Safety, Jean-Louis Van Houwe of Monizze, and Luc Coopman of Cobofisk. Morbee has put in 25% of the fund’s capital himself.

“I invested as an angel for years, however felt it was time to construct an actual construction round it. I like entrepreneurship, investing, and sharing what I find out about advertising, gross sales, HR and finance with founders. That’s what led me to launch a full-fledged fund,” Morbee stated.

From besox to a enterprise fund

NewSchool’s funding thesis grew out of besox, the Belgian payroll and HR administration firm Morbee constructed right into a enterprise with 110 workers and income heading towards €15 million this yr. 

Besox’s roughly 4,000 SME prospects now additionally function a heat introduction channel for NewSchool’s portfolio corporations in search of early prospects.

It exhibits up in the place the cash has gone. Of NewSchool’s 32 investments, 75% are Belgian, with the remaining unfold throughout Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, France and the UK. 

The portfolio consists of Ravical, the Ghent-based AI agent platform for skilled providers companies that raised €7.3 million from Lakestar, and Warren, the office pension fintech that adopted its €3 million pre-seed with a €10 million seed spherical led by Motive Ventures. NewSchool additionally co-led the €1 million pre-seed for Alice, the Ghent legaltech, alongside Seeder Fund, and backed Spotable, Cashfeed, Donna, Dalton, Feedelity and Exhibitly. 

Its most up-to-date bets stretch exterior Belgium: Talentir, a Vienna-based content material monetization startup, and a French firm NewSchool describes as Define.

NewSchool isn’t alone in betting that small, founder-run automobiles beat generalist mega-funds on the pre-seed stage. In Belgium, Pitchdrive closed its fourth fund at €60 million after turning away roughly €25 million in extra demand to remain intentionally small, and Henchman founders Jorn Vanysacker and Gilles Mattelin raised a €12 million fund, 100IN, to jot down 100 checks of €100,000 apiece. Berlin’s seed+speed tripled its target to close at €90 million for European B2B and enterprise software program.

A crowded subject of small, opinionated funds

“Europe is an engineer’s continent, with technically robust groups. What’s usually lacking is somebody who takes cost of go-to-market, gross sales and storytelling. That’s the place we focus, alongside the capital we offer. There’s nonetheless huge room to automate outdated industries. We see loads of alternative there for the years forward,” stated Morbee.

Whether or not that operator-led mannequin scales past a single GP’s Rolodex, or whether or not NewSchool must formalize into a bigger staff because it raises a second fund, is the query that can decide whether or not it is a repeatable technique or a one-time trick of fine timing and a well-connected founder.