Matthias Geeroms

Co-founder & CFO, Lighthouse (formerly OTA Insight); Angel Investor

Reviewed Updated Jun 15, 2026

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Location Ghent, Belgium
Check Size Angel ticket (typically $25K-$100K, undisclosed)
Last Verified Investment Aikido Security (Series B) — Jan 14, 2026
Social LinkedIn
Stage Focus
pre-seed seed
Sector Focus
saas b2b-saas fintech legaltech devtools security digital-health hospitality-tech

Background

Matthias Geeroms is the co-founder and CFO of Lighthouse (originally OTA Insight), a hotel revenue management and commercial intelligence SaaS company founded in Ghent, Belgium in 2012 12. Lighthouse has raised approximately $473M in venture funding and reached Series C, with offices including London 2. Prior to founding Lighthouse, Geeroms worked as a transfer pricing specialist at the Belgian federal tax administration (FOD Financiën) from 2009 to 2015 5. He holds a master-after-master degree in tax law from Ghent University and a master’s in commercial sciences from Europese Hogeschool Brussel 5.

Geeroms is part of the Ghent operator-angel cluster that has emerged around exits and scale-ups including Teamleader, Showpad, Silverfin, Henchman, Stardekk, and Aikido. He participates in Syndicate One, an angel investment group composed of Belgian tech founders and operators 36.

Stated Thesis

No public written investment thesis from Geeroms was identified during this research. He is profiled primarily through co-investment rounds rather than personal essays, podcasts, or a website. (Self-reported thesis: none located.)

Inferred Thesis

Based on a small sample of publicly verified investments (5 confirmed deals listed below):

  • Stage: All verified deals are pre-seed, seed, or angel rounds, except one later-stage Series B follow-on into Aikido 2. The pattern is early-stage angel ticket writing.
  • Sector mix: B2B SaaS dominates: legaltech (Jurimesh) 6, AI sales-ops (Driven) 7, finance automation (Eagl) 4, operations (Dalton) 2, and security (Aikido) 2. One digital-health investment (IntelliProve) 8. Sample is too small for reliable percentages.
  • Geography: All verified portfolio companies are Belgian, with a strong concentration in Ghent and Flanders 4678.
  • Co-investor patterns: Geeroms appears most frequently alongside other Ghent operator-angels: Jeroen De Wit (Teamleader), Louis Jonckheere (Showpad), Jorn Vanysacker (Henchman/Intuo), Joris Van Der Gucht (Silverfin), Gilles Mattelin, Roeland Delrue (Aikido), and the Syndicate One group 6784. He also frequently co-invests with Pitchdrive and Newschool VC 7.
  • Founder profile: Verified investments skew toward Belgian technical founders building B2B SaaS products, often from the Ghent ecosystem.

Sample size caveat: Only 5 of 9-10 reported investments could be independently verified by name. Inferred thesis is directional rather than statistical.

Portfolio

Company Year Stage Source
Aikido Security 2026-01-14 Series B ($60M) 2
Eagl 2025-09-18 Seed (€825K / $975K) 4
Dalton 2025-09-05 Seed ($1.16M) 2
Driven 2025-09-04 Seed (€1.5M) 7
Jurimesh 2025-02-27 Pre-Seed (€1.6M) 6
IntelliProve 2025-01 Seed (€1.25M) 8

Aggregator profiles report 9-10 total investments; the table above represents publicly verifiable rounds only 12.

In Their Own Words

No independently sourced first-person quotes from Geeroms about his investing philosophy were located during this research pass.

What Founders Say

No independently sourced founder testimonials specifically about working with Matthias Geeroms were found. Founder quotes from portfolio companies (Jurimesh, Driven, IntelliProve) reference the round overall, not Geeroms individually 678.

Sources

  1. CB Insights, “Matthias Geeroms Investor Profile,” accessed June 2026. https://www.cbinsights.com/investor/matthias-geeroms↩↩

  2. Tracxn, “Matthias Geeroms - Portfolio & Founded Companies,” accessed June 2026. https://tracxn.com/d/people/matthias-frans-geeroms/__EMdR1b4b5EDQy8UHr_0b5d-lwsNRjeS2KxX8Nk5kuSs↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩

  3. EU-Startups, “Brussels-based Syndicate One €4.8 million first-close to fuel investments in Belgium’s most ambitious tech startups,” January 2024, accessed June 2026. https://www.eu-startups.com/2024/01/brussels-based-syndicate-one-e4-8-million-first-close-to-fuel-investments-in-belgiums-most-ambitious-tech-startups/↩

  4. EU-Startups, “Belgian startup Eagl secures €825K to automate month-end close with AI agents,” September 2025, accessed June 2026. https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/09/belgian-startup-eagl-secures-e825k-to-automate-month-end-close-with-ai-agents/↩↩↩↩

  5. Matthias Geeroms LinkedIn profile, accessed June 2026. https://be.linkedin.com/in/matthiasgeeroms↩↩

  6. Vestbee, “Ghent-based legaltech startup Jurimesh raises €1.6M pre-seed round,” February 2025, accessed June 2026. https://www.vestbee.com/insights/articles/jurimesh-raises-1-6-m↩↩↩↩↩↩

  7. The Top Voices, “Driven Raises €1.5M to Transform Sales Commissions With AI,” September 2025, accessed June 2026. https://thetopvoices.com/story/driven-raises-euro15m-to-transform-sales-commissions-with-ai↩↩↩↩↩↩

  8. IntelliProve, “IntelliProve secures €1.25M to revolutionize health monitoring tech,” January 2025, accessed June 2026. https://intelliprove.com/article/intelliprove-secures-1-25m-to-revolutionize-health-monitoring-tech↩↩↩↩↩