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The Nest Family Office

Wolstraat 68-72 Rue aux Laines, Brussels, 1000, Belgium

Overview

The Nest has the purpose of reducing the most pressing threat to life on Earth: GLOBAL WARMING. It wants to give its succeeding generations the luxury of an abundance of clean air, water, food and housing.

Total investments
7
Lead investments
2
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
1

Sector focus

  • Real Estate Investment
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Investment portfolio

  • Lowi

    Led · Equity · Jun 2026

    Lowi offers an AI platform that connects to customer inboxes, CRM, HR and ERP systems to improve daily business processes and interactions with customers and suppliers. The tool can draft helpdesk responses, check and book orders into ERP systems, assess supplier quotes and evaluate job applicants’ CVs, and it proactively suggests process improvements and automations. Automations are executed via fixed, hard-coded software processes and only after a staff member grants approval; the company intentionally avoids fully autonomous AI agents. Lowi leverages multiple large language models and can offer isolated models to customers, with its system hosted privately in Europe. Founded in 2025 and based in Hasselt, Lowi reports a rapidly growing customer base with deployments at clients such as Corsendonk Hotels, engineering firm Antea, and Kringwinkel. The company targets SMEs seeking affordable, reliable AI solutions and positions itself against large consultancy projects and less predictable autonomous AI tools.

  • Edacious

    Participated · Seed · Feb 2025

    Edacious operates a next‑generation food lab and a science‑based software platform that measure and map nutrient density across whole foods and ingredients. The company assays more than 200 compounds essential to human health to reveal how genetics, soil health, and management practices drive nutritional differences. Edacious reports that nutrient levels can vary up to 10x within groups of similar foods (for example, apples) and says its tools measure and map nutrient density 10 times faster and cheaper than incumbent approaches. Its lab replaces incomplete and costly testing with a streamlined, affordable analysis of vitamins, minerals, fats, proteins, and carbohydrates, while the platform enables users to compare, benchmark, and share nutrition data. The company positions its insights for producers, CPG brands, genetics companies, ingredient manufacturers, retailers, and policymakers to enable product differentiation and more informed choices across the food system.

  • Zymofix

    Participated · Equity · Nov 2024

    Zymofix develops and operates Zyft, a proprietary solid-state fermentation platform that cultivates microorganisms on thermally processed agricultural sidestreams which remain part of the delivered formulation. The company is partnering with Ghent University on MicroFix, a three-year, €3.2 million research collaboration led by Prof. Tina Kyndt to build a scientific framework linking production conditions to microbial physiology, functional traits, and crop responses. Zymofix secured a €1.9 million VLAIO grant to fund its portion of that research, which will involve microbiology, plant science and modelling work. The project aims to make microbial agricultural products more predictable and reliable, strengthen regional microbial biotechnology expertise, and support creation of high-skilled R&D positions. The company also positions its approach as supporting circular bioeconomy goals through valorisation of agricultural sidestreams.

  • Agricarbon

    Participated · Series A · Dec 2023

    Agricarbon develops soil carbon measurement services to help accelerate progress toward net zero by harnessing soil's ability to absorb carbon. Its clients include major food and beverage companies and carbon project developers that use its data to decarbonise supply chains. The company says it began commercial operations in 2021 and has tripled revenues this year amid rising demand for its measurement services. Agricarbon emphasizes high-integrity, consistent, and independent primary data to underpin benefit claims and carbon credits. Management plans to use new funding partly to establish a dedicated US entity to serve large projects and to support wider geographical expansion. The business was founded by Annie Leeson and Stewart Arbuckle.

  • ReelData AI

    Participated · Series A · Jan 2023

    ReelData AI builds AI-driven monitoring and automation tools for land-based aquaculture to improve operational efficiency, reduce waste, and accelerate fish growth. Its first product, ReelAppetite, measures real-time population appetite and adjusts feed levels to maximize biomass while limiting waste. Its latest offering, ReelBiomass, is a camera-based biomass estimation system built for RAS and flow-through systems. The company says it supports smolt, post-smolt, and on-growing land-based aquaculture facilities and works with some of the world’s largest land-based fish farms. ReelData has a team of 30+ employees and clients across multiple countries. The company plans to use new funding to develop a precise, autonomous operating system to scale land-based aquaculture and advance sustainability.

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