InvestLink

Bert Van Loco and Hans Van Erum, the co-founders of SecureLink, lead InvestLink's investment activity. Frank Staut, the third SecureLink co-founder, remains connected to the group as CTO of Palmki. The three appear to operate without a formal CIO structure common in institutionalized family offices.

InvestLink sources primarily through the founders' networks in European cybersecurity and enterprise software. The SecureLink exit connected them to operators and serial entrepreneurs across Belgium. Forum Familia, the Belgian family-business association where Van Loco is active, provides an additional pipeline to industrialist families and their deal flow.

InvestLink is structured as an investment company, not a single family office. While the founders deploy personal capital, they also co-invest alongside external industrial families — Vic Swerts of Soudal and Christophe De Decker of Van Hool participated in the Rombit round. The firm uses multiple holding entities (Paraiso Invest, Monte Invest, Liberi) to separate asset classes and likely different co-investor groups.

InvestLink holds at least three commercial properties in Belgium: Melkerij Schoten (Schoten), Melkerij Nachtegalenpark (Antwerp), and Het Zomerhuis, a mixed-use site. These are held outside the venture portfolio, reflecting a dual-pillar strategy that pairs growth equity with hard-asset income.

The disclosed record shows no exposure to consumer internet, biotech, or traditional energy. The founders' SecureLink background and the Rombit investment suggest a focus on enterprise software, cybersecurity, and industrial digitization — areas where they have operator expertise rather than generalist appetite.

Frank Staut is a co-founder of InvestLink but now serves as CTO of Palmki (Perfect-ID), a digital identity firm. His operating role at Palmki runs parallel to the InvestLink structure, keeping the SecureLink alumni connected to authentication and identity infrastructure while the investment company pursues its own portfolio.

InvestLink's three founders — Bert Van Loco, Hans Van Erum, and Frank Staut — were the co-founders of SecureLink, a Belgian cybersecurity company. InvestLink is not a corporate venture arm of SecureLink; it is the founders' separate investment vehicle, created after they exited the operating business.