Shaping Impact Group

General Partners Jamy Goewie and Dave Dirks lead the investment team with support from a three-principal group — Selim Vanbecelaere, Ali Dreidi, and Lisa Brouwer. The firm lists Goewie as the architect of the SI3 fund strategy and the driver behind unifying the earlier SI2 activities under one brand (per firm website).

The firm sources through thematic networks in European social enterprise rather than broad auction processes. Its mandate — backing only companies that demonstrably make society more inclusive, fair, or safe — acts as a filter that concentrates origination within education, digital health, online safety, legal services, and financial-inclusion ecosystems across the Benelux region and broader Western Europe.

It is a pure-play asset manager, not a single-family or multi-family office. The firm pools institutional and accredited LP capital into sequential funds — SI2, SI3, and the upcoming SI4 — rather than managing a single family's balance sheet.

The firm invests directly in early-stage operating companies. Its announced portfolio positions — which include a deepfake-detection AI company, an edtech platform for teachers, and a public-health data analytics business — are structured as direct equity investments rather than fund-of-funds commitments (per firm website, 2026).

The firm concentrates on early-stage ventures from pre-seed to Series A. Its current SI3 portfolio consists of companies that have established product-market fit with embedded social impact and are raising capital to scale, rather than idea-stage startups or mature buyout targets.

The firm does not publish a negative sector list, but its affirmative mandate — 'a more inclusive, fair and safe society' — implicitly screens out ventures that create or exacerbate exclusion, inequality, or physical harm. Its disclosed portfolio contains no extractive industries, defense-tech, speculative consumer lending, or ad-tech businesses built on surveillance.

Piet Colruyt — part of the family behind the Colruyt Group retail business — founded the initial SI2 fund in 2012, providing the seed capital and early vision. He subsequently stepped back from day-to-day management, which was taken over first by Pieter Oostlander and later by Jamy Goewie, who shaped the SI3 vehicle and the unified Shaping Impact Group brand (per firm website).