Datavillage secures €1 million in equity and grants

Datavillage, a Bruxelles, Belgium software startup, announced securing financing in the company totalling €1 million ($1.2M)

The money is a combination of equity and grants. The name of the money providers were not disclosed.

Datavillage, founded in 2019 by  Frédéric Lebaeu and Quentin Felice, developed a software tool aiming to help consumers be in control of their data, while getting companies the data they need to sell more effectively.  They do this by creating a digital twin of each consumer, which is stored in a personal data store (PDS) that is managed by the consumer himself. Consumers can give companies access to their digital twins in order to offer personalized services – from content preferences to customized job offers, work-out schemes and so on – but the consumer always holds the key to the vault and stays in control of his or her own data.