Meet our champions
Since 2011, we’ve backed over 350 tech startups across Europe. Explore the companies turning ambitious ideas into scalable businesses,.
Portfolio companies
350+
Startup survival rate
81%
€ follow-up funding
1B+
€ portfolio revenue
240M+
European hubs
6
Myelin-Z
Software Technology for Remote Monitoring
Active
Belgium
2022
AI - Data Mining
AI - Computer Vision
HealthTech
Herontrack
Tracking and Automatic inventory solution for tools and small equipment in construction industry
Active
Belgium
2022
IoT (Internet-of-Things)
Construction
Earn-e
The most affordable energy monitoring system on the market: Low budget, Real-time insight and Plug & Play.
Active
The Netherlands
2022
IoT (Internet-of-Things)
Utilities
Consumer
DYAMAND
The SaaS infrastructure platform that bridges the gap between IoT/digital equipment and digital cloud infrastructure.
Active
Belgium
2022
IoT (Internet-of-Things)
Digital Twins
PropTech
ClimateTech
Contour Lab
The body type matchmaker software in fashion
Active
Belgium
2022
AI - Computer Vision
AI - Search
FashionTech
Consumer
Ceriter
Stay safe and mobile with the Ceriter Stride One
Active
Belgium
2022
AI - Other
Wearables
HealthTech
Ascenscia
Speak with your lab’s data - it’s 5x faster
Stopped
The Netherlands
2022
AI - Speech Processing
AI - Natural Language Processing
HealthTech
AI-BLOX
Making edge intelligence easy
Active
Belgium
2022
AI - Computer Vision
AI - Robotics
Manufacturing
Security
UNBLND
Not your usual social network. F*ck fake. Share real experiences.
Active
Belgium
2021
AI - Reasoning
Entertainment
Tiro.health
Tiro.health brings real-time medical coding into everyday clinical practice.
Active
Belgium
2021
AI - Data Mining
AI - Search
HealthTech
TelePHON.Digital
The medically certified all-in-one webtool for tele-logopedics in a multidisciplinary setting.
Stopped
Belgium
2021
AI - Other
IoT (Internet-of-Things)
HealthTech
What our founders say
imec.istart gave us much more than funding: it gave us the coaching, the network and the confidence to turn a product idea into a real company.
Stefanie Broes, Co-Founder at Moonbird
What makes imec.istart so valuable is the combination: you get well-grounded advice, but you can also ask the questions you’d never dare to ask another investor.
Frank Baele, COO & technology lead of NextSDS
We entered imec.istart as a pre-revenue idea and left a year later as a real company, with clients, a team, investors and a board. The credibility, the partner network and the hands-on coaching made that leap possible.
Maxime Snick, CEO & co-founder of Octave.energy
imec.istart grew alongside us. From fundraising in the early days to HR and internationalisation as we scaled. Few accelerators care as much about their alumni as they do about their current cohort.
Wietse van Ransbeeck, CEO & co-founder of Go Vocal
We joined imec.istart while still at university. They were the first to believe in us and bet on us, and they’ve since helped with investor introductions and opened up their network.
Wouter Janssen, CEO & co-founder of Tekst
The support of imec.istart has been crucial for our company. Imec.istart invested at a point where we needed seed money and supported us all the way to a successful go-to-market. Our journey would have been much more challenging without their involvement. Also after the imec.istart program, the entire team continues to contribute their wisdom and network.
Jeroen Dille, CEO & co-founder of DEO.care
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