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
Westray
Creating the first virtual watchkeeper for the merchant fleet
Stopped
Belgium
2020
AI - Autonomous Driving/Flying/...
AI - Computer Vision
Manufacturing
Maritime
Supply Chain
VoxelSensors
Disruptive 3D depth perception sensors
Active
Belgium
2020
AI - Autonomous Driving/Flying/...
Mobility
Consumer
Tractonomy Robotics
Autonomous Mobile Robots for Flexible Intralogistics
Stopped
Belgium
2020
AI - Robotics
AI - Autonomous Driving/Flying/...
Supply Chain
Manufacturing
Toqua
AI-powered Digital Twins to inscrease maritime efficiency and decrease shipping emissions
Active
Belgium
2020
AI - Reasoning
Maritime
ClimateTech
Smooved
Smooved takes the hassle out of moving homes so that you can settle in.
Exit
Belgium
2020
PropTech
Smart Symbols
Smart Symbols uses smart technologies to improve inefficient and incomplete toddler monitoring and evaluation in nursery education. We provide valuable insights and reduce teacher workload, giving teachers more time to spend on pedagogy.
Active
Belgium
2020
Wearables
AI - Reasoning
EdTech
Risolto
Risolto provides a digital, datadriven and truly personalized (e-)invoicing, (e-)payment, dunning and collection, as a service.
Active
Belgium
2020
FinTech
Business Services
Raymon
A simpler way to maintain Machine Learning systems
Stopped
Belgium
2020
AI - Other
AI - Computer Vision
Business Services
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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