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
EisphorIA
Spend less time and get more efficiency in your legal searches
Exit
Belgium
2019
AI - Search
FinTech
Business Services
Comproved
Increase the quality of team-based judgements in education and beyond.
Active
Belgium
2019
AI - Reasoning
EdTech
Calltic
Calltic has developed a radical new approach in telecom fraud fighting.
Active
Belgium
2019
Telecom
Security
BrighterBins
World’s simplest and most cost effective solution to manage municipal waste
Active
Belgium
2019
IoT (Internet-of-Things)
Digital Twins
Utilities
ClimateTech
Asylia Diagnostics
A diagnostics technology platform for immuno-oncology
Active
Belgium
2019
Other
HealthTech
Adunio
Don’t send everyone the same message: AI that adapts in-store communication in real time.
Active
Belgium
2019
AI - Computer Vision
IoT (Internet-of-Things)
MediaTech
WeGroup
WeGroup brings insurance the way it was supposed to be.
Active
Belgium
2018
Other
AI - Natural Language Processing
FinTech
Business Services
Veoware
Veoware designs, develops and commercializes a satellite attitude control equipment that will allow Earth Observation to increase their efficiency
Active
Belgium
2018
AI - Autonomous Driving/Flying/...
Other
Aerospace
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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