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
NowMax
Easy to use maximum quality (video) calling app for journalists and broadcasters.
Active
Belgium
2018
Other
MediaTech
Ngrave
Ultra secure cryptocurrency hardware wallet.
Active
Belgium
2018
Cyber Security
Blockchain
Consumer
Security
Nextbook
We’re enabling advanced, interactive learning in higher education.
Exit
Belgium
2018
Other
EdTech
MediaTech
Neuroventis
Neuroventis is a CE-marked medical device software and digital health platform for neurology that consists of applications for patients and a dashboard for physicians.
Exit
Belgium
2018
AI - Other
Other
HealthTech
Nebula4
Integrating exercise and brain training as a standard workflow
Active
Belgium
2018
AI - Reasoning
SportsTech
EPIC blue
The Power of Positioning to indoor places without any hardware investments
Active
Belgium
2018
Digital Twins
Wearables
Security
Epcon
We enable epidemic control through combining spatial data and technologies, AI and computer aided detection to provide timeous context and actionable information to governments, healthcare and research organisations in an integrated platform.
Active
Belgium
2018
AI - Data Mining
AI - Reasoning
HealthTech
DiGiConsul
The innovative eGovernment technology platform
Stopped
Belgium
2018
AI - Computer Vision
Cyber Security
Business Services
Deo.care
With rich and accurate data, we model a digital twin of your operating room to help you achieve operational excellence
Active
Belgium
2018
AI - Data Mining
Other
HealthTech
Deliverect
Online / delivery ordering aggregator for restaurants
Exit
Belgium
2018
Other
FoodTech
Business Services
Buffl
The mobile survey as design tool. Ask our crowd, develop better solutions.
Exit
Belgium
2018
Other
MediaTech
Alexandria.Works
Your digital assistant in information discovery and content creation
Stopped
Belgium
2018
AI - Search
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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