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
T-Mining
Blockchain technology for logistics and transport to share data and secure transfer of ownership of goods.
Active
Belgium
2017
Blockchain
Supply Chain
Maritime
Rada-HR
Rekruteringssoftware - HR software - SAAS - Automatisering, centralisatie en dematerialisatie HR processen - HR Tech
Active
Belgium
2017
Other
HRTech
Onlinewerkrooster
Bringing employees and employers closer together by creating more flexibility and simplifying the employee administration.
Exit
Belgium
2017
Other
HRTech
Business Services
Karaton
Education adventure game for children with dyslexia and reading difficulties
Exit
Belgium
2017
AI - Reasoning
EdTech
HealthTech
Farow
Digital interventions for people with brain disorders
Active
Belgium
2017
AI - Other
Wearables
HealthTech
Cybernetic Walrus
Antigraviator, our first own IP game is a sleek, futuristic racer with customizable vehicles and dynamic courses filled with traps and other hidden hazards.
Active
Belgium
2017
AR/VR/XR
Gaming
Entertainment
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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