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
Tengu
The Big Data framework tailored to your needs.
Active
Belgium
2016
AI - Data Mining
Other
Business Services
Sparker
Sparker facilitates face to face communication in your organisation and conferences around topics that matter.
Active
Belgium
2016
Other
Business Services
Consumer
Plann3r
Find the perfect moment to meet with customers, colleagues, business partners and friends.
Stopped
Belgium
2016
AI - Search
Business Services
OptiBuild
Make it possible to build energy neutral buildings in a cost effective way.
Exit
Belgium
2016
Other
Construction
NephroFlow
Optimize operational and medical processes of dialysis, for a better and more efficient patient care.
Exit
Belgium
2016
Other
HealthTech
Medical Robots
Medical Robots seeks to develop and manufacture smart, innovative, mechanical robots and tools that enhance the life of people with disabilities worldwide.
Exit
Belgium
2016
Other
Wearables
HealthTech
KnowledgeFlow
Maximizing the impact of organizational knowledge
Active
Belgium
2016
Other
Manufacturing
Consumer
idronect
IDRONECT is the connecting platform that makes drone flight management easy, fast and safe for everybody involved.
Active
Belgium
2016
Other
Aerospace
Business Services
Go Vocal
The only tool you need to engage your community and make better decisions.
Active
Belgium
2016
AI - Natural Language Processing
Business Services
Equicty
Online software solution that delivers comprehensive, accurate and actionable equine intelligence to horse riders, owners and stable managers.
Active
Belgium
2016
Other
Business Services
SportsTech
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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