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
Q 1.6
A mobile messaging platform that allows users to answer questions in 1.6 seconds.
Exit
Belgium
2015
Other
Business Services
HealthTech
NoisyChannels
From data insight to customer delight.
Stopped
Belgium
2015
AI - Natural Language Processing
Other
Business Services
Telecom
Lynxcare
Lynxcare transforms medical records and PROs (patient records) into clinical insights in order to improve the safety and effectiveness of healthcare.
Exit
Belgium
2015
AI - Data Mining
AI - Reasoning
HealthTech
Fermet
An online platform that enables farmers to sell their products directly to end consumers.
Stopped
Belgium
2015
Other
FoodTech
Supply Chain
Ectosense
Scalable solutions that will improve sleep quality.
Exit
Belgium
2015
Wearables
AI - Data Mining
HealthTech
Djubble
Making fun happen by enabling people to invite their friends on the fly and get instant response.
Stopped
Belgium
2015
Other
Consumer
DISPLAY.direct
Bringing together advertisers and publishers from the publishing side. The way it should be.
Exit
Belgium
2015
AI - Search
MediaTech
Conversation Starter
The end-to-end networking solution for events.
Active
Belgium
2015
AI - Search
Business Services
Entertainment
Chestnote
Making messages matter by empowering users to shape the context in which their messages are unlocked.
Exit
Belgium
2015
AI - Other
Consumer
Business Services
AiRobot
Airobot develops intelligent safety components, specifically designed for drones.
Active
Belgium
2015
AI - Autonomous Driving/Flying/...
AI - Computer Vision
Aerospace
Business Services
Wirelens
Wirelens aims to deploy the future of communicative camera-systems in a retail environment.
Stopped
Belgium
2014
Other
Consumer
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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