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
Viloc
Automated tool management for the construction industry.
Stopped
Belgium
2011
IoT (Internet-of-Things)
Cyber Security
Security
Business Services
Ultra Pictura
An animation production house specializing in recreating painterly looks traditionally considered impossible to bring to life.
Stopped
Belgium
2011
Other
MediaTech
TinkerTouch
Converting personal messages into fascinating interactive stories.
Stopped
Belgium
2011
Other
MediaTech
OKeez
Adding cross-device experiences to games and applications through interactive apps.
Stopped
Belgium
2011
Other
Gaming
G-Flux
G-Flux specializes in creating smartphone applications for outdoor sports.
Stopped
Belgium
2011
Other
Business Services
Bubobox
Helping you generate social buzz through user-generated media content.
Active
Belgium
2011
Other
Business Services
Spott
The reference for interactive and shoppable content.
Stopped
Belgium
2010
AI - Computer Vision
Other
MediaTech
SDNsquare
SDNsquare guarantees performance, reliability and scalability for network, storage and data centers.
Exit
Belgium
2010
Other
MediaTech
Geosparc
Geosparc couples the innovation of open source with the reliability of a true enterprise-class platform.
Exit
Belgium
2009
Other
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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