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
Zeal Robotics
Creating the next generation of autonomous mobile robots for warehouses
Active
Belgium
2023
AI - Autonomous Driving/Flying/...
AI - Robotics
Supply Chain
Manufacturing
Wobby
Proactively turning statistics into powerful stories.
Active
Belgium
2023
AI - Natural Language Processing
AI - Data Mining
Business Services
Consumer
Trackbox
Analyze your football game. Automatically.
Active
Belgium
2023
AI - Computer Vision
AI - Other
SportsTech
Touchwaves
Touchwaves develops intelligent, nurturing textiles that communicate with your body through waves of touch.
Active
The Netherlands
2023
Wearables
FashionTech
HealthTech
Toolmaster
The #1 software tool for architects, EPB reporters, safety coordinators, engineering firms and inspection companies.
Active
Belgium
2023
Business Services
Construction
TeachBuddy
TeachBuddy is a peer-tutoring platform which empowers the best-performing students within a high school to act as a buddy for peers who need the extra help.
Active
The Netherlands
2023
AI - Other
EdTech
SPECIFIX
3D Pre-operative Planning for Patient Specific Fracture Fixation.
Active
Belgium
2023
AI - Reasoning
HealthTech
Soundsafe Care
Combining robotics and ultrasound for safe, non-invasive surgery.
Active
Italy
2023
AI - Robotics
HealthTech
SCIMM
Improving the Fashion Industry through People-Centered Innovation
Stopped
Belgium
2023
AI - Search
FashionTech
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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