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
Björnbox
BjörnBox has developped an application and hardware with which fashion companies can showcase their sample collections to retailers internationally without any hassle
Stopped
The Netherlands
2023
Other
FashionTech
Biotactical
Find the most rapid way to detect microbial contamination in the most complex therapeutic compositions.
Active
The Netherlands
2023
AI - Data Mining
HealthTech
Wenite
The first all-in-one wellbeing management platform
Active
Belgium
2022
AI - Data Mining
AI - Reasoning
HRTech
Walkly
Create stunning video walkthroughs in minutes
Active
Belgium
2022
AI - Computer Vision
Other
PropTech
MediaTech
Volcaino
Erupting the full AI potential of your company's B2B DNA
Active
Belgium
2022
AI - Data Mining
AI - Natural Language Processing
Business Services
UZE
We unburden people from the hassle of EV charging!
Stopped
Belgium
2022
IoT (Internet-of-Things)
Other
Mobility
ClimateTech
TACTSIM
Educate and train firearm safety to professionals and law enforcement.
Active
Belgium
2022
Digital Twins
AR/VR/XR
Security
Smartgrid One
Control Energy with One Device
Active
Belgium
2022
IoT (Internet-of-Things)
AI - Reasoning
Utilities
ClimateTech
Semactic
The only software that makes you want to do SEO
Active
Belgium
2022
AI - Search
MediaTech
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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