Europe's tech scene has diversified over the years, No longer it is confined to a handful of city or areas. Belgium has a blooming tech-startup ecosystem, and has produced some highly regarded startup that are leading in the global stage.
Here is A List of The Top 15 Startups in Belgium:
1. Collibra:
A Data Intelligence company accelerating trusted business outcomes by connecting the right data, insights and algorithms to all Data Citizens. Our cloud-based platform connects IT and the business to build a data-driven culture for the digital enterprise. Collibra is the only solution purpose-built to address the gamut of data stewardship, governance, and management needs of the most complex, data-intensive industries.
Year Founded: 2008
Specialities: SaaS, Big Data, Data Intelligence, Data Governance, Information Stewardship, Data Platform, BI, Data Catalog, Data Privacy, Digital Transformation, Cloud Analytics
Total Funding: $234M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: CapitalG, ICONIQ Capital, Index Ventures, Dawn Capital, Battery Ventures and others.
Valuation: Valued at over $1B, as of Jan 29, 2019
Collibra is the first and only unicorn in Belgium. The company was recently named to Forbes’ Cloud 100 list for the second consecutive year. It was also named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions for the third consecutive year etc.
2. Showpad:
A sales enablement platform that empowers sales and marketing teams to deliver better buyer experiences. Showpad partners with leading CRM, marketing automation systems (MAS), and other essential technologies that sales and marketing use to win and retain customers.
Year Founded: 2011
Specialities: Marketing Automation, Content Marketing, SaaS, Sales Automation, Sales Effectiveness, Content Activation, Analytics, CRM, AI
Total Funding: $159.8M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: Dawn Capital, Insight Partners, Hummingbird Ventures, Korelya Capital, & Silicon Valley Bank among others.
Showpad serves more than 1,000 customers across the globe, including Johnson & Johnson, BASF, GE Healthcare, Fujifilm, Bridgestone, Dow and Honeywell.
3. Odoo:
A business management software including CRM, e-commerce, billing, accounting, manufacturing, warehouse, project management, and inventory management. Odoo has developed 30 main applications which are regularly upgraded. The company has also contributed another to 16000+ apps to cover a wide variety of business needs.
Year Founded: 2005
Specialities: SaaS, Opensource, Business Applications, CMS, Mobile Apps, CRM, Project Management, POS, Billing, Accounting, Manufacturing, ERP, Warehouse Management
Total Funding: $104.1M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: Summit Partners, SRIW, Noshaq, Sofinnova and others.
Odoo is the most installed business software in the world. It is used by over 4.500.000 users worldwide ranging from startup companies (1 user) to large enterprises (300,000+ users). The company has received multiple awards and accolades, such as: 2011 - INSEAD Innovator Award; 2012 - Highest-ranked Belgian company in the Deloitte Technology Fast50 Benelux (growth of turnover of 1549% in the past 5 years) etc.
4. OncoDNA:
A healthcare technology company focusing on precision medicine in oncology. OncoDNA is on a mission to empower oncologists to find the best available treatments for their patients thanks to our knowledge database.
Year Founded: 2012
Specialities: Biotech, Healthcare, Precision Medicine, DNA Sequencing, Bioinformatics, Cancer Diseases, Biological Sample, Treatment Assessment
Total Funding: $48.6M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: Vesalius Biocapital III, Swisscanto Invest by Zürcher Kantonalbank, SFPI-FPIM, CPH Bank, Inventures, Sambrinvest and others.
OncoDNA has been developing his distribution network and it has already around 30 distributors covering over 60 countries. This means that patients from all over the world have access to our services.
5. Biotalys:
A green biotech company that employs its proprietary Agrobody™ technology platform to develop crop protection products. Biotalys focuses on improving production efficiency in a sustainable way, without causing irreparable damage to our environment or depleting valuable resources, is essential.
Year Founded: 2013
Specialities: Agriculture, AgTech, BioTech, Farming, Biocontrols, Crop Protection
Total Funding: $57.3M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: Gimv, Sofinnova Partners, Agri Investment Fund, & Biovest International among others.
Biotalys’ unique protein-based biocontrols combine the high-performance characteristics of chemicals with the clean safety profile of biologicals, making them ideal crop protection agents for both pre- and post-harvest applications.
6. NGDATA:
A customer data and marketing firm that provides data science and marketing automation solutions for businesses. NGDATA helps brands in data-driven industries, such as financial services, telecom, utilities and hospitality, to drive connected customer experiences.
Year Founded: 2012
Specialities: SaaS, Big Data, AI, Customer Engagement, Hadoop, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Behavioural Analytics
Total Funding: $46.8M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: HPE Growth Capital, Idinvest Partners, Pamica, SmartFin Capital, Capricorn Venture Partners and others.
NGDATA's AI-powered next-generation customer data platform, Lily™, puts people at the center of every business via Customer DNA, which continuously learns from behavior to deliver compelling experiences for brands across the globe.
7. Sentiance:
A global leader in behavioral change through contextual AI, delivering services for a new human-centric economy where the user is in control of this data. Sentiance turns motion data into contextual insights and use behavioral change to personalize engagement for safer and sustainable mobility and wellbeing experiences.
Year Founded: 2015
Specialities: Data Science, AI, ML, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Sensor Fusion, SaaS, IoT, Ambient Intelligence, Behavioural Analytics, Data Insights
Total Funding: $29.46M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: MESH HOLDINGS PLC, Samsung Catalyst Fund, KPN Ventures, Qbic, Pamica and others.
Sentiance focuses on large innovation-driven companies and disruptors, as a partner and collaborator to drive transformational change. Some of the world’s most innovative companies are adopting the Sentiance Platform to help them make their users’ lives safer, smarter, healthier and more convenient overall.
8. Nyxoah:
A healthtech company developing neuromodulation-based therapeutic solutions for sleep disordered breathing conditions. Nyxoah is focused on the development and commercialisation of innovative solutions and services for the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA).
Year Founded: 2009
Specialities: Health Care, Medical Device, Neuroscience, MedTech, Therapeutic Solution, Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) Treatment
Toatal Funding: €66M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: Cochlear Limited, ResMed and others.
Nyxoah’s therapy consists of a tiny neurostimulator implanted in the chin area in a discrete and minimally invasive surgery. The system which is powered by an external miniaturized battery is placed under the chin and stimulates the tongue nerve. This maintains the upper airway open throughout the night.
9. Rombit:
An IoT-solution provider building future-proof solutions for maritime services, port terminals and petrochemical plants. Rombit delivers real-time optimisation of your scheduling, worker safety and site security. The company creates end-to-end solutions with significant and immediate ROI.
Year Founded: 2012
Specialities: SaaS, IoT, Big Data, Analytics, ML, RoI, Wearables, Productivity, Safety, Security, IT Governance, Project Management, Advanced Analytics, BI
Total Funding: €10M, as of Mar 10, 2020
Investors: Vic Swerts, InvestLink, EIT Digital Accelerator, and several other Belgian “captains of industry.
Rombit is all about pushing the boundaries. The company works with customers shine in terms of productivity, safety and security. Some of its customers include PSA, Deme, Multraship, Brabo, Port of Antwerp, Katoen Natie and VOPAK.
10. Itineris:
A global technology company purely focused on software & services for the Energy and Water industry. Itineris delivers CIS/ERP solutions built for utilities on Microsoft’s flexible, integrated enterprise platform, Dynamics 365.
Year Founded: 2003
Specialities: SaaS, ErP, Customer Information Systems, Energy, Utilities, It Services, Certified for Microsoft Dynamics,Product Development, Digital Transformation
Total Funding: $32.5M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: Gimv, Participatie Maatschappij Vlaanderen (PMV), Gimv Arkiv Tech Fund II and others.
Itineris was awarded “Most Promising Company of the Year” by Ernst & Young and the Flemish Government for outstanding past performance and future growth potential, in 2012. The company's global client base includes such leading utilities as GDF SUEZ, E.ON, Eneco, De Watergroep, Delta and AGL Resources.
11. UnifiedPost:
An international provider of technology and services that enable the optimization of business processes across a variety of markets and industries. UnifiedPost provides Solutions-as-a-Service to support its customers' need to stay on top of market developments.
Year Founded: 2002
Specialities: SaaS, FinTech, Financial Processes, Business Process Optimization, Document & Communication, Payment Processing, Platforms, Apps, Analytics, Identity Management, Fullfillment Services
Total Funding: €41M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: PE Group, SmartFin Capital, Fortino Capital, Cytiholding and others.
UnifiedPost's approach unlocks efficiency and added value by providing customers with real-time access to all their financial activity on one intuitive platform – a smart collaborative space where they can manage all transactions. Anytime and anywhere.
12. PDC*line Pharma:
A clinical stage biotech company developing a new class of active immunotherapies for cancer based on an allogeneic cell line of Plasmacytoid Dendritic cells (PDC*line) loaded with cancer antigens. PDC*line Pharma's cancer vaccine contains proprietary, potent, and scalable plasmacytoid dendritic cell line (PDC*line), whose remarkable characteristics make them excellently suited for immunotherapy.
Year Founded: 2014
Specialities: BioTech, Biopharma, Cancer Immunotherapy, Therapeutic Vaccines, Clinical Development, Oncology, Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells
Total Funding: €31.5M, as of March 16, 2020
Investors: SFPI, NOSHAQ, Korean Investment Partners, Shinhan-Cognitive Start-up Fund, SRIW (The Regional Investment Company of Wallonia) and others.
PDC*line Pharma obtains authorization to launch phase I/II trial of its cancer vaccine (PDC*lung01) in non-small cell lung cancer. The Belgian Federal Agency for Medicines Health Product (FAMHP), together with the designated Ethics Committee, authorized the initiation of an open-label, dose-escalation, phase I/II trial with the cancer vaccine candidate (PDC*lung01).
13. LynxCare:
An AI powered data platform that collects and analyses structured and unstructered data from different sources to provide actionable insights for medical professionals. LynxCare enables healthcare providers to extract insights from their legacy data to quantify, measure and continuously improve the quality of care.
Year Founded: 2016
Specialities: AI, Healthcare, SaaS, ML, Big Data, Clinical Data Warehouse, NLP, Data Insights, Healthcare AI
Total Funding: €4.5M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: btov Partners, HERAN Partners, ING Belgium and others.
LynxCare's platform uses data-driven technology to increase efficiency and raises healthcare quality while being compliant with strict data protection legislation. The company has developed the LynxCare AI platform, which automatically processes and displays hospital data, benefiting patients, physicians, care staff, and the hospital organisation as a whole.
14. Aphea.Bio:
A next-generation agro-biologicals for a sustainable future. Aphea.bio focuses on the exploitation of natural, beneficial interactions that occur between microorganisms and plants.
Year Founded: 2017
Specialities: BioTech, Microbiology, Agriculture, AgTech, Biologicals, Biocontrol, Biostimulants, Research and Development
Total Funding: €9M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: V-Bio Ventures, PMV, Agri Investment Fund, VIVES LOUVAIN TECHNOLOGY FUND, Qbic II, Gemma Frisius Fund KU Leuven, Group De Ceuster and VIB.
Aphea.Bio discovers and develops new biology-based agricultural products for crop protection and crop improvement, hence shaping a more sustainable agriculture.
15. Qualifio:
An easy-to-use, powerful and flexible platform to create interactive campaigns and engage your digital communities. Qualifio allows publishers, brands and agencies to easily create and publish interactive content on websites, mobile apps and social media, with no technical skills needed.
Year Founded: 2011
Specialities: SaaS, Content Creating, Digital Marketing, Data Collection, Community Engagement, APIs, Integration
Total Funding: €3M, as of Mar 16, 2020
Investors: Volta Ventures and SRIW (Société Régionale d’Investissement de Wallonie).
Qualifio is used by more than 400 brands and media across Europe and Latin America, including TF1, RTL, Lagardère, Nestlé, Decathlon, Carrefour, L’Oréal, PepsiCo, FC Barcelona, etc.
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