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Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
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Hummingbird Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Europe | ||
E-Merge | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe | ||
Volta Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Europe | ||
Inventures SA | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe | ||
Korys | Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Halle, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Seed investors in Belgium. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
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Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Belgium)
Hummingbird Ventures
Hummingbird Ventures is a venture capital partner for extraordinary entrepreneurs building fast-growth tech companies. Hummingbird Ventures teamed up with transformative companies, including Deliveroo, Showpad, Kraken, Peak Games, Clear2pay, Amplidata, Gram Games, Shutl and many others. With a presence in London, Ghent and Istanbul, Hummingbird provides swift access to the operational resources and advice needed to build the tech companies of tomorrow.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Life Science, Therapeutics, Venture Capital
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E-Merge
Founded in November 1998 by entrepreneurs Laurent Drion and Gregory Hédo, E-Merge has invested, generally as lead investor, in more than 30 Technology Startups . We focus on early stages of development (Seed and Series A). Our three original target industries were: Telecom, E-Commerce Tools & Online Payment Systems. In 2012 we also started paying attention to Commercial Space investment opportunities, including businesses built around the open-source CubeSat standard and made our first investment in this area. The portfolio companies are carefully selected for their technological and commercial strengths. They have strong dedicated management teams with relevant expertise, a significant growth potential, strongly automatized processes, and recurring revenue. Typical investments range between USD 50,000 and USD 1,500,000 per portfolio company. In addition to capital, E-Merge shares its experience with its portfolio companies in a wide range of areas: strategy, development of the business plan, key-persons recruitment, technology choices, marketing & press relations, legal matters, fundraising, M&A etc… Portfolio companies also get access to E-Merge’s extended network in its target industries. E-Merge distinguishes itself from other investors by the entrepreneurial profile of its founders and managers, for its rapid decision-making and for taking the risk of investing in very early stage companies. Thanks to their entrepreneurial background E-Merge’s partners have an excellent understanding of the challenges facing innovative startups and their founders.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: E-Commerce, Telecommunications, Venture Capital
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Volta Ventures
Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed & early stage VC for internet & software companies in the Benelux. The fund’s team, with active support from some 30 business angels, expects to make a substantial impact on every company it invests in by working with the founders and management to identify new markets and customers, hire senior talent, provide ongoing guidance and arrange further financing rounds. Volta Ventures has offices in Ghent and Amsterdam.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Europe
Industries: B2B, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Inventures SA
Inventures is a European venture capital fund that builds a better world through a portfolio of investments in sustainable businesses. The firm has two funds: Inventures I & Inventures II. Inventures was created to support early stage smart and innovative European businesses, to support sustainable job growth and empower entrepreneurs. Inventures empowers citizenship co-investments through a crowdfunding platform, MyMicroInvest.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Korys
Korys is the name chosen by the Colruyt family for their investment structure. The name Korys is derived from the Latin word for hazelnut tree – Corylus – which is at the origin of the Colruyt name. Their multi-disciplinary approach enables us to create a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, and direct participations in small and medium-sized companies. Through their investments, they aim to make a positive impact on people and the planet, while generating attractive returns. A “three P” approach (People, Planet, Profit) forms the cornerstone of their investment strategy. They invest for the long term, as they realize that it takes time to achieve the sustainable impact they are aiming for. They focus their investments in sectors in which they have built substantial expertise as a team: Cleantech, consumer goods & retail and life sciences.
Stages: Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Halle, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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The Faktory Fund
The Faktory is a private tech startup accelerator, incubator and venture capital seed fund founded by Pierre L’Hoest, the Belgian entrepreneur renowned for starting EVS Broadcast Equipment, an international TV slow motion technology valued at 422M€ in 2016. The Faktory has invested in 11 companies with a capital of over 4.5M€ under management. Our companies offer products and services to international niche markets in the areas of consumer electronics, high-technology, gaming and apps, drones, SaaS and IoT products. Our team and mentors come from all walks of life with professional experience in different countries. Furthermore, we partner with Boldstart Ventures, based in NYC, who, with over 30 years of venture tenure, oversaw the successful exits such as Divide (acquired by Google), GoInstant (acquired by Salesforce) and Rapportive (acquired by Linkedin). Based on efficient approaches like the Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas, a 360° analysis is applied to the most promising ideas. The objective is to help startups to grow by identifying and validating market niches, customer-centric development and by providing the means necessary to deploy and launch their businesses successfully.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Liège, Liege, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Vives Louvain Technology Fund
Vives is an interregional seed and early stage technology multi-sector fund. The new fund, initiated by UCLouvain, is a unique European inter-university fund having access to world class innovations from leading EU top universities.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Louvain-la-neuve, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Newton Biocapital
Newton Biocapital is a Venture Capital Fund incorporated in Belgium, focused on financing biotech and life science projects in the “core of Europe” (B, NL, D, F) and Japan for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. Their approach as lead investor is to support promising start-up projects as well as neglected or undervalued late-stage projects, in order to mitigate the risks and to create investor value. The leadership team consi.sts of specialists with long-standing management and investor experience who coach bio-entrepreneurs through the development stages of their projects.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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INGENIUM Poland Fund
INGENIUM Poland Fund is an international risk capital fund that provides seed and early-stage funding to Polish companies with high growth potential. The fund targets startups and expansion stage companies principally in the ICT, Healthcare, Energy, and Cleantech sectors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Ninepointfive
Ninepointfive is a venture capital fund that co-invests with corporates to take tech-based startups from pre-seed funding to maturity. A trusted partner with brands like Beiersdorf, Telenet and Agfa, Ninepointfive helps founders deploy the inherent value of corporate acceleration. The Ninepointfive proprietary methodology offers speed, growth, value, and skin in the game. Fully engaged and focused, with a positive and pragmatic approach. This is ninepointfive.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Bioqube Ventures
Bioqube Ventures is a specialist life sciences venture capital fund investing in European biotech companies developing innovative therapeutic assets and technologies. We put our venture creation experience at work to translate and de-risk scientific innovation, advancing our investment portfolio and maximising value for investors. Bioqube Ventures invests through its independent fund “Bioqube Factory Fund I”: … an early stage venture capital fund – dedicated to advancing exciting science in vibrant European ecosystems to breakthrough therapies for patients. … a fit-for-purpose dual investment model – besides more classical investments in first investment rounds, we will have special attention for so called “Create” projects that require additional de-risking prior to creating new ventures. … a hands-on approach – the team is a mix of fund managers, sector experts and serial entrepreneurs that have a proven track record in successfully leading companies on their growth paths. Medtech, healthtech and diagnostics are not part of our current investment scope.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Health Care, Venture Capital
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Sniper Investments
Formed in 2011, Sniper Investments is a lean, transparent value investment fund with a long term philosophy. The fund builds on its management team’s full cycle track record in successfully raising, investing, managing and exiting Venture Capital and Private Equity portfolio’s in both up- and down cycles. Sniper Investments is a venture capital fund investing in early stage companies primarily via equity participation. the fund combines the joint experience of Privast Capital Partners and Partners @ Venture.the geographical scope is determined by the need to be able to be close to the investee companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Mechelen-bovelingen, Limburg, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Harika Ventures
Harika Venture is a Venture Firm led by young professionals from diverse backgrounds but with the same goal. Do well but do good! We work with partners who believe that solving the world’s toughest problems is not only a moral imperative: it’s also an unprecedented financial opportunity! Our mission is to not only invest, but also seek to develop an ecosystem of diverse founders, investors, and companies!
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: FinTech, Food and Beverage, Hospitality, Real Estate, Social Media, Venture Capital
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