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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Financial Services startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gimv | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture | Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium, Europe | ||
S.R.I.W. | Early Stage Venture | Liège, Liege, Belgium, Europe | ||
PMV | Early Stage Venture | Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe | ||
Hummingbird Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Europe | ||
Capricorn Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity | Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Early Stage Venture 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).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Financial Services Investors & Funds (Belgium)
Gimv
Gimv is a European investment company with over three decades of experience in private equity and venture capital. Gimv is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels. Gimv currently manages around 1.8 billion EUR (including third party funds) of investments in 85 portfolio companies, which jointly realise a turnover of more than EUR 6 billion and employ over 28,000 professionals. As a recognized market leader in selected investment platforms, Gimv identifies entrepreneurial and innovative companies with high-growth potential and supports them in their transformation into market leaders. Gimv’s four investment platforms are: Consumer 2020, Health & Care, Smart Industries and Sustainable Cities. Each of these platforms works with a skilled and dedicated team across Gimv’s home markets of the Benelux, France and Germany and can count on an extended international network of experts. More information on Gimv can be found on [www.gimv.com].
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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S.R.I.W.
The S.R.I.W. Group is an institution at the heart of the financial market that assists entrepreneurs in creating and developing businesses in the Walloon region. It reflects the effort of Wallonian industry in facing the challenges of the creation of economic value in the 21st century. Since its creation in 1979, the Société Régionale d’Investissement de Wallonie has continuously been expanding its abilities to adapt and anticipate as well as its flexibility in order to meet the requirements of its partners who are confronted with the evolution of the world economy. The principles of good governance, a strong business culture and shared values at the heart of the Group constitute important assets to capture the changing realities of the market and progress in a sustainable development perspective.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Liège, Liege, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Association, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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PMV
PMV is a do and dare company that is shaping the future of the Flemish economy. It provides funding for promising companies’ businesses, from the day they first open their doors, through their various growth stages and even on to operating internationally. Working with and for the government and other partners, PMV implements projects that are important for prosperity and well-being in Flanders. PMV is convinced that entrepreneurship is crucial for the development of a prosperous future for Flanders and everyone who lives there. It firmly believes that every promising enterprise project in Flanders needs to find funding – but also that every business needs to be profitable in order to be sustainable. Which is why PMV and the companies and projects in which it invests must be profitable in the end.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Asset Management, Business Development, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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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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Capricorn Partners
Capricorn Partners NV is an independent pan-European manager of venture capital funds that invest in innovative European companies with technology as a competitive advantage. The investment team of Capricorn is composed of experienced investment managers with deep technology expertise and broad industrial experience. As of Dec 2010 [Quest Management](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/quest-management-nv) is being merged with and acquired by Capricorn Venture Partners.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Asset Management, Finance, Financial Services, 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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Digital Attraxion
Digital Attraxion is a digital startup accelerator working in close collaboration: – Upstream: with the Hainaut economic agencies that support entrepreneurs in the creation of their activity; – Downstream: with the VCs in the preparation of the startups first funding round. Digital Attraxion’s ambition is to make in Hainaut a solid and sustainable digital ecosystem particularly active and recognized beyond its borders. We focus on : Industry 4.0, Smart city, Ed&HR Tech, SAAS/Marketplace, e-health and Creatives Industries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Funding Platform
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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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SmartFin
SmartFin operates as an early-stage venture capital fund. Its focus is on companies developing smart technologies for the financial industry and related technologies such as security, big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and enterprise software.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services
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Pitchdrive
Pitchdrive is a radical break from traditional early-stage investing. We want to get 200k in the hands of great founders as soon as we can – in weeks, not months. Because entrepreneurs should focus on building a company, not on talking to investors. With our data-driven engine, we can qualify seed-stage ventures faster than anyone on the market. This allows us to make seed-stage investing scalable for founders and investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Financial Services
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Big Bang Ventures
Big Bang Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture capital fund for high-growth digital media and software companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Cloud Computing, Financial Services, 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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VERSO Capital
Dedicated independent Merchant Banking Boutique and UHNW Advisory firm, founded by a former Swiss Private Banker. Exclusively working with international UHNW and Institutional Clients on transactions of at least USD 100mio.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Clean Energy, CleanTech, Consumer Goods, Consumer Software, EdTech, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Retail Technology
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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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Compagnie Nationale à Portefeuille
CNP is a private investment firm investing in and supporting European sector-leading or emerging companies in their long-term development. It has a long history of direct investing across sectors and European listed and non-listed companies and fosters sustainable value creation from strategic, financial, and government stewardship. CNP is one of a group controlled by the Frère family. CNP is headquartered in Belgium with presence and a mandate across Europe
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Private Equity, Secondary Market
Location: Loverval, Hainaut, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services
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Degroof Petercam
Degroof Petercam is a reference independent financial institution, serving private, institutional investors and organizations, based on a history dating back to 1871. Headquartered in Brussels, we employ 1 400 professionals through offices in Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Switzerland, Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Hong Kong. Our clients benefit from best in-class services through the unique combination of private banking, institutional asset management , investment banking (corporate finance and financial intermediation) and asset services. We manage assets of over 50 billion euro for private investors and families, corporates, public and corporate pension funds, insurance companies, governmental and non-profit organizations. Specialties: Private Banking, Asset Management, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Integrated Wealth Management, Wealth Structuring, Philantropy, Credit & Insurance, Generational Transfer (Estate Planning), Family Office Services, Real Estate Focus on Corporate Finance: Corporate Finance services include a.o. mergers & acquisitions, IPO, secondary offerings, private placements, debt advisory, valuations, fairness opinions, etc.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Post Ipo, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Asset Management, Banking, Finance, Financial Services, Wealth Management
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Ubiz Accelerator
Ubiz is the accelerator for early stage tech startups. We currently focus on 2 main areas : business development & funding. Concerning the business development part, we have a focused acceleration program driven by mentors with a successful entrepreneurship experience. This relationship includes as well capital raising in case you need it to support your growth. In the case you are only looking for funding (& not looking for business development contacts), we provide as well corporate financial advisor services for amounts between 500k & 2m €. We are currently based in Brussels, with operations in Europe & Africa.
Stages: Convertible Note, Crowdfunding, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Financial Services, FinTech
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MBAN – The Middle East and North African Trade Association for Business Angels
MENA Business Angel Network (MBAN) initiative started in UAE in June 2014. This initiative is responding to the growing interest in start-ups by Business Angels and early stage investors in the MENA region and their desire to find the best modality to manage their investments and guarantee the best return. Angel and early-stage Investors are well established in Europe and globally, with billions of Euros invested annually through the various Angel Network Groups. The MENA region needs to pay attention to setting up the right structure and rules for Angel and early-stage Investing, in order to have a vibrant, healthy and promising entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services
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