Breed Bio builds a software platform for genetic laboratories in the agricultural sector. Due to an increasingly unpredictable climate and stricter regulations, the food chain is under immense pressure. Our platform helps seed producers at the beginning of this chain analyze genetic data and thus improve plants in a targeted manner. We do this by automating laboratory processes and data analysis, and we came in a the right time: the market is currently experiencing an explosive growth in the amount of data being generated, and laboratories lack the knowledge and the existing solutions to handle this increasing amount of data points.

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Lynqo is an Antwerp-based healthtech startup tackling one of the most critical logistical processes in hospitals: surgical instrument management. Every surgery depends on these instruments, and how they are used contains valuable information about what truly happens in the operating room. Lynqo uses computer vision to unlock that data and improve surgical logistics.

Founded in 2024 by Kaat, Felix, and Frédéric, Lynqo works closely with Belgian and Dutch hospitals to validate and refine its technology. In 2025, the team hired its first employee — an AI engineer — and launched a pilot in a Belgian partner hospital. Two master students are currently contributing through their theses, helping build a scalable OR monitoring platform.

Supported by multiple subsidies, surgeon-investors, admission to imec.istart, and an award nomination, Lynqo is growing fast — and looking for ambitious people who want to build meaningful innovation in healthcare.

Farow.health is a digital health company empowering people with brain disorders to participate more fully in society. Our solutions combine wearable EEG with real-time AI to deliver digital interventions that reduce disease impact, accelerate diagnosis, optimize treatment, help to validate new treatments and alleviate core clinical symptoms.

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In a world where pets are increasingly considered full members of the family, we have developed a product that offers personalized mealplans for pets, based on their individual needs and preferences collected through a questionnaire.

With this approach, we focus on preventive pet health by providing tailored nutrition, conveniently delivered to our customers’ homes. Through data-driven decisions, we are already making a positive impact on more than 100,000 households in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and France.

Imec.istart is imec’s open accelerator program, designed to help tech startups succeed and grow globally. We provide pre-seed funding, tailored coaching, and access to imec’s extensive network and expertise.

Since 2011, imec.istart has invested in more than 360 startups worldwide, supporting innovative ventures in diverse technology domains. Each year, we select high-potential startups to join our accelerator programs and guide them through every stage of growth—from validation to international expansion.

We connect ambitious talent with high-potential imec.istart startups and scale-ups. Whether you’re a student, intern, junior, medior, senior, or even exploring co-founder opportunities, there could be a match waiting for you.

Check out our job board or join our talent network to stay in the loop on exciting opportunities! https://jobs.imecistart.com/jobs

We built Wonka Chat for the real-world SMEs who thought Copilot was their only option and were disappointed.

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We have sports clubs scale their sponsorships without chaos.

We provide an AI-native SaaS to simplify contract handling, rights tracking & matchday ticket distribution.

Handling commercial details with AI allows sports clubs to focus on delivering the best experience to their partners - from stadium exposure to VIP ticketing.

Vertuoza is an innovative SaaS solution that simplifies construction site management for construction companies across the Benelux, France and Switzerland. Designed for medium-sized businesses (1 to 100 employees), our software allows you to manage quotes, planning, invoices, stock, etc. A turn key solution to boost efficiency and productivity! We are experiencing rapid growth and have ambitious expansion goals! At Vertuoza, you’ll face motivating challenges and have the chance to grow with us. The journey is still long and full of opportunities!

Willow is an all-in-one social media solution designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). By blending an intuitive platform, smart AI tools, and personalized coaching, Willow helps professional service providers build a consistent and authentic online presence without the typical "hassle."

Key Offerings:

The "Tech + Human" Combo: Unlike basic software, Willow pairs its platform with social media experts to provide white-glove service and strategic guidance.

Holistic Management: From overcoming writer’s block with AI to scheduling and gathering feedback, the tool covers the entire content lifecycle.

Mission-Driven: Founded on the belief that SMBs are the "engine of society," Willow aims to make social media accessible, affordable, and less time-consuming.

Originally founded in San Francisco and now based in Belgium, Willow operates with a remote-first philosophy, helping businesses worldwide showcase their unique DNA to attract talent and charm clients.

At Toqua, we’re building machine learning technology that helps shipping companies cut fuel consumption and emissions at scale, solving one of the world’s most urgent climate challenges. Our platform is used directly by customers, and can also be easily embedded in partner products. By 2029, we aim to power 10,000 vessels - the equivalent of removing every single car from the roads in Belgium. Your code will directly move that needle.

You’ll be joining a young, smart, and ambitious team that’s willing to go the extra mile. If you want impact, autonomy, and deep ownership, we'd love to talk!

SOLV is a fast-growing SaaS company that helps governments and other high-stakes organizations de-risk complex projects and manage their stakeholders. Our AI-integrated platform combines software and services to guide decision-making in sensitive domains such as mobility, energy, urban development, and policy. Founded in 2021, we work with major public and private clients across Belgium and beyond. Our 20-person team operates from Brussels, Ukraine, and Rwanda.

Relu is an AI company helping dental labs scale production through automated dental design and planning workflows.

QustomDot offers Quantum Dot Color Conversion materials for next generation displays, allowing lower production cost while ensuring higher performance of Mini-, Micro-, or OLED panels.

Polysense is a Belgian technology firm specializing in AI-driven hardware systems for quality inspection and process optimization in the food industry. The company develops solutions that help manufacturers reduce waste, increase efficiency, and maintain consistent product quality across their production lines. Its systems combine advanced machine learning with robust industrial hardware to deliver accurate, real-time insights that enable data-driven decision-making.

Polysense works closely with producers in sectors such as potatoes, frozen foods, and bakery, ensuring its technology integrates seamlessly into existing factory environments. The company collaborates with leading industry players, including Agristo, Lotus Biscoff, La Lorraine Bakery Group, Roger and Roger (Crocky), Darta, Aviko, Aljouf (Jadco), Poppies Bakeries, and many others.

With a strong focus on operational reliability and measurable impact, Polysense continues to expand its quality inspection and automatic process control solutions, helping manufacturers produce high-quality products at scale.

Have you ever been frustrated trying to find available parking? We're trying to do something about that!

Parkeet builds battery-powered IoT sensors that detect parking occupancy in real time. Our patent-pending detection algorithm combines sensor fusion and multi-sensor context analysis, targeting 99.9%+ accuracy. Data streams to a cloud dashboard and API, giving cities and operators a live digital twin of every parking space, and eventually, guiding drivers directly to an open spot via their navigation app.

We're moving out of the pilot phase and into the real world, and that takes serious work to make this technology truly reliable. That means hardening custom hardware and firmware, sharpening our detection algorithm, and scaling our data platform. It's hands-on, cross-disciplinary work across embedded systems, signal processing, backend software, and data science.    

If you want to build real technology that ships to real streets, come talk to us.

Odoo is a fast-growing Belgian software company that helps businesses of all sizes manage everything in one place. From sales, marketing, and CRM to accounting, you name it, Odoo does it. Our all-in-one platform is a smart solution that opens the door to an affordable ERP system for many companies. Millions of people worldwide rely on Odoo every day because it’s user-friendly, fully integrated, and simply convenient. No more juggling separate tools,  everything works seamlessly together. Odoo is where innovation, teamwork, and fun come together. Will you join us?

Nightborn is a 💙 dedicated development and design team that helps companies ship critical products. Not contractors, not consultants, but true product partners.

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MAHI is developing and commercializing autonomous maritime navigation technology (including hardware) and is active in the USV, workboat and short-sea shipping markets. MAHI’s products have been installed on several unmanned and manned vessels around the world, ranging from 3m fully unmanned USVs to 65m long workboats.

🚀 Join One of Belgium’s Fastest-Growing AI Startups

Selling today isn’t easy. It can take up to 27 interactions to close a B2B deal. That’s why more companies are working with partners instead of selling alone.

That’s where Introw comes in. Introw is an AI-first software company based in Ghent, growing 5X year over year and backed by $3M in funding. We help B2B companies manage and grow their partner networks in a smarter, simpler way.

If you want to work at a fast-moving startup where you can grow quickly and build something meaningful, come talk to us.

Building the future of partner sales.

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Inku is on a mission to revolutionize marketing with AI, and we're just getting started.

We've built a state-of-the-art AI engine that helps the world's biggest brands create stunning, on-brand visuals at scale. Hundreds of high-quality images across every marketing channel, in minutes, at a fraction of traditional agency costs.

But we're not stopping at images. We're building the future of end-to-end marketing, powered by autonomous AI agents that handle everything from creative generation to campaign execution. Fully agentic, fully intelligent.

We're a fast-growing team with global ambitions, working at the cutting edge of generative AI, creative tech, and marketing automation.

Are you fired up about AI, love building things that major brands use daily, and want to help shape an entire industry? Come talk to us!

The future of marketing is being built right now. Come build it with us. ❤️

Batteries have massive potential, but most aren't unlocking it. The reason? Centralized platforms optimize portfolios in aggregate, ignoring the unique costs and opportunities at each site. At Gridual, a KU Leuven spin-off, we take a different approach: bringing energy markets to individual batteries and maximizing their local value.We're starting with industrial batteries, but our ambition is broader: building the control layer for all distributed energy assets and making the energy transition economically viable at every level.

Our platform helps manufacturers gain full control over their operations by collecting, analyzing, and visualizing production data. Factry makes it easy to optimize processes, reduce downtime, and ensure efficiency.

DedaTech BV is a high-tech engineering company specializing in advanced simulation, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing, and digital twin development for complex systems. The company supports innovation in e-mobility, power electronics, battery systems, renewable energy integration, and grid modernization by enabling fast, accurate virtual validation of systems before physical deployment. Through cutting-edge modeling and R&D expertise, DedaTech helps clients accelerate development cycles, reduce technical risk, and optimize performance across automotive, energy, aerospace, and industrial applications.

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empowering factories with our Task Execution Software (TES) that makes robots truly understand, plan, and perform their manual operations.  TES is a modular AI-driven platform that automatically translates work instructions for touch labor tasks into reliable robotic execution, combining Task Intelligence, Touch Intelligence, and Common Sense.

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C-nery is a climate tech startup. Our mission is to accelerate climate action by making the launch of climate projects radically faster and clearer. Our AI-driven software platform provides analysis on the possible certification pathways, costs and revenue of a carbon project. We gather information by pre-processing certification standards, and by partnerships with those standards, pricing data partners and more.

We currently focus on forests and other land use projects. Based on the feedback of our first customers, and a broad market view, we have a clear roadmap to extend our application with more features and more verticals.We're a complementary enthusiastic team of 3 (2 founders + 1) looking for even more enthusiasm!

Auditstage is building software for financial auditors. If you are interested to get into the complex world of Fintech, see how the corporate world works and build the next unicorn, Auditstage is your place to be.

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AI-D is a young and fast-growing Belgian AI software company, focused primarily on guiding Belgian SMEs in their AI adoption journey – from awareness to implementation.

We work across four main domains: hands-on AI training, strategic AI consultancy trajectories that help organizations identify and prioritize AI opportunities, the development of custom AI-tools tailored to individual clients, and the creation of scalable AI tools that address recurring challenges in the Belgian SME market.

We combine business insight with technical expertise to translate operational pains into pragmatic AI solutions that drive efficiency, smarter decision-making and sustainable growth. At AI-D, we firmly believe AI should enhance human capabilities, not replace them, empowering teams to work smarter, more creatively and with greater impact.

EDGX is a Belgian spacetech company, defining the compute layer of the space economy.

The future of space is interconnected, with satellites acting as infrastructure. Decentralized in-orbit computing will shift how we operate satellites towards a service model.

Our mission is to develop the technologies that empower those compute services in space. This mission starts with our first product line, the EDGX Sterna computer. It is Europe’s first mature NVIDIA-based payload computing solution, delivering intelligent processing in orbit today. EDGX also commercializes its in-space compute assets to bring its software partners to space.

InvestSuite is a B2B-oriented company, founded in 2018 with the mission of helping financial institutions thrive in an ever-digital world. We understand the latest demands and continuously adapt our InvestTech solutions to best encompass the needs of our clients. The skills we bring onboard, the products we develop and the tech stack we build are geared to help the most demanding companies quickly enhance their digital product range and stay ahead of the competition.

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Processing Real-World Data for a Zero-Accident Future.

IVEX is an automotive technology company dedicated to a single, transformative vision: Zero Accidents. We are building the SaaS tools that make Autonomous Vehicles (AV) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) safer, smarter, and easier to validate.

Our work sits at the cutting edge of the automotive industry. We move beyond standard testing by processing massive scale data on the cloud, turning raw sensor inputs—from camera imagery and LiDAR point clouds to precision GNSS signals—into the trusted, real-world insights that global OEMs rely on.

At IVEX, innovation drives safety. We apply advanced Machine Learning to deeply understand vehicle performance, using AI to score behavior and automate validation against rigorous standards like Euro NCAP.

We are an international, fast-moving team operating at the intersection of software, massive data, and mobility. IVEX is where engineering meets impact, bringing structure and speed to a rapidly evolving field to ensure that future mobility is safe for everyone.

NOX is building the platform that allows energy retailers to actively trade residential energy assets, starting with heat pumps, and expanding to solar and batteries, to structurally lower end-customer bills and unlock grid flexibility at scale.

TechWolf is on a mission to transform workplaces by shifting the focus from traditional jobs to the unique skills of employees. Their smart, AI-powered software collects data from HR systems and everyday work activities, to reveal the skills employees already have and what they may need in the future. This insight enables companies to match the right talent with the right roles and design effective training or hiring strategies.

Founded in 2018 straight out of university by three computer science students, TechWolf has grown into one of Belgium’s fastest-growing tech companies. Today, the company has a young, international team of around 100 people, with offices in Ghent, London and New York. Customers include global organizations such as Apple, PayPal, and Booking.

In 2024, TechWolf raised $42M to accelerate product innovation and international expansion, with plans to raise again next year to grow further in the United States.