A 100%-no-strings-attached startup accelerator. Mission-driven & always supporting courageous entrepreneurs. Join us! Start it @KBC supports and promotes innovative and scalable entrepreneurship and, with over 1000 startups, is Belgium's largest startup community. To achieve this, the community concludes partnerships with organizations and companies that adopt the same pay-it-forward mentality. This way, Start it @KBC is building an ecosystem and a dynamic network of startups, scale-ups, incubators, accelerators, mentors, VCs, supporting partners and strategic partners. Start it @KBC is constantly reshaping, expanding and improving its offering in co-creation with the startups. The community has hubs in Antwerp, Ghent, Hasselt, Leuven, Kortrijk, …

Our Vision : We have High Standards - We Build Companies - We have Impact Kurma Partners is a key European venture capital group specialized in healthcare, with €470 million under management, with two dedicated franchises : Kurma Biofund focused on therapeutic (current active fund KBIII) and Kurma Diagnostics focused on diagnostic and digital health (current active fund Kurma Dx2). Biotechnology, Lifesciences, Drug Development, Technology transfer, Rare diseases, Digital Healh, Diagnostics, and Medtech

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

BAN Flanders, almost 25 years of matching capital-seeking startups & scaleups with private investors (business angels)! BAN Flanders is an experienced business angel network in Flanders to cover Belgian and cross-border investment. A platform with added value for starting and upscaling entrepreneurs searching for capital. Through matchmaking and deal guiding, companies raise capital combined with the business angels' know-how, experience and network. We offer services for both companies as private investors. www.ban.be dealguiding, fundraising, networking, investment management, international funding, and business angels

[Automatic translation follows] Financial and economic news with depth. Trends has been reporting on financial and economic news for 40 years. With depth and added value, Trends brings sensational analyses of the business and finance reality and helps its readers find opportunities to optimally develop their career or business. While Trends is on your tablet, in your letterbox or at your newsagent every week, trends.be brings news, analysis and interpretation 24/7.

Leading growth platform in Belgium that connects Europe's most promising startups and scale-ups WE ENABLE STARTUPS & SCALE-UPS TO SQUEEZE TIME AND GROW FASTER! We organize high-quality business networking platforms and events tailored to both start-ups and scale-ups. Discover our upcoming matchmaking events: * The Big Score | www.thebigscore.eu * The Big Score Sessions | www.thebigscore.eu/sessions * HRtech | www.hrtech.be * CYBERCONFERENCE | www.cyberconference.eu Startups.be & scale-ups.eu joined forces in 2018 to solidify our offering for the Belgian tech ecosystem at large. Together, we are the top-of-mind time squeezer for tech entrepreneurs. We pride ourselves in being the leading growth …

[Automatic translation follows] We offer you financing solutions for the creation and growth of your business. The Noshaq group contributes to the development and economic redeployment of the province of Liège by ensuring long-term financing of business projects. Our holding company has secured a specific place in the Liège financial landscape for over 20 years, with an intervention technique based mainly on taking equity stakes. Noshaq, a leading investment and fund management company, currently supports 460+ SMEs and projects of regional interest.

Imec is a world-leading R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. At imec, we shape the future. How? By enabling nano- and digital technology innovation with a significant impact on the quality of life. With our partners from companies, governments and academia. And supported by the three pillars of our R&D: - a unique infrastructure that includes a 2.5-billion-euro 300mm semiconductor pilot line - more than 5,500 expert scientists from over 96 countries - an ecosystem of more than 600 world-leading industry partners and a global academic network Founded in 1984, imec quickly made its name as the …

Innovation with heart Inspired by a passion for technology and engineering, Melexis designs, develops and delivers innovative micro-electronic solutions. They enable designers to turn ideas into applications that support the best imaginable future. The company’s advanced mixed-signal semiconductor sensors and actuators integrate sensing, driving and communication into next-generation products and systems. They improve safety, raise efficiency, support sustainability and enhance comfort. Melexis is a world leader in automotive sensors. Today, on average, every new car produced worldwide contains 18 Melexis chips. Melexis uses this expertise to serve other markets as well: alternative mobility, smart appliances, smart buildings, robotics, energy management …