Posted in Startup News on Mar 09, 2016
Over the last two months, the digital Belgian startups and scale ups have been very active in raising capital, according to the data presented by Omar Mohout, Growth Manager at Sirris. The analysis covers European technology companies that have raised at least $1 million in January and February.L...
Read morePosted in Startup News on Jan 23, 2016
Following initial investments by Duval Union and Living Tomorrow, the crowd and several business angels invested in tsjing, an application for the food and leisure industries. The startup raised €250.000 in seed capital: €100.000 via Bolero Crowdfunding and €150.000 via a number of business angels o...
Read morePosted in Startup News on Jan 20, 2016
LindaCare, a software company specializing in the field of tele-monitoring solutions for chronic disease patients, has striken a partnership with The University Hospitals Leuven (UZ Leuven) to enhance the quality of patient care by improving the way patients with chronic heart disease with CIEDs rec...
Read morePosted in Startup News, Ecosystem on Jan 19, 2016
Startups.be has announced the shortlist of companies for the first annual Tech Startup Day Awards. Winners will be selected by the community, who will have the chance to support their favorites by submitting their vote until February 17th, 2016. On a mission to strengthen Belgium’s entrepreneuria...
Read morePosted in Startup News on Jan 13, 2016
The amount raised from business angels will allow FlagWorlds to complete the development of its web platform and its mobile app, which will be available in App Store and Google Play. FlagWorlds is a community-based geolocation network. Its mission is to generate social bounds in a world where any...
Read morePosted in Startup News, Ecosystem, Starting Up on Jan 05, 2016
EYnovation, the startup program powered by EY, is working with Startups.be towards a common goal: to help make dreams come true for the entrepreneurs in Belgium. Karen Boers, Managing Director at Startups.be and Wouter Desmet, Partner at EY Subsidia, share their views on the ecosystem and the highl...
Read morePosted in Startup News on Dec 21, 2015
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Read morePosted in Startup News on Dec 17, 2015
On December 9th, Bizidee concluded its 14th edition and here are the entrepreneurs who were recognized! Bizidee is the entrepreneurial competition in which startups can be awarded the best business plan recognition and have a chance to win the top prize of € 15,000. IN THE LARGE CA...
Read morePosted in Startup News on Dec 14, 2015
Headquartered in Brussels, Doctena has raised €4.5 million funding round made up of investment from undisclosed private investors, business angels, and debt. The company sells a medical booking platform that lets doctors offer online booking to their patients and has successfully launched in thre...
Read morePosted in Startup News on Dec 11, 2015
Leading PDF library company iText and professional software developer Hancom communicate their entrance to the European market with software joint venture ThinkFree. By this new collaboration,ThinkFree brand is to offer Hancom solutions integrated with iText functionality to professional markets ...
Read morePosted in Startup News on Mar 08, 2016
Leading PDF library company iText has won the popular vote as National Public Champion of Belgium in the 2016 European Business Awards (EBA). iText defeated nine other competitors and is now competing against 32 other companies to become the European Public Champion 2016. The EBA’s goal is to sho...
Read morePosted in Startup News on Jan 22, 2016
Belgian startup PieSync offers a platform that connects a series of cloud applications and syncs contacts stored in those apps. Considering the risk of data corruption or overwriting an important contact’s information during synchronization users are warming to the company’s proposition. VCs appe...
Read morePosted in Startup News on Jan 20, 2016
The Belgian startup, which has become one of the largest crowdfunding platforms in the country, is expanding into Europe. The selected markets arePoland, Switzerland, Italy, France and the Netherlands. To achieve this international traction, the platform was adjusted on the legal and technical as...
Read morePosted in Startup News, Funding on Jan 13, 2016
The young Flemish startup has announced a €1 million Series A funding round led by Volta Ventures, marking the fund’s fourth investment of 2015. Pamica NV, the investment company of Michel Akkermans, former Chairman and CEO of financial technology company Clear2Pay, is co-investor. Cashforce,an i...
Read morePosted in Startup News on Jan 08, 2016
CarAmigo, Belgium's first peer-to-peer car rental, has signed an agreement with the car manufacturer Ford. The new alliance is meant to help Ford customers to register their cars on CarAmigo and learn the possible savings by using the calculator available on www.caramigo.be/ford Alex Gaschard,...
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