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Founders Roger Van Overstraeten

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.31
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
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Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Health Care
  • Machine Learning
  • Semiconductor
  • Biotechnology
Summary

In 1982 was created imec, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Leuven. The venture was found in Europe in Belgium.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the imec, startups are often financed by Qbic Fund, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are University of Leuven, PMV, New Science Ventures.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Belgium. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Hospital, Social Media. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight UgenTec.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MICLEDI Microdisplays

Semiconductor
$25M12 Mar 2024 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

OTIV

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
12 Jan 2023 Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Axelera AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Semiconductor
$12M15 Sep 2021 Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

Asylia Diagnostics

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$1M12 Jul 2021 Delaware City, Delaware, United States

Asylia Diagnostics

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$1M02 Mar 2020 Delaware City, Delaware, United States

conductiv.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Industrial Manufacturing
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
29 Oct 2019 Berlin

Onera Health

Medical
Medical Device
$9M24 Apr 2019 Palo Alto, California, United States

Tengu

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Cloud Data Services
Data Center Automation
Data Integration
SaaS
$436K24 Jan 2019 East Flanders

Morrow Optics

Eyewear
Health Care
$10M01 Jul 2018 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium

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Total investments 13
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 0.31
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.15
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MICLEDI Microdisplays

Semiconductor
$25M12 Mar 2024 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

OTIV

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
12 Jan 2023 Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Axelera AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Semiconductor
$12M15 Sep 2021 Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

Asylia Diagnostics

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$1M12 Jul 2021 Delaware City, Delaware, United States

Asylia Diagnostics

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$1M02 Mar 2020 Delaware City, Delaware, United States

conductiv.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Industrial Manufacturing
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
29 Oct 2019 Berlin

Onera Health

Medical
Medical Device
$9M24 Apr 2019 Palo Alto, California, United States

Tengu

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Cloud Data Services
Data Center Automation
Data Integration
SaaS
$436K24 Jan 2019 East Flanders

Morrow Optics

Eyewear
Health Care
$10M01 Jul 2018 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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