imec.istart
Corporate investor
Active
Leuven, Belgium
32
2M
25
2.46
4
0.22
- Areas of investment
Summary
The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Data Visualization, SaaS. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ONTOFORCE, UgenTec.
The top activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from imec.istart is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the imec.istart, startups are often financed by KfW. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Qbic Fund, PMV, Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by PMV, Luc Vauterin, Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij.
Investor highlights
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- 50K — 200K
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 32
- Lead investments
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 2.46
- Follow on index
- 0.22
- Investments by industry
- Software (7)
- Information Technology (6)
- Lifestyle (5)
- Social Network (5)
- Digital Media (5) Show 43 more
- Investments by region
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- Belgium (25)
- The Netherlands (6)
- Peak activity year
- 2021
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 3
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 84K
- Group Appearance index
- 0.62
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willow | 27 Jul 2021 | Marketing Automation, Small and Medium Businesses, Digital Marketing | Seed | 1M | Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium |
| Qviro | 18 Aug 2022 | Software, B2B, SaaS, Robotics, Industrial | Seed | 1M | Limburg, Genk, Belgium |
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