# Brustart

> Brustart is a VC fund in Brussel backing Big Data, Internet and Software. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussel, Belgium
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/srib/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/SRIB_BXL
- Website: http://www.srib.be/nl/brustart
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/SRIB/227967310620890

Brustart is a VC fund in Brussel focused on Big Data and Internet. More than financing alone!The Brussels Regional Investment provides financial support for the creation, reorganization and expansion of private corporations located in the Brussels Capital Region.The G.I.M.B. is an investment company with an overall mission that is open to the vast majority of economic sectors.Application through its ownfunds or quasi-equity funds helps GIMB SMEs in their creation and development: it brings about a financial leverage, to the extent that its intervention allows companies to obtain bank financing easier.Interventions are tailored to the specific nature of each project, either in the form of an investment in capital (minority interest) or in the form of a loan.Besides the investment in the strict sense, the company strives to be the promoters at any time to monitor and assist their company when a decision must be taken.Currently receive more than 350 Brussels companies, which insure thousands of workshops, support GIMB and its affiliates.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $439k–$932k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 25% |
| Internet | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Analytics | 1 | 25% |
| Consulting | 1 | 25% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| proUnity | proUnity offers digital workforce solutions for companies to manage, select, and contract all their external staff. It is a user-friendly platform that streamlines all the steps of the hiring process. It is cloud based, super safe and built with robust microsoft technology. | $439K |  | Oct 18, 2017 |  |
| proUnity | proUnity offers digital workforce solutions for companies to manage, select, and contract all their external staff. It is a user-friendly platform that streamlines all the steps of the hiring process. It is cloud based, super safe and built with robust microsoft technology. | $439K | Seed | Oct 18, 2017 |  |
| Swan Insights | Swan Insights focuses on providing businesses with big data solutions for their decision making in marketing campaigns, lead generation, and customer relationship management.Swan Insights enables businesses to obtain business insights and information collected from social media, corporate websites, official business registers, businessactivities, and more. The company develops cloud solutions, APIs, applications, and system integration solutions.Swan Insights was founded by Laurent Kinet in October 2013. And it is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. | $932K | Seed | Sep 12, 2014 |  |
| Collibra | Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation. Collibra accelerates trusted business outcomes by connecting the right data, insights, and algorithms to all Data Citizens. The company's platform breaks down traditional data silos and opens up organizational data, providing trustworthybusiness intelligence, enabling users to find the data they need, collaborate on it, and easily understand its meaning.It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium. | $1.1M | Series A | Apr 17, 2012 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Securex](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/securex) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Seeder Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seeder-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bi3 Solutions](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bi3-solutions) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Newion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newion-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [StepStone](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stepstone) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [StepStone Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stepstone-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Brustart invest in?

Brustart invests primarily in Big Data, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Brustart's check size?

Brustart typically joins rounds of $439k–$932k at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Brustart participates in.

### When did Brustart last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brustart closed in Oct 2017. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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