# KBC

> KBC is a VC fund in Brussels backing Biotechnology and Health Care. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kbc-bank-france
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/kbc_group
- Website: http://www.kbc.com

KBC is a VC fund in Brussels focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. KBC Private Equity - the investment company of KBC Group - provides development capital and finances buy-outs to medium-sized companies in Belgium and in Central and Eastern Europe, KBC's home markets.Boasting an experienced team of 28 people, it has more than 60 active investments in portfolio with a market value in excess of EUR 400million.KBC Private Equity aims to become one of the leading private equity providers on KBC Group's home markets. As an active shareholder with a long-term perspective, KBC Private Equity is involved in taking strategic decisions and providing support to management teams.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $549k–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $425k–$1.9M |
| Series A | $3M–$65M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 12 | 33% |
| Health Care | 6 | 17% |
| Software | 5 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 14% |
| FinTech | 4 | 11% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 28% |
| Series A | 7 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 8% |
| Series B | 3 | 8% |
| Series C | 3 | 8% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Belgium | 19 | 53% |
| United States | 3 | 8% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 3% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thomas Leysen | Chairman of the Board | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-leysen |
| Ahlin Sodji | System Administrator IBM Tivoli Access Manager Webseal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahlin-sodji |
| Danny De Raymaeker | CEO, International Markets Business Unit | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danny-de-raymaeker |
| Eddie Dillon | Director of Innovation, Commercial Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eddie-dillon |
| Lourda Sexton | Senior Communications Manager (Financial Results & Earnings Reporting) | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lourda-sexton |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Qivalis | Qivalis is a financial technology company designed for payments, settlements, and financial services. |  |  | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Ion Beam Applications | Ion Beam Applications is a Belgium-based company that develops and markets technologies, pharmaceutical products and tailored solutions for the healthcare sector, with emphasis on cancer diagnosis and therapy. IBA is also active in the sterilization and ionization field. The Company operates through two business segments, namely the pharmaceuticalssegment, which includes radiopharmaceuticals and the equipments segment, which encompasses proton therapy, particle accelerators and dosimetry. | $155.8M | Post-IPO Debt | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Rookoo | Rookoo offers an AI-driven platform that serves as a digital co-worker for event, hospitality, and tourism teams. The company's intelligent agent is an expert AI event planner/manager that handles all customer inquiries. It acts as a 24/7 front desk, managing initial intake, checking calendars against platforms like Yesplan,Tripleseat, and SevenRooms, and integrating seamlessly with the user's CRM. | $1M | Seed | Nov 14, 2025 |  |
| Fnality International | Fnality International provides a digital cash system that uses blockchain technology to settle financial transactions. The company develops DLT-based wholesale payment systems in key jurisdictions, each overseen by its home central bank. It also offers banks a system for managing digital payments and supports the growing industry adoption oftokenized assets and marketplaces. | $136M | Series C | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| OnTracx | OnTracx combines wearable technology and intelligent load management software to support runners and professionals to avoid running injuries & return to run safely. | $1.4M | Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| ClimateCamp | ClimateCamp offers precise information on the supply chain's carbon emissions. | $3.8M | Seed | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| ELIS | Elis is a multi-services group in Europe and Brazil, specialized in the rental and maintenance of professional clothing and textile articles, as well as hygiene appliance and well-being services. With more than 19,000 employees spread across 13 countries, Elis consolidated turnover in 2014 was €1.331 billion and consolidated EBITDA reached €429million. Benefiting from more than a century of experience, Elis today services more than 240 000 businesses of all sizes in the hotel, catering, healthcare, industry, retail and services sectors, thanks to its network of nearly 300 production and distribution centers and 13 clean rooms, which guarantees it an unrivalled proximity to its clients. | $435.3M | Post-IPO Debt | Mar 14, 2024 |  |
| MICLEDI Microdisplays | MICLEDI Microdisplays is an experienced executive in the semiconductor industry, | $25M | Series A | Mar 12, 2024 |  |
| Setle | During the renovation process, Settle assists in helping to make better judgments. Settle's goal is to increase renovation transparency. From increasing the energy efficiency of your home to getting the most out of your housing budget. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 23, 2022 |  |
| Unbox | Unbox has developed a proprietary technology to imbue virtually anything with a memory, a conscience, and a forward-looking vision. This transformative capability embraces a diverse range of assets, from financial resources to tangible products. Emphasising privacy and security, the Unbox technology facilitates closed loops, allowing the partiesto an exchange to exercise control, distribution, and registration of any (un)fungible value. Whether it is traditional currency or local community currencies through the Unbox Community Issuance software suite, or high-value assets like diamonds or semi-conductors, and even low-value items such as plastic bottles or toys using the Unbox State of Product software suite, Unbox's platform offers unparalleled versatility. | $8M | Seed | May 24, 2022 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does KBC invest in?

KBC invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 36 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is KBC's check size?

KBC typically joins rounds of $549k–$8M at Seed, $425k–$1.9M at Pre-Seed and $3M–$65M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds KBC participates in.

### How do I contact KBC?

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### Who are the partners at KBC?

The team at KBC includes Thomas Leysen (Chairman of the Board), Ahlin Sodji (System Administrator IBM Tivoli Access Manager Webseal) and Danny De Raymaeker (CEO, International Markets Business Unit), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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