Top 15 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Belgium in January 2025
A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Belgium. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Belgium. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Belgium in January 2025
Investor | Retail Belgium investments |
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Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij | 3 |
PMV | 2 |
Vendis Capital | 1 |
Korys | 1 |
Optiver | 1 |
KPN Ventures | 1 |
ING Group | 1 |
The Craftory | 1 |
SOSV | 1 |
BNP Paribas Fortis | 1 |
LeanSquare | 1 |
Spreds | 1 |
ETF Partners | 1 |
Force Over Mass Capital | 1 |
Angelwise | 1 |
Oxygen for growth - LRM
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Belgium, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Cumul.io — Create powerful dashboards in minutes. Share with your teams, or integrate in your platform. Drive growth in your business today!
- MobieTrain — Unlock the potential of your customer-facing employees and create memorable customer experiences with MobieTrain's app.
- Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
Do and dare company
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Belgium, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Apideck — Integrate and monitor APIs at warp speed. Apideck is the fastest way for developers to build integrations. Connect new APIs in minutes instead of days.
- Minze Health — Minze Health is a health tech start-up that builds creative digital health solutions for urology, pelvic health, and (in)continence care.
- PanTera — PanTera wants to bring a new hope to cancer patients by enabling the widespread use of radiopharmaceuticals for personalised treatment of tumors
Vendis Capital is an independent private equity firm that focuses on building and investing in small- to medium-sized branded consumer companies in Europe. Its flexible capital structure includes both development capital and buyout capital.Vendis Capital supports entrepreneurs and their companies through various stages of development. It helpsits clients in establishing strategic roadmaps, planning and facilitating management additions, evaluating and executing acquisitions, and establishing proper monitoring and reporting tools.Vendis Capital was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Diegem, Vlaams-Brabant.
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Investment focus
- Retail, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Private Equity, Funding Round
- The Netherlands, Belgium, France
Portfolio highlights
- Kamera Express — Kamera Express - De Kamera Superstore voor Foto, Video, Objectieven, Lenzen, Accessoires en toebehoren, Studio en Licht, Verrekijkers, Telescopen, Computer, Media en meer
- Skins Cosmetics — Skins Cosmetics is a cosmetic shop that sells skin cosmetics and beauty products.
- Pink Gellac — Pink Gellac is a digital native and direct-to-consumer premium nail polish brand with a distinctive colour offering. Pink Gellac is known for its distinctive on-trend colour offering and its salon-like quality.
Korys is the name chosen by the Colruyt family for their investment structure. The name Korys is derived from the Latin word for hazelnut tree – Corylus - which is at the origin of the Colruyt name.Their multi-disciplinary approach enables us to create a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, anddirect participations in small and medium-sized companies. Through their investments, they aim to make a positive impact on people and the planet, while generating attractive returns. A “three P” approach (People, Planet, Profit) forms the cornerstone of their investment strategy. They invest for the long term, as they realize that it takes time to achieve the sustainable impact they are aiming for. They focus their investments in sectors in which they have built substantial expertise as a team: Cleantech, consumer goods & retail and life sciences.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Information Technology, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Greenely — Greenely is the electricity company that optimizes your electricity use using smart technology in an app. We help you take control of your consumption.
- OroraTech — OroraTech provides global real-time information services. The first target market is early detection and monitoring of wildfires, extended by a proprietary constellation of thermal imaging nanosatellites equipped with in-space AI image processing. At the beginning of 2020, OroraTech launched an MVP called Wildfire Service (WFS) that enables quickdetection and monitoring of wildfires on a global scale. The combination of existing thermal-infrared satellite data with external data layers, such as fuel, wind, and risk maps results in an automatic generation of fire alerts and the display of current fire perimeters for users. The MVP was launched in early 2020 and has gained increasing traction with governmental and large corporate customers all over the world.
- PanTera — PanTera wants to bring a new hope to cancer patients by enabling the widespread use of radiopharmaceuticals for personalised treatment of tumors
As a global market maker, Optiver works to make the world's markets fairer, more transparent and more efficient for everyone.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Stock Exchanges
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- United States, Belgium, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Auros — We develop world class technology to implement arbitrage and other trading strategies within the crypto space.
- BMLL Technologies — BMLL Technologies Ltd. operates cloud based technology platform that offers machine learning and inference framework for common limit order book problems.
- Sk3w Technologies — Sk3w Technologies specializes in providing exchange access solutions.
KPN Ventures is a corporate venture arm of KPN that aims to partner with innovative technology companies, providing access to capital, expertise, network, and customer channels. It focuses on early growth-stage European companies in networking technology, internet of things, smart home, digital healthcare, cyber security, mobile and video (OTT)services, cloud computing, data, and analytics. It began operation on June 1, 2015, with its headquarters in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet of Things, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
- Wirepas — Wireless mesh connectivity for industrial IoT. Proven, ultra-reliable and scalable. Lowest total cost of ownership. The best mesh for IoT.
- BOX ID Systems — BOX ID Systems develops and offers an end-to-end location & process mining solution to cost effectively track millions of logistics assets digitally throughout the industrial supply chain across Europe and the World - including site-to-site, on-premises and indoor buildings digital twin of supply chain processes. The system is built on aspecialized analytics software platform, sensorik tracking devices and efficient data-, device- and user-management tools, including functions to support process automation and optimization. Industrial and automotive production customers benefit from making their logistics processes more efficient and cost optimized, with 100% transparency within their critical processes throughout the entire supply chain.
ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, investments, life insurance and retirement services. They serve more than 85 million private, corporate and institutional customers in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Australia. They draw on our experience and expertise, their commitment to excellent service andtheir global scale to meet the needs of a broad customer base, comprising individuals, families, small businesses, large corporations, institutions and governments.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Neoen — Neoen is an independent energy company, develops, finances, builds, and operates power plants based on renewable energies in France, Portugal, Australia, Mexico, Egypt, and El Salvador. It operates solar, wind, and biomass power plants. The company, through its subsidiaries, also specializes in the development of marine renewable energy projects inFrance; supports photovoltaic project developers and investors in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of solar power plants in France and abroad; and develops solar and wind farms.
- Enfinity Global — We develop value added solutions to accelerate the transition to a sustainable global energy economy
- STX Group — Founded in 2005, STX Group provides access to renewable energy, biofuels, energy efficiency and carbon markets. We're hiring!
The alternative growth equity and consumer venture capital fund based in London and San Francisco. We invest in consumer brands with a positive social impact. We are Cause Capital.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Consumer Goods, Retail
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Needed — Prenatal vitamins leave most women depleted, so we redesigned the Prenatal Multi from the ground-up, and paired it with the Omega-3 (DHA and EPA), Collagen Protein, and Pre/Probiotic that mamas need. Take them before, during, and after pregnancy (and while breastfeeding) for optimal prenatal and postpartum nourishment.
- Edgard & Cooper — Edgard & Cooper offers foods for dogs and cats made with natural and nutritious ingredients. Their products are made with fresh meat and simple ingredients making it more balanced than over-processed pet food. Edgard & Cooper was founded in 2014 by Louis Chalabi and Jürgen Degrande and is headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium.
- NotCo — We are reinventing the foods we love to eat! Same great flavor, but made from plants. Meet the future of food. Why not?
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
BNP Paribas Fortis is a bank that provides personal and business banking services.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Logistics, Pharmaceutical
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Belgium, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Aphea.Bio — . .sustainableagriculture-section {. backgroundcolor: fff;. boxshadow: 0 0.40rem 0.40rem rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);. display: flex;. flexdirection: column;. overflow: hidden;. backgroundsize: cover;. }.. .herobanner {. display: flex;. flexdirection: column;. position: relative
- MobieTrain — Unlock the potential of your customer-facing employees and create memorable customer experiences with MobieTrain's app.
- Global Infrastructure Partners — A leading global, independent infrastructure fund manager.
New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator
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Investment focus
- Software, Music, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Belgium, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- e-peas — Ready to make your device energy autonomous with our state-of-art energy harvesting solutions? Phone: (+32) 10 77 12 30, sales@e-peas.com
- LinkByCar — LinkByCar specializes in leveraging artificial intelligence and sensor data from connected vehicles to predict mechanical issues accurately. The company aggregates data across various automotive manufacturers, offering comprehensive solutions as a neutral third party. This approach enables the anticipation of vehicle maintenance needs, enhancingthe driving experience by ensuring reliability and safety. LinkByCar's technology focuses on the personalization of driving experiences and supports the evolving landscape of mobility, including connected vehicles, autonomous driving, and carpooling. The company serves as a bridge between automotive data and actionable insights, catering to the needs of vehicle owners and manufacturers alike.
- Bridge.audio — Bridge is for everyone working with music and audio. We provide private workspaces to manage, share, and connect better
We empower high-potential entrepreneurship and democratize venture capital. Discover promising start-ups & SMEs and invest alongside business angels.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Belgium, France
Portfolio highlights
- Opinum — What is Opinum Data Hub? Our Data Hub is a secured Cloud-based platform that allows energy and environmental actors to centralise, enhance, analyse, and share data.
- Digiteal — Digiteal offers a wide range of services for e-invoice presentment, electronic payments and open banking.
- NietsCo — NietsCo. is the home of Botaniets Gin 0.0%, a leading selection of alcohol-free products, carefully distributed to the world's best restaurants, concept stores, shops and consumers.
ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations, and family offices. The firm creates value by investing in and supporting great European companies that deliver Sustainability Through Innovation.
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Investment focus
- Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Hubcycle — Hub cycle converts fruit, vegetable waste into raw materials for the hygiene and food industries.
- Next Sense — Next Sense creates climate-neutral buildings with data insights, simulations, and AI control.
- Beams — From plan to build, Beams is an end-to-end service that makes home renovation simpler for customers and builders, and greener for the planet.Beams simplifies the design and construction process with its cutting edge technology that lets customers design and manage their build end to end, all in one place.Redefining the way customers andbuilders collaborate by connecting homeowners with vetted builders that they can trust.Championing sustainability at every stage to reduce CO2 emissions and make the build as energy efficient as possible.
Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
- Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
- SentientSports — SentientSports is revolutionising the sports industry by unlocking the full potential of AI in sporting organisations.
Angelwise Vlaams Investeringsfonds
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Marine Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Azumuta — Azumuta, the #1 industry-leading tool that fully supports operators by centralizing all knowledge, on-the-floor training and communication.
- xyzt.ai — The big data platform to easily visualize and analyze any spatio-temporal data. Scaling to billions of records.
- Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
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