Top 25 Sports Startup Investors in Belgium
A list of 25 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Sports startups based in Belgium. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Belgium. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Sports Startup Investors in Belgium
Investor | Sports Belgium investments |
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LeanSquare | 3 |
Meusinvest (Noshaq) | 3 |
Pierre Rigaux | 3 |
Elysian Park Ventures | 1 |
The Faktory Fund | 1 |
Kima Ventures | 1 |
Olivier Coune | 1 |
Pleiade Venture | 1 |
Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij | 1 |
Xavier Dewulf | 1 |
Bob Verbeeck | 1 |
Lean FUND | 1 |
Freshmen Fund | 1 |
Gemma Frisius Fund | 1 |
WING by Digital Wallonia | 1 |
PMV | 1 |
Coolidge Corner Investment | 1 |
Eldridge Industries | 1 |
Mark De Smedt | 1 |
Be Angels | 1 |
Jan Vertonghen | 1 |
Stefan Tournoy | 1 |
Tom Boonen | 1 |
Sambrinvest | 1 |
Steven Buyse | 1 |
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Investment focus
- Music, Software, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Belgium, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
- CityLegends — A home for urban sports & culture partners of CityLegends. Making the lines.
- Streamforge — Streamforge is the technology-first, turnkey solution for all of your influencer marketing needs.
Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Samabriva — Biotechnology company that has developed an automated, proprietary bioproduction system available to companies who want to produce high-value molecules.
- Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
- HEPHAISTOS-Pharma — Hephaistos Pharma is a developing weapons firm. They provide services for oncology, immunotherapy, and cancer. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.
Pierre Rigaux
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Investment focus
- Sports, Medical Device
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- MYOCENE — Myocene is a Liège-based sports technology company which creates unique and innovative devices for measuring muscle fatigue and performance.
We invest where sports intersect with life.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FORTË — FORTË enables fitness brands globally to create a high-quality, premium digital fitness platform cost-effectively. FORTË installs its proprietary streaming hardware and software at one or more of its clients’ locations, deploys a customized website and accompanying mobile apps, and assists the client to launch and promote its new virtual offering.End-users can stream live and on-demand fitness classes from their favorite gym while interacting with their community on two-way video, tracking their performance in real-time on leaderboards and through wearable integrations, participate in challenges, and get social with their friends. FORTË powers UFC, Goodlife Fitness, YMCA's, NFL Player's Association, The Edge, Heartcore, GYMVMT, and many other well-known gym chains and boutique studios.
- Splash Sports — Splash Sports is the leading skill-based sports gaming platform built for friends to use their knowledge to compete for real money. Learn more and get started.
- SweetSpot — SweetSpot products make sports and outdoors more accessible, more affordable and more fun to play anytime, anywhere.
The Faktory is a hub for business ideas based on any disruptive technology with a high potential in international niche markets: ICT, Health, Environment, Media, Broadcast and more.
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Belgium, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- IVEX — IVEX offers Repeatable and Scalable Testing & Validation Data Analytics solutions for ADAS/AD Vehicles.
- xyzt.ai — The big data platform to easily visualize and analyze any spatio-temporal data. Scaling to billions of records.
- MyCellHub — MyCellHub.com is a pre-startup from the KULeuven in the biotherapeutics industry that aspires to reform the way cell production processes are organised. With a regulatory compliant Saas-platform for data management and analytics, we increase the efficiency of your manufacturing processes, provide actionable insights via cell culture specificprocess analytics and facilitate regulatory compliance by means of a real-time audit trail and automated batch records.
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
- Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.
- Composable Prompts — Composable Prompts helps enterprises deploy LLM technology, with governance, collaboration, orchestration, and a unique virtualization engine.
Olivier Coune
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Investment focus
- Outdoors, Software, Lifestyle
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Fishtripr — Fishtripr is on a mission to bring more people to the outdoors, fostering a deeper connection with nature. We want to change the story of recreational fishing through purveying the market's essential storytellers, brands, destinations, and resources, displayed in a way that magnifies the beauty of this extraordinary lifestyle and modernise itsperception. With Fishtripr, now you can easily discover the best fishing experiences worldwide. From private fisheries to guides and lodges, we're the most comprehensive guide to travel fishing in Europe. Connect local fishing guides with anglers online is an entirely new way to experience recreational fishing and Fishtripr is at the forefront of the movement.
- Big Bad Wolf — Big Bad Wolf is a brand-tech agency employing 30 digital experts. We help innovative businesses shape the future of their brand experience through digital transformation of their services, products and communication. We see Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Natural Interfaces as new opportunities to redesignand improve business-to-consumers interactions.We believe in a future where customer to brands relationships are redefined by the value they will create for each other through a meaningful use of technology.With more than 10 years of cutting-edge audiovisual know-how and emerging media expertise, we leverage on 3D digital content and spatial computing to help organizations release their full potential.
Pleiade Venture is a French Ventrue Capital Company. It supports innovative companies from all sectors, except biotech.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Belgium, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- askR.ai — Chat with your data ! What if you did not need the technical process to access your data anymore? Simply ask your question and our artificial intelligence will provide the appropriate answer : number, graph, table...
- Sensefuel — Sensefuel is a software publisher dedicated to the retail industry and in particular e-commerce. Its innovative e-commerce search engine is based on algorithms specifically designed for online sales. It helps e-merchants of all sizes to give their visitors a new search experience through personalized results.
- Climbing District — Climbing District is a social club and coworking space between batignolles, canal saint-martin, buttes-chaumont, and saint-lazare where beginners or experienced climbers practise climbing in bouldering rooms.
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.
Xavier Dewulf, G&V Energy Group.
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Investment focus
- Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
Bob Verbeeck, Founder & CEO at Golazo.
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Investment focus
- Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Apps, Software
- Seed, Series B
- Belgium, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Neveo — With one click, send photos and messages on a family newspaper that your senior will receive every month.
- Supersec — Good to eat, good to think: discover the Supersec organic, healthy, artisanal and sustainable food treats available in bulk delivery!
- Sortlist — Discover the most relevant agencies for your project based on your own specific requirements.
Fueling B2C ventures in Urban Mobility, Consumer AI, and Progressive Niche Brands. With a distinct network of advisors & investors, and over 30 years of experience in brand-building, go-to-market and growth hacking, we support exceptional entrepreneurial teams with smart capital.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Sports, Finance
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Levenue — Levenue is a platform that helps recurring revenue businesses to get funded without dilution of shares
- Cake App — Cake App mission is to become the leading software technology provider that analyzes financial data to help people better understand, control and improve their finances, supported by a business model that shares our revenue with users.
- Runeasi — The first scientifically validated wearable solution to measure impact while running and detect how your body responds to it - Perform real-time biomechanical assessments - Guide your athletes and patients with actionable insights to help them run more efficiently and recover from injuries with confidence
Gemma Frisius Fund KU Leuven is a seed capital fund that aims to stimulate the creation and growth of university related spin-off companies.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- Belgium, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- DName-iT — DName-iT is a genetic analysis tool that offers DNA-based barcode labeling technology and a software platform that can ensure reliable, cost-effective NGS specimen identification.
- MyCellHub — MyCellHub.com is a pre-startup from the KULeuven in the biotherapeutics industry that aspires to reform the way cell production processes are organised. With a regulatory compliant Saas-platform for data management and analytics, we increase the efficiency of your manufacturing processes, provide actionable insights via cell culture specificprocess analytics and facilitate regulatory compliance by means of a real-time audit trail and automated batch records.
- Rewind Therapeutics — Rewind Therapeutics is a developer of novel therapeutics intended to facilitate the treatment for neurological diseases.The company's first-in-class remyelinating therapeutics block inhibitory signals that prevent the expansion and migration of oligodendrocyte stem cells in order to promote effective remyelination, enabling medicalpractitioners to treat patients suffering from multiple sclerosis and other myelin-related diseases with efficacy.
W.IN.G by Digital Wallonia invests in SAAS, advanced tech and deep tech startups (AI, drones, medtech, IOT,...). W.IN.G brings smart money by helping startups by bi-weekly interactions and providing an operating teams (seasonal entrepreneurs being hands-on with the portfolio).
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- IONNYK — IONNYK is a new medium of art photography, containing millions of tiny ink capsules.
- MYOCENE — Myocene is a Liège-based sports technology company which creates unique and innovative devices for measuring muscle fatigue and performance.
- Verbolia — Grow your organic traffic and increase conversion rates with our specialised SEO and Paid acquisition technology solutions.
Do and dare company
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium, The Netherlands, United States
Portfolio highlights
- IVEX — IVEX offers Repeatable and Scalable Testing & Validation Data Analytics solutions for ADAS/AD Vehicles.
- Funkey — Kies je teambuilding uit meer dan 500 onvergetelijke activiteiten. Wij zorgen voor de volledige organisatie, incl. eventuele catering en overnachting.
- dScribe — Welcome to the most intuitive data catalog on the planet
Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
- Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
- Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.
Growing businesses to stand the test of time.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- KOHO Financial — A no-fee spending account with instant cash back & money management app designed to simplify your personal finances. Sign up in minutes to join over 1 million Canadians who use KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to budget and save.
- Metropolis — Metropolis unites technology and operations to make parking remarkable.
- Bilt Rewards — Rewards program for renters
Mark De Smedt, Director at Plan International, Plan Belgium, SD Worx, Copus Group, SVR consult and Youth Start.
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Investment focus
- Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
Early stage Entrepreneurs Coaching and FinancingOne of Europe's leading Business Angels Networks. We connect innovative growth companies to equity finance and coaching by experienced angel investors.
The network is 250 members strong and has been assisting innovative entrepreneurs to find financing for more than 10 millions Euros in thelast 4 years.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium, France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Savics — Savics offers digital solutions for health actors to improve their data management, disease diagnostics and GeneXpert connectivity.
- DeftHedge — DeftHedge is an application addressed to business leaders, and CFOs facing volatility of foreign exchange market.
- HeartKinetics — At HeartKinetics, we aim to revolutionize the management of Heart Failure with our AI-based technology, by providing healthcare professionals with innovative tools.
Jan Vertonghen
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Investment focus
- Sports, Outdoors, Information Technology
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Raw Stadia — Raw Stadia is a sports technology company that specializes in surface player interactions.
Stefan Tournoy, Veepee.
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Investment focus
- Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Seed
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
Tom Boonen is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Cycling, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
- Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Classified Cycling — Classified Cycling
Sambrinvest is an active venture capital player in the region of Charleroi - Thuin.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Belgium, France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- cikisi — Specialized in Web Intelligence (collecting, searching and filtering web information). Help companies and organizations to take advantage of Web information that are relevant to their development. Develops and commercializes Cikisi WMT, a Web Intelligence Solution.
- AbolerIS Pharma — AbolerIS Pharma aims to develop novel and unique therapeutic approaches to induce immune tolerance.
- Santero Therapeutics — Santero Therapeutics seeks to provide novel medications with fresh modes of action that combat diseases with high resistance. Santero develops antimicrobials with novel modes of action to combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.
Partner, joined CVC in 2001. Steven is a member of the CVC Belgium team and is based in Brussels.
Prior to joining CVC, he spent five years at ING Investment Banking and four years as CFO of Corialis.
Steven holds a commercial engineering degree from KU Leuven and an MBA from Vlerick School for Management, Belgium.
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Investment focus
- Cycling, Marketing, Advertising
- Seed, Private Equity
- Belgium, United States
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- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
- Aleph Holding — A leading global enabler of digital advertising in emerging countries
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