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Brussels

Metro area · Belgium · Pop. 2.5M

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262 Pool of Funded Startups
New Startups
116 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
35 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 30%
232Startups
97 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
92 Seed Startups$1–4M
43 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 16%
24Breakouts
20 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
4 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
6Scaleups
5 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 1.9%
1 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 0.38%
3Valuation Outcomes
3 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)
reach Unicorn 1.1%
Pre-Seed
97
Seed
92
Series A
43
Series B
20
Series C
4
Unicorn
3

* C→Unicorn and Unicorn→Decacorn rates are derived from current counts (no founding-cohort data); the four mid-funnel rates use Dealroom's cohort tracking.

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Brussels

A live treemap of the largest VC rounds. Each cell is one round into Brussels-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Brussels - 2026

Every $15M+ VC round into Brussels-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Brussels

VC investment into Brussels-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.

Academia

Brussels's academic flywheel

Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Brussels.

University-linked startup formation
45
University spinouts
331
Total alumni-founded companies
223
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
84
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
24
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Brussels stacks up

Compare Brussels with peers from the same country (Belgium) — switch between combined EV, EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

Ghent
$65.8B
Brussels
$13.4B
Antwerp
$6.8B
Leuven
$3.7B
Liège
$1.7B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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What we don't show on this page (yet)

Sector breakdowns, founder origins, AI-talent leaderboards and live deal flow are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full Brussels dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

Sector breakdown
Where Brussels's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Brussels's domestic vs foreign capital mix
% domestic VC by stage
Cross-border lead investors
Sovereign-fund participation
Foreign-LP exposure
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Recent momentum
Brussels's VC investment trajectory by stage
2024 vs 2025 by stage
Round-size trends
Stage-conversion deltas
Quarterly velocity
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Founder origins
Where Brussels's startup founders come from
By country of origin
Per capita
Top universities
Top alumni-factory companies
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AI talent
Top employers of AI talent in Brussels
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Brussels
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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Country Belgium Europe · Pop. 11.9M · #20 startup ecosystem by EV Region Europe Continent / region · #7 region by EV

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