Belgium
Europe · Pop. 11.9M · #20 startup ecosystem by EV
1 Overview
* 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.
2 Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in Belgium
A live treemap of $15M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in Belgium, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in Belgium - 2024–2026
3 Startup hubs
Inside Belgium: 5 startup hubs, 179 universities
Hubs are sized by combined enterprise value; universities and research institutes by the startup founders they produced. Hover any point for its numbers; the lists rank hubs by EV and universities by founders.
4 VC investment
How much venture capital flows into Belgium
VC investment into Belgium-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.
5 Founder origins
Where Belgium's unicorn founders build
32 founders born in Belgium are behind 21 unicorns; 43% of those were built in the US. Origins are resolved from biography and education history, not current address. Compare with the other origin countries in Europe, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.
6 Location comparison
Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — Belgium in a global comparison
Companies count where they were founded or are headquartered. Values are per 1M people or totals, as a share of the US (US = 100%) or absolute; bars scale to the largest value in each column. Hover any value for the per-1M rate and absolute count.
7 Patent intelligence
Belgium startup IP portfolio: 6,012 patent families
Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Belgium. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.
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