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Start it @KBC

Accelerator · Founded 2013 · Leuven, Belgium

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Business incubator supporting companies that address high-profile social issues

564 portfolio companies Accelerator · $487K invested · 575 investments · Investor rank #99,260 · Last investment 5/2024
Portfolio companies 564 ↑ 167% 5y
Decacorns 0
Thoroughbreds 1
Power Law #3Investor Ranking · Benelux · 2026 · Top 1%
Portfolio analysis

Where Start it @KBC’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 564 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. Belgium539
  2. UK6
  3. USA4
  4. Netherlands3
  5. France2
  6. Portugal2
  7. Austria1
  8. Germany1
  9. Ireland1
  10. Luxembourg1
  11. New Zealand1
  12. Philippines1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software64
  2. Food60
  3. Health49
  4. Transportation40
  5. Media39
  6. Energy38
  7. Marketing38
  8. Real Estate34
  9. Fintech31
  10. Home Living31
  11. Education27
  12. Fashion22
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed562
  2. Series A2
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth536
  2. Breakout Stage22
  3. Late Growth2
Portfolio market map

Inside Start it @KBC’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 564 tracked.

Keyrock
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.1B
Soda
Security
$63M
SettleMint
Fintech
$70M
Topcompare.be
Fintech
$88M
Wheel the World
Travel
$44M
Hyperlane
Media
Luzmo
Media
$44M
Resortecs
Fashion
$26M
Winwinner
Fintech
$55M
Azumuta
Enterprise Software
$35M
Apolitical
Education
$12M
FibriCheck
Health
$40M
THEO Technologies
Media
$40M
OTIV
Transportation
$40M
Go Vocal
Media
$24M
Juunoo
Real Estate
$29M
trensition
Enterprise Software
$28M
Pulsify Medical
Health
$17M
QustomDot
Semiconductors
$12M
Sitemark
Energy
$22M
Phished
Security
Peerby
Marketing
$10M
Digiteal
Fintech
$3.6M
Apicbase
Food
$18M
Dripl
Food
$18M
LIFEPOWR
Energy
$25M
Byteflies
Health
$20M
Bingli
Health
$24M
Hoplr
Telecom
$11M
Ellio
Transportation
$22M
Deselect
Marketing
$22M
Pozyx
Engineering and Manufacturing Equipment
$11M
Planet B
Wellness Beauty
$16M
DEO
Health
$16M
PlugInvest
Energy
$18M
Watcherr
Health
$8.8M
Almacena Platform
Fintech
$15M
Bullswap BVBA
Real Estate
$8.8M
S-Biomedic
Health
$8.8M
Sweepatic
Security
$12M
ValCUN
Robotics
$6.6M
WeGroup
Fintech
$13M
Mealhero
Food
MyCellHub
Telecom
ZapFloorHQ
Jobs Recruitment
$9.2M
Chift
Fintech
$10M
Bao Living
Real Estate
$6.6M
Optiflux
Food
$11M
Sequesto
Security
$11M
POM
Fintech
$3.7M
Academic Labs
Health
Recovr
Fintech
$4.8M
Ethernetics
Enterprise Software
$2.6M
Effitrax
Fintech
$9.3M
AYA Energy
Energy
$8.8M
Accurat
Marketing
$4.4M
Shayp
Energy
$8.4M
Digita
Education
$4.4M
Wequity
Fintech
$4.8M
Smooved
Real Estate
$6.6M
Portfolio founders

Where Start it @KBC’s portfolio founders come from.

191 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. Belgium172
  2. Netherlands5
  3. United States5
  4. Luxembourg3
  5. Portugal3
  6. United Kingdom2
  7. France1
UniversityCount
  1. KU Leuven64
  2. Ghent University35
  3. Vlerick Business School22
  4. University of Antwerp15
  5. Vrije Universiteit Brussel12
  6. UCLouvain9
  7. Hogeschool Gent7
  8. Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven6
  9. Thomas More University of Applied Sciences4
  10. University of Namur4
Previous companyCount
  1. Ghent University8
  2. KU Leuven8
  3. Deloitte6
  4. Materialise6
  5. ClearCarbon5
  6. Fortis Bank France5
  7. Proximus5
  8. Degroof Petercam4
  9. imec.istart4
  10. Playandgold4
How Start it @KBC stacks up

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Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

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Y Combinator
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MassChallenge
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#10,929 rank 1,065 companies $20B portfolio
Plug and Play
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#366 rank 1,576 companies $294B portfolio
Antler
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#1,193 rank 2,026 companies $22B portfolio
Enterprise Ireland
Other · Dublin
#1,486 rank 840 companies $140B portfolio
Eurazeo
Private Equity · Paris
#98 rank 374 companies $158B portfolio
Key people

Key people at Start it @KBC.

Jan Meester
Jan Meester
Founder
 Katrien Dewijngaert
Katrien Dewijngaert
Founder
 Jim Nkolo
Jim Nkolo
CRO
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.