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imec.istart Future Fund
Venture capital · Antwerp, Belgium · Europe
imec.istart Future Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund that provides capital to imec.istart alumni and other technical founders. It writes initial checks of €500k to €1m from pre-seed to Series A.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense
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Or find every investor that fitsimec.istart Future Fund lists 10 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (20%), Space & Defense (20%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (13%). 100% of its companies are based in Belgium. It invests most often alongside imec.istart, Entourage and Noshaq.
Counts come from funding rounds that name imec.istart Future Fund, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not imec.istart Future Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 10. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 1 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 23th | 10 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 97th | 30% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 17th | 20% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 20% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 20% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 13% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 13% | 15% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Fintech | 7% | 12% |
| Legal & Compliance | 7% | 2% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| imec.istart | 9 |
| Entourage | 2 |
| Noshaq | 2 |
| Asterion Ventures | 1 |
| LUMO Labs | 1 |
| PMV | 1 |
| Pi Labs | 1 |
| Realyze Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers10100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare imec.istart Future Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with imec.istart Future Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Aug 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 24 Apr 2025 | Seed | |
| 24 Feb 2025 | Round |
Round details for imec.istart Future Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in imec.istart Future Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
10 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIMproFIT simplifies MEP design, starting with HVAC ductwork | Industrial & ManufacturingReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Companion.energy provides a platform for smarter energy management for complex environments | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds products that put compute in orbit, including payload computers for onboard AI and support services for satellite operators. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Aug 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Karomia provides a sustainability intelligence system for companies to manage and report their environmental and social impact | Space & DefenseFintech | Feb 2025Round | Page + round | |
| Minze develops digital diagnostics and therapeutics for urology, specifically for lower urinary tract symptoms and related conditions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Nuclivision develops and provides PET image enhancement software for hospitals and research collaborators | Healthcare & Biotech | Apr 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| The company builds interoperable satellite communications | Space & DefenseCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Prismos delivers policy intelligence to organisations as regulations unfold from regional and national parliaments to European institutions. | Legal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Veoware develops and manufactures modular actuator technology for satellites, enabling them to collect more data from targets of interest. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
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About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- imecistartfuturefund.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Feb 2025
- Companies checked
- 10
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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