Top 35 Life Science Startup Investors in Belgium in October 2023

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• IVEX — At IVEX, we are creating a safety co-pilot to make existing decision making platforms for autonomous driving safe. Our technology is based on years of research performed at KU Leuven University in Belgium. Our unique IP and team experience in behavior planning and functional safety enables the development of safe and reliable autonomous systems toreduce the traffic victims to zero by 2030.
• Funkey — Kies je teambuilding uit meer dan 500 onvergetelijke activiteiten. Wij zorgen voor de volledige organisatie, incl. eventuele catering en overnachting.
• dScribe — dScribe is your one-stop-shop to catalog, document and discover anything data-related.No more spending hours looking for the right data.No more doubting about the meaning of your KPIs.Reach the next level of data maturity by offering your users a single entry point to find, understand and access all your reports & data, no matter wherethey are stored.

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• 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.

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• Axithra — Saving lives and improving health economics through significant advancement of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM).
• RISORCE — RISORCE fills a need in Belgium for local solutions for processing tire waste while remaining dedicated to a circular economy strategy. We provide a regionally-based, technologically and environmentally sound solution.
• Allegro Biotech — Allegro has developed the world’s-first custom-tailored, durable, biocompatible, anisotropic, regenerative meniscus cartilage, providing immediate support while also leverage the body’s own healing potential to regenerate human cartilage (proliferation and differentiation of fibrochondrocyte cells).

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• Univercells — Univercells delivers novel biomanufacturing platforms and solutions aiming at making biologics available & affordable to all.
• Intressa Vascular — Intressa Vascular SA is a medical device company committed to providing innovative solutions to life-threatening cardiovascular conditions such as aortic dissection
• 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.

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• Qviro — Compare industrial robotics and brands based on user ratings, product prices, use-cases. Reviews for Collaborative robots, Cobots, Industrial robots
• Cumul.io — Create powerful dashboards in minutes. Share with your teams, or integrate in your platform. Drive growth in your business today!
• MobieTrain — The mobile microlearning platform of Mobietrain improves knowledge retention with personalised, gamified learning to boost your sales.

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• DrugBank — DrugBank augments human intelligence to improve the world’s health. Our suite of products are powered by the world’s most complete and up-to-date pharmaceutical knowledge database. It includes everything there is to know about drugs and how they work in the body. We enable companies to improve healthcare delivery through precision medicine orclinical software applications, as well as uncover insights through data science in drug discovery. Our knowledge base can be integrated into software solutions to help achieve clinical intelligence. Companies can easily scale their usage through our API and launch faster with flexible data modules. By providing users with advanced insights and the right information at the right time, users are empowered to make better health decisions.Our extensive, structured datasets are used to discover novel drug candidates, identify drug repurposing opportunities, and build predictive machine learning models. Companies working with data science can find answers quickly and get drugs to market faster with our evidence-based drug information. Lastly, our publicly available resource, DrugBank Online, is free-to-use with limited datasets available for download for academic and non-commercial researchers. DrugBank has been cited in over 13,000 academic publications and is used by millions of researchers and health professionals globally.
• HypnoVR — HypnoVR is a virtual reality software for anesthesia, treatment of pain, and anxiety. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Strasbourg, France.
• Cascador Health — Cascador Health bridges the gap between sources and users of healthcare data. Using curated, validated and anonymized RWD allows healthcare providers and life science industry to gain insights and provide better care.

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• VoxelSensors — Novel sensor architecture designed for low latency and low power 3D perception.
• Morrow Optics — Looking for the next big thing in eyewear technology? Check out Morrow's electrified progressives, also known as autofocals! These innovative glasses switch focus length with a touch of button, providing you with seamless vision from near to far. Learn more about this technology on Morrow's website.
• Swave Photonics — Our mission is to bring the metaverse to life and enable display manufacturers and content creators to disrupt the visualization market with immersive, ultra-high-resolution, lifelike, true holographic displays.

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• Aloxy — Aloxy offers reliable IIot solutions tailored to the needs of the process industry. Our valve sensor provides an open and close indication of manual valves.
• Graftys — Graftys, an Aix-en-Provence, France-based early stage company focused on advanced bone biologics.
• SENSE in — SENSE in manufactures monitoring solutions based on thermomechanical sensors sensitive to deformation, pressure, temperature, humidity, and more. Their solutions evaluate in real time or periodically the expected characteristics and alert on abnormal behavior, threshold overruns, and damage.

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• Paragraf — We Work to Develop Innovative and Useful End Products from Novel Materials. Our Analogue Sensors Are Designed to Provide Accurate Field Gradient Mapping & Alignment.
• Novadip Biosciences — Novadip Biosciences, an advanced biopharmaceutical company focused on new generation of therapies from adipose stem cells adapted to hard and soft tissues reconstruction.
• NorthSea Therapeutics — NorthSea Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotech company developing first-in class, oral, structurally-engineered lipid therapeutics. The team leverages Structurally Engineered Fatty Acid (SEFA) technology to develop novel and unique therapeutic approaches targeting metabolic, inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. The SEFA technology has generatedpipeline candidates with a broad array of inter- and independent biological effects, improving dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, hepatic inflammation and fibrosis in diverse models.

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• Ziphius — Ziphius Vaccines is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing next-generation vaccines for the prevention of infectious diseases.
• Sensolus — Introducing our smart, industrial-grade tracking solution. With battery life of up to ten years, and no additional infrastructure needed.
• Allegro Biotech — Allegro has developed the world’s-first custom-tailored, durable, biocompatible, anisotropic, regenerative meniscus cartilage, providing immediate support while also leverage the body’s own healing potential to regenerate human cartilage (proliferation and differentiation of fibrochondrocyte cells).

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• Cohabs — Cohabs is a network of beautiful shared homes for nomads around the world. It provides flexible and fully furnished accommodations through a network of sustainable and community-driven shared homes. Cohabs prioritizes the experience of its members through a tech-centric and flexible process. They build a thriving community through monthly events,dinners, and other parties.
• Univercells — Univercells delivers novel biomanufacturing platforms and solutions aiming at making biologics available & affordable to all.
• Tangent Works — Create predictive models in seconds for faster and better forecasting & anomaly detection with TIM InstantML.

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• ONTOFORCE — ONTOFORCE creates and implements pioneering semantic search technology for information management. Our user-friendly data search platform DISQOVER builds uniquely intelligent links between heterogeneous data sources, allowing everybody to become a data scientist.

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• A-Mansia Biotech — A-Mansia Biotech is a developer of products based on the properties of the Akkermansia muciniphila (A. muciniphila) bacterium. The company's nutritional supplement based on a gut bacterium called Akkermansia, the population of microorganisms housed in the gastrointestinal tract. A. muciniphila is located in the mucus layer covering theintestinal epithelium, which allows the bacterium to establish a close cross-talk with the host.
• Novadip Biosciences — Novadip Biosciences, an advanced biopharmaceutical company focused on new generation of therapies from adipose stem cells adapted to hard and soft tissues reconstruction.
• 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.

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• Valmet — Valmet is the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries.
• CTP — CTP NV is a real estate company that owns and develops industrial and logistics parks.
• Cofina Ivory — Cofina Ivory is a savings and credit institution that operates in the sector of mesofinance.

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• Imcyse — Imcyse is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of a new class of active specific immunotherapies for the treatment of severe chronic autoimmune diseases. The company’s unique technology platform allows it to locally target immune cells involved in the destruction of the diseased organ. This platform is based on theadministration of Imotopes™, which are specifically modified peptides, allowing for the generation of cytolytic CD4 T-cells, that specifically eliminate antigen-presenting cells and autoantigen specific lymphocytes. Imcyse’s approach, sustained over time, helps to prevent and treat diseases with no current therapeutic alternative and to potentially cure patients without impairing immune defense. The company has established proof of concept in several indications and has completed its first clinical trial in type 1 diabetes with promising results. Beyond type 1 diabetes, Imcyse is developing a pipeline of Imotopes™ for the treatment of several autoimmune diseases.
• Ncardia — At Ncardia, we believe that human stem cell technology will help get better therapies to patients faster.
• Endo Tools Therapeutics — Endo Tools Therapeutics is dedicated to the development of innovative devices that provide therapeutic interventions for gastric conditions

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• Diagenode — Diagenode is an international life sciences company that develops and commercializes innovative instruments and reagents systems for life science research and molecular diagnostics. Founded in 2003 in Liege (Belgium), Diagenode is a global company, with headquarters in Liege, Belgium and Sparta, NJ, USA. Diagenode also has a local sales office inthe United Kingdom to better serve this specific country.Diagenode's customers include leading epigenetics researchers, academic institutions, high-profile genome centers and core labs, life sciences tools companies, molecular diagnostics players, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.Epigenetics Division

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• Chainels — The tenant experience app for every property in your portfolio. Save time, gain insights and collaborate with your tenants all in one place.
• VoxelSensors — Novel sensor architecture designed for low latency and low power 3D perception.
• fruitcore robotics — fruitcore robotics is a robotic system that leverages intelligent software and innovative mechatronics.

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• Rise Of Defenders — Rise of Defenders is a very interesting Metaverse NFT game, you can use your creativity and tactical thinking to become an excellent player and receive extremely attractive rewards.
• Amyl Therapeutics — Amyl Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company. Amyl Therapeutics uses a novel mechanism to bind to the amyloid fold of toxic protein aggregates of various types, including antibody light chain (AL) or transthyretin (TTR) aggregates, which accumulate in peripheral organs to cause systemic amyloidosis diseases, but also amyloid-β(Aβ), Tau, and α-synuclein aggregates, which accumulate in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

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• Amyl Therapeutics — Amyl Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company. Amyl Therapeutics uses a novel mechanism to bind to the amyloid fold of toxic protein aggregates of various types, including antibody light chain (AL) or transthyretin (TTR) aggregates, which accumulate in peripheral organs to cause systemic amyloidosis diseases, but also amyloid-β(Aβ), Tau, and α-synuclein aggregates, which accumulate in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

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• A-Mansia Biotech — A-Mansia Biotech is a developer of products based on the properties of the Akkermansia muciniphila (A. muciniphila) bacterium. The company's nutritional supplement based on a gut bacterium called Akkermansia, the population of microorganisms housed in the gastrointestinal tract. A. muciniphila is located in the mucus layer covering theintestinal epithelium, which allows the bacterium to establish a close cross-talk with the host.
• Novadip Biosciences — Novadip Biosciences, an advanced biopharmaceutical company focused on new generation of therapies from adipose stem cells adapted to hard and soft tissues reconstruction.

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• CluePoints — CluePoints' Risk-Based Quality Management (RBQM) Software illuminates risks that could compromise patient safety, and enables compliance with ICH E6 (R2).
• A-Mansia Biotech — A-Mansia Biotech is a developer of products based on the properties of the Akkermansia muciniphila (A. muciniphila) bacterium. The company's nutritional supplement based on a gut bacterium called Akkermansia, the population of microorganisms housed in the gastrointestinal tract. A. muciniphila is located in the mucus layer covering theintestinal epithelium, which allows the bacterium to establish a close cross-talk with the host.
• Novadip Biosciences — Novadip Biosciences, an advanced biopharmaceutical company focused on new generation of therapies from adipose stem cells adapted to hard and soft tissues reconstruction.

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• ONTOFORCE — ONTOFORCE creates and implements pioneering semantic search technology for information management. Our user-friendly data search platform DISQOVER builds uniquely intelligent links between heterogeneous data sources, allowing everybody to become a data scientist.

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• Splice Bio — We are working with our proprietary platform to address key limitations of current gene therapy approaches to treat patients in need.
• Switch Therapeutics — Switch Therapeutics is a biotech company dedicated to revolutionizing RNA interference (RNAi) therapies with conditionally activated siRNAs (CASi).
• Code Biotherapeutics — Code Biotherapeutics is an emerging next-generation gene therapy company pioneering the development of targeted non-viral gene therapies to treat serious and life-threatening genetic diseases not well served by other gene therapy technologies.

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• eTheRNA immunotherapies — eTheRNA immunotherapies is developing first in class mRNA immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases.
• AstriVax — AstriVax aims for initial clinical validation of the platform technology, to develop a broad vaccination pipeline.
• Novadip Biosciences — Novadip Biosciences, an advanced biopharmaceutical company focused on new generation of therapies from adipose stem cells adapted to hard and soft tissues reconstruction.

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• Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
• Allozymes — Allozymes, Pte. Ltd. is a leading deep technology company applying innovative ultrahigh-throughput microfluidics technology to accelerate enzyme evolution and development. We developed sensitive, accurate, and generic assays for the detection of enzymatic reactions, proprietary microfluidic chips and proteomics technologies to take enzymedevelopment to the next level.
• Vedanta Biosciences — Vedanta Biosciences is a developer of immunotherapies designed to treat immune-mediated and infectious diseases. The company's immunotherapies include a suite of proprietary assays to select pharmacologically potent strains, vast proprietary datasets from human interventional studies, and facilities for cGMP-compliant manufacturing ofrationally-defined bacterial consortia in powder form, enabling physicians to access live bacteria drug to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases easily.It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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• Aito — BRINGING SURFACES TO LIFE Integrated finger sensing & haptic technology Creating unparalleled haptics experiences Fully customisable solutions Our Propo ...
• Axelera AI — A powerful, efficient, cost-effective, and user-friendly hardware and software AI platform to accelerate computer vision in edge devices.
• Nearfield Instruments — Automated High-Throughput 3D Scanning Probe Metrology

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• Amyl Therapeutics — Amyl Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company. Amyl Therapeutics uses a novel mechanism to bind to the amyloid fold of toxic protein aggregates of various types, including antibody light chain (AL) or transthyretin (TTR) aggregates, which accumulate in peripheral organs to cause systemic amyloidosis diseases, but also amyloid-β(Aβ), Tau, and α-synuclein aggregates, which accumulate in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

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• Animab — Animal Health Company
• Aphea.Bio — Aphea.Bio will develop next generation ‘biopesticides’ based on natural microorganisms. These products will provide an alternative for chemical pesticides, which are currently under serious pressure. In addition, the company will develop novel ‘biostimulants’, i.e. microorganisms that stimulate crop growth, for example through promoting the uptakeof nutrients from the soil.
• Muna Therapeutics — Muna Therapeutics discovers and develops therapies that slow or stop neurodegenerative diseases such as alzheimer’s and parkinson's.

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• SeqOne Genomics — Healthcare is undergoing a revolution, known as genomic medicine, that uses the patient’s genomic information to optimise treatment. This trend is accelerating thanks to the arrival of New Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques that have reduced the cost of decoding genomic material while increasing the amount useful data obtained. However, NGShas had only limited impact on mainstream healthcare due to the difficulties in analyzing more and richer genomic data. SeqOne’s mission is to provide tools that enable the healthcare industry to analyse NGS genomic data better and more cost-effectively to provide universal access to genomic medicine.
• TISSIUM — TISSIUM is creating the future of tissue reconstruction. Learn more about our novel solutions based on our proprietary platform of biomorphic programmable polymers.
• Amyl Therapeutics — Amyl Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company. Amyl Therapeutics uses a novel mechanism to bind to the amyloid fold of toxic protein aggregates of various types, including antibody light chain (AL) or transthyretin (TTR) aggregates, which accumulate in peripheral organs to cause systemic amyloidosis diseases, but also amyloid-β(Aβ), Tau, and α-synuclein aggregates, which accumulate in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

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• Amyl Therapeutics — Amyl Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company. Amyl Therapeutics uses a novel mechanism to bind to the amyloid fold of toxic protein aggregates of various types, including antibody light chain (AL) or transthyretin (TTR) aggregates, which accumulate in peripheral organs to cause systemic amyloidosis diseases, but also amyloid-β(Aβ), Tau, and α-synuclein aggregates, which accumulate in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

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• NGDATA — Unleash the potential of your customer data. Our AI-driven Intelligent Engagement Platform helps you create intelligent customer journeys and meaningful digital experiences.
• Ovizio — Ovizio Imaging Systems is an image-based sensor company transforming cell culture monitoring with innovative patented microscopy solutions.

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• moveUP — Ontvang medische zorg op afstand voor en na uw operatie. moveUP is gespecialiseerd in de begeleiding van knie- en heupoperaties.
• Axithra — Saving lives and improving health economics through significant advancement of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM).
• Cascador Health — Cascador Health bridges the gap between sources and users of healthcare data. Using curated, validated and anonymized RWD allows healthcare providers and life science industry to gain insights and provide better care.

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• reMYND — Driving the development of disease-modifying treatments
• Sahyadri Farms — Sahyadri Farms is a farmer producer and agricultural company.
• Eneida — Operational Analytics LV Apps, software and smart sensor for LV Network Monitoring, Control, and Visibility

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• Virovet — Antiviral drugs and thermostable vaccines for livestock
• Sunrise — Sunrise aims to bring simple answers to millions of people suffering from sleep disorders.We have developed a 3-gram sensor to diagnose sleep with gold standard quality. The technology offers a revolutionary new way to measure brain commands at night, with published clinical results never seen before. Studies demonstrate Sunrise is as accurate asin-lab sleep studies, at a fraction of the cost.Affecting one in three people, sleep disorders are extremely common. Sleep apnea is the most prevalent disease with almost 1 billion persons concerned. This condition leads to great body damage over time and yet remains undiagnosed in 80% of the cases.Patients, caregiver and insurers stand to benefit greatly from a solution to current highly cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming diagnostics systems.
• ITeos Therapeutics — iTeos Therapeutics is pioneering the discovery and development of highly differentiated immuno-oncology therapeutics for cancer patients.

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• AstriVax — AstriVax aims for initial clinical validation of the platform technology, to develop a broad vaccination pipeline.
• Precirix — Developing radio-immunotherapeutic drugs for cancer patients.
• Sibylla Biotech — Sibylla Biotech developed small molecule folding interfering degraders (FIDs) that can address a range of therapeutic areas.