# Top 35 Life Science Startup Investors in Belgium in May 2026

## PMV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Do and dare company

## Sambrinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gosselies, Hainaut, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology

Sambrinvest is an active venture capital player in the region of Charleroi - Thuin.

## Meusinvest (Noshaq)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Liège, Liege, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.

## S.R.I.W.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Liège, Liege, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing

The S.R.I.W. Group is an institution at the heart of the financial market that assists entrepreneurs in creating and developing businesses in the Walloon region. It reflects the effort of Wallonian industry in facing the challenges of the creation of economic value in the 21st century.
Since its creation in 1979, the Société Régionaled’Investissement de Wallonie has continuously been expanding its abilities to adapt and anticipate as well as its flexibility in order to meet the requirements of its partners who are confronted with the evolution of the world economy. The principles of good governance, a strong business culture and shared values at the heart of the Group constitute important assets to capture the changing realities of the market and progress in a sustainable development perspective.

## Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology

Oxygen for growth - LRM

## Theodorus III
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Medical

Theodorus is the spin-off fund of Université Libre de Bruxelles that invests ininvest in early stage projects based on proprietary disruptive technologies.

## Qbic Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belgium, Wisconsin, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care

The Qbic Fund is a multi-sector fund supporting spin-off companies of the Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp university associations and of VITO. Through its strategic partnership with the universities of Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp, and VITO, the Qbic Fund has early and privileged access to promising research projects at these partner universities. Ourinvestment approach is based on early in-depth and independent review and analysis followed by hands on involvement and support.In May 2012 the Qbic Fund held its first close and currently it has over € 30 million under management. The Qbic Fund is backed by several public and private investors and managed by Qbic Venture Partners.

## Luc Vauterin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Life Science, Data Integration, Data Visualization

Luc Vauterin - Board Member @ ONTOFORCE

## New Science Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

New Science Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in life sciences and information technology companies. They invest in early and late stage companies taking novel scientific approaches to address significant unmet needs, while creating order-of-magnitude improvements in performances. The company also invests in companiesusing science-based innovations to address market needs in life sciences such as pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices, diagnostics, and IT. The team of the company expertise in strategy and corporate planning, operations and cost management, and leadership development.

## Pierre Drion
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Life Science, Software

Pierre Drion - CEO @ Petercam

## Innovation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Software

Chemical, Advanced Materials, Cosmetics, Recycling, CleanTech, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Biosciences

## Annie Vereecken
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Hospital

Annie Vereecken

## SFPI-FPIM
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

The Federal Holding and Investment Company (SFPI-FPIM) centrally manages the federal government’s shareholdings, cooperates with the government on specific projects and pursues its own investment policy in the interests of the Belgian economy.

## V-Bio Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Achieving global impact in effective healthcare & sustainable agriculture by helping talented entrepreneurs / scientist set up exceptional companies.

## Ifoghas Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Life Science

Ifoghas Investments operates as an investment firm.

## Fonds Vives II (University of Louvain, UCL)
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Fonds Vives II (University of Louvain, UCL)

## Epimède SA
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series D
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care

Epimède SA

## OBI SA
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Life Science, Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics

OBI SA

## Capricorn Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

Capricorn Partners is a unique independent manager of venture capital, growth capital and quoted equity funds

## 6K Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Software, Health Care

6K Venture Capital operates as a venture capital firm.

## the SRIW Life Sciences
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Biopharma

the SRIW Life Sciences 

## Opdorp Finance BVBA
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Life Science, Data Integration, Data Visualization

Opdorp Finance BVBA

## UCB Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

UCB Ventures is a €150 million strategic corporate venture fund

## European Investment Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

European Investment Bank (EIB) provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily in the European Union.The company offers project loans for the public and private sectors; loans to banks and other intermediaries; structured finance products; guarantees and securitization instruments for senior and subordinated debts; project bonds;equity and fund investment products such as infrastructure equity and debt funds, and environmental funds; and venture capital funds and security packages for funds.The company also offers microfinance; risk sharing finance for research, development, and innovation projects; finance and technical expertise for sustainable energy projects; infrastructure project advisory services; support for urban development projects; guarantees for transport infrastructure; and funding for public-private partnerships and small- and medium-sized enterprises.EIB serves the transportation, global loans, energy, industry, health, education, water, sewerage, infrastructure, services, telecommunications, agriculture, and fisheries sectors.European Investment Bank was founded in 1958 and is based in Luxembourg.

## Smedvig
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Life Science

Venture Capital firm based in London. We help enable business funding though capital investment. In turn, that funds and drives business growth as exceptional speed. Visit our site to find out how our proven model of business investment can help your start up.

## Nivelinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Louvain-la-neuve, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, iOS, Construction

Nivelinvest is a venture capital firm based in Belgium that finances seed stage investments of Small and Medium Enterprises.

## Fund+
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Fund+ is a venture capital firm that invests in companies operating in the diagnostics, therapeutics, medical devices, and life science sectors. The firm wants to create sustainable shareholders' value, contribute to the development of a leadership position in the life sciences sector, and generate a tangible, beneficial societal impact.Fund+ was established in 2015 and is based in Leuven, Belgium.

## Seventure Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in information and communication technology, and life sciences companies. It funds innovation and participates in the entrepreneurial adventure, alongside entrepreneurs and sharing their passion.Founded in 1997, Seventure Partners is one of the European leaders in venture capital, with€ 660 million under management as of December 31, 2016. It is an active partner of innovative companies that, according to the management team, show strong growth potential and evolving in two fields of activity: Digital Technologies and Life Sciences. With more than 20 employees, including some 15 investors, Seventure Partners has a proven track record and in-depth expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, and various private equity operations.Seventure's goal is to identify and support the development of tomorrow's European leaders in order to accelerate their growth. To do this, the firm provides entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks, and know-how of its internal team of investors.

## Innovation Industries
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Semiconductor, Health Care, Manufacturing

Innovation Industries is a Dutch venture capital fund investing in impactful deep tech, focusing on sustainability, scalability, and ESG-aligned companies.

## Kenneth Buckfire
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Life Science

Kenneth A. Buckfire is Co-President and co-founder of Miller Buckfire. Over the course of his career he has advised clients in a broad range of industries (including energy, food products, building products, broadcasting and information services) and has also managed principal investments in distressed companies and in the utility industry. Mr.Buckfire advised Calpine Corporation (named “Most Outstanding Mega Turnaround of 2008″ by the Turnaround Management Association) in its January 2008 reorganization. In 1998, Mr. Buckfire advised 19 independent power producers in the 1998 restructuring of their $11 billion in power contracts with Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation (named “Energy Deal of 1998” by Investment Dealers Digest). Mr. Buckfire has played a leading role in the restructurings of Standard Pacific Corp., Calpine Corporation, Level (3) Communications, Exide Technologies, McLeodUSA, ICG Communications, PSINet Inc., Sirius Satellite Radio, BTI Telecom, CMS Energy, CenterPoint Energy, General Growth Properties, Mirant Corporation (Creditors’ Committee), Horizon Natural Resources (named “Most Outstanding Transaction of 2005” by the Turnaround Management Association), Oakwood Homes, TECO Energy, Centennial Communications, Allegheny International, Foamex, Van Camp Seafood, Walter Industries, Burnham Broadcasting, EUA Power Corporation, Dialog Corporation, Imperial Sugar, CRIIMI MAE and Cajun Electric.Prior to founding Miller Buckfire, Mr. Buckfire was a Managing Director at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and served as Co-Head of the firm’s financial restructuring group specializing in the restructuring and refinancing of highly leveraged companies. Before joining DrKW, Mr. Buckfire was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers Inc. Mr. Buckfire is on the board of advisors of the Zell-Lurie Institute at The University of Michigan, and on the Board of Directors of the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York. He is a trustee of Orpheus Orchestra, a member of the Weil Cornell Medical College Dean’s Council, and has been a director and co-founder of several public and private corporations. Mr. Buckfire received his M.B.A. from Columbia University (1987) and his B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from The University of Michigan (1980).

## VIB
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care

Strategic research in on life sciences and biotechnology

## Merieux Developpement
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device

Mérieux Développement is specialized in Growth and Venture capital transactions in the healthcare and nutrition sectors. We support companies with products or services offering true differentiation and capacity to create substantial value over the long term. Our investment team, based in Europe and North America, brings its expertise andinternational network to help entrepreneurs disrupt and grasp substantial market opportunities. Mérieux Développement is an affiliate of Institut Mérieux, which employs approximately 17,000 employees worldwide, with consolidated revenues exceeding 2.5 billion Euros in 2017.

## Nausicaa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mont-saint-guibert, Brabant Wallon, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B
- Focus: Software, CRM, Big Data

A multi-industry early stage venture capital fund Nausicaa Ventures is an early stage investment fund organisation focused on investment rounds between EUR 1 and 4 million. Nausicaa Ventures was created in 2009 by bringing together 35 private investors and selected institutional investors, such as the European Investment Fund or ING Bank, under the management of ...

## Qbic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, AgTech, mHealth

Qbic is the result of a lot of thinking, debating and sketching of what a city hotel could be; one that breaks the rules and makes people smile.An astonishing level of change has swept through the world over the last few years. But the hotel experience is no different than it’s ever been: stuffy, over-priced and lacking soul. They’re here tochange all that. they’re curious, imaginative and friendly, and they think there are lots of people just like us seeking a hotel with personality in the middle of the city.They believe in something better than what’s currently out there. A place that celebrates life rather than sucks life out of it. A hotel that’s built on creativity and a belief that you don’t have to accept the conventional. Somewhere that sends you away with fun stories and ideas, and is easy on your pocket.

## Korys
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Halle, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Korys is the name chosen by the Colruyt family for their investment structure. The name Korys is derived from the Latin word for hazelnut tree – Corylus - which is at the origin of the Colruyt name.Their multi-disciplinary approach enables us to create a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, anddirect participations in small and medium-sized companies. Through their investments, they aim to make a positive impact on people and the planet, while generating attractive returns. A “three P” approach (People, Planet, Profit) forms the cornerstone of their investment strategy. They invest for the long term, as they realize that it takes time to achieve the sustainable impact they are aiming for. They focus their investments in sectors in which they have built substantial expertise as a team: Cleantech, consumer goods & retail and life sciences.

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