Top 20 Sports Startup Investors in Belgium (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Pierre Rigaux
Angel
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4 | Belgium | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Sports, Medical Device | $563k–$1.1M |
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Meusinvest (Noshaq)
VC Fund
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3 | Belgium, France, Germany | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $134k–$15M |
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WING by Digital Wallonia
VC Fund
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2 | Belgium | Seed, Convertible Note, Series A | Software, Health Care, Internet | $214k–$11M |
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LeanSquare
VC Fund
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2 | Belgium, France, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Music, Internet | $200k–$11M |
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Freshmen Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium | Seed | Apps, Sports, Finance | |
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Xavier Dewulf
Angel
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1 | Belgium | Seed | Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation | |
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Gemma Frisius Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, France | Seed, Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics | $375k–$32M |
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $250k–$12M |
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Sambrinvest
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, France, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology | $402k–$45M |
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Lean FUND
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, United States, France | Seed, Series B | Internet, Apps, Software | $64k–$375k |
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Elysian Park Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Sports, Software, Health Care | $3.6M–$45M |
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Mark De Smedt
Angel
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1 | Belgium | Seed | Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation | |
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Be Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, France, Spain | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $78k–$903k |
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The Faktory Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, France, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | |
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Eldridge
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Series B, Series A, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $2M–$50M |
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PMV
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, The Netherlands, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $500k–$26M |
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Steven Buyse
Angel
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1 | Belgium, United States | Seed, Private Equity | Cycling, Marketing, Advertising | |
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Pleiade Venture
VC Fund
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1 | France, Belgium, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $700k–$5M |
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Bob Verbeeck
Angel
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1 | Belgium | Seed | Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation | |
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Olivier Coune
Angel
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1 | Belgium | Seed | Outdoors, Software, Lifestyle | |
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Pierre Rigaux
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- Industry: Sports, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $563k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MYOCENE — Myocene is a Liège-based sports technology company which creates unique and innovative devices for measuring muscle fatigue and performance.
Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $134k–$4M; Series A $1.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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).
W.IN.G by Digital Wallonia invests in SAAS, advanced tech and deep tech startups (AI, drones, medtech, IOT,...). W.IN.G brings smart money by helping startups by bi-weekly interactions and providing an operating teams (seasonal entrepreneurs being hands-on with the portfolio).
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $268k–$1.3M; Series A $1.1M–$11M; Convertible Note $214k–$562k
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IONNYK — IONNYK is a new medium of art photography, containing millions of tiny ink capsules.
- MYOCENE — Myocene is a Liège-based sports technology company which creates unique and innovative devices for measuring muscle fatigue and performance.
- Verbolia — The SEO game-changer for e-commerce, helping retailers reclaim top organic search rankings. Discover untapped long-tail keywords from your product catalog and auto-generate SEO optimized pages at scale.
New Economy Startups Investor & Accelerator
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- Industry: Software, Music, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $200k–$1.4M; Series A $242k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zapfloor — Zapfloor is the number one workspace management software for coworking spaces, serviced offices and corporate workspaces in Europe.
- ClimateCamp — Looking for a sustainable way to collaborate with your suppliers on emissions reduction projects? Look no further than our platform - Book a demo for free!
- Streamforge — Streamforge is the technology-first, turnkey solution for all of your influencer marketing needs.
Fueling B2C ventures in Urban Mobility, Consumer AI, and Progressive Niche Brands. With a distinct network of advisors & investors, and over 30 years of experience in brand-building, go-to-market and growth hacking, we support exceptional entrepreneurial teams with smart capital.
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- Industry: Apps, Sports, Finance
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cake App — Cake App mission is to become the leading software technology provider that analyzes financial data to help people better understand, control and improve their finances, supported by a business model that shares our revenue with users.
- Runeasi — The first scientifically validated wearable solution to measure impact while running and detect how your body responds to it - Perform real-time biomechanical assessments - Guide your athletes and patients with actionable insights to help them run more efficiently and recover from injuries with confidence
Xavier Dewulf, G&V Energy Group.
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- Industry: Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
Gemma Frisius Fund KU Leuven is a seed capital fund that aims to stimulate the creation and growth of university related spin-off companies.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $375k–$32M; Series A $911k–$16M; Series B $4.3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DName-iT — DName-iT is a genetic analysis tool that offers DNA-based barcode labeling technology and a software platform that can ensure reliable, cost-effective NGS specimen identification.
- MyCellHub — MyCellHub.com is a pre-startup from the KULeuven in the biotherapeutics industry that aspires to reform the way cell production processes are organised. With a regulatory compliant Saas-platform for data management and analytics, we increase the efficiency of your manufacturing processes, provide actionable insights via cell culture specificprocess analytics and facilitate regulatory compliance by means of a real-time audit trail and automated batch records.
- Rewind Therapeutics — Rewind Therapeutics is a developer of novel therapeutics intended to facilitate the treatment for neurological diseases.The company's first-in-class remyelinating therapeutics block inhibitory signals that prevent the expansion and migration of oligodendrocyte stem cells in order to promote effective remyelination, enabling medicalpractitioners to treat patients suffering from multiple sclerosis and other myelin-related diseases with efficacy.
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 380
- Round size: Seed $250k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $800k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mimbi — Mimbi provides brands and agencies with a platform that allows them to better measure & optimize the impact of retail media campaigns
- OnlyDust — OnlyDust is a contribute to the best StarkNet projects, and get paid in USDC or Tokens.
- Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.
Sambrinvest is an active venture capital player in the region of Charleroi - Thuin.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Belgium, France, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $531k–$903k; Series A $402k–$45M; Series B $11M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Industry: Internet, Apps, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Belgium, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $64k–$375k
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neveo — With one click, send photos and messages on a family newspaper that your senior will receive every month.
- Supersec — Good to eat, good to think: discover the Supersec organic, healthy, artisanal and sustainable food treats available in bulk delivery!
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $4M–$5M; Series A $3.6M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- FORTË — The fitness industry's ONLY premium live and on-demand streaming white label digital solution.
- Fount — Health and Performance Coaching | Fount
- OnePlan — Map, design and manage your event site for safe, successful events in just one tool. Try the world's best event planning tool for free
Mark De Smedt, Director at Plan International, Plan Belgium, SD Worx, Copus Group, SVR consult and Youth Start.
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- Industry: Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
Early stage Entrepreneurs Coaching and FinancingOne of Europe's leading Business Angels Networks. We connect innovative growth companies to equity finance and coaching by experienced angel investors. The network is 250 members strong and has been assisting innovative entrepreneurs to find financing for more than 10 millions Euros in thelast 4 years.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Belgium, France, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $241k–$903k; Pre-Seed $78k–$364k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Savics — Savics offers digital solutions for health actors to improve their data management, disease diagnostics and GeneXpert connectivity.
- DeftHedge — DeftHedge is an application addressed to business leaders, and CFOs facing volatility of foreign exchange market.
- HeartKinetics — Heart failure diagnosis. HeartKinetics is a digital company dedicated to the remote detection and monitoring of patients with heart failure.
The Faktory is a hub for business ideas based on any disruptive technology with a high potential in international niche markets: ICT, Health, Environment, Media, Broadcast and more.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Belgium, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Zozio — Zozio provides logistic flow optimization, stock optimization, workplace environment, sustainable production, track, and trace services.
- MyCellHub — MyCellHub.com is a pre-startup from the KULeuven in the biotherapeutics industry that aspires to reform the way cell production processes are organised. With a regulatory compliant Saas-platform for data management and analytics, we increase the efficiency of your manufacturing processes, provide actionable insights via cell culture specificprocess analytics and facilitate regulatory compliance by means of a real-time audit trail and automated batch records.
Growing businesses to stand the test of time.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $4.3M–$28M; Series B $15M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Ausenco — Ausenco has over 30 year track record to deliver innovative, value added, asset operation and maintenance solutions to the mining, oil and gas sectors.
- Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.
- Metropolis — Metropolis unites technology and operations to make parking remarkable.
Do and dare company
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Belgium, The Netherlands, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.2M; Series A $2.1M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Partner, joined CVC in 2001. Steven is a member of the CVC Belgium team and is based in Brussels. Prior to joining CVC, he spent five years at ING Investment Banking and four years as CFO of Corialis. Steven holds a commercial engineering degree from KU Leuven and an MBA from Vlerick School for Management, Belgium.
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- Industry: Cycling, Marketing, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: Belgium, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
- Aleph Holding — A leading global enabler of digital advertising in emerging countries
Pleiade Venture is a French Ventrue Capital Company. It supports innovative companies from all sectors, except biotech.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Belgium, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $700k–$5M; Series A $1.4M–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- askR.ai — Chat with your data ! What if you did not need the technical process to access your data anymore? Simply ask your question and our artificial intelligence will provide the appropriate answer : number, graph, table...
- Sensefuel — Sensefuel is a software publisher dedicated to the retail industry and in particular e-commerce. Its innovative e-commerce search engine is based on algorithms specifically designed for online sales. It helps e-merchants of all sizes to give their visitors a new search experience through personalized results.
- Per Angusta — Per Angusta is a SaaS Procurement Performance Management Software. Built by buyers, for buyers, it enables Procurement teams to work together like never before!
Bob Verbeeck, Founder & CEO at Golazo.
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- Industry: Cycling, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ASKA — ASKA manufacturers e-bike that travels 45 km/h, regardless of the weather or road conditions.
Olivier Coune
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- Industry: Outdoors, Software, Lifestyle
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Fishtripr — Fishtripr is on a mission to bring more people to the outdoors, fostering a deeper connection with nature. We want to change the story of recreational fishing through purveying the market's essential storytellers, brands, destinations, and resources, displayed in a way that magnifies the beauty of this extraordinary lifestyle and modernise itsperception. With Fishtripr, now you can easily discover the best fishing experiences worldwide. From private fisheries to guides and lodges, we're the most comprehensive guide to travel fishing in Europe. Connect local fishing guides with anglers online is an entirely new way to experience recreational fishing and Fishtripr is at the forefront of the movement.
- Big Bad Wolf — Big Bad Wolf is a brand-tech agency employing 30 digital experts. We help innovative businesses shape the future of their brand experience through digital transformation of their services, products and communication. We see Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Natural Interfaces as new opportunities to redesignand improve business-to-consumers interactions.We believe in a future where customer to brands relationships are redefined by the value they will create for each other through a meaningful use of technology.With more than 10 years of cutting-edge audiovisual know-how and emerging media expertise, we leverage on 3D digital content and spatial computing to help organizations release their full potential.
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