About Us

Scaleup Vlaanderen is organized by the Belgian technology federation Agoria, by startup accelerator imec.istart and by the collective center of the technology industry Sirris.

The initiative is supported by the Flemish Agency for Innovation and Enterprise (VLAIO) and by a limited number of carefully selected partners.

The initiators, VLAIO and the other partners take on the lion's share of the costs for the various program components. Participating companies pay less than one-third of the actual cost. The consortium is also committed to not claiming any shares or IP.

Although the focus will be on guiding scale-ups, the various building blocks in the program cover two of the most crucial life phases of ambitious growth companies:

The startup phase, in which a product-market fit is sought.

The scale-up phase, in which growth and the scaling up of activities on an international level are sought.

The integrated and complementary offer of Scaleup Flanders helps participating companies to efficiently build a sustainable business.

"The interesting thing is that you are coached by former entrepreneurs. Because of that knowledge, for example, they were able to tell us very specifically what large companies look for in their suppliers when it comes to cybersecurity."

Mikaël Wornoo, TechWolf