Tag: Belgian
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Belgian AI startup Tekst raises €11.5 million to tackle the bottleneck holding back enterprise AI
Ghent-based Tekst has closed an €11.5 million Series A led by US venture firm Elephant. Tekst was founded in Ghent in 2022 by Wouter Janssen (CEO) and Tiebe Parmentier (CTO) and is taking aim at one of the biggest headaches in enterprise AI. Companies are pouring money into AI but struggling to make it pay read more
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Gijs Van Vaerenbergh Gracefully Reimagines a 16th-Century Belgian Abbey Church in Steel
In the late 12th century, a nobleman named Count Gerard van Loon commissioned an abbey to serve as his final resting place. Over the next few decades, amid plenty of political tumult, Herkenrode Abbey in Hasselt, Belgium, was converted to the first Cistercian convent for women. It was a site of pilgrimage from the 13th read more
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New Belgian AI platform Backbone aims to cut costly quality failures in food production
Former managers at Belgian legaltech scale-up Henchman are launching Backbone, an AI platform for real-time quality and compliance management in the food industry, with Seed funding from 100IN. Backbone consolidates fragmented data, from supplier documents to lab results, giving quality managers the tools to detect risks before they reach production. A recipe change at a read more
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Belgian logistics startup Vectrix raises €1.15M seed funding
Antwerp-based Vectrix, an order entry platform for the logistics sector, has raised €1.15 million in a seed funding round led by RDY Ventures to expand into European markets, starting with Belgium’s neighbouring countries. Logistics companies handle large volumes of transport requests each day, with administrative teams often manually entering order details into transport management systems. read more
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Syndicate One closes €22M second fund to back Belgian tech founders
Syndicate One, an international network-driven investment firm backing Belgian startup founders, has completed the first close of its second fund at €22 million. The fund was oversubscribed within eight weeks of the initial pitch, reflecting strong investor interest in the Belgian tech ecosystem. The new capital follows Syndicate One’s €6.5 million fund raised in late read more
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A Belgian Museum Holds Colonial-Era Records About the Congo—A Minerals Company Wants Access
A museum devoted to Belgium’s colonial history in Africa has found itself involved in a dispute over access to documents pertaining to rich mineral deposits in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly colonized by the European country. The Congolese government and KoBold Metals, a mining and artificial intelligence company backed by billionaires read more
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