Venture capital market size in Belgium 2013-2019

Venture capital investments in Belgium more than doubled in 2018, and continued to grow by around one percent in 2019. Venture capital mostly refers to money invested into young companies that are not listed on the stock exchange. Start-up investments are the most well-known part of this, but this can also include (angel) seed investments or early stage ventures. Typically, Brussels is considered to have a smaller start-up scene than other European capital cities. The company with the biggest finance round in Belgium was Collibra, a data intelligence company that received an investment of 100 million U.S. dollars in 2019 from CapitalG (an investment branch of Google). This made Collibra Belgium's first-ever "unicorn", a start-up company with a market value of more than one billion U.S. dollars.