Investment rounds in startups in Belgium 2016-2019

There were 17 less investment rounds in startup companies in Belgium in 2019 than in the previous year. This follows after the European startup scene saw a breakthrough in 2019, reaching a record value of 16.9 billion euros in the first six months of 2019. London, Paris, Berlin and Stockholm were particularly popular places for startup investment rounds, whereas Brussels was significantly less popular. A startup is usually defined as a starting (group of) entrepreneur(s), but there are many different definitions of this term. For this specific ranking, the source mentions that it included startups that are less than ten years old. Exceptions were companies which did not mention their founding year, or which were officially listed as a startup despite passing the ten-year mark.