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Best Life Sciences Tech Companies in Flanders, Belgium

The 33 best Life Sciences Tech companies in Flanders, Belgium in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Ontoforce.

33companies tracked
$36Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
10have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · LIFE SCIENCES TECH × FLANDERS

Our analysis of 50 Life Sciences Tech companies

$9.6b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

50companies analysed
89%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
8unicorns
2018median founding year

Ranked: Best Life Sciences Tech companies in Flanders

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Ontoforce
Provider of semantic search platform for pharmaceutical and biotech research
$13M105 mo agoSeries B—2011HubSpot CMS HubAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft Clarity+2923 patents
Automated ETL pipelines and facet curation for search‑engine data integration
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2Aspect Analytics
Developer of mass spectroscopy integrated bioinformatics software for molecular imaging
$12M13 mo agoSeries AMarc Claesen
Co-Founder & CEO
2018WebflowGSAPHubSpot+164 patents
Integrating and analyzing spatial multi-omics datasets via computational biology platforms
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3Biogazelle
Transcriptomics-based diagnostics and therapeutics, and qPCR software.
$4M82 mo agoAcquired—2007—5 patents
Compact self-delivering nucleic acid therapeutics for targeting long non‑coding RNAs
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4Dendrite
Dendrite International provides services and software for managing and analyzing sales efforts for the…
$3M422 mo agoAcquiredHans Cobben
Founder
1986———
5BioStrand
AI-powered biotherapeutic platform for antibody discovery
$2M53 mo agoSeedDirk Hyfte
Co-Founder
2019HubSpot CMS HubMaterial Design Litecore-js+1610 patents
Computational processing and storage of biological information and data
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6Biolizard
Provider of a software solution for bioinformatics
$1M81 mo agoFunding RaisedGerben Menschaert
Co-Founder
2018WordPressPleskMySQL+29——
7Monsana
Provider of digital platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to streamline the search process for…
$588K13 mo agoSeedValerie Vandeweerd
Co-Founder & CEO
2024———
8Custodix
Provider of clinical trial patient recruitment solutions
$362K142 mo agoAcquired—2000———
9Applied Maths
Provider of software for bioinformatics, storage, and analysis of biological data
$303K142 mo agoAcquiredKoen Janssens
CEO
1992—6 patents
Bioinformatics algorithms for sequence typing, phylogenetic tree construction, and consensus classification
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10OhmX.bio
Provider of research platform for research purposes
$201K85 mo agoFunding RaisedGerben Menschaert
CSO & Co-Founder
2019WordPressMySQLPHP+34——
11Pathomation
Provider of software solutions for biobanking, pathology labs, research labs, and clinical biomarker research
$61K148 mo agoSeedYves Sucaet
Co-Founder & CEO
2012Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+15——

Top 11 Life Sciences Tech companies in Flanders

#1
Series A · Genk, Flanders · founded 2018 · 2 employees
$11.7Mraised
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Aspect Analytics is the developer of mass spectroscopy integrated bioinformatics software for molecular imaging. Its services include bioinformatics, machine learning, AI and software engineering enables us to develop optimal data analysis strategies and MSI induces a true data deluge, requiring effective solutions for data management, storage, and analysis among others.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 7.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Series A$11.7M
  • Dec 2019Grant (prize money)—
Founders & team
Marc ClaesenCo-Founder & CEOThomas MoermanCo-Founder & CTONico VerbeeckCo-Founder & COO
Investors
EIT Health, Capricorn Partners, PMV, HERAN Partners, Gemma Frisius Fund, KU Leuven
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted Libraries
#2
Seed · Hasselt, Flanders · founded 2024
$588.4Kraised
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Provider of digital platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to streamline the search process for clinical trials. It offers an AI assistant for doctors and patients that seamlessly links patients with clinical trials, accelerating medical research, and enhancing patient care.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 971 LinkedIn followers — 3.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Seed$588.4K
Founders & team
Valerie VandeweerdCo-Founder & CEOSimeon DevosCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
Seeder Fund, LRM
#3
Series B · Ghent, Flanders · founded 2011 · 31 employees
$12.7Mraised
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Provider of semantic search platform for pharmaceutical and biotech research. It has developed a semantic search platform that integrated various life sciences data. The platform uses semantic web technologies including ontologies, URIs, RDFs, and more, to build five star linked data. Data is made accessible via an indexing engine. Integrates private, public, and third party data resources, all searchable via a single interface. Search results are enhanced by predefined data types. It provides an integrated search for various databases. It also provides customizable visualizations graphics, plots, tables, charts, and maps.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 16.2% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Semantic Data Platform
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2018Series B$5.3M
  • Jul 2016Series A$2.3M
  • Jan 2013Seed$1.3M
  • 2012Conventional Debt$65.7K
Investors
iMinds, IWT, LRM, SoFi, EIT Health, Korys
Tech stack
AlbacrossAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#4
Seed · Diepenbeek, Flanders · founded 2019 · 7 employees
$2.2Mraised
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AI-powered biotherapeutic platform for antibody discovery. The company has LENS ai integrated intelligence technology, powered by HYFTs, integrates massive data from diverse sources to accelerate drug discovery while upholding scientific standards.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 14.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2022Grant (prize money)$484.9K
  • Jun 2020Seed$2.2M
Founders & team
Dirk HyfteCo-Founder
Investors
VLAIO
#5
Acquired · Ghent, Flanders · founded 2007 · 20 employees
$3.7Mraised
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Biogazelle develops transcriptomics-based diagnostics and therapeutics. It offers Qbase, a software for managing qPCR in research laboratories by streamlining normalization, quality control and calibration between runs. Its proprietary platform sequences the entire transcriptome to identify RNA biomarker targets from clinically relevant samples. These biomarkers can be used to then develop qPCR based diagnostic tests. In addition, the company is developing RNA-based cancer therapies that work by silencing long non-coding RNA.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$559.8K
  • Aug 2015Series A$1.2M
  • Oct 2014Series A$2.5M
Investors
Fournier-Majoie Foundation, Qbic Fund, IWT, Europa
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpNginx
#6
Acquired · Antwerp, Flanders · founded 1986 · 2534 employees
$3Mraised
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Provider of software that enables sales, marketing, clinical and compliance services. The company offers clinical development, brand marketing, customer management, diversified sales and compliance management services.

Founders & team
Hans CobbenFounder
Investors
Edison Partners, Hudson River Capital Partners
#7
Funding Raised · Ghent, Flanders · founded 2018 · 22 employees
$1.1Mraised
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BioLizard provides a software solution for bioinformatics. It helps in data processing, pipeline development, automation, and data integration solutions. It helps in the design of biological experiments. It uses a machine-learning algorithm for mathematical model design.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 9k LinkedIn followers — 29.6% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Software Engineer, Senior Software / Solution Engineer
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$1.1M
Founders & team
Gerben MenschaertCo-FounderWim CriekingeCo-FounderLiesbeth CeelenChief executive officer and board member
Investors
Eurostars, Novalis Biotech
Tech stack
Animate.CssCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsDiviGoogle Analytics
#8
Acquired · Sint-Martens-Latem, Flanders · founded 2000 · 8 employees
$362.2Kraised
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Provider of clinical trial patient recruitment solutions. Custodix's product Insight Network offers services that include clinical trial design, patient feasibility, and enabling workflow for patient recruitment. It offers trusted third-party services(TTP) for data collection, and consultancy for data privacy and also helps by accelerating clinical research based on real-world data.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2015Grant (prize money)$362.2K
Investors
Europa
Tech stack
PhpAmazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerGoogle PagespeedAws Certificate Manager
#9
Funding Raised · Ghent, Flanders · founded 2019 · 4 employees
$200.6Kraised
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Ohmx provides a research platform for research purposes. The company provides ribosome profiling service, a genome-wide assessment of mRNA targeted by translating ribosomes. This sequencing-based technology helps in translatome, a snapshot of RNA that is being translated. Quantification of gene-specific translation, the discovery of non-canonical translation events, investigation of ribosome elongation figuring out translation regulation by microRNAs and RNA-binding proteins.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 8.0% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$200.6K
Founders & team
Gerben MenschaertCSO & Co-Founder
Investors
HHS, Novalis Biotech
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementContact Form 7Core-JsElementor
#10
Acquired · Sint Martens Latem, Flanders · founded 1992 · 28 employees
$302.9Kraised
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Applied Maths develops software for bioinformatics. Software products include BioNumerics, a platform to store and analyze biological data, GelCompar II- for databasing and analysis of fingerprints, GeneMaths XT, a microdata analysis tool and Kodon, a sequence analysis software. Services offered include script development, data analysis, and training.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2015Grant (prize money)$302.9K
Founders & team
Koen JanssensCEO
Investors
Europa, KeBeK
Tech stack
Cart FunctionalityDrupalPhpBootstrapNginxJquery
#11
Seed · Antwerp, Flanders · founded 2012 · 5 employees
$60.7Kraised
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Provider of software solutions for biobanking, pathology labs, research labs, and clinical biomarker research. It gives solutions for data management and analysis. The software is cloud-based and can be accessed from any device.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers — 4.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 3 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • 2014Seed$60.7K
Founders & team
Yves SucaetCo-Founder & CEOWim WaelputCo-FounderMark KockxCo-Founder
Investors
imec.istart
Tech stack
AngularAnt DesignCart FunctionalityCore-JsFont AwesomeGodaddy

Funding & investor landscape

$36Mtotal disclosed funding
11companies funded
20disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Europa3 rounds
Novalis Biotech3 rounds
EIT Health2 rounds
HERAN Partners2 rounds
IWT2 rounds
LRM2 rounds
imec.istart2 rounds
BioVaria1 rounds
Birdhouse1 rounds
Capricorn Partners1 rounds

Notable founders

Marc Claesen
Co-Founder & CEO · Aspect Analytics
Thomas Moerman
Co-Founder & CTO · Aspect Analytics
Valerie Vandeweerd
Co-Founder & CEO · Monsana
Simeon Devos
Co-Founder & CTO · Monsana
Dirk Hyfte
Co-Founder · BioStrand
Hans Cobben
Founder · Dendrite
Gerben Menschaert
Co-Founder · Biolizard
Wim Criekinge
Co-Founder · Biolizard
Koen Janssens
CEO · Applied Maths
Yves Sucaet
Co-Founder & CEO · Pathomation
Wim Waelput
Co-Founder · Pathomation
Prism market signals · Belgium · country-scoped Prism corpus, 619,245 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Life Sciences Tech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH FROM Flanders · institutions

What Flanders researches in biotechnology

24 papersstance +0.050% breakthrough0% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
local research themes
Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomyAmphibian and Reptile BiologyMollusks and Parasites StudiesColeoptera Taxonomy and DistributionInvertebrate Taxonomy and EcologyBryophyte Studies and Records
top institutions
  • Flanders Marine Institute23
  • Flanders Make1

Common questions

How many Life Sciences Tech companies are there in Flanders, Belgium?
Radar tracks 33 indexable Life Sciences Tech companies headquartered in Flanders, Belgium that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Life Sciences Tech companies in Flanders, Belgium?
The Life Sciences Tech companies in Flanders, Belgium on this list have raised a combined $36M in disclosed equity funding across 11 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Life Sciences Tech company in Flanders, Belgium?
Ontoforce is the highest-funded Life Sciences Tech company in Flanders, Belgium, with $12.7M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Life Sciences Tech companies in Flanders, Belgium are funded?
11 of the 33 Life Sciences Tech companies in Flanders, Belgium on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Life Sciences Tech unicorns are there in Flanders, Belgium?
None of the Life Sciences Tech companies in Flanders, Belgium on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Flanders, Belgium Life Sciences Tech companies?
The most active investors in Flanders, Belgium Life Sciences Tech companies on this list include Europa, Novalis Biotech, EIT Health, HERAN Partners, IWT.
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