Serena was founded by entrepreneurs on the belief that your VC should work for you and not the other way around. Serena is one of Europe's leading investment funds, with €750m under management. Founded in 2008 by Xavier Lorphelin, Marc Fournier, and Philippe Hayat, Serena finances and supports innovative start-ups from pre-seed to Series A, with initial checks ranging from €500k to €15m. Focus sectors: AI, SaaS, Climate Tech, Internet Infrastructure, Impact. The portfolio includes successful exits such as The Fork (acquired by Tripadvisor), Aramis Auto (acquired by Peugeot), Cheerz (acquired by Cewe), iBanFirst (acquired by the Marlin fund) and …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

Our business is to help yours! Our business is to help yours! hub.brussels, the public reference partner, wants to turn Brussels into the most attractive European place to start and grow a business. hub.brussels aims to contribute to the sustainable development of the Brussels economy by fulfilling a triple task: ▪ Providing counsel, tools and support for Brussels economic projects and the project leaders, so as to make sure they are successful both in Brussels and abroad; ▪ Detecting, generating, initiating and attracting new economic, technological and commercial opportunities in Brussels and abroad; ▪ Helping the authorities to formulate and …

The powerful network of 150 SME and partners active in the software industry & IT in Brussels. The cluster is an initiative of hub.brussels, supported by the Brussels Minister of Economy. It gathers close to 120+ high-growth potential software companies, research institutions, incubators, and support organizations dedicated to the Brussels software industry. Our objectives are: • Create and support a dynamic ecosystem to catalyze effective collaboration among our members. • Propose custom-made supports and collective actions to accelerate growth and boost the competitiveness of Brussels software editors. • Reinforce locally and internationally the visibility of Brussels software editors by promoting …