De founders van Nurban Space hadden een duidelijke visie: innovatieve modulaire meubels die elke vierkante meter optimaal benutten. Maar om te groeien, was kapitaal nodig. Met The Harbour als partner werd een slimme financieringsmix opgezet, van bankfinanciering tot business angel en win-winlening.

CoolActivators zag de vraag naar hun gepersonaliseerde koelers groeien, maar groei heeft financiering nodig. Met de begeleiding van The Harbour realiseerde het vader-zoon duo een financieringsoplossing van €175.000 via Belfius Gent.

Rookoo had al bewezen dat ExperienceAI werkt. De volgende stap was opschalen en met de juiste investeerders aan boord rondde Rookoo een pre-seed ronde van €900.000 af in amper vier maanden.

Gunther Ghysels haalde €1,6 miljoen op voor Tinrate, het platform dat expertise toegankelijk maakt voor iedereen. Lees hoe The Harbour deze financieringsronde begeleidde.

Sometimes a company needs a fresh start to really grow. That was the case for Nomadesk, a company that offers secure file sharing and storage solutions. Peter Geldhof and his partners founded Nomadesk in 2004. In 2017, they sold the company to Unifiedpost, a major technology company.

Spotable isn't your average SaaS startup. This team of passionate entrepreneurs wakes up the construction sector with AI-driven software that makes quotes lightning fast and more efficient. Three founders, three areas of expertise.

What do you do as an entrepreneur when, after almost 20 years of construction, you feel it's time to let go? For Benedikt, founder of V-Formation, it was clear: his life's work deserved a future with the right buyer. What followed was a smart and thoughtful takeover process of not one, but three companies. With The Harbour as a strategic partner at his side.

ClimateCamp helps companies reduce their CO2 emissions by measuring and reducing the carbon footprint in the value chain with their suppliers. After months of discussions with investors, ClimateCamp engaged The Harbour to take the final step and successfully complete the deals.

Tomsgates secured nearly €1 million with The Harbour to fund their new storage facility and drive further growth. Discover how strategic financing is accelerating their expansion.

BattMobility aimed to scale up its electric car-sharing operations and needed growth capital. With strategic guidance from The Harbour and a solid financial plan, they successfully convinced Ethias Ventures to make a substantial investment.

Discover how a smart funding mix brought Content & Coffee nearly €500,000 and how they prepared themselves for a sustainable future.

Learn how MyGrid successfully raised €600,000 to launch their ModuleOne smart home battery, scale up production, and introduce an innovative cloud solution.

A sleek 150 years after Alexander Bell invented the telephone, it remains an indispensable communication tool for companies. However, the classic telephone exchange has had its time. Sippy is bringing it to the cloud, enabling businesses worldwide to make and receive calls from any device, all while using the same number.

No more ordering truckloads of concrete by phone or email. The East-Flemish start-up Betrotrace has developed a platform to streamline communication between concrete plants, transporters, and contractors. This ensures that the right amount of concrete is delivered to the right place, on time.

Pharma More develops products and brands for pharmacists, but has recently also focused directly on consumers. The focus is on cosmetics and biocides. Founder Dries Van de Walle comes from a family of pharmacists and therefore knows the market like the back of his hand. Meanwhile, Dries has knocked on The Harbour's door for a second time: “I haven't even watched any other parties.”

CVWarehouse was founded in 2006 by Inge Geerdens and creates software for digital recruitment processes. The user-friendly online recruitment tool makes it a lot easier for companies to manage vacancies and candidates and thus optimize the recruitment process.

To scale their product internationally and build a team, Brussels cricket bar manufacturer Kriket sought help from The Harbour to find a professional and reliable “smart capital” investor.

Entrepreneurship is not new for Bart Van der Meer (39). That's what doing business in Belgium is. When he hits a prime location along the Gentse Baan in Sint-Niklaas, he wants to open a Q8 gas station with a sandwich shop and a supermarket there. Said like that, but not so easily done.

GS Technology is entering the world of industrial 3D printing. From idea and concept to printing itself, the young company guides companies through every step of innovative technology. The most promising Antwerp SME of the year is ready to conquer the rest of the world too.

What else do you buy for a man who already has everything? The Belgian Luxury for Men launched a webshop with quality luxury products for men in 2015, and that proved to be a hit. A few years later, a second B2B webshop with more exclusive corporate gifts was even added: Exclusive Business Gifts.

Having grown up in the sector, Kaya Oguzhan founded My Best Food in 2021, a production company for doner kebabs and other high-quality, ready-to-eat meat products. Because the young entrepreneur focuses very much on quality, taste and health from the start, Kaya quickly gains the trust of many restaurants, bakeries and catering companies.

You notice in the streets that e-bikes and e-steps are popular. But how can you extend the lifespan of those sustainable means of transport and thus reduce the electronic waste mountain? With a mobile repair service and a circular business model, StepFix is fully seizing the e-vehicle's momentum. Straight to the top, step by step.

SiteManager is a collaborative web design platform from Ghent, founded in 2016. A mouthful, but in concrete terms, it means that different profiles (from copywriter to developer) can build the same site simultaneously from one platform.

CoManage is a simple and affordable billing and quote tool. So you can use it to invoice and prepare quotes, but also, for example, keep your agenda or manage your inventory. Founder Thomas Houben built the tool when he and his other company, Cre8, needed a similar tool. Later, with his partner Jeroen Opsteyn, he decided to commercialize CoManage. Meanwhile, the tool has more than 1,500 users.

It's the best bartenders in Belgium who see a formula for success in ready-to-serve cocktails and mocktails during corona. So top-notch drinks that are served easily and quickly, regardless of experience. And things are going fast, after just two years, Craftails is growing into an international brand.

With years of experience in cartography and GIS, Nordend is a specialist in building efficient processes with spatial data. They do this for governments, cities, utilities and private companies alike. In order to be able to coordinate customers and processes even better, founder Jelle De Zwaef is looking for capital, but especially support.

Now that we're teleworking, video calling and downloading more than ever, we all want stable and lightning-fast internet. Bringing fiber or fiber into homes is a trend, but innovation seems to have stopped there. Connecting the fibers to a connector is still done manually. With a high-tech robot, GigaCom wants to automate this process and thus fully seize the momentum of fiber. A world first, new in fiberspace!

Out of a passion for software and the event sector, EventSquare was founded in 2014. An all-in-one solution for professional ticketing, Belgian, user-friendly and very accessible. Organizations use EventSquare to sell tickets for their event, carefree and, above all, very professionally.

Pomton, the refreshing mixed drink based on grapefruit and tonic, is hip. You can buy the cans at the supermarket and try them in many restaurants and summer bars. Although these are particularly challenging times for retailers in the beverage sector, founder Nathan Rosenberg wants to keep building on the brand and the future. But that requires (smart) capital.

“Fewer emails, more done.” That four-word slogan perfectly summarizes what Bothive does with its communication platform. Bothive automates incoming and outgoing emails and helps teams communicate much faster and more efficiently.

‍ Atlas Dental Care is a Dutch-Belgian organization that joins existing dental practices and labs. They preserve each practice's own identity and local team and support them in matters such as marketing, purchasing, quality control, administration, general management and HR.

For (medium) large companies and governments, a tender procedure is the ideal way to find the right partner for a project. However, this procedure is extremely cumbersome and costs a lot of time and money. That is why SEQUESTO is creating an AI platform that automates and optimizes the answering of tenders. Because no company in Europe does what Sequesto has developed, the company wants to quickly accelerate. Enter The Harbour.

STRIDE provides superior fitness equipment and builds kick-ass training facilities for elite teams, professionals and top athletes. No sweat no glory, so the Ghent brand is working hard to gain a foothold in Europe as well. STRIDE is ambitious and likes to stay two steps ahead of the competition, but that requires growth funding.

PachaGreens is an urban farm in Ghent that grows microgreens. Owner Tom De Windt is convinced that microgreens deserve a full place in our diet. You can find Tom's microgreens in the CRU stores and selected AD Delhaizes near Ghent.

JustBite supplies boxes with healthy snacks to companies and individuals. The idea came about when founder Kevin found out firsthand that many “healthy” snacks turned out to be not that healthy at all. So Kevin launched such a service himself! Later, Aitor joined the company as a second founder. Their ultimate mission? Making people aware of their health and encouraging healthy behavior. But to do that, funding was needed.

Distrilink is a marketplace agency. The company helps companies sell their products on major marketplaces such as bol.com and Amazon. Creating an account, marketing, payments, deliveries, customer service: Distrilink takes care of everything from A to Z.

The Ghent-based start-up Just Russell offers personalized dog and cat food, which they deliver to your home every month by HelloFresh. The company's extremely data-driven approach is unique, with which they quickly rose to 10,000 Belgian and Dutch subscribers.

Salty Lemon Entertainment is a game studio that developed EXR, an online game platform that makes indoor rowing more fun. Compare it to Zwift, but for rowers. Via an external TV screen, smartphone or tablet, you can complete a virtual rowing route and keep track of your sports statistics. After a successful beta testing phase, the game was released worldwide in early September. Salty Lemon Studios has also already been awarded “Most Promising Startup Studio of the Year” by the Belgian Game Awards.