Mons

TLDR

Wallonian city home to I-care, Belgium's newest Unicorn, demonstrating that high-growth tech can emerge outside the Flemish corridor.

Overview

Mons is a city in Wallonia, the French-speaking southern region of Belgium. The city gained significant attention in the Belgian tech world with I-care achieving Unicorn valuation in 2024.

I-care is a predictive maintenance and machine health monitoring company, serving industrial clients globally. Its success put Mons on the map and signals the growing depth of the Belgian tech ecosystem beyond its traditional Ghent-Brussels-Leuven-Antwerp cluster.