How concentrated is hiring?
The top 10 employers account for 31.9% of 901 tracked open roles.
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The generations behind the ecosystem
2020–2024 accounts for 30.6% of the 5.567 companies with a recorded founding year.
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How long a job lasts here
Half the jobs on this graph lasted 2 years or less, over 21,314 finished stints.
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Where they studied
KU Leuven has taught 585 of the people on this graph, more than any other school.
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Where the founders came from
KU Leuven has produced 80 founders on this graph, more than anywhere else.
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Who is hiring right now
121 companies have 901 roles open right now. Jobgether has the most, at 53.
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When this market was built
2020 is the busiest year on the graph: 395 companies founded then are still here.
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What this market is made of
SaaS & Enterprise Software is the biggest sector here: 3,749 of 6,715 companies.
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Who the wire keeps naming
Over 90 days the wire named Odoo 267 times, more than anyone else here.
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Market structure
The shape of the market.
Select a sector to explore its companies. Tile area reflects recorded sector memberships.
5,638companies with a sector recordedCompanies can appear in several sectors. Areas represent sector memberships, not exclusive shares of the market.
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Explore deals ↗The shape of the money.
Deals found from Oct 2025 through 20 Sept 2026 · 185 stored records checked
Monthly disclosed value · USD
27 deals found$381.7M recorded
Numbers below months = recorded deal counts. Positive stored USD amounts only; no currency estimates. Current month is partial.
How much can we price?
No usable USD amount1867%
Usable USD amount933%
The value charts cover 9 of 27 recorded deals. Missing USD values remain visible here; they are never estimated.
Deal rhythm · stage × month
27 dealsWhen each stage moves
| Stage · deals | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage undisclosed10 | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 6 |
| Series A4 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Acquisition3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – |
| Seed2 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Series B2 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Debt1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Fundraising and refinancing1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Remaining stages4 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
Darker cells = more recorded deals; each row includes its count. Includes financing, acquisitions and listings. Blank months mean no matching records in this sample.
Many deals. A few big checks.
93%of disclosed value in the largest 5 deals
Median deal $12MLargest 5 $355M
Cumulative share of disclosed USD value, ordered by deal size. This describes the recorded deals, not company valuations.
Largest disclosed deals
12 months · USDThe names behind the capital
1C2
3
4
5C6
AgomAb Therapeutics$200M
IPO · 9 Feb 2026
Aikido Security$60M
Series B · 14 Jan 2026
Conveo$50M
Series A · 2 Sept 2026
Qargo$33M
Series B · 11 Dec 2025
Maash$12M
Round · 4 Sept 2026
Amyl Therapeutics$9.1M
Series A · 1 Sept 2026
Open a deal for the company, investors and available sources. Includes recorded financing, acquisitions and listings.
Media & content intelligence
Read the wire ↗Follow the conversation.
300 recent stored stories · 10 publishers · 18 Sept 2026–20 Sept 2026
What gets talked about
218 of 300 sampled stories have topic tags.
Area = story assignments among the eight leading topics. A story may have multiple topics. Select a tile for its coverage.
Who is on the wire
LinkedIn215 72%
Knack31 10%
DataNews23 8%
L'Echo Entreprises12 4%
De Tijd Ondernemen11 4%
De Tijd Energie4 1%
Share of 300 stored stories, not audience or market share. 4 further publishers outside this view. Ingest frequency affects the sample.
Different sources, different lenses
Leading tagged publishers · five leading topics · story counts
| Publisher | Belgium | Product Launch | Events | Hiring | Community |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 LinkedIn | 59 | 47 | 42 | 23 | 18 |
 DataNews | 1 | – | – | – | – |
 L'Echo Entreprises | 1 | – | – | – | – |
 De Tijd Ondernemen | 2 | – | – | – | – |
| De Tijd Energie | 1 | – | – | – | – |
 Crunchbase News | – | – | – | – | – |
Darker cells = more tagged stories. Counts overlap across topics. Links open topic coverage; the matrix reflects this recent sample, not a publisher’s entire output.
Beyond the written story
interview12742%
podcast9331%
talk3311%
other289%
demo145%
Remaining categories52%
300 unique source URLs in 300 appearance records, newest dated first. One interview linked to several people counts once. Stored formats can include unresolved matches.
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