How concentrated is hiring?
The top 10 employers account for 29.2% of 880 tracked open roles.
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The generations behind the ecosystem
2020–2024 accounts for 30.4% of the 5.683 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
119 companies have 880 roles open right now. Smals has the most, at 34.
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When this market was built
2020 is the busiest year on the graph: 396 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 492 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 Dec 2025 through 5 Nov 2026 · 196 stored records checked
Monthly disclosed value · EUR
36 deals found€194M recorded
Numbers below months = recorded deal counts. Amounts reported in EUR only; a deal reported in another currency is counted, never converted. Current month is partial.
How much can we price?
Reported in EUR1644%
Reported in another currency1233%
Amount not disclosed822%
The value charts cover 16 of 36 recorded deals. Every deal keeps the amount it was reported in; nothing is converted or estimated.
Deal rhythm · stage × month
36 dealsWhen each stage moves
| Stage · deals | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage undisclosed14 | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 9 | – | 1 |
| Seed5 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | – |
| Series A5 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – |
| Acquisition3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – |
| Pre-seed2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Series B2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Debt1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 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.
76%of disclosed value in the largest 5 deals
Median deal €5MLargest 5 €147M
Cumulative share of disclosed EUR value, ordered by deal size. This describes the recorded deals, not company valuations.
Largest disclosed deals
12 months · EURThe names behind the capital
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Citymesh€70M
Debt · 28 Aug 2026
Syndicate One€22M
Round · 1 Feb 2026
Aidoptation€20M
Round · 1 Dec 2025
I-care€20M
Round · 1 Dec 2025
Tusk IC€15M
Round · 17 Sept 2026
Polysense€10.7M
Seed · 22 Sept 2026
Open a deal for the company, investors and available sources. Includes recorded financing, acquisitions and listings.
Media & content intelligence
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300 recent stored stories · 10 publishers · 4 Nov 2026–4 Nov 2026
What gets talked about
212 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
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 | Events | Product Launch | AI | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 LinkedIn | 49 | 45 | 38 | 28 | 14 |
 DataNews | 1 | – | – | – | – |
 Crunchbase News | – | – | – | – | 1 |
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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