# Belfort - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Belfort for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-04-22

## Company Profile
- Name: Belfort
- Sector: deep-tech, cybersecurity
- Stage: startup
- Status: active
- Total funding: $6M
- Location: Leuven, Flanders, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/belfort-design-agency/
- Founders: Michiel Van Beirendonck

## Overview
Belfort emerged from the COSIC research group at KU Leuven (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/ku-leuven/llms.txt), one of Europe's leading cryptography research units. The company is building hardware that accelerates computation on encrypted data, a capability known as homomorphic or confidential computing, which allows processing sensitive data without first decrypting it.

The $6M seed round closed in September 2025. The use case spans healthcare, finance, and government data processing where privacy regulations impose strict constraints on data handling.

Belfort represents the commercialization of fundamental cryptography research from KU Leuven (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/ku-leuven/llms.txt)'s COSIC lab, which has a long track record of producing applied security technology.

## Funding History
- Seed: $6M (September 2025)

## Key People
- Michiel Van Beirendonck (https://techwiki.ai/people/michiel-van-beirendonck/llms.txt) - Founder and CEO

## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [city] Leuven: https://techwiki.ai/cities/leuven/llms.txt
- [hub] KU Leuven: https://techwiki.ai/hubs/ku-leuven/llms.txt
- [person] Michiel Van Beirendonck: https://techwiki.ai/people/michiel-van-beirendonck/llms.txt
- [sector] Deep Tech & Hardware: https://techwiki.ai/sectors/deep-tech/llms.txt
- [sector] Cybersecurity: https://techwiki.ai/sectors/cybersecurity/llms.txt

## Links
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/belfort-design-agency/
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/companies/belfort/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/companies/belfort/llms-full.txt

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