POSIOS

Overview

POSIOS addresses the fragmentation of hospitality management by consolidating multiple separate solutions from different suppliers into one integrated platform, reducing costs and improving usability. The company leverages consumer devices like smartphones and tablets to deliver its ecosystem, starting with Restaurant Butler available on the App Store.

Media & appearances

• The HarbourYouTube2026-05-28
  JAN HOLLEZ - From Startup to Unicorn: The Deliverect Story with Jan HollezRestaurant iPad POS system Hollez co-founded with Zhong, bootstrapped with an ING loan and mortgaged houses, sold to Lightspeed.
• SuperNovaYouTube2025-02-26
  SuperHero Conversations EP3 | Sven De Cleyn - imec.istart & Niels Van Damme - OTIVFirst company of the Deliverect founders, went through imec.istart, was acquired in a part-equity/part-cash deal and the acquirer later IPO'd.

Stated facts & numbers

• Posios received roughly €50,000 in early funding, partly via an entrepreneur-in-residence program.The Harbour 2026-05-280:22:33
• Posios won the HORECA Expo Innovation Award and a best-stand prize with a booth built for almost nothing from Brico mirrors and empty bottles.The Harbour 2026-05-280:25:38
• Hollez stayed about 3.5 years at Lightspeed after the Posios acquisition, longer than his earnout of roughly a year required.The Harbour 2026-05-280:32:41
• imec.istart has produced one unicorn (Deliverect), one of five Belgian tech unicorns, plus one indirect IPO via the POSIOS founders.SuperNova 2025-02-260:15:28