Overview
Capricorn Partners is a Leuven-based Venture Capital firm with over 30 years of history and more than EUR 300M in assets under management. The firm employs 20 investment professionals and operates across four focus areas: cleantech, digital, health, and fusion technology.
The fund has a strong track record of Belgian portfolio companies and participates in both early and growth-stage rounds. Its Leuven base gives it proximity to the KU Leuven research and spin-off ecosystem.
Portfolio
- StoryChief - Content marketing platform
- icometrix - Medical imaging AI
- Conxai - Agentic AI for construction automation
Investments
icometrix
icometrix was a Leuven-based medtech company providing AI-powered brain MRI analytics software, acquired by GE HealthCare in September 2025.
StoryChief
StoryChief is a Ghent-based AI-powered content marketing platform used by 5,000 customers across 70 countries to plan, create, and distribute content across multiple channels from a single workspace.
Bingli
Bingli is an Antwerp-based AI patient anamnesis platform with EUR 5.4M in Series A funding from Capricorn Partners and UCB, automating the pre-consultation intake process for physicians.
Conxai
Conxai develops AI solutions designed to augment human expertise in construction workflows.
In the news
- Getting a regenerative therapy to work is a scientific problem. Getting it made, again and again, at a cost a health system will pay, is a manufacturing problem. On 21 October, our CEO Jan Schrooten takes that second problem to the Health Tech Invest Morning at FTI Leuven by Leuven MindGate, part of the Health Tech Sessions programme at M Leuven. The session puts startups, scale-ups, researchers, healthcare professionals and investors in one room to ask how capital-intensive health innovation finds the right investment and reaches
- Proud to support HighLife in its mission to transform heart valve treatment ❤️ Thank you to De Tijd for highlighting this €80M financing round and the role of Belgian investors in supporting this innovative technology. 🚀 Read the full article in Dutch below 👇
- Belgen doen mee aan kapitaalronde van 80 miljoen voor artificiële hartklepHet Leuvense Capricorn Partners investeert 3 miljoen euro in een kapitaalronde van 80 miljoen euro van het Franse medtechbedrijf HighLife, dat een artificiële hartklep heeft ontwikkeld.
De Tijd Ondernemen · 22 Sept 2026
- Capricorn Partners joins in HighLife’s +$90 million financing round The round was co-led by Andera Partners, Sofinnova Partners, Supernova Invest and Merieux Equity Partners. The financing will support HighLife in accelerating its commercial expansion across Europe and advancing its US pivotal clinical study. This is an exciting moment for HighLife, following its CE Mark approval of the next-generation Clarity Valve in July, designed to further mitigate the risk of LVOT obstruction. At Capricorn Partners, we are
- A weapon designed to leave no fingerprints only works once. After that, everyone knows what to look for — which is why Norway and Britain went public about confronting it this spring. What stayed with me wasn't the submarine. It was the reminder that Europe already lost a power interconnector to a dragged anchor in 2024 — and that "which substations depend on that cable" is still, for most operators, answered by pulling up a diagram after the fact, not off a live map. I've written up what fusing maritime threat data with your own
- How many navies does it take to command one carrier group? Watching Strike Warrior 26 assemble off Scotland this week — HMS Prince of Wales, a French frigate, Belgian, Dutch and German escorts, a US destroyer — I keep thinking about the gap between ships that can sail together and a force that can actually be commanded as one, on a shared picture everyone trusts, under real time pressure. The article is about why I think that gap is the real constraint on European maritime power right now, and where Hybrid Core's Smart
- We're proud to share that Hybrid Core has been selected as a finalist for the Startup World Cup Brussels 🇧🇪. Thank you to Startup&Angels for putting together such a strong finalist lineup, and to co-hosts Le Village by CA Brussels and BeCentral for building the room where this happens. On 30 September, we'll pitch in front of an investor-led jury at Degroof Petercam in Brussels — one step on the way to representing Belgium at the Global Grand Finale in San Francisco. Congratulations to the fellow finalists we'll share the stage
- European buyers have been offered a false choice: AI that adapts to how you actually work, or AI that stays inside your walls. Not both. Cloud AI vendors are adaptive but not sovereign. Traditional defence primes are sovereign but not adaptive. The intersection has been empty — and it is exactly where ministries, banks and grid operators need to buy. Hybrid Core's Smart Navigator now runs Operationalised AI across all seven modules. Not AI as architecture. AI as a capability the user touches: ▪ Ontology-bound reasoning — generate
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