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Finance&invest.brussels was founded on February 15, 1984, in Brussels, Belgium. The firm focuses on investing in seed-stage, early-stage, growth-stage, and later-stage companies operating in the business products, business services, consumer products, consumer services, information technology, healthcare, SaaS, impact investing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology-based sectors in Belgium.
The company's goals are to 1) boost the economy of the Brussels-Capital Region by taking into account the orientations of its economic policy and 2) apply rules of sound industrial, financial, and commercial management.
Since 2018, the CEO of Finance & Invest Brussels has been Pierre Hermant. Hermant has nearly twenty years of experience in managerial positions in marketing and sales for B2B and B2C. Hermant has an MBA from Vlerick Business School and a master's degree in Corporate Finance and Business Performance Management from HEC Paris.
Finance&invest.brussels facilitates and completes the financing chain for companies in the Brussels Region by providing solutions to the financial needs of entrepreneurs with loans, equity investments, or guarantees. The company is geared toward two specific audiences:
- Startups, scale-ups, and SMEs with an investment of €100,000 to €5 million
- VSEs, social enterprises, and cooperatives with an investment of €5,000 to €150,000.
The company has invested in Moneytrans, Kaspard, Cohabs, Shayp, Ninepointfive, CitizenLab, and Building Integrated GreenHouses (BIGH) since May of 2018. Their most recent investment, Moneytrans, took place on January 24, 2022, raising €11M.
