Funding & Grants.
An overview of funding opportunities, grants, awards and networks for young entrepreneurs in Flanders — from VLAIO to private investors and competitions.
Funding & Grants
In one sentence
Overview of funding options: subsidies, VC/angels, and ecosystems/tools to build your funding strategy.
Category summary
In this category you will find both concrete calls (subsidies, grants, prizes) and context/tools about venture capital, ecosystems and funding databases. The tags show two main tracks: Subsidies/Awards vs Funding & VC’s (often combined with network/events), complemented by a few supporting resources (coaching, cloud credits, ecosystem mapping).
Classification (based on tags)
- Administratie & formaliteiten
- Awards
- Belastingen & BTW
- biotech
- Coaching & begeleiding
- Creatieve beroepen
- deep tech
- Funding & VC's
- 100IN Fund
- Angels & VCs by ticket size (VLAIO Risk Capital Database)
- BeImpact
- Biobased, agrifood & biotech funding: specialized funds
- Cloud credits for startups (Google Cloud & Microsoft Azure)
- FDT Health Impact Grants (Pulse Foundation & Financière de Tubize)
- FINMIX Design & Fashion (Flanders DC)
- Ghent startup ecosystem
- Hefboom
- How does VC funding work?
- Impact Shakers
- Internationalisation Starter Pack (FIT)
- Pitchdrive (pre-seed & seed fund)
- PMV Start Loan (Startlening)
- PMV Winwin Loan (Winwinlening)
- Project Europe fund
- Qbic (inter-university VC fund)
- SE’nSE project call (Foundation for Future Generations)
- Streekfonds East Flanders (with the King Baudouin Foundation)
- White paper: structuring spin-offs in Belgium (Cresco)
- Zorgvinding (In4Care Community)
- Gentrepreneur aanbod
- Gentrepreneur Partner
- Impact & Duurzaamheid
- Incubators & accelerators
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Juridisch
- Netwerk & events
- Researchers
- startups
- Subsidies
- Alles Kan (City of Ghent)
- FDT Health Impact Grants (Pulse Foundation & Financière de Tubize)
- FIT Mentorship Programme (Startup.Flanders)
- Innovation mandates (VLAIO)
- Overview of VLAIO subsidy instruments (figures 2025)
- Prototyping Sustainable Solutions (prototyping grant)
- Purina Better with Pets Prize
- Schaalklaar (VLAIO)
- SME Fund 2026 (EUIPO)
- Streekfonds East Flanders (with the King Baudouin Foundation)
- Subsidies & tax incentives for Software & Digital Innovation (we are)
- VLAIO Innovative Starter Support
- VLAIO R&D feasibility study
- VLAIO subsidy guide for the cultural & creative sectors
- Vocatio grant
- Zorgvinding (In4Care Community)
- Tools & templates
- Valorisatie
- zorg
Table of contents (all articles)
- 100IN Fund
- Alles Kan (City of Ghent)
- Angels & VCs by ticket size (VLAIO Risk Capital Database)
- BeImpact
- Biobased, agrifood & biotech funding: specialized funds
- Cloud credits for startups (Google Cloud & Microsoft Azure)
- Fast Lane UGent: setting up a spin-off faster (Fast Lane & Fast Lane Mini)
- FDT Health Impact Grants (Pulse Foundation & Financière de Tubize)
- FINMIX Design & Fashion (Flanders DC)
- FIT Mentorship Programme (Startup.Flanders)
- Free in-kind benefit: VAT activation via Xerius
- Free in-kind benefit: WeAre (custom software & AI automations)
- Ghent startup ecosystem
- Hefboom
- Henry van de Velde Awards (Flanders DC)
- How does VC funding work?
- Impact Shakers
- In-kind benefits and discounts via Gentrepreneur
- Innovation mandates (VLAIO)
- Internationalisation Starter Pack (FIT)
- Overview of VLAIO subsidy instruments (figures 2025)
- Pitchdrive (pre-seed & seed fund)
- PMV Start Loan (Startlening)
- PMV Winwin Loan (Winwinlening)
- Project Europe fund
- Prototyping Sustainable Solutions (prototyping grant)
- Purina Better with Pets Prize
- Qbic (inter-university VC fund)
- Schaalklaar (VLAIO)
- SE’nSE project call (Foundation for Future Generations)
- SME Fund 2026 (EUIPO)
- Streekfonds East Flanders (with the King Baudouin Foundation)
- Subsidies & tax incentives for Software & Digital Innovation (we are)
- VLAIO Innovative Starter Support
- VLAIO R&D feasibility study
- VLAIO subsidy guide for the cultural & creative sectors
- Vocatio grant
- White paper: structuring spin-offs in Belgium (Cresco)
- Zorgvinding (In4Care Community)
Articles in this category.
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Free in-kind benefit: WeAre (custom software & AI automations)
Through Gentrepreneur, you can receive a free in-kind benefit via partner WeAre: professional support around custom software, AI automations, and integrations to help you build or…
Read articleFree in-kind benefit: VAT activation via Xerius
As a Gentrepreneur member you can have your VAT number activated free of charge by partner Xerius. New: you need to be introduced to Xerius by a Gentrepreneur coach via Startium.
Read articleIn-kind benefits and discounts via Gentrepreneur
As a Gentrepreneur member you get access to exclusive in-kind benefits: free tools, discounts and professional support from partners such as Xerius, WeAre, Comate, Cresco and more.
Read articleBeImpact
BeImpact is a free digital platform and support hub for impact organisations. It offers visibility, a community, a funding finder, and support with fundraising and matchmaking…
Read articleFDT Health Impact Grants (Pulse Foundation & Financière de Tubize)
FDT Health Impact Grants: up to €50,000 as repayable 'pay-it-forward' support for a pilot, MVP or first market test of a Belgian innovation that improves access to healthcare.…
Read articlePitchdrive (pre-seed & seed fund)
Pitchdrive is an Antwerp-based pre-seed and seed fund offering initial cheques of €250k to €2M, fully funded by entrepreneurs, with its €60 million Fund IV focused on AI-native…
Read articleBiobased, agrifood & biotech funding: specialized funds
Overview of funds that specifically invest in biobased materials, sustainable chemistry, agrifood and biotech—useful when generalist tech VCs are not a good fit for a materials or…
Read articleHenry van de Velde Awards (Flanders DC)
The Henry van de Velde Awards are the leading design awards in Flanders (Flanders DC). Registration is free. Registration for Awards 27 is closed (deadline May 2026); winners of…
Read articlePrototyping Sustainable Solutions (prototyping grant)
Prototyping the Future is the prototyping grant of the Foundation for Future Generations: up to €5,000, jury feedback, visibility and network for students and recent graduates…
Read articleSchaalklaar (VLAIO)
Schaalklaar is a VLAIO grant for young innovative companies (1–5 years) in Flanders to become “scale-ready”: support up to €350,000 over max. 3 years, paid out based on milestones.
Read articleZorgvinding (In4Care Community)
Zorgvinding (In4Care): call for practice-driven care innovations with €50,000 funding (plus €50,000 matching). The 5.0 call is closed (deadline was 31/08/2026); a new edition has…
Read articleInternationalisation Starter Pack (FIT)
FIT’s Internationalisation Starter Pack is a one-time lump-sum grant of €9,000 for innovative Flemish SMEs that want to start exporting and have never received a FIT subsidy…
Read articleVocatio grant
Vocatio annually awards €10,000 grants to young people (18–30) for a calling/passion project. The next call (class of 2027) runs from September to November 2026; selection…
Read articleFast Lane UGent: setting up a spin-off faster (Fast Lane & Fast Lane Mini)
UGent launches Fast Lane: a standard track with predefined conditions (e.g., limited equity stake, low royalty, standard agreements) to set up spin-offs faster and more…
Read articleWhite paper: structuring spin-offs in Belgium (Cresco)
Summary of the Cresco white paper “Structuring Spin-Offs in Belgium”: three deal pathways (equity/royalty/hybrid), milestone-driven IP transfer, and investable baseline principles…
Read articleSME Fund 2026 (EUIPO)
EUIPO SME Fund 2026 is an EU subsidy/voucher scheme that helps EU SMEs (and Ukrainian SMEs) protect IP (e.g., patents and Community Plant Varieties). It runs from 2/02/2026 to…
Read articleSE’nSE project call (Foundation for Future Generations)
SE’nSE is a project call by the Foundation for Future Generations that supports early-stage start-ups with a positive environmental impact with seed capital via a subordinated…
Read articleVLAIO Innovative Starter Support
VLAIO’s Innovative Starter Support: €50,000 + guidance (VLAIO business advisor) for young (≤2 years) small companies in Flanders to develop a proof of concept and/or proof of…
Read articleGhent startup ecosystem
In-depth overview of the Ghent startup ecosystem based on Dealroom x City of Ghent (2024) and external lists (Seedtable, Failory): key figures (920+ startups/scaleups; 310+…
Read articleFIT Mentorship Programme (Startup.Flanders)
FIT mentorship programme for Flemish scale-ups with an export plan: 50 hours of mentoring over 6 months + a €20,000 grant to accelerate internationalisation in a target market.
Read articleHefboom
Hefboom finances and supports social and sustainable entrepreneurship (e.g. non-profits, cooperatives, culture). They offer several loan products (e.g. Culture loan up to €125k,…
Read articleQbic (inter-university VC fund)
Qbic is an inter-university seed and early-stage venture capital fund that helps turn technological breakthroughs into sustainable companies. It invests in spin-offs and startups…
Read articleInnovation mandates (VLAIO)
Innovation mandates are intended for postdoctoral researchers carrying out a project in close collaboration with industry (an existing company or with a view to a new spin-off),…
Read articleVLAIO R&D feasibility study
VLAIO subsidy for companies and (public-law) organisations to assess the feasibility of an innovative project as preparation for a larger innovation trajectory.
Read articleOverview of VLAIO subsidy instruments (figures 2025)
Summary of the main VLAIO subsidy instruments and trajectory logic (TRL, starter support, R&D support, lead time, and the Innovative Public Procurement programme) based on the…
Read articleSubsidies & tax incentives for Software & Digital Innovation (we are)
Overview (we are, 2025) of subsidies and tax incentives that can support software development and digital innovation: SME portfolio (advice), SME growth subsidy (strategic…
Read articleCloud credits for startups (Google Cloud & Microsoft Azure)
Overview of startup programmes offering cloud credits to (partly) run your infrastructure for free in the early stage. Google Cloud offers credits via the Google for Startups…
Read articlePMV Winwin Loan (Winwinlening)
PMV Winwinlening is a subordinated loan that allows entrepreneurs in Flanders to borrow up to €300,000 from private individuals (friends/family). Lenders receive an annual tax…
Read articleAngels & VCs by ticket size (VLAIO Risk Capital Database)
The VLAIO Risk Capital Database is a filterable database of risk capital providers active in Flanders: venture capital/private equity, business angel networks/investors and…
Read articlePurina Better with Pets Prize
The Purina Better with Pets Prize (BWPP) recognises European organisations and social entrepreneurs who improve the health and wellbeing of people in vulnerable situations through…
Read articleProject Europe fund
Project Europe invests €200,000 in young technical founders (≤25) in Europe in exchange for 6.66% equity. It combines funding with mentorship, co-working sessions and access to a…
Read articleImpact Shakers
Impact Shakers is a European/global impact ecosystem that tackles social and environmental challenges through inclusive entrepreneurship. They connect, develop and invest, with a…
Read articleFINMIX Design & Fashion (Flanders DC)
FINMIX Design & Fashion is a confidential advisory track by Flanders District of Creativity (tailored to the design and fashion sector) where you present your business and…
Read articleHow does VC funding work?
Clear explanation (Stripe) of how venture capital (VC) works: VC funds raise money from limited partners, screen startups via pitch and due diligence, invest via term sheets for…
Read articlePMV Start Loan (Startlening)
PMV Startlening is a subordinated loan of up to €100,000 for starters (self-employed people, liberal professions and companies) who still need to start as a main occupation or…
Read articleVLAIO subsidy guide for the cultural & creative sectors
VLAIO brings together in a subsidy guide the main support measures for the cultural & creative sectors (e.g. cultural project subsidies, tax shelter, FIT support, Screen Flanders,…
Read article100IN Fund
100IN is a pre-seed VC investing €100K in 100 tech startups. The team (Gilles Mattelin, Jorn Vanysacker, Julie Capiau) built Intuo and Henchman from zero to exit and wants to…
Read articleAlles Kan (City of Ghent)
Alles Kan (City of Ghent) supports young people (14–30) in Ghent who want to realise a cultural, sports, artistic, social or educational project. You can receive up to €3,000 in…
Read articleStreekfonds East Flanders (with the King Baudouin Foundation)
Streekfonds East Flanders (with the King Baudouin Foundation) supports local projects with a focus on people and the environment. It connects donors and initiatives through…
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