Luc van Aken

Essensium NV develops hardware and software products for wireless sensor networks. It offers evaluation kit, people and vehicle tag, indoor reference and gateway node, and tracker server engine. Its services include embedded software, application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design, and system on chip (SoC) and system in package (SiP) design. The company was founded by Johan M. R. Danneels, Frederic Stubbe, Edmond Janssens and Patrick Vankwikelberge in March 2005 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Medicim NV conducts medical imaging services to support diagnosis therapy and surgery solutions. Its products include Nobelclinician, NobelDesign and IPS CaseDesigner. The firm’s service include computer aided surgery, image analysis and custom solutions. The company was founded by André Oosterlinck in 2002 and is headquartered in Mechelen, Belgium.

Nikon Metrology NV develops metrology solutions. It offer services for automotive, aerospace, telecommunication/satellites, energy, consumer goods/white goods/household, medical, electronics, universities/research, and manufacturing markets. The firm’s products include laser scanners; coordinate measuring machines; portable measuring solutions; and in-process measurement, video and microscope measuring, X-ray and computed tomography (CT) inspection, large scale measurement, microscope and semiconductor systems. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Easics NV provides system-on-chip design services for telecom and consumer electronics applications. The firm offers ASIC design services, FPGA design services, Internet Protocol (IP) licensing, and Freesics. It also specializes in complex digital design, silicon technology independent design, hardware-software trade-offs, analog integration, design for test, and fault tolerant design. The company was founded by Dirk Callaerts, Jan Decaluwe, Ivo Vandeweerd, and Jan Zegers on July 1, 1991 and is headquarters in Leuven, Belgium.

icometrix NV provides software as a service for medical image analysis. It engages in the advanced quantitative image processing of human as well as animal data sets, including multi-modal and multi-subject image registration (PET/CT, PET/MR, and CT/MR), volumetric measurements, group analysis of diffusion weighted and tensor images, functional MRI, perfusion MRI, MR spectroscopy, atrophy measurement, automatic and semi-automatic tissue segmentation. The company was founded by Dirk Loeckx, Wim Van Hecke, Paul Suetens, Stefan Sunaert, Paul M. Parizel, Frederik Maes and Jan Sijbers in 2011 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum VZW, also known as Imec, is a Belgian business accelerator. The non-profit company is based in Leuven, BE and has subsidiaries in the United States, Taiwan, India, Netherlands, and Belgium. Imec.istart is their main program, which helps startups grow and succeed. The Belgian company was founded in 1984 and has been led by CEO Luc van den Hove since then.

Spectricity NV engages in research and development of nano-electronics and digital technologies. It develops low-cost, miniaturized, integrated optical spectral sensing solutions in the visible and near-infrared spectral range (400nm-1050nm). The company was founded by Borremans Jonathan Alan, Prashant Agarwal, Ward Van der Tempel, Ruben Remco Lieten, Peter Van Wesemael, Maarten Karel Michael De Bock and Jakub Bartlomiej Raczkowski on December 04, 2017 and is headquartered in Mechelen, Belgium.