Brussels is home to a dynamic tech ecosystem, with companies developing innovative solutions across AI, RegTech, fintech, cybersecurity, and many other fields. There is plenty of talent and potential here, and many of these companies are definitely worth keeping an eye on.
So, without further preamble, meet 8 Brussels tech companies you should know. They all have one thing in common: they recently joined the software.brussels community. Here’s a closer look at what they do — and how their solutions are already being put into practice.
AI & Data — Merlin Innovation
You are looking for a way to bring AI into your organisation, but don’t know where to start?
Merlin Innovation supports companies throughout their AI journey, combining strategy, training, rapid prototyping and product development to identify the right use cases and turn them into scalable solutions. Founded by former Accenture experts, the team combines strong technical expertise with a pragmatic, hands-on approach, helping organisations move from ideas to concrete AI applications while keeping responsible AI at the core.
For a real-estate development and project-management company, Merlin Innovation identified more than 130 practical AI use cases across the property lifecycle. Around 40% could already be addressed with accessible tools such as Claude, ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, with the highest-value use cases estimated to save 4–6 hours per week per role. These opportunities range from research and document analysis to meeting preparation, reporting and information retrieval.
Merlin Innovation also works with organisations such as Finvision, hub.brussels, Trilations and Valtech.
RegTech — Prismos
You want to keep track of policy and regulatory developments in a more efficient way? Prismos follows the full regulatory process, from regional parliaments to the European institutions, and turns public-policy information into structured, personalised insights, helping public affairs professionals identify what matters to their organisation and act on regulation as it unfolds.
In practice, public affairs teams can start their week with an automatically generated agenda of the parliamentary committee meetings relevant to their files and close it with a sourced recap of the week’s policy developments. Prismos recently added French politics to its coverage, marking a first step in its expansion beyond Belgium and the EU institutions.
Luminus and DHL are among the organisations using Prismos to support their public affairs monitoring.
FinTech — Finrack
You are an SME looking for additional liquidity and have valuable inventory? Finrack turns your stock into cash. They purchase your inventory while it remains on your premises and available for sale. This unlocks liquidity without traditional bank debt or dilution, allowing you to finance growth, strengthen working capital or negotiate better terms with suppliers.
The model is already being used by companies such as France Cake Tradition, a French manufacturer of organic and traditional cakes, and Peugeot Motocycles, the iconic French motorcycle and scooter brand. And the company is gaining traction: between the end of May and the end of August 2026, Finrack increased the amount of inventory financed by 45%, while the number of companies financed grew by 40%.
EdTech — Altheria
Looking for a more engaging way to train your teams? Designed for situations where real-life training can be complex, costly or involve risks, Altheria uses immersive VR to bring professional training closer to real working conditions. They offer immersive training experiences as well as a no-code editor that allows companies to develop VR training content tailored to their own needs.
At GSK, Altheria equipped the L&D team with its Editor to create highly specific VR training modules while meeting strict safety requirements. Thousands of employees have now experienced EHS training in VR. At UCB, Altheria deployed two VR Corners and developed three custom EHS modules, allowing teams to organise VR training sessions directly in the workplace, notably during regular Safety Days.
Cybersecurity & Privacy — ICTLAB
Do you need to strengthen your cybersecurity but don’t have the resources to build a complete security team? ICTLAB helps organisations monitor their infrastructure, detect potential threats and respond to security incidents, while also supporting them with increasingly important compliance requirements such as CyFun, NIS2, DORA and ISO 27001. Their approach combines cybersecurity expertise, continuous monitoring and automation to make advanced security capabilities more accessible to organisations without a large in-house security team.
Beyond client projects, ICTLAB also monitors sensitive Belgian entities and has reported several vulnerabilities to the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) as part of its Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Policy.
ICTLAB works with organisations of different sizes, including Siemens, ING and CCITIC.
FinTech — pleasefix.ai
A better model won’t make your team more productive, a better brain will. A model doesn’t know how your firm works; the brain does, and that’s where productivity gains come from.
That’s what pleasefix.ai builds. It’s a desktop app that works directly in a firm’s own file system: it builds and edits real decks, models and memos, and it remembers. Every project keeps a knowledge layer that stays in the firm’s own system, so each new piece of work starts from everything the team already knows.
For example, an M&A firm is currently using pleasefix.ai on an acquisition: the platform reads the data room, builds the project memory so the whole team can follow the deal, and produces analyses and slides directly.
HealthTech & AI — Ulalo
Looking to accelerate patient recruitment for clinical trials? Ulalo is building AI-powered infrastructure that helps healthcare organisations identify and engage eligible patients for clinical research. Through intelligent patient matching, their solution aims to accelerate clinical trials while improving patient diversity, operational efficiency and regulatory readiness.
In practice, Ulalo enables research teams to analyse both structured and unstructured clinical data from patient records and automatically identify patients who may be eligible for a clinical trial based on its inclusion and exclusion criteria. Investigators can also use the platform to conduct feasibility analyses and estimate the potentially eligible patient population before launching a trial.
Software devlopment & digital solutions — MV Studio
Your business processes are too specific for another off-the-shelf software solution? MV Studio develops tailor-made websites and business applications built around the way companies actually work, from CRM and booking systems to customer portals and inventory management. Their solutions are designed to simplify processes, connect existing tools and provide businesses with digital platforms that match the way they operate.
A concrete example is the copyright platform developed for the Atomium. Managing image-rights requests for one of Belgium’s most iconic and photographed monuments is exactly the kind of process that does not fit neatly into an off-the-shelf tool. MV Studio developed a custom platform that centralises and digitises the entire workflow, from submission and follow-up to contract formalisation, around the way the Atomium’s copyright team actually works.
Their projects also include solutions for organisations such as the Fondation contre le Cancer and Domaine des Grottes de Han, for which MV Studio developed its online ticketing system.
And there’s more to discover
These 8 companies are only a snapshot of the expertise being developed in Brussels.
With more than 120 companies in the software.brussels community, there are plenty more solutions to discover.
