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This was The Big Squeeze.be 2021

It's a wrap!
‍With more than 270 attendees, 570 one-on-one meetings or 3670 meeting minutes, we believe The Big Squeeze.be was on fire.
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A true virtual hotspot on all things startup! We hope you connected with many interesting profiles and discovered useful tips to boost your growth. Thank you for contributing to our time squeezing mission! 

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The models you put forward today, confirm that there are a lot of strong entrepreneurial stories being written today.
I hope that your passion, your entrepreneurial passion, will be highly contagious, and may grow into a pandemic of entrepreneurship.

The winners of The Big Squeeze Awards

With over 3600 cast votes, the turnout was record breaking. A huge congratulations to the well-deserved winners! 

The Big Squeeze at a glance

More than 40 experts during 22 expert classes shared their insights on various startups topics. A quick recap of what's been said by various thought leaders and industry experts: 

Research & Development track

"Everyone makes mistakes during product development, even Apple. Make sure you take enough time for your analysis before jumping into production."

Wouter Foulon, Founder at Comate

"When partnering with corporates, make sure everyone from the C-level up until the sales team is aligned. Otherwise you'll waste your precious time and no extra revenue will be generated."

David Dessers, Partner at Cresco

“Next to correct data and the ability to train your AI model, it is also important to implement the right framework in the organisation to monitor the quality. As AI is a black box, it's not your usual Saas.”

Robby Wauters,
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Venture Acceleration Manager at imec.istart

People & HR track

"10% of organizations will be in an almost fully virtual setting, 60% will stay hybrid and 30% will go back to the office."

Peter Geiregat, Managing Director at Giant Steps & ex-CPO at Showpad

"It's your people that make it happen, so reward your people, shout out successes and don’t forget to have some fun!"

Jennifer Gardner, Head of People at Deliverect

“Any experience allows you to have a better experience next time. The things that you learn by doing, will eventually mean your value as an entrepreneur will increase.”

Jürgen Ingels, Managing Partner at SmartFin

Finance & Funding track

“50% of finance transformation processes fail due to the complexity and not having invested in a finance team.”

Laurent Marcelis, CFO at Unifiedpost

"Scaling requires finance as a service where you can pick finance expertise you need in short and long term. Forecasting, accounting needs completely other skills than fundraising."

Martijn Joris, CEO Twikit (Moore expert class)

“Be consistent and communicate clearly towards investors, that’s also the way you probably will communicate with clients.”

Lucas Stoops,
Investment Manager at Force Over Mass Capital

Go Global track

"Build a great team, not only internally, also externally. Surround yourself with people you can trust. And don't only dream of getting bigger, just do it."

Jürgen Verstaen & Ellen Malfliet, Unifly 

“Don’t take it for granted that a Belgian contract will work in another jurisdiction.”

Kristof De Vulder,
Country Managing Partners at DLA Piper Belgium

“Don’t hold back, the easiest things are the things that we thought we would find difficult. All the boring admin stuff is the easy stuff. If you bring your enthusiasm to a market place that wants it, that is so exciting.”

Mike Thomas, Director UK at Tangent Works (TradeUK expert class)
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Startups in the spotlight

Recovr
BrighterBins
Manual.to
Pricing Pact
Monitr
Nallian
Exoligamentz
myskillcamp
Digiteal
Streetwaves
Cytomine Corporation
YOKUU
Ecomarket
Evoluno
Hack the Track
Plugnotes
Momly
Smarchy
Datascouts
R2poweR
Mobito
DENCK Innovations
Gus Foods
Twintag
The Harbour
EFFENCY
Volta
Metamaze
PathoSense
Watcherr
Comunicare
Toolsquare BV
Alan
Sequesto
L'ARIN
CHEQROOM
Gorilla
Paperbox
ANDY NIJS
Bizzcontrol
Funkey
Risolto BV
Spotr.ai
Hive
Wenite
DEO - Data-driven Efficiency for the Operating Room
Korekt
Ludus
Raymon
CrowdScan
ROOV
Code-Less
Edgise
Lab Box
theMatchBox
Azumuta
Breezo
Social Seeder
More coming soon

Meet the experts

Anthony Lamot
Arvid De Coster
Aushim Koumar
David Dessers
Edouard Beauvois
Elias Suliman
Ellen Malfliet
Flavien Bittar
Francis Pun
Frank Maene
Hannah Williams
Jacinte Monsieur
Jennifer Gardner
Jeroen De Wit
Joakim Sjöblom
Joyce Mackenzie Liu
Julie Govaert
Jürgen Ingels
Jürgen Verstaen
Koen Selleslags
Kristof De Vulder
Laurent Marcelis
Lucas Stoops
Martijn Joris
Michael Darchambeau
Michaël Van Damme
Nick Destrycker
Nigel Jones
Olivier Van Raemdonck
Paul Kostolnik
Paula Kant
Peter Geiregat
Pierre Berger
Renaat Berckmoes
Robby Wauters
Rodolphe d'Udekem d'Acoz
Stijn Specenier
Stijn Van Walle
Stéphanie Ouachan
Tim Berghmans
Wim Seynaeve
Wouter Foulon
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