A spin-off is a company created with knowledge and technology stemming from research. This is how the University directly sends its high-level scientific activities out into society, by ensuring the knowledge and technologies it develops benefit the economy and industry.

ULB has set up a comprehensive programme to support the creation of spin-off companies:

  • ULB's technology and knowledge transfer unit (ULB-KTO) supports researchers in the socio-economic valorisation of their research results and helps teams find funding to create spin-offs in Wallonia (Win4SpinOff and maturation funds) and in Brussels (Innoviris - Spin-Off)
  • ImpacThéo stands alongside ULB-KTO as a partner, supporting laboratories and research teams by mobilising its commercial and financial skills to bring their projects to fruition and forge strong ties with the industry and socio-economic players.
  • Incubators provide support to research teams before the company is actually created, so they can continue refining on their technology or expertise and develop a business model.

In addition, ULB helps student entrepreneurs launch startups, including with its StartLab.

ULB spin-offs have been launched in a variety of industries:


 

Currently, 30 ULB spin-off companies are active:

Amoobi

Description: Mobile positionning
Year of creation: 2011
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A-Ulab

Description: Asbestos analysis
Year of creation: 2012
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Bioxodes

Description: Immunology
Year of creation: 2010
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Calyos

Description: Thermal Management Solutions for High Power Density Semiconductors
Year of creation: 2012
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DART Consulting

Description: Decision making tool in the logistics field
Year of creation: 2014
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Decis

Description: Development of computer applications on data visualization resources ICT optimization
Year of creation: 1992
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D-Sight

Description: Support to multicriteria decision aid
Year of creation: 2010 
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DNA Vision

Description: Molecular biology
Year of creation: 2004
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Domobios (AllerInvest)

Description: Development and sale of products aimed at eradicating domestic pests
Year of creation: 2012
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EndoTools Therapeutics

Description: Endoscopic devices
Year of creation: 2009
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Epics Therapeutics

Description: Development of small molecule drugs targeting RNA epigenetic mechanisms involved in cancer development
Year of creation: 2018
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EHP (Euro Heat Pipes)

Description: Thermal and mechanical regulation of spatial devices
Year of creation: 2001
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Human Waves

Description: Services and products in the field of neurotechnology
Year of creation: 2012
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InhaTarget Therapeutics

Description : Services and products in the field of respiratory diseases treatment
Année de création : 2019
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Kabandy

Description: To enable construction professionals to deliver building information models using open standards
Year of creation: 2016
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Lambda X

Description: Space optics and optics methodology
Year of creation: 1996
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LyS Medical

Description: Decision aid system for airways endoscopy
Year of creation: 2018

Mentis

Description: Artificial Intelligence
Year of creation: 2005
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MHMadagascar (IOT)

Description: Sea cucumber aquaculture
Year of creation: 2005

Micromega dynamics

Description: Vibration deadening system
Year of creation: 1999 
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NeuVasQ Biotechnologies

Description: Development of pharmaceuticals to restore blood-brain barrier function in acute neurological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.
Year of creation: 2021
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Optimal design

Description: Software applications for logistics
Year of creation: 1997
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Ovizio

Description: Water quality assessment through holographic microscopy
Year of creation: 2009
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REHAL-IT

Description:Therapeutic virtual reality softwares for the assessment and rehabilitation of patients with cognitive disorders
Year of creation: 2022
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Santero Therapeutics

Description : Antibiotics discovery - development of new generations of drugs to fight multiple resistant pathogens
Year of creation: 2021
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Secoya

Description : Support to enhanced manufacturing of (bio)pharmaceutical compounds
Year of creation: 2019
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Simuflow

Description : Energy optimisation for industry
Year of creation: 1998
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Slow Surg

Description : Slow Surg aims to finalise and market a little device that enables an easier treatment of surgical complications associated with obesity treatments (such as bypass surgery) and the deformities of the digestive tract that can arise with age.
Année de création : 2025
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Snellium

Description: Snellium specializes in optical metrology and proposes measurements methods and devices on transparent and specular objects, mainly car glasses
Year of creation: 2021
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Spectralys Biotech

Description: Provider for innovative analytical services based on infrared spectroscopy
Year of creation: 2018
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Updated on June 3, 2025