Private Equity, Venture Capital at Work in Belgium (Invest Europe)

ReportInvest EuropeJanuary 20252 pages3 min readOriginal source

Key number

199,383 employees

PE and VC backed employment in Belgium p.1

What changed

+7.5% %

Job creation rate in backed companies (2022-23) p.2

Summary

Private equity and venture capital-backed companies employed 199,383 people in Belgium in 2023.p.1
Private equity and venture capital-backed employment represents 4.4% of Belgium's total 4.9 million workforce.p.1
A total of 1,070 companies in Belgium were backed by private equity and venture capital in 2023.p.1
Among backed companies, 879 were SMEs employing 33,479 people.p.1
Net jobs created by private equity and venture capital-backed companies reached +8,032 in 2023.p.2
Employment growth in backed companies was +7.5% in 2022-23 compared to +0.7% overall Belgian company growth.p.2
Private equity and venture capital investments contributed 0.4% to Belgium's GDP.p.2

Key insights

SMEs backed by private equity created +6.8% more new jobs in 2023.p.2
Private equity and venture capital firms have invested €28.3 billion in Belgian companies since 2007.p.2
Private equity and venture capital supports 11.2 million jobs in European companies overall.p.1

Topics and entities

Europe Private markets Venture capital EDC Eurostat Invest Europe

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