Trendtracker, a Ghent, Belgium-based scale-up building an AI-powered strategic intelligence platform, has raised $7 million in Series A funding to accelerate global expansion and deepen product development. Armilar led the round with participation from existing investor Capricorn Partners.
Trendtracker positions its product as an always-on strategic intelligence engine that monitors global signals and links emerging change to strategic impact across political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors. The company said its platform is designed to help strategy, risk, insights, innovation, and foresight teams streamline research, improve planning, and support faster decision-making in an environment where leaders are overwhelmed by data and traditional strategy cycles are no longer sufficient.
The company said it supports clients ranging from large multinational enterprises to government organizations, and cited adoption by teams at companies such as Siemens, PepsiCo, P&G, PwC, Arthur D. Little, and Ageas. Trendtracker described its core technology as a predictive architecture paired with a coordinated system of AI agents that detect, score, forecast, and interpret emerging trends while explaining impact KPIs to provide deterministic, explainable, and transparent intelligence for leadership teams.
Trendtracker said the new funding will help expand its AI Analyst architecture, including multi agent orchestration designed to map organizational environments, analyze uncertainty drivers, generate scenario based forecasts, and recommend prescriptive strategic actions with clear rationale. The company also said it will prioritize expansion in the U.S. and Middle East markets through partnerships and local presence, strengthen integrations and alliances across consulting firms and data providers, and grow its hybrid team with senior hires in AI, foresight, engineering, and commercial leadership.
Founded in 2019, Trendtracker said it has evolved from a local AI startup into a globally active scale up serving enterprises, government agencies, and consulting firms focused on strategic agility.
KEY QUOTES:
“Trendtracker is bringing much-needed clarity to a world where decision-makers are overwhelmed by noise. Their AI-powered approach to strategic intelligence is already resonating with global enterprises, and we’re excited to support Vincent and Mathias as the first investment of our new Fund IV, focused on exceptional European teams building products with global reach,”
Pedro Ribeiro Santos, Managing Partner at Armilar
“We are a proud seed investor in Trendtracker and appreciate how the team converted the initial offering into a scalable SaaS solution for worldwide top-tier clients,”
Marc Lambrechts, Investment Director at Capricorn Partners
“Our vision is to redefine how strategy, risk, insights, innovation, and foresight teams operate. AI that quantifies change in-depth, understands context, adapts continuously, and reasons causally. The AI doesn’t just look at the past, but actively models strategic recommendations, predicting the future for businesses. Our technology functions as a strategic sparring partner, enhancing leadership judgment without supplanting it.”
Vincent Defour, CEO of Trendtracker
“Trendtracker helps us set the right strategic priorities, drive innovation, and prepare for future scenarios, allowing us to remain relevant to our stakeholders in a complex and ever-changing world,”
Hans De Cuyper, CEO of Ageas
