beLean.net is a CFO-as-a-Service offering long-term support in strategy, finance and management for entrepreneurs and investors active in Life Science & Technology
About Us
We act as CFO in accordance with your needs and requirements and within an agreed time frame.
We are the Walloon reference accelerator in the field of health biotechnology and medical technologies active in Europe. In a changing digital world, we help you build the foundations you need to face all the challenges. Together let's transform them into opportunities.
Our mission as part-time CFO is to support our clients to free them up time so that they can focus on their core business.
We bring our vision to structure their ecosystems to better respond to the new challenges of today and tomorrow:
HEALTH DIGITAL
DISCOVER
We help you modelling your idea
BUILD
We help you build or develop your MVP â âminimum viable productâ
MEASURE
We help you determine whether real progress is being made or not
LEARN
We help you make decisions based on the measurements accumulated
OUR PARTNERS
SPACE
OUR SERVICES
The pillars of our long-term relationship
Business Strategy
Business Plan, Market Research, Go-to-market Strategy, Development Plan, …
Finance Management
Financial Plan, Reporting, Controlling, Process Optimisation, …
Subsidies & Funding
Funding Strategy, Fundraising, M&A, Due Diligence, Subsidies and Grants, …
Risk Management & Governance
Board Management, Governance Best Practices, Crisis Management, …
OUR APPROACH
Our strategic approach is to share our expertise in finance, strategy and management to support start-ups all along their journey, from scratch to scale-up. We are certified by Walloon Region which means you can benefit from financial assistance up to 80%.
Business Creation
- Market Identification
- Technical & IP Review
- Go/No-Go Decision
- Work Environment Co-creation
- Business Plan
- FFF & Subsidies
Business Diagnosis
- Market Study
- Business Diagnosis
- Business Modelling
- Business & Financial Plan
- Assets Valuation
- Seed Funding & Subsidies
Growth Support
- Strategy & Maturity Review
- Business Structuring
- Value Creation
- License Valuation
- Deal & Due Diligence Support
- Series A Funding & Subsidies
Our Team
We are a team of complementary experts to support your development
Guillaume de Viron
Philippine du Parc Locmaria
Valentin Tonnel
You?
CONTACT US
We would be pleased to consider your project and find together the best suitable solution dedicated to your needs
Latest News
Our latest internal and customer news
Conscious Motions is bringing Corporate Wellness to your Workplace!
Have you ever thought about the well-being of your employees? At beLean.net this is a crucial aspect and it is now more than ever important to invest in the well-being and health of our team. This is why we have chosen to work with Conscious Motions, a young start-up whose focus is to help companies implement[…]
beLean.net is hiring a new Finance Consultant
BELEAN.NET: We are part-time CFO for start-ups and scale-ups in biotech and digital. We support companies in strategy, fundraising, M&A, Due Diligence, business modelling, financial controlling, implementation of internal processes and ERP. MISSION: Supported by the partners and seniors of beLean.net, you participate directly in the various CFO missions. YOU: You are passionated about start-ups and technology and you[…]
OncoDNA teams up with SOPHiA GENETICS
OncoDNA, the genomic and theranostic company specializing in precision medicine for the treatment of cancer and genetic diseases, will customize its interpretation platform OncoKDM to make it compatible with SOPHiA GENETICSâ AI-powered SOPHiA DDMâą platform. The combined offering will enable the analysis and automatic translation of complex genomic data obtained via SOPHiA DDMâą into actionable recommendations, empowering[…]
The success of Wallonia, the biopharmaceutical valley of Europe
The current health crisis has highlighted the resilience that Belgian companies have shown to accelerate research and allow the development, in record time, of multiple therapeutic solutions to counter the Covid-19 pandemic. This social responsibility is the proof of the value that an innovative biopharmaceutical industry could bring with its expertise in dealing with an epidemic.[…]
Registration now open for the Brain Innovation Days 2021!
The time has come! We are excited to announce the programme and registration is now available for the Brain Innovation Days, to be held physically on 12-13 October 2021 in Brussels at AREA 42! REGISTER NOW Under the overarching theme, United for Brain Innovation, the Brain Innovation Days will bring together, in-person*, key opinion leaders and stakeholders from the ever-growing brain innovation ecosystem to create synergies[…]
VĂ©sale Bioscience raises a first round of 3MâŹ
A first-round funding of 3 millions euros has been raised by VĂ©sale Bioscience, the spin-out of the VĂ©sale Pharma group which focuses on phagotherapy. In order to increase its financial resources and reach the stock market, the group has hired beLean.net Partner Guillaume de Viron as Head of Finance for the phage therapy division. Co-founder of Univercells, former CFO of MaSTHerCell,[…]
VĂ©sale Bioscience calls on beLean.net to prepare and accelerate its IPO
VĂ©sale Bioscience has hired Guillaume de Viron, Partner at beLean.net, as Chief Financial Officer in order to accelerate its IPO. As CFO, Guillaume de Viron will contribute to VĂ©sale Bioscience, which is currently preparing its fundraising (10+ million âŹ) with the aim of accelerating the production and marketing of phages. Phage therapy is the use of phages,[…]
Be part of the Brain Innovation Days physical event!
The European Brain Council and beLean.net are excited to announce that after one year of digital sessions, the Brain Innovation Days will take place in person on 12-13 October 2021 in Brussels, Belgium and we invite you to Save the Date! Add to Calendar Under the overarching theme, United for Brain Innovation, the Brain Innovation Days will bring together key opinion leaders and stakeholders from the[…]
Initial success for Orgenesis’ POCare Platform
Pharmaceutical companies used to be eager buyers of technology. But in recent years, biotech platforms have benefited from easier access to capital as independent entities, eliminating the need to sell. At the same time, biopharma companies large and small are realizing that building a platform is better than focusing on a single product or production[…]
Looking back to the workshops with the BIDays Pitch Competition winners
The Brain Innovation Days hosted its first-ever Pitch Competition in January 2021. Out of 90 applications, 2 European start-ups particularly impressed the jury and the public: PIPRA, which is developing a cutting-edge AI-based pre-operative test to prevent post-operative delirium (Jury Award for Best Pitch); and icompanion, the digital companion for people with neurological conditions and their physicians (Public Award for Best Pitch).[…]
Rewatch the 3rd Brain Innovation Days Digital Session
Thank you for attending the 3rd Brain Innovation Days Digital Session, Fast-tracking brain innovation in times of COVID-19 last Tuesday! We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did and found the discussion and insight from our speakers relevant and interesting, looking at COVID-19 from a different angle and discovering potential lessons-learned to be[…]
Digiboard is now partnering with Imec
We are very proud to announce our new partnership with Imec! Imec aims to be the worldâs best center for R&D and innovation in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. They partner with many companies, start-ups and universities to bring together brilliant minds in a creative and stimulating environment. Imec accelerates progress towards a connected and sustainable future through their world-class infrastructure and local and global[…]
Imcyse signs licensing agreement with Pfizer
Imcyse raises âŹ21M and opens its capital to its new American partner, Pfizer. Very good news for the LiĂšge-based biotech company Imcyse. Indeed, the biotech has developed an active immunotherapy technology that allows to tackle autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis. A licensing agreement has just been signed with[…]
Brain Innovation Days Session #3 – Register Now!
Registration is now open for the upcoming Brain Innovation Days Digital Session, Fast-tracking brain innovation in times of COVID-19, which we are co-organising with the European Brain Council on 27 April at 12:30-14:00. REGISTER NOW The last 14 months have been testing for global health. COVID-19 exposed weaknesses in public health systems’ preparedness to face pandemics and we continue to face[…]
Brain Innovation Days Session #3 – Save the date!
The last 14 months have been a most testing time for the world in general and for global health in particular. COVID-19 took the world by surprise as weaknesses were exposed in public health systems’ preparedness to face pandemics and we continue to face the consequences over a year on. However, the emergence of COVID-19Â has[…]
Discover how PIPRA aims to prevent Post-Operative Delirium
Listen to the latest edition of Brain Talks, a podcast series under the Brain Innovation Days umbrella Under the overarching theme, âDisrupt and rewire: How brain innovation is changing Europeâ, the Brain Innovation Days aim to bring together key opinion leaders and stakeholders from the ever-growing brain innovation ecosystem to create synergies and showcase the importance of[…]
TOP 20 Belgian Biotech Companies 2021
Belgium and its companies at the forefront of the biotechnology industry in Europe Belgium is spearheading the European biotech industry. Meet some of the most successful cases of Belgian biotechnology companies. Belgium is one of the countries that provide the most to the biotech industry in Europe, as it has a total of more than[…]
The Growth Of LegalTech In Belgium
The main objectives of LegalTech companies are to offer work tools that allow to simplify processes and workflows, provide more quality, increase the value of a product or service and focus on greater efficiency and time savings for the user. At the beginning of 2019, there were 55 different agents, and in just one year, this number[…]
Catalent acquires Delphi Genetics for $55M
Catalent Pharma takes over Delphi Genetics. The Gosselies BioPark will be its European Center of Excellence in Gene and Cell Therapy. Delphi Genetics is one of ULB‘s oldest spin-offs, created twenty years ago. The company, which employs around 40 people, is a pharmaceutical subcontracting company (CDMO) specializing in cell and gene therapies. Its mission is not to develop treatments,[…]
Digiboard is now partnering with BeAngels
Weâre so excited to begin 2021 with a partnership with BeAngels! Our digital governance solution Digiboard will help start-ups in BeAngels community manage their board, and thus simplify their growth. BeAngels is a key player in the financial support of young companies in Belgium, but also in the creation of value and employment. With 20 years of experience and 370 members, BeAngels has built[…]