Bullswap wins Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 with a growth of 7176%. OTIV wins the Rising Star award.

Brussels, 27 October 2023

This year the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 celebrated its 10^th anniversary with a special awards ceremony honouring the Fast 50 and Rising Star winners at Deloitte Gateway on 26 October. Bringing together the tech ecosystem, the event put the spotlight on Belgium’s fastest growing technology companies overall and the most promising rising stars in the start-up and scale-up community.
 

Bullswap, online equipment rental platform

With revenue growth of 7176% over the past four years, Bullswap not only achieved first place in the overall Fast 50 ranking, but also received the award for fastest growing company in the Enterprise Software category. Bullswap, which was founded by Jannes Valkeneers and Laurens Opitek, is a B2B equipment marketplace which handles all rental needs for more than 10,000 users. The platform has grown quickly since its launch in 2018 to include around 350 rental companies that together provide approximately 100,000 pieces of equipment, ranging from advanced excavators and cranes to containers and mobile toilets. Recently they also entered the SaaS (Software as a Service) space with Bullswap Manage, a software tool where equipment owners can easily manage their own equipment and put them up for rent, without being a rental company.

Jannes Valkeneers and Laurens Opitek, Co-founders of Bullswap: “This is a great recognition for the hard work of the entire team. Despite this strong growth, in recent years we have only focused on finding the right product market fit. Consequently, in our opinion, the growth phase has yet to begin. There is still room for top profiles who want to be part of the Bullswap story!”
 

Bullswap

Sam Sluismans, Programme Leader Deloitte's Technology Fast 50: “The 10th annual Deloitte Technology Fast 50 further confirms that Belgium is an ideal breeding ground for impressive start-ups and scale-ups. This year we have seen another good flow of participants moving into the Fast 50, with 2022 Rising Star Venly now listed in the ranking and winning the Media & Entertainment category award. Many strong sector winners are back from last year, as well as unicorns such as Odoo and Deliverect, which shows that despite difficult economic conditions they continue to achieve hypergrowth. The fact that all the companies in the ranking, including those that did not win an award, generate such strong turnover, says a lot about the maturity of the ecosystem in Belgium.”

Nodalview, an easy-to-use online platform to show and sell properties, won the award for "Most Sustainable Growth”, an award presented to the Fast 50 participant that has achieved the highest average ranking over the past four consecutive years.