Cover photo: Nick Destrycker and Wouter Benoot in our lab in Ghent. Photo: Trends.
Belgian business magazine Trends has featured EDGX in its One Million Club. In this series, Trends and Scaleup Flanders profile scale-ups that have raised at least €1 million, or that bring in that much in annual revenue. The article, by Thomas Smolders, was published on 30 October 2026.
What Trends writes
Trends opens with SpaceX’s stock market listing, which gave the space sector a boost that is felt as far as Belgium, including at EDGX in Ghent. Our co-founder Wouter Benoot explains why satellites need computing power on board.
“We expect more and more from satellites, but there are physical limits to how fast you can send a large amount of data from space to Earth. When you analyse that data to detect forest fires or floods, for example, speed is crucial, and it’s smarter to do that on the satellite itself.”Wouter Benoot, co-founder of EDGX, in Trends (translated from Dutch)
The article then tells how Wouter and his friend Nick Destrycker, both engineers in the space sector, started EDGX in 2023. We develop computer systems that satellite operators and manufacturers integrate into their satellites, and we got several of them into space in a short time.
With a team of 25, our focus now is on scaling up production. Further ahead, we want satellites to work together to process data, instead of making one satellite at a time smarter.
Want to know more about what we build? Read about Sterna, our AI payload computer, or about our €2.3 million seed round.
