Press release


Antwerp & Roeselare (BE), November 5, 2025, 07:30 CET



Gimv partners with Quality Guard to establish a leading
software platform for food safety compliance across Europe
Gimv is pleased to announce a minority investment in Quality Guard, a fast-growing
Belgian food tech company that is redefining how businesses in foodservice and
food retail manage food safety and compliance.

With more than 5,000 customers in Belgium, the give us the confidence to scale our business,
Netherlands, and France, Quality Guard expand across borders and deliver even more
(www.qualityguard.com) offers a leading SaaS value to our customers.”
platform that fully digitalizes and automates
the management of HACCP, food safety, and David De Peuter and Laurens Boriale, Partner
allergens. The platform supports a wide range and Principal in Gimv’s Consumer team,
of customers — from artisanal fresh food shops added: “We are excited to partner with
to large-scale kitchens — in complying with exceptional entrepreneurs like Wim and Achile
increasingly stringent regulations and helps to and to support Quality Guard in this next phase.
significantly reduce the administrative burden The company addresses a real challenge for
imposed by national food safety authorities. foodservice and food retail operators with an
effective solution that brings confidence,
Quality Guard, founded and led by Wim and efficiency and peace of mind. We share a
Achile Van Gierdegom, has a unique strong strategic and cultural alignment with the
database of validated nutritional and allergen team and see clear potential to grow across
data for raw materials. It integrates with IoT- core markets. Quality Guard exemplifies the
enabled hardware and offers full-service kind of scalable B2B2C business we aim to back
compliance support, giving foodservice and through our Consumer investment strategy.”
food retail professionals confidence that
regulatory requirements are handled reliably, The Van Gierdegom family will remain the
efficiently and without distraction from their majority shareholder in Quality Guard, while
core business. Gimv joins as a strategic minority partner.
Financial details of the transaction will not be
With Gimv’s support, Quality Guard is set to disclosed.
accelerate its growth. The team will strengthen
its commercial operations to drive broader
adoption of digital compliance tools, expand
in key regions, enhance customer value and
pursue strategic acquisitions to consolidate a
fragmented market and build a strong
European footprint.

Wim and Achile Van Gierdegom, co-CEOs of
Quality Guard, declare: “In line with the strong
growth of recent years, this partnership is
another major step forward for Quality Guard.
Together with Gimv, we have developed an
even clearer and more concrete growth
strategy. Their entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on
support, and deep organizational expertise




- Karel Oomsstraat 37, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium - T +32 3 290 21 00 - 1
Antwerp & Roeselare (BE), November 5, 2025, 07:30 CET

Press release




About Gimv

Gimv is a European investment company, listed
on Euronext Brussels and a member of the
Euronext BEL ESG Index. With over 45 years'
experience in private equity, Gimv currently
manages an investment portfolio of around EUR 2
billion. The portfolio contains about 60 portfolio
companies, with combined turnover of EUR 4.5
billion and more than 20,000 employees.

As a recognized market leader in selected
investment platforms, Gimv identifies
entrepreneurial, innovative companies with high
growth potential and supports them in their
transformation into market leaders. Gimv's five
investment platforms are Consumer, Healthcare,
Life Sciences, Smart Industries and Sustainable
Cities. Each platform works with an experienced
team across Gimv’s home markets of Benelux,
France and DACH, supported by an extended
international network of experts.

www.gimv.com.

For further information please contact:

David De Peuter, Partner Consumer*
T +32 3 290 22 02 – david.depeuter@gimv.com

* acting on behalf of a company




- Karel Oomsstraat 37, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium - T +32 3 290 21 00 - 2