Four years, four climbs: BrightAnalytics breaks into the Top 3 of the Main Software 50 Benelux

What is the Main Software 50 Benelux?

The Main Software 50 Benelux ranks the top privately held software companies in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It’s organized by Main Capital Partners, a European software investor, and the companies’ data is independently evaluated by research firm Dialogic. This year’s edition is the 15th. The ranking started in the Benelux in 2012 and now also has editions in the DACH region and the Nordics.

Companies submit their figures, and the ranking is based on seven financial metrics: revenue, revenue growth, share of recurring revenue, share of Software as a Service (SaaS) revenue, profitability (EBITDA margin), share of international revenue and share of partner revenue.

From 11th to 3rd in four years

For us, growth comes from a pattern we see again and again: as companies grow, spreadsheets stop keeping up. Our customers use BrightAnalytics to automate their month-end close, consolidate their entities and get decision-ready management reports. Their growth is what keeps moving us up this list: from 11th in 2023 to 9th in 2024, 5th in 2025 and 3rd this year.

It’s our second ranking this fall: in October, we placed #37 in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Belgium, our seventh year in a row on that list.

“Reaching the top 3 tells us we’re building something finance teams really need,” says Olivier Seynhaeve, Co-founder of BrightAnalytics. “CFOs and controllers don’t want more reports. They want answers they can trust, sooner. That’s where we keep investing: in AI that takes the repetitive work off their plate, and in local teams who know their market and speak their language.”

Built in Belgium, growing across Europe

BrightAnalytics started in Belgium in 2014. Today our platform connects to more than 450 accounting and business systems and brings all that data together in one place, for financial reporting, consolidation, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), financial closing and operational follow-up.

We’ve since opened offices in the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, plus a dedicated Finnish team based in Sweden. We’re now 150 colleagues serving more than 1,300 customers across Europe.

Growing also means doing more of the work for finance teams. We use AI to take repetitive tasks off their plates, and our Plug and play Model Context Protocol (MCP) server lets them connect AI tools straight to their BrightAnalytics data and ask questions about their numbers in plain language.

Thank you to Main Capital Partners for the recognition, and congratulations to every company on this year’s list. Here’s to next year.