New Features: Filter Belgian Companies by Private Capital Ownership

At openthebox, we keep finding new ways to turn the data already in the platform into answers you can act on. This release does exactly that with Private Capital, a new filter that lets you slice the full Belgian company database by who owns it.

There are 9,100 Belgian companies with a private-capital owner behind them. Until now, finding them meant tracing filings and ownership paths by hand. Now it is a single search.

This set of features is available for Premium, Plus and Max openthebox users.

A new way to segment the market

The new Private capital filter group lets you narrow the entire Belgian database by ownership type and combine it with every other search criterion. The types you can filter on include private equity, family office, venture capital, listed holding and public investment vehicle.

Because it sits alongside every other filter, a question that used to be a research project becomes one query. A list of every family office in Flanders, or every private equity firm with more than €10M in equity, is now a single search rather than an afternoon of cross-referencing

The intelligence behind it is not new. It is the same ownership data that powered our Belgian Private Capital Monitor: 69,881 ownership paths across 348 managers and 9,100 companies. It was always in the platform. Now it is queryable.

Read the owner without losing your place

Finding a company is only half the job. You also need to know how strong the capital behind it is. On any ownership path, hovering over an entity surfaces a financial snapshot that follows your cursor: a financial-health score alongside equity, turnover, staff and result. You can judge an owner in seconds, without opening a new page or losing your place in the list.

See the structure at a glance

For the full picture, the spiderweb now carries a Private capital toggle. Switch it on to visualise how a company connects to its backers and the wider ownership network, so a complex structure reads as a single, navigable graph rather than a list of names.

More in this release

A few changes make everyday research smoother too:

• A redesigned company and person profile. A sticky header keeps the name, status and private-capital badge in view as you scroll, and a new KPI strip puts the figures a decision rests on (equity, turnover, profit/loss, EBITDA and staff, each with its period-over-period change) right at the top. (The purple Private capital tag is for Premium, Max and Plus users only).

• The Ownership subtab under Participations is now Private Capital. Same place, richer content, clearer name.
• Locked reports and tabs stay visible. Items outside your plan now appear with a lock rather than disappearing, so you can always see what an upgrade adds.

Try it for yourself

The whole flow takes about a minute. Open it in the platform and follow along:

1. Open advanced search, expand the Private Capital filter group and tick "private capital owned".
2. Open any result. The redesigned profile puts status and the headline figures in view straight away.
3. Go to the Private capital subtab under Participations to trace the full ownership path up to the backer.
4. Hover over an owner. The financial-health snapshot follows your cursor, so you read the figures without leaving the page.
5. Open the spiderweb and toggle Private capital on to see the whole structure as a graph.

Try a search of your own and see who is sitting behind the companies you already follow.

Turning ownership into a question you can ask

Ownership has always been one of the hardest things to trace in company research, and one of the most valuable. By making private-capital ownership queryable, readable and visual in one place, openthebox turns a manual investigation into a single search. That is the whole point: not more data, but faster answers you can stand behind.