Wil-Low BVBA is a Belgian company founded by the Lowagie-Willaert family. The owners have founded several companies in the IT sector. They are active as board member, C-level officer, investor, and advisor in different start-ups and scale-ups.
Over the years, we have won several awards:
- Writing awards and publications (fiction):
- 2019
- Belgium's Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs: Contributed the chapter "what being an entrepreneur is about" (p 22-29) in the section entitled "flagship"
- Gorcumse Literatuurprijs: winner in the category "prose" (20+) with the story "Opa 75"
- Summer writing contest "Die ene zomer" organized by De Wereldwijven in cooperation with the Editio Online Schrijversacademie: winner with the story "Rups-wordt-pop-wordt-vlinder"
- 18.02 Publishing verhalenwedstrijd: made the short-list of published stories with "De sterfelijke god"
- LetterRijn verhalenwedstrijd: made the long-list of 46 stories in the thriller-writing contest "Met de beste bedoeling" ("With the best intentions"); the short-list will be announced on August 4, 2019
- Sweek's #MicroBoot contest: finalist with the story "Oceaanwees" (published in an anthology released by Sweek)
- Sweek's #MicroPalace contest: finalist with the story "The Empty Palace" (published in an anthology released by Sweek)
- 55 woorden schrijfwedstrijd: publication of the very short story "Robots aan de macht" in the fourth edition of the "Nederlandstalige 55 woordenverhalenbundel" released on the occasion the "week of the book" (March 23 to 31).
- 2019
- BelCham Entrepreneurship Awards: iText Group NV: "Most Promising Company of the Year 2014"
- Deloitte's Fast 50: iText Group NV
- 2013: 3th place in Belgium; 10th place in the Benelux; 53rd place Fast500 EMEA
- 2014: 1st place in Belgium; 28th place Fast500 EMEA
- 2015: 2nd place in Belgium; 143rd place Fast500 EMEA
- 2016: 40th place in Belgium
- Stevies:
- American Business Awards: iText Software Corp.
- Bronze Stevie 2015: Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year (up to 100 employees)
- Bronze Stevie 2016: Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year (up to 100 employees)
- Bronze Stevie 2017: Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year (up to 100 employees)
- Bronze Stevie 2018: Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year (up to 100 employees)
- International Business Awards: iText Software BVBA
- Silver Stevie 2016: Most Innovative company of the Year
- Silver Stevie 2017: Most Innovative company of the Year
- Silver Stevie 2018: Most Innovative Company of the Year - Up to 100 Employees
- American Business Awards: iText Software Corp.
- European Business Awards (for Belgium)
- 2015/16: Ingeborg Willaert and Bruno Lowagie: National Public Champion "RSM Entrepreneur of the Year"
- 2016/17: iText Group NV: National Champion "Business of the Year with turnover of 0 - 25M euro"
- 2017/18: iText Group NV: National Champion "ELITE Award for Growth Strategy of the Year"
- Flanders Investment & Trade, Lion of the Export: nominee 2016, iText Group NV
- JavaOne Rockstar Award 2015: Bruno Lowagie: "IANAL: What Developers should know about IP and Legal"
- Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival 2019: Electric Girl (credited as executive producers), Official Selection (in competition)
- Miscellaneous: nominations for
- Trends Business Tour (2014, 2015),
- Data News Awards for Excellence (2015),
- Entrepreneur Awards (2016),
- Computable IT Person of the Year (2016, 2017),
- and many more (you can't win them all).