Warning lights
Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 28.3 to 14.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
SoundTalks from Leuven, company number BE0840960405, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1 million after tax. For that financial year SoundTalks recorded a gross margin of € -430,202 and equity of € 2.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1.3 million to € -1 million. The company made a loss. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 29, 2026.
€ 2.3 million
▲ 79% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1 million
▼ still € 1.3 million profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -5.9 million.
People and assets in 2025
14.5
▼ 4.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1 million
▼ 17% vs 2024
€ 69,000 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 55,365
▼ 32% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 83,649
▼ 63% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 131,424
▲ 5% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 188,984 | € 3,578,891 | € 156,915 | € -430,202 | ▼ € 587,118 |
| Profit after taxes | € -3,299,619 | € 175,059 | € 1,328,124 | € -1,008,366 | ▼ € 2.3 million |
| Equity | € -240,639 | € -65,580 | € 1,262,544 | € 2,254,178 | ▲ 79% |
| Total debts | € 8,359,388 | € 9,462,538 | € 1,381,370 | € 261,960 | ▼ 81% |
| Cash | € 1,317,504 | € 1,677,538 | € 1,094,647 | € 1,020,939 | ▼ 7% |
| Retained profit | € -6,347,636 | € -6,172,577 | € -4,844,453 | € -5,852,819 | ▼ € 1 million |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 2,775,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 8,118,749 | € 9,396,958 | € 2,643,914 | € 2,516,138 | ▼ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 33.1 | 28.3 | 19.3 | 14.5 | ▼ 4.8 |
Key figures of SoundTalks, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to SoundTalks?
What happened at SoundTalks in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Peter Van Gerwen stepped down as director. NBB
- Dries Berckmans stepped down as director. NBB
- Manuardeo Invest Services Bvba stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1 million (▼ € 2.3 million vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Peter Van Gerwen became a director. NBB
- Dries Berckmans became a director. NBB
- Manuardeo Invest Services Bvba became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Leuven. KBO
In short
From € 3.3 million loss in 2022 to € 1 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 2,946 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 1.3 million profit.
On average € 8,100 of value added per employee in 2024.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
The shares are held by Manuardeo Investment Services (45.6%), Dries Berckmans (30.3%) and Boehringer Sohn Ag & Co (15.1%). It owns 100% of SoundTalks AI Listening (Sunzhou) Technology Co.Ltd. itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2023 · until 2031
Dries Berckmans
Managing director
Owns 30.3% directly
since 2023 · until 2031
Manuardeo Invest Services Bvba
Director · represented by Jan Leuridan
Also active at: Qbic Venture Partners II, Sentea, Top Tier Access Partners, NEXTUM CONSTRUCT, NEXTUM INVEST, QBIC VENTURE PARTNERS III, NEXTUM IMMO, Equilli
since 2023 · until 2031
Shareholders
Participations
SoundTalks AI Listening (Sunzhou) Technology Co.Ltd.
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Interleuvenlaan 15C
3001 Leuven
Interleuvenlaan 15 box C
3001 Leuven
Active since 8 November 2011
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Certifications & Partners
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US
Domain
Domain
soundtalks.com
Registered
2011-01-10
Registrar
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA
Expires
2027-01-10
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0840.960.405
- VAT number
- BE 0840.960.405
- Registered office
- Interleuvenlaan 15C, 3001 Leuven
- Names & denominations
- SoundTalks
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 8 November 2011
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Nov 2025
- Contact
- soundtalks.com
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