Rachel Abbott

Van Herk Investments BV (VHI) is the private equity investment arm of the Van Herk Groep BV, based in Rotterdam. The parent firm was established in the 1950s as a family business with a focus on real estate investments. VHI invests in listed and unlisted firms across diverse sectors primarily in The Netherlands.

Dr. Reddy's Research & Development BV is engaged in the development and manufacture of injectable pharmaceutical products. It provides formulation, development, drug delivery, and clinical material manufacturing services to biotech and pharmaceutical companies worldwide. The company was founded by Joost J. M. Holthuis on July 20, 1995 and is headquartered in Leiden, Netherlands.

Neurotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. designs and develops therapeutic systems for retinal diseases. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Cumberland, RI.

deVGen NV provides biotechnology services for the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. It innovates in crop protection research and environment induced stress tolerance for its own crops and provides technology to corporate partners. The firm produces and sells its hybrid seeds in field crops such as rice, sunflower, sorghum and pearl millet in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The company was founded by Thierry Bogaert on September 10, 1997 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Polpharma Biologics Utrecht BV operates as a biopharmaceutical research and development company. It specializes in the development of monoclonal antibodies generation, cell line, upstream process, downstream process, analytical, and bioassay development services. The company is headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Thuja Capital Management BV is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Thuja Capital Holding BV founded in 2006 by Harrold van Barlingen. Thuja Capital Management BV is headquartered in Utrecht.

Janssen Pharmaceutica NV engages in the development of medical solutions. It offers research and development services in the field of mental illness, neurological disorders, anesthesia, analgesia, gastrointestinal disorders, fungal infection, allergies and cancer. The firms products include Zytiga, Caelyx, Dacogen, Edurant, Fentanyl-Janssen, Intelence, Leustatin, , Pariet, and Reminyl. The company was founded in 1953 by Paul Janssen and is headquartered in Beerse, Belgium.

EconCore NV specializes in economic sandwich material production technologies. The firm’s products include PP honeycomb panels, composite panels, steel panels, polycarbonate panels, and wood panels. The company was founded in December 2005 by Ignaas Verpoest and Dirk Vandepitte and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Tc Land Expression SA operates as a molecular diagnostic company. It focuses on the development and commercialisation of tests aimed at monitoring patients with immunological conditions. The firm specializes in the area of organ transplantation and immune mediated disorders. Its development programs encompass RA-INF-Dx, IMD Dx2, IMD Dx3, and L-TolX. The company was founded by Marina Guillet and Alain Huriez in November 2002 and is headquartered in Huningue, France.

Isobionics BV operates as a holding company, which produces flavor and fragrance ingredients. The firm manufactures and supplies natural chemical substances such as Valencene, Nootkatone, and Beta-Elemene. The company was founded by Toine Janssen in 2008 and is headquartered in Geleen, the Netherlands.

Agendia, Inc. operates as a molecular diagnostics company. It develops and markets FFPE-based genomic diagnostic products, which help support physicians with their treatment decisions. Agendia?s tests can help physicians assess a patient?s individual risk for metastasis, it benefits from chemo, hormonal or combination therapy. The company was founded by Laura van't Veer and Ren? Bernards in 2003 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Ceradis BV develops and markets environmental solutions for plant nutrition, crop protection, and formulation services. It focuses on the use of biological formulation additives and the development of biofungicides based on macro-organisms or natural products. The company was founded by Wim M. van der Krieken in 2005 and is headquartered in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

PROMETHERA Biosciences SA discovers, develops and commercializes cell therapy products to treat liver diseases. It operates as a pharmaceutical company that develops treatment based on allogeneic adult stem cell technology. The firm’s technology platform is based on a newly discovered cell type, isolated from normal human adult liver tissue: Heterologous Human Adult Liver Progenitor Cells (HHALPC). The company was founded by Etienne Marc Sokal and Eric Halioua on February 12, 2009 and is headquartered in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium.

FABPulous BV develops a handheld disposable plasma separation device with embedded in vitro diagnostic test capability. It offers ultra rapid plasma preparation platform that can make a defined dilution of plasma from a small volume of whole blood in seconds and integrated lateral flow IVD platform. The company’s tests provide diagnosis and benefit to the patient, as well as the healthcare sector, the insurance industry, governments and society in general. FABPulous was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Astellas Pharma SAS wholesales pharmaceutical products. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France.

Medis Medical Imaging Systems BV engages in the development and supply of software solutions for data imaging used by medical industry. Its products include Media Suite MR, Media Suite XA, Medis Suite CT, and Intravascular. The company was founded by Johan Hans C. Reiber in 1989 and is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.

BioWin ASBL operates as non-profit organization, with interest in the health biotechnology sector. With its member, the firm provides support for the funding in the research and development of biomarkers, nano medicine, drug delivery system, novel therapies, medical devices, and information technology applied to human health. The company is headquartered in Gosselies, Belgium.

DCPrime BV engages in the provision of therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of cancer. It develops whole-cell-based vaccine addressing blood cancers with a high risk of relapse. The company was founded by Ada M. Kruisbeek and Rik J. Scheper in March 2005 and is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.

NightBalance BV develops and markets sensor-devices for the treatment of sleep apnea. It offers sleep position trainer, a small and light aid which can be worn around the chest with an ergonomic band. The firm's a sleep position sensor which gradually and comfortably trains patients using vibrations to not sleep on their back. The company was founded by Eline van Beest and Thijs van Oorschot in 2009 and is headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Cristal Delivery BV develops and manufactures nanomedicines for therapeutic drug optimization. It offers pipeline, oncology, and inflammation programs. The company was founded by Joost J. M. Holthuis and Cristianne Rijcken in April 2011 and is headquartered in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Exponential BV is a Dutch company that provides management and business consulting services. The private company is based in Capelle aan de IJssel, Netherlands. The CEO of the company is Dharminder S. Chahal.

Quorics BV develops novel therapeutics and early diagnostic tests for cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded by Dharminder S. Chahal in 2012 and is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Mellon Medical BV manufactures and develops surgical suturing devices. The firm’s suturing device, the Switch, is designed for surgeons who perform the challenging operations and can easily be rotated in the hand because of its pencil-like shape. The company was founded in April 2013 by Mark Vrancken Peeters and is headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

VitalneXt BV develops retails and manufactures products for healthy ageing. Its products include promanna, vital01 and other products. The firm develops products with evidence-based health benefits for the ageing population. It also develops new, proprietary, technologies, ingredients and products through its own network and through collaborations with the company's research partners. The company was founded by Rein Strijker in May 2013 and is headquartered in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.

SkylineDx BV develops molecular diagnostic tests for blood cancers. The firm focuses on the development and commercialization of gene signature-based diagnostic tests, which assist healthcare professionals in making personalized treatment decisions for individual patients. Its products include MMprofiler and AMLprofiler. The company was founded by Dharminder S. Chahal and Bob Löwenberg in 2005 and is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Nutrileads BV develops food ingredi?nts with a specific nutritional value. It identifies promising lead ingredients, develops sustainable and commercially viable production processes and initiates scientific and clinical programs to test the health effects. The company was founded in 2012 by Erik Dam and Ruud Albers and is headquartered in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Swanbridge Capital Management is a venture capital firm, headquartered in Netherland. The frim founded in 2016 by Van Herk Investments, the Erasmus Medical Center and the City of Rotterdam.

Sensara BV engages in the development of self-learning, intelligent home monitoring solutions for the home care industry. It offers a smart sensor system, which detects unusual situations and sounds an alarm when something is wrong. The company was founded by Irek Karkowski and Ted Punt and is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Antion Biosciences SA is a Swiss-based biotechnology company that develops universal cell and gene therapy products to treat diseases with significant unmet medical needs. The private company is based in Geneva, Switzerland. The company's proprietary gene silencing and co-expression gene constructs allow for a modular and tunable approach to multiplex engineering of therapeutic cells. Antion aims to develop off-the-shelf therapies with enhanced potency and improved safety to make cell and gene therapies universal and broaden access to these life-changing therapies for all patients. Antion Biosciences was founded by Michael Pepper and Roberto Speck, and the CEO is Marco Alessandrini.

Alveron Pharma BV is a Dutch company that develops cyclodextrin-based drugs. The company is based in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The company was founded in 2019. Ben Nichols has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

EsoBiotec SA is a Belgian company that provides research and development on natural sciences and engineering. The company is based in Charleroi, Belgium. The company was founded in 2020 by Jean-Pierre Latere. Jean-Pierre Latere has been the CEO since 2020.

FundaMental Pharma GmbH is a neuroscience company based in Heidelberg, Germany. The German company develops first-in-class small inhibitors for the treatment of a range of neurodegenerative diseases. The company's scientists have discovered an entirely new class of drugs that safely counteract glutamate excitotoxicity, a common cause of neurodegeneration. The company's current focus is on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Huntington's disease, but the applicability of these molecules extends to a range of neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia and aging-related memory loss. FundaMental Pharma was founded in 2016 by Thomas Schulze, Hilmar Bading, and Daniela Mauceri, and Thomas Schulze has been the CEO since 2016.

Sairopa B V is a Dutch company that develops medicines and operates as an investment holding company.