Andrea Chicca

Biomonitor ApS conducts research and development focusing on developing bioassays to monitor patients’ response to biological therapeutics. It offers services in the field of biopharmaceuticals, patient monitoring services through measurement of drug levels and immunogenicity of biopharmaceuticals in patients under therapy of these drugs, and customized reporter-gene cell-based assay development. The company was founded by Klaus Bendtzen and Arsalan Kharazmi on October 30, 2003 and is headquartered in Herlev, Denmark.

TVM Capital GmbH (TVMC) is an international venture capital firm headquartered in Munich, Germany. Founded in 1983, the firm was formerly known as Techno Venture Management.

Danmarks Eksport- og Investeringsfond (EIFO) is a venture capital subsidiary of Government of Denmark and founded in 1992. The firm is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

The Royal Society of Chemistry is an organization that supports the chemical sciences community in making the world a better place. The Royal Society of Chemistry is based in London, UK, and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom. The British company offers various opportunities in education, inclusion, and chemistry's ability to tackle challenges. The organization aims to advance excellence, connect chemical scientists, and shape the future of the chemical sciences for the benefit of humanity. The private company has a publishing portfolio that contains over one million articles, chapters, and records from across the chemical sciences and related fields. The company also provides solutions to help businesses engage with their audience of chemical scientists.

Evolva SA is a Swiss-headquartered, international pharmaceutical biotech company focused on the discovery and development of drugs based on its distinctive and proprietary genetic chemistry platform. The company was founded in Switzerland in 2004 based on US/Danish technology. Evolva is headquartered in Allschwil/Basel with operations in Denmark, India and the USA. The Company has raised CHF 38.2 million of equity to date and employs 75 persons of whom 30 are based in Allschwil. The firm's strategy and business approach is based on five pillars that offer a sustainable development path for creating a successful company, which include Building a balanced portfolio. Evolva focuses on orally available small molecules in the belief that they are more convenient for patients and more cost-effective both from manufacture and administration points of view for the society, focus on differentiated pharmaceutical products with major benefits. Focusing on cardiovascular/renal and infectious diseases. Together they cause more than 50% of all deaths worldwide. Most of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies are active in both sectors, and all are active in one of the two sectors - hence widening Evolva's opportunities to partner. Building technology platform as the source of this differentiation. Evolva finds different structures with different properties from those found by the 99% of the industry that focuses on synthetic chemistry or proteins. Openness to unusual markets. The biotech business model has changed. As well as the established markets new opportunities arise in emerging countries such as India and China, and in adjacent sectors such as treatments against potential bio-terrorist and bio-warfare agents and the production of pharmaceutical and industrial chemical intermediates. Cost-effective implementation. Evolva places different functions around the globe according to where local conditions best suit. This approach both reduces Evolva's cost base and increases access to revenues, partners and talent. Evolva sees revenues and partners as important because they provide additional flexibility, resources and talent. Also, they provide important opportunities to better understand, and better meet, the needs of current and future customers.

Sunstone Capital A/S (Sunstone) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. The firm was founded in 2007 by Peter Benson, Sten Verland, and Søren Lemonius, and invests on behalf of a group of institutional investors.

Part of AstraZeneca PLC, AstraZeneca, Inc. manufactures vaccines.

Ysios Capital Partners SGEIC SA (Ysios Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Joël Jean Pierre Jean-Mairet, Julia Salaverría Monfort and Josep Lluís Sanfeliu Benet. The firm is headquartered in San Sabastian, Spain with additional office in Barcelona.

Novartis Pharma AG engages in the research in as well as the production and distribution of pharmaceutical, chemical, medical, and biotechnological products. It also provides related services. The company was founded on October 25, 1989 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Kurma Partners SA (KP) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Thierry Laugel. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

STAT-Dx Life SL focuses on the development, manufacturing and commercialization of diagnostic solutions for fast and accurate diagnostic results of infectious diseases and critical care. It solution offers DiagCORE Cartridge, for sample and analyzation of cell material, nucleic acid purification, amplification and hybridization process. The company was founded by Jordi Cabrrera Fabra and Rafael Bru Gibert in 2010 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Medlumics SL provides medical imaging diagnostics services. It specializes in optically guided medical devices. The firm’s proprietary integrated optics platform technology combines optical and electrical components in a miniature chip, enabling for the first time complex multi view optical probes of the size of a grain of rice and ultra-portable, hand-held OCT systems that produces real-time images. The company was founded by Eduardo Margallo Balbás and Jose Luis Rubio Guivernau on April 3, 2009 and is headquartered in Tres Cantos, Spain.

Galecto Biotech ApS provides galectin modulators for the treatment of severe diseases, including fibrosis and cancer. Its products include galectin-3 inhibitors, fibrosis and literature. The company was founded by Tariq Sethi, Hans Thalsgard Schambye, Ulf Jorgen Nilsson, and Hakon Leffler in 2011 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Prexton Therapeutics SA operates as a biopharmaceutical company which develops novel therapeutic compounds as a new treatment for Parkinson’s disease and other brain disorders. The company was founded by Francois Conquet in 2012 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

CorWave SA develops and manufactures blood pumps. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Nuevolution A/S engages in research and experimental development on biotechnology. It produces and commercializes technologies for the manufacture of substances for use in the pharmaceutical industry by screening non-biological polymers and low-molecular substances. The company was founded on May 8, 2001 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Anaconda Biomed SL manufactures healthcare devices. It develops catheters for mechanical thrombectomies. The company was founded by Marc Ribo and Ofir Arad and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

AntibioTx ApS develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. The private company is based in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.

Part of Sunstone Capital A/S, Sunstone Life Science Ventures A/S is a Danish company that provides investment services. The company is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Union Therapeutics A/S operates as a clinical stage pharmaceutical company which focuses on the treatment of inflammatory skin disease. It also centers in the development of molecules exhibiting immunological and microbiological effects. The company is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

InterAx Biotech AG engages in assisting drug candidate design and selection. It focuses on the development of its systems biology platform. The company was founded by Martin Ostermaier, Aurelien Rizk, and Luca Zenone and is headquartered in Villigen, Switzerland.

TACALYX GmbH engages in the discovery and development of Tumor Associated Carbohydrate Antigenantibodies to treat cancer. The company was founded by Peter Sondermann, Peter H. Seeberger, and Oren Moscovitz and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Emergence Therapeutics AG is biopharmaceutical company. It develops novel antibody drug conjugate. The company was founded by Jack Elands and Xavier Preville and is headquartered in Duisburg, Germany.