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Merck Ventures BV (Merck Ventures) is a venture capital arm of Merck KGaA founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

ONWARD Inc develops medical devices. It also provides stimulation system to rehabilitate individuals with spinal cord injury. The company was founded by Jocelyn Bloch, Sjaak Deckers, Grégoire Courtine, and Vincent Delattre in December 2014 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

VarmX BV is a spin-off from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) founded in 2016 by Professor Pieter Reitsma, a world-leading expert in hemostasis and thrombosis. VarmX is based in Leiden, NL. The Dutch company's lead compound, VMX-C001, is a modified recombinant blood factor X developed for the treatment of severe spontaneous bleeding and for the prevention of bleeding during urgent surgery in patients taking oral factor Xa inhibitors (FXa DOACs) as anticoagulation therapy. The company is supported by a strong syndicate of investors. Jan K. Öhrström has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Aito BV provides piezo touch user interface technology. It offers touch solutions on real physical user interfaces with buttons, touch pads, and screens. The firm's products include touch demos that recognize a human touch through various overlay materials, including stainless steel, aluminum, wood, and polycarbonate with back light; whole switching units with injection molded housing, electronic design, and touch user interfacing; aluminum and steel amplifier touch devices. The company was founded by Rene de Vries, Pauli Laitinen and Jockum Lonnberg in 2012 and is headquartered in EJ Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Scenic Biotech BV is using genomics to develop innovative therapies for patients affected by severe diseases. The company was founded by Thijn Brummelkamp and Sebastian Nijman and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

iOnctura SA is a pre-clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the research and development of novel immuno-oncology therapeutics for patients fighting cancer. The company was founded in June 2017 and is headquartered in Geneve, Switzerland.

NMD Pharma ApS engages with the research and preparation of small molecules targeting an undisclosed ion. It offers medical treatment of neuromuscular diseases for patients with chronic muscle wasting diseases such as myasthenia gravis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The company was founded by Ole B?kgaard Nielsen, Thomas Holm Pedersen, and Claus Elsborg Olesen on May 7, 2015 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.

Metabomed Ltd. operates as a drug discovery company. It focuses in the field of cancer metabolism with a proprietary target identification platform based on computational biology and metabolomics. The company was founded by Eytan Ruppin, Tomer Shlomi and Eyal Gottlieb in 2013 and is headquartered in Yavne, Israel.

Holland Private Equity BV is a private equity and venture capital firm. The firm was founded in 2008 by Tim van Delden and Hans van Ierland. It’s headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

EclecticIQ BV develops cyber threat intelligence platform. The company was founded by Joep Gommers and Raymon van der Velder in 2014 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Ambagon Therapeutics, Inc. provides healthcare services. It specializes in biotechnology. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Comet Therapeutics, Inc. develops and commercializes treatments for patients suffering from metabolic, neurological and immunological disorders. The company was founded by Angellina Sekirnik and Enej Kuscer in 2008 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

DNA Script engages in the provision of research and development in biotechnology. It manufactures synthetic deoxyribonucleic acid using enzymatic technology. The company was founded by Thomas Ybert, Sylvain Gariel and Xavier Godron in 2014 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Aveni SA designs, develops, manufactures and markets chemical formulations. It enables future technologies with its approach to metallization for semiconductor, MEMS, advanced packaging, and flex applications. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Massy, France.

Draupnir Bio ApS engages in the manufacture and distribution of biotechnological and pharmaceutical products. It also provides medical research services. The company was founded on April 4, 2017 and is headquartered in Risskov, Denmark.

QurAlis Corp. engages in discovering and developing new therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neurological diseases. It offers therapeutic programs and targets, and biomarkers. The company was founded by Clifford Woolf, Kevin Eggan, Jonathan J. Fleming, and Kasper Roet and is headquartered in North Cambridge, MA.

Bird Rock Bio, Inc. develops protein therapeutics. It focuses on the discovery and development of novel antibodies with upsized potential that represent to antibody therapeutics. The company was founded by Richard J. Ulevitch, Phyllis Ellen Whiteley and Katherine S. Bowdish in 2007 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Salvia BioElectronics BV develops a bioelectronics therapy for people suffering from chronic neurological diseases. The company was founded by Sjaak Deckers and Hubert Martens in 2017 and is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Vaximm AG provides active immunotherapies for patients suffering from cancer. It develops and provides vaccines for patients suffering from cancer. The firmalso provides research, development, manufacture, marketing and sale of pharmaceutical products. The company was founded in September 2008 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

InteRNA Technologies BV develops RNA technologies and applications. It provides drug discovery and development services for the treatment of cancer based on the proprietary microRNA (miRNA) functions. The company develops miRNA-based therapeutics that control genes connected in signal transduction pathways and biological processes as a part of cancer initiation, progression and metastasis. InteRNA Technologies was founded by Edwin Cuppen and Eugene Berezikov in December 2006 and is headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Brightedge Ventures (Brightedge Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of American Cancer Society, Inc founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

EQT Life Sciences Group BV (EQT Life Sciences) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of EQT AB founded in 2022 after the acquisition of LSP by EQT. The firm is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Phlox Therapeutics BV is a Dutch company that develops gene therapy to alleviate and cure cardiomyopathies. The company is based in Naarden, Netherlands. The company was founded by Yigal M. Pinto, Eva van Rooijen.

River Biomedics B V I.O. is a Dutch biotech company that focuses on cardiac drug discovery. The company is based in Enschede, Netherlands. The company develops novel therapies for cardiac diseases by directly targeting the heart muscle using human predictive 3D in-vitro models and human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) technology. The company aims to address high unmet medical needs and provide detailed clinically relevant read-outs through high-throughput in-house screening platforms. River Biomedics values partnerships and strives for novelty by mimicking nature and connecting biology and engineering. The company was founded by Marcelo Ribeiro, Robert Passier, Lisanne Blauw, and the CEO is Nicky Cooper.

Biogeneration Management is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of BioGeneration Holding BV and was founded in 2006. Biogeneration management is headquartered in Naarden.

Syncona Partners LLP (Syncona Partners) is a venture capital subsidiary of Syncona Investment Management Ltd. founded in 2012 by Martin Murphy. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Shapeways, Inc. provides on-demand 3D printing services. The firm specializes in personalized manufacturing, mass customization, personalized production and digital fabrication. The company was founded by Robert Schouwenburg, Peter Weijmarshausen and Marleen Vogelaar in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Oxxio BV distributes energy to residential and small business customers. The company is headquartered in Leusden, the Netherlands.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Regionale Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij InnovationQuarter BV (Innovation Quarter) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands. The firm was founded in 2013.

Joint Polish Investment Fund Management BV (Joint Polish Investment Fund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm headquartered in Netherlands.

Aescap Venture Management BV is an independent venture capital investment firm based in Amsterdam. Aescap was founded in 2005 by Michiel de Haan and Dinko Valerio. Inspired by the name of the Greek god of healthcare, Aesculapiu, the firm's name is an acronym for 'Accelerating European Science Companies and Products.' The firm focuses on developing growth in European firms in the biomedical sector.

Padlock Therapeutics, Inc. develops medicines targeting protein-arginine deiminases. It develops drugs that block the protein-arginine deiminase (PAD) enzymes. The firm leverages the breakthrough science on the role of protein citrullination in disease to develop drugs targeting protein-arginine deiminase (PAD) enzymes. The company was founded by Paul Thompson, Kerri Mowen, Todd A. Huffman and Michael Gilman in January 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Canbex Therapeutics Ltd. engages in the development of novel peripherally-acting cannabinoid agonists and mimetics for the treatment of multiple sclerosis spasticity and pain. Its lead drug candidate, VSN 16, has been established as a potent, stable and orally-available agonist of GPR-55 with a clear anti-spasticity effect in a validated preclinical model. The company was founded by David Baker, Gavin Giovannoni, Cristina Visintin, Gareth Pryce and David Lawrence Selwood in 2005 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Synox Therapeutics Ltd. a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Wellcome Trust Technology Transfer (Wellcome Trust Technology Transfer) is a venture capital subsidiary of The Wellcome Trust Ltd. founded in 1992 by Graham Eric Fagg. The firm is headquartered in London.