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Part of V-Bio Ventures BV, V-Bio Management 1 BV functions as an investment holding Belgian company. The company is based in Ghent, Belgium.

Syndesi Therapeutics SA develops novel therapeutics for cognitive impairment which includes Alzheimer’s disease, dementias, and cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia. The company is headquartered in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Amakem NV operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It uses kinase inhibitors for treatments of bowel, eye, and lung diseases. The company was founded by Jack Elands, Dirk Leysen, Olivier Raynald Defert, and Nadya Kaval on July 22, 2009 and is headquartered in Diepenbeek, Belgium.

Roche Glycart AG discovers and develops drugs. It is active in the research and development of new potent antibody-based products for the treatment of unmet clinical needs such as cancer. It uses its proprietary set of technologies to endow therapeutic antibodies. The company has developed glycoengineering technology (GlycoMAb) to boost a natural mechanism of action of therapeutic antibodies developed to mediate target cell killing. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Precirix NV develops and distributes radio-immunotherapeutic drugs for cancer patients. The company was founded on October 14, 2014 by Jens De Vos, Ludwig Camusot, Nick Devoogdt, Geert Raes, Tony Lahoutte and Matthias Dhuyvetter and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Confo Therapeutics NV develops pharmaceutical products. It is a drug discovery company building internal drug discovery programs on GPCRs addressing unmet medical need. The company was founded by Jan Steyaert and Toon Laeremans in June 2015 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Clearstream Banking AG engages in providing commercial banking services. Its services include settlement, custody, global securities, financing, investment fund, business and IT solutions and customer support. The company is headquartered in Eschborn, Germany.

Advitos GmbH manufactures, develops, and markets liver support therapy devices. Its therapy device helps enhance the survival of patients with life-threatening liver diseases. The company was founded by Dr. Bernhard Kreyman in 2005 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

AgomAb Therapeutics NV operates as a Belgian biotherapeutics company, developing agonistic antibodies for regeneration of damaged tissues. The company was founded by Paolo Michieli, Manuela Cazzanti, Virginia Morello, Federica Caterina Linty, Michael Potter Saunders, and Hans J. W. de Haard in 2017 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Dualyx NV is a biotech company based in Ghent, Belgium that focuses on developing novel Treg-based therapies for patients with difficult-to-treat autoimmune diseases. The CEO of the company is Wouter Verhoeven, and it is located in Zwijnaarde, Belgium. Dualyx has developed a pipeline of highly promising immune modulating programs, including DT-001, an antibody agonist program targeting the TNF receptor 2 (TNFR2), which is currently in IND-enabling studies. The Belgian company aims to create next-generation biologic drugs for autoimmunity therapies with novel mechanisms of action, lower toxicity, and improved patient outcomes than traditional therapeutics. The company was founded in 2020 by Luc van Rompaey in collaboration with Wurzburg University, Argenx, VIB, Ghent University, and KU Leuven.

Pulsify Medical BV is a Belgian digital medical technology company that specializes in developing wearable ultrasound patches. The company is based in Louvain, Belgium. Pulsify Medical was founded in 2019 by Lieven Herbots, Xavier Rottenberg, Jan D'hooge, Steve Stoffels. Iwan van Vijfeijken has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

Exevir Bio BV is engaged in biotechnology services. The company is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Belgium.

Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen NV (PMV) is a private equity/venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Region of Flanders founded in 1995. Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen NV is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Aelin Therapeutics NV develops drugs for antibiotics and first-in-class therapeutics. The company is based in Leuven, Belgium. The Belgian company was founded in 2017. The CEO is Els Beirnaert.

Forbion Capital Partners Management Holding BV (Forbion) is a Netherlands-based venture capital firm which was founded by Bart Bergstein. Headquartered in Naarden, the firm specializes in late-stage and early-stage clinical development programs to optimize the commercial potential of their investee company's technologies.

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.

Tridek-One Therapeutics SAS is a French private biotechnology company founded in 2018. The company is based in Paris, France. Tridek-One's scientific founders at INSERM conducted groundbreaking research on the role of CD31 in the modulation of the immune response, which forms the basis of the company's work. The company was founded in 2019 by Giuseppina Caligiuri, Antonino Nicoletti, and the CEO is Laurence de Schoulepnikoff.

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.

Advent Venture Partners LLP (AVP) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 1981 by David James Scott Cooksey. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Luxfold S.A. designs and engineers protein structures. It offers protein three-dimensional structure. The company is headquartered in Luxembourg.

GMP-Orphan SA engages in the research and development in biotechnology. It focuses on developing and designing drugs for life-threatening and rare diseases. The company was founded by Frederic Marin on July 18, 2011 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

AdBio Partners SAS (AdBio Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

Alderaan Biotechnology SAS operates as preclinical stage firm, that develops monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of cancer. The company was founded by Daniel Olive and Armand Bensussan on July 17, 2017 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Urania Therapeutics SAS develops therapeutic solutions for the treatment of genetic diseases caused by pathogenic nonsense mutations. The company was founded by Jean-Paul Renaud, Marat Yusupova, and Gulnara Yusupova in October 2015 and is headquartered in Illkirc, France.

DiogenX SAS engages in the discovery and development of biologics therapeutics options of Diabetic patients. It operates in Diabetes preclinical stage business segment. The company was founded by Benjamin Charles, Patrick Collombat and Jean Pascal Tranié on December 24, 2019 and is headquartered in Marseille, France.

CropDesign NV develops traits for cereal crops. It delivers agronomic traits for the global commercial seed markets. The firm focuses on enhancing grain yield in crops such as corn and rice, and increasing biomass of energy crops. Its platform, TraitMill, lows evaluating the effect of genes on the performance of plants under different growing conditions, including drought and low nutrient stress. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Blgium.

Horama SA engages in the development of gene therapies, It focuses on ophthalmological diseases for preserving visual autonomy of patients. The company was founded by Denis Cayet, Christian Hamel, Guylene Le Meur, Philippe Moullier, Vasiliki Kalatzis, and Michel Weberin March 2014 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, also known as aicpa® & cima®, is a global organization with 689,000 members, students, and professionals. The non-profit company is based in London, UK, and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The British company advocates for the accounting and finance profession, as well as the public interest and business sustainability. Andrew Harding has been the CEO of the company since 2009.

Gadeta BV discovers and develops novel cancer immunotherapies. It provides groundbreaking discoveries regarding the role of cell receptors in the broad of heamatological and solid tumor cells. The firm develops t-cells engineered to express a defined gamma delta, an anti- cancer product that eradicates tumors. The company was founded by Jurgen Kuball in 2015 and is headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands.

OCTIMET Oncology NV develops MET kinase inhibitors for the treatment of cancer. The company was founded by Timothy Perera, Ann Louise Meulemans, Paolo Comoglio, and Philip Owen in 2016 and is headquartered in Beerse, the Netherlands.

AstriVax NV, founded in 2022 by Hanne Callewaert, is a privately held Belgian company based in Leuven. AstriVax NV is located in the Biohub in Leuven and has secured a seed round of €30 million to continue building the vaccine technology. The Belgian company aims to address challenges in vaccinology with its innovative plug-and-play vaccine platform. AstriVax develops novel prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines that are easy to produce, have reduced cold chain requirements, and offer broad and long-lasting protection against various infectious diseases. Supported by well-known investors, AstriVax is committed to addressing real-world challenges in vaccinology. The company's mission is to fast forward the clinical development of game-changing vaccines, creating thermostable and durable vaccines that provide polyfunctional protection. AstriVax's portfolio includes indications such as yellow fever and rabies.