V-Bio Ventures

V-Bio Ventures is a life sciences venture capital fund based in Gent, Belgium. It helps turn scientific advances into products with a positive effect on people's lives, and it works with entrepreneurs and scientists to set up new companies.

What V-Bio Ventures offers

• Venture investment: funding for private companies with differentiated technology that meets an unmet need.
• Therapeutics: companies developing new treatments.
• Diagnostics: tests that support medical therapies.
• Sustainable agriculture: technologies with environmental benefit.
• Company building: the fund aims to be part of the DNA of the ventures it backs, and contributes its network and sector expertise as well as capital.

Who it works with

It has a preferred relationship with VIB, a Belgium-based life science research institute, and some backed companies are built on VIB innovations. It also sources deals from other research institutes, entrepreneurial initiatives and spin-outs from mature companies, with a geographic focus on Europe.

Key facts

• Based in: Gent, Belgium
• Geographic focus: Europe
• Alignment: targets technologies matching the UN Sustainable Development Goals