Early-stage funding for European life sciences companies

We are a venture capital firm specialised in seed investment for innovative early stage companies. BGV generally acts as lead investor. Our current portfolio comprises of biotech developing truly disruptive solutions for high unmet medical needs.

Acerta, a multi-billion Euro success story

BioGeneration was co-founder and investor in the most successful biotech startup in Europe: Acerta Pharma. Acerta Pharma has developed Calquence® (acalabrutinib), a drug now approved by the FDA for the treatment of hematologic malignancies (leukemia). Acerta was sold to AstraZeneca for up to US$ 7 billion in 2016.

Shaping new life-science ventures

We gained our experience from working within small and large pharma and biotech companies. Based on this experience and through our extensive industry network, we are able to bring a range of sector-relevant expertise to help accelerate product development and shape the companies to become attractive investment opportunities for the industry.

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Positive Phase 2b ICONA interim results for icosabutate in NASH patients

Jan 8, 2021

Icosabutate demonstrates potent anti-inflammatory, anti-fibrotic and antioxidant properties, and shows improvement in cardio-metabolic risk profile Interim readout based on the first 90 patients treated for 16 weeksOnce-daily oral icosabutate showed dose-dependent,...

BioGeneration Ventures BGV IV fund closes at €140 million

Jan 7, 2021

BGV now one of the largest biotech investors in early stage ventures and company creation in Europe BGV IV includes new investors Eli Lilly and Company and Novo Holdings, joining existing investors Bristol Myers Squibb, European Investment Fund, Industriens Pension,...

Cristal Therapeutics and Intravacc Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Novel Vaccine Platforms

Jan 6, 2021

First joint CriVac® vaccine candidate to target receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 Evaluation of Cristal’s CliCr® and Intravacc’s OMV technology Bilthoven and Maastricht, The Netherlands, 6 January 2021 – Intravacc, one of the leading translational research and...

Lonza, Forbion and BioGeneration Ventures Announce Collaboration for Development and Manufacture of Biologics for Portfolio Companies

Dec 14, 2020

The four-year agreement provides benefits for portfolio companies of Forbion and BioGeneration Ventures (BGV) Lonza to provide de-risking, development and manufacturing services for large molecule biologics The agreement will streamline the gene to IND process,...

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