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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Synaffix wins Best Platform Technology at 7th Annual World ADC Awards

Sep 22, 2020

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – September 22, 2020 – Synaffix B.V., a biotechnology companyenabling antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) with best-in-class therapeutic index, announces thatit has won the “Best ADC Platform Technology” category at the 2020 World ADC...

Scenic Biotech Enters into Genetic Modifier Collaboration with Genentech

Sep 21, 2020

● Multi-year strategic collaboration in target discovery and therapeutic developmentbased on Scenic Biotech’s disease modifying approach● Utilises Scenic’s unique Cell-Seq platform and its proprietary data warehouse ofgenetic modifiers● Scenic Biotech will receive an...

Synaffix Sees Competitive Early In Vivo Data from ADCs Based on Proprietary Exatecan Linker-Payload

Sep 16, 2020

Synaffix Announces Expansion of Collaboration with ADC Therapeutics

Jul 23, 2020

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – July 23, 2020 – Synaffix B.V., a biotechnology company focused on enabling antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) with superior therapeutic index based on its proprietary ADC technology platform, announces that ADC Therapeutics SA has expanded its...

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