Venture Professionals

Core team

A team of three professionals who share a common history of several years of venture investing and a passion for building successful ventures form the core team. The team has a track record of successful early-stage investing with more than forty years of combined experience and the proven ability to build successful businesses. Effective processes for identifying, financing, growing and supporting entrepreneurial management teams, technologies and products are in place. The active support, complementary investment skills, and specific domain expertise of the team allows the targeting of unique and outstanding opportunities.

Network and Brand

We are recognised in the venture community as a dedicated and incisive early-stage investor that delivers results. Partner funds appreciate the combination of thorough technological understanding with the drive to capital-efficient value generation that EMBL Ventures symbolises in the market. This is the reason that top tier investors like to co-invest with us.

"EMBL Ventures has played a crucial role in building Elara Pharmaceuticals from an academic project to an established Biotech company. The excellent support and access to their network has smoothed the process of building the company and its capabilities. I would certainly recommend anyone who is thinking of starting a company to get EMBL Ventures involved."
Joe Lewis, PhD; CEO, Elara Pharmaceuticals, Heidelberg