Venture Professionals

Core team

A team of four 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 in place 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.

Dr. Stefan Herr
Dr. Jan Adams
Dr. Boris Bryk
Edeltraut Günterberg

Network and Brand

We 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.

"Stefan Herr was instrumental not only throughout the creation and founding of Cenix, from the very first conceptual discussions to the launch of the new legal corporate entity back in 1999, but importantly also in the conclusion of both of our subsequent VC investment rounds. The path of a first-time Biotech entrepreneur is a very challenging one for anyone to take, but would have been literally impossible for me without Stefan's support, guidance and mentoring as the company's business co-founder. This served me well, as I continue learning every day, now, in the 10th year of Cenix."
Chris Echeverri, Ph.D.; CEO/CSO, lead scientific founder of Cenix BioScience, Dresden