Gemma Frisius Fund
lrd.kuleuven.be Direct investor
Gemma Frisius Fund is a seed capital fund established in 1997 as a joint venture between KU Leuven, KBC Bank, and BNP Paribas Fortis Private Equity Belgium. It provides seed capital to KU Leuven spin-off companies and supports student entrepreneurship through convertible loans.
Gemma Frisius Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, founded in 1997. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in university spin-offs, research-based and technology. 80 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“The objective of the fund is to stimulate the creation and growth of KU Leuven spin-off companies by providing them with seed capital in the very early phases of their development.”
— Gemma Frisius Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Belgium
- Sectors
- university spin-offs, research-based, technology
- Founded
- 1997
- Portfolio
- 80 companies
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 17 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- V-Bio Ventures 4 shared companies: protealis.com, aphea.bio, astrivax.com, augustinetx.com
- Innovation Industries 2 shared companies: protealis.com, aphea.bio
- Korys 2 shared companies: protealis.com, remynd.com
- Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund 2 shared companies: obulytix.com, rwdtx.com
- European Circular Bioeconomy Fund 1 shared company: aphea.bio
- BOM (Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij) 1 shared company: cyturatherapeutics.com
- Expon Capital 1 shared company: service.svcd:8080
- Asabys Partners 1 shared company: augustinetx.com
- Andera Partners 1 shared company: complix.com
- Vesalius Biocapital Partners Sàrl 1 shared company: complix.com
and 7 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Gemma Frisius Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://lrd.kuleuven.be/en/spinoff/gemma-frisius-fundname, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, status
- https://lrd.kuleuven.be/en/spinoff/gemma-frisius-fund-portfolioportfolio_count
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