Leaps by Bayer
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Leaps by Bayer is the strategic investment unit of Bayer, investing in early-stage companies and forming new ventures in health and agriculture. It focuses on ten major challenges and supports portfolio companies through active incubation.
Leaps by Bayer is a corporate venture arm headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in health and agriculture. 2.1+ Billion USD under management and 65 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in teams pursuing fundamental breakthroughs in life science, targeting ten huge challenges across health and agriculture.”
— Leaps by Bayer, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- health, agriculture
- Assets under management
- 2.1+ Billion USD
- Portfolio
- 65 companies
Team, as Leaps by Bayer publishes it
- Paimun Amini VP of Agriculture Venture Investments
- Denise Boehme Director Portfolio Strategy & Reporting
- Rakhshita Dhar Co-head of Health Venture Investments
- Juergen Eckhardt EVP and Head of Leaps by Bayer
- Doerte Fiebiger Brand & Community Engagement Support
- André Guillaume VP / Head of Brand & Community Engagement
- Brendan Kelly Senior Director of Health Venture Investments
- Ingo Kloeckner Head of Portfolio Strategy & Reporting
- Steven Neier Senior Director of Health Venture Investments
- Derek Norman VP of Agriculture Venture Investments
- Alev Oezmen Portfolio Strategy & Reporting Support
- Sara Olson Senior Director of Agriculture Venture Investments
Names and roles exactly as listed on leaps.bayer.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 82 co-investors found.
- RA Capital Management 5 shared companies: celeatx.com, boundlessbio.com, metagenomi.co, pyxisoncology.com…
- ARCH Venture Partners 4 shared companies: boundlessbio.com, mozart-tx.com, dewpointx.com, egenesis.com
- B Capital 3 shared companies: numerionlabs.ai, nuvigtherapeutics.com, triumvira.com
- EcoR1 Capital 3 shared companies: paratussciences.com, recodetx.com, dewpointx.com
- Vida Ventures 3 shared companies: souffletx.com, recodetx.com, capstantx.com
- Air Street Capital 2 shared companies: recursion.com, gandeeva.com
- Felicis Ventures 2 shared companies: recursion.com, cellinobio.com
- Lux Capital 2 shared companies: recursion.com, egenesisbio.com
- Menlo Ventures 2 shared companies: recursion.com, sentibio.com
- Mission BioCapital 2 shared companies: nuvigtherapeutics.com, sound.ag
and 72 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Leaps by Bayer publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://leaps.bayer.com/name, is_investor, sectors, status, confidence
- https://leaps.bayer.com/approachlayer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, aum, portfolio_count
- https://leaps.bayer.com/teamhq_country, hq_city, people
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