As well as serving as a financial partner to fledgling companies, the VC fund supports future efforts for business development and M&A opportunities within its own...
Germany’s Merck is allocating an additional €600 million to its strategic corporate venture capital arm M Ventures. The chemicals, pharmaceuticals and life sciences group...
19.11.2019
- As one of the main participants, BASF Venture Capital has invested $4 million in the first closing of the Brazilian AgVentures II fund managed by São Paulo-based SP Ventures. The...
01.06.2017
- A new report released by the UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) showed that the UK received the highest amount of biotech funding compared to anywhere else in Europe last year, and...
05.12.2016
- Pfizer Venture Investments (PVI) and TVM Life Science Ventures VII are making an additional $12 million investment in Ixchelsis. This funding will enable the UK start-up company to...
16.06.2016
- German chemical and pharmaceutical producer Merck has increased its venture capital funding under its renamed Merck Ventures umbrella. At the same time, the total investment...
05.02.2016
- Major drugs companies Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have become partners in a €210 million life sciences venture capital fund. Both groups will each contribute...
27.07.2015
- Two trillion euros in annual turnover, 22 million jobs employing 9% of the European workforce and growing — the European Commission envisions a bright future for the European...
