Gründerfonds Ruhr

Gründerfonds Ruhr is a venture capital firm based in Essen, Germany. The firm provides financial advice and support to early-stage start-ups in the Ruhr area. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the chemistry and new materials, energy and industry, life science and health, logistics and trade, and digital economy sectors.

2 past transactions

Emergence Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Emergence Therapeutics is a European biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) to treat high-need cancers. Its lead program combines a highly specific antibody with optimized linker and payload technology to target Nectin-4 – an important target for a broad range of cancers which has been clinically validated as an ADC target by enfortumab vedotin, now approved for the treatment of urothelial cancers by the US Food and Drug Administration. Emergence is also actively exploring opportunities to develop further first- or best-in-class ADCs driven by therapeutic need.

Abalos Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
The company intends to use the funds to advance its arenavirus-based lead candidates towards clinical testing. They will develop the initial product candidates using its proprietary Fast Evolution platform, which will generate virus strains with optimized anti-tumoral properties. These candidates will be selected based on their ability to re-program the immune system to specifically and efficiently eliminate the malignant tumor tissue.
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