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Life Sciences Fund Amsterdam

The Life Sciences Fund Amsterdam is established in 2009. Its goal is to provide investment capital to fund biomedical entrepreneurial activity in the province Noord-Holland.

Fund: The fund targets companies that are developing commercially promising products and technologies in life sciences, including: pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, information technology and other high technology opportunities that offer venture capital returns.
Team & Contact: The management team of the Life Sciences Fund Amsterdam has a successful track record in sourcing, structuring and exiting seed and spin-out companies. Such experience and track-record allows the fund to provide the required hands-on operational assistance to the fund’s portfolio companies.
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It’s business stupid

What is it with the Dutch that they have such difficulty grabbing business opportunities in a changing world? We have the brains, we have the money and the opportunities are plenty. Still, during the last 40 years hardly any company of substantial size has emerged next to the old industry in the AEX. Oil, food, materials and financial services dominate the landscape.

We have left the environmental challenges to environmentalists, rather then building innovative businesses in solar or wind energy to help face them. We have exported our knowledge on agriculture around the world, and now that we can more intelligently engineer crops we let the opportunity pass due to invalid arguments around GMOs. Now that “kweekersrecht” is being substituted by patent law we complain instead of adapt.

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Life Sciences Fund Amsterdam

It’s business stupid