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FLANDERSBIO MATCHMAKING DAY
NEW YORK, NY NOVEMBER 16, 2011
FLANDERS HOUSE, NEW YORK TIMES BLD, 620 8TH AVENUE, 44TH FLOOR, NYC, NY
OVER TEN BELGIUM BASED CORPORATIONS WILL SHOWCASE EXCITING INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES. THEY ARE LOOKING FOR PARTNERS TO FURTHER DEVELOP THEIR PRODUCT PIPELINE AND PORTFOLIO.
THEY ARE TYPICALLY LOOKING FOR EQUITY AND/OR DEBT COMMITMENTS RANGING FROM USD$7.5 MILLION UP TO USD$60 MILLION TO FUND FURTHER MARKETING OF APPROVED PRODUCTS, CLINICAL TESTING PHASES (I TO III) AND/OR PRECLINICAL DEVELOPMENTS. THE FIELDS OF ACTIVITY COVER CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, CANCER, CNS, DIABETES, ADULT STEM CELLS, INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND DIAGNOSTICS.
Organizer: FlandersBio, the biotech industry representative in Flanders, Belgium. FlandersBio represents
240 life sciences and biotech companies and is the organizer of the largest annual regional
biotech convention in Europe with over 1.000 participants. Belgium will host the international
BioPartnering Europe event in 2012.
Ann Van Gysel, Managing Director
Phone: + 32 9 241 80 41
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PROGRAM
8.00AM Registration and breakfast buffet
8.30AM Welcome
8.40AM Company pitches
12.00PM Lunch
1.00 PM One-on-one meetings
This is a unique opportunity to get a clear insight in a prosperous European Biotech Cluster .
Please confirm your interest before October 7 by reply email.
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THROMBOGENICS
COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: Euronext Brussels
Business Focus:
ThromboGenics (Euronext Brussels: THR) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the
development of therapeutics for conditions related to the vascular system, cardiovascular diseases,
visual disorders and cancer. The company plans to show proof-of-concept for its products by taking
them through to completion of Phase II clinical trials. To leverage its expertise, ThromboGenics
selectively forms development and marketing collaborations with experienced partners in the
pharmaceutical industry. Such collaborations can lead to ThromboGenics generating revenues via
milestone payments, as well as royalties on commercial sales.
www.thrombogenics.com
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activities: Eye diseases, Cardiovascular and Cancer
Pipeline: Phase I and II (ophthalmology, cancer and cardiovascular), phase III - Market ready
(ophthalmology)
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MDXHEALTH
COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: Euronext Brussels
Business Focus:
MDxHealth is a molecular diagnostics company committed to developing novel, accurate, and
informative diagnostic tests for early detection of cancer and for personalizing cancer treatment
decisions.
www.mdxhealth.com
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activities: Diagnostics & Biomarkers in oncology
Pipeline: Pre-market for lung, colon and prostate cancer
Type of Investment: VC's/Private Equity Funds, Corporate Funds
Modalities: Equity
Investors worked with: LSP, BioInvest, ING, RothSchild
REMARKS
Starting US operations in August 2011
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GALAPAGOS
COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: Euronext Brussels
Business Focus:
Galapagos is a mid-size biotechnology company specialized in the discovery and development of
small molecule and antibody therapies with novel modes-of-action. The Company is progressing one
of the largest pipelines in biotech, with seven clinical and over 50 discovery programs. These internal
R&D programs are performed in parallel to target and drug discovery service activities, enabling the
Company to run a cash-generating hybrid business model.
www.glpg.com
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activities: Cardiac and Vascular, CNS, Brain, Bone, Joint, Cartilage, Dental, Oncology, Infectious
Disease, Immunology and Inflammation, Endocrinology & Metabolic Disease, Genetic Disorders
Pipeline: 50 discovery and 6 clinical programs (Phase I&II)
Type of Investment: investors willing to take an equity position
Investors worked with: Equity investment managers: biotech specialist investors as well as small
and midcap fund managers
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CRYO-SAVE GROUP
COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: Euronext Amsterdam
Business Focus:
Cryo-Save Group is the leading private family bank of human adult stem cells collected from the
umbilical cord blood at birth in Europe, with more than 185,000 samples stored. The group has never
been, and does not intend to become, involved in the storage or expansion of embryonic stem cells.
It is the fourth largest stem cell storage company in the world by number of samples and has an
estimated 50% share of the European market.
www.cryo-save.com
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activities: Tissue engineering, Cell therapy, stem cell storage and development
Pipeline: Market
Type of Investment: Corporate funds
Modalities: Equity; USD$ 7.5 -25 Million
Investors worked with: none
REMARKS
Cryo-lip, storage of stem cells from fat tissue, launced in US; currently scouting for US managing
director
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PHARMANEUROBOOST
COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: No
Business Focus:
The company’s primary goal is to significantly improve current therapy targeted against mood and
anxiety disorders. The two front-running proprietary projects (PNB01 and PNB02) are targeted
against depression and schizophrenia, respectively.
www.pharmaneuroboost.com
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activities: CNS drugs
Pipeline: preclinical (Parkinson, Alzheimers disease and obcessive compulsory disorder), phase I
(Schizophrenia) and phase II (Severe major depressive disorder)
Type of Investment: VC's/Private Equity Funds, Banks, Corporate Funds, Joint Venture Partners
Modalities: Equity, Debt, Convertible Debt; USD$ 77 Million
Investors worked with: KBC PE, Saffelberg Investments, Biovest, Finanima
REMARKS
PNB01: Execution of full non-clinical and clinical program up to NDA as requested by FDA + PNB02:
Prepare for and execute first phase III, pivotal study of PNB02
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PRONOTA
COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: No
Business Focus:
Pronota’s mission is to discover, apply and market a new generation of molecular diagnostics
(protein biomarkers) to profoundly improve the development of innovative treatments for unmet
clinical needs, and to make healthcare more individualized and predictive.
www.pronota.com
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activities: Diagnostics, Biomarker Research
Pipeline: Pre-market for cardio-renal, pre-eclampsia, sepsis, ovarian cancer
Type of Investment: VC's/Private Equity Funds, Banks, Corporate Funds, Joint Venture Partners
Modalities: Equity, USD$ 11-20 Million
Investors worked with: KBC, Gimv, LSP, MP Healthcare, JJDC, Medsciences, Baekeland
REMARKS
Building contacts for series C round of financing
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ARGEN-X
COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: No
Business Focus:
arGEN-X creates novel, antibody-based medicines with the potential to make a meaningful impact on
patients’ lives. In so doing, it will provide significant value to all of its stakeholders. Its SIMPLE
Antibody™ platform generates an unparalleled functional diversity of human antibody leads which
routinely exhibit gold standard affinities, potencies and expression levels.
www.argen-x.com
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activities: Biologics, Therapeutic Antibodies
Pipeline: Early development
Type of Investment: VC's/Private Equity Funds, Corporate Funds, Joint Venture Partners
Modalities: Equity, USD$ 9-17 Million
Investors worked with: Forbion Capital Partners, LSP, Credity Agricole PE, KBC-PE
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COMPLIX
COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: No
Business Focus:
Complix develops scaffold therapeutics. An early-stage biotech company developing therapeutic
proteins for inflammation, auto-immune and infectious diseases.
Complix is an early-stage biotech company developing therapeutic proteins for inflammation, auto-
immune and infectious diseases.
www.complix.be
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activities: Therapeutics
Pipeline: Preclinical development
Type of Investment: VC's
Modalities: Equity
Note – Investors worked with: Vesalius Biocapital, LRM, CRP, Gemma Frisius, Baekeland, Vinnof,
TrustCapital, Credit Agricole-PE
REMARKS
Looking for corporate partnering
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PROMETHERA
COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: No
Business Focus:
Promethera® Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company, spin-off of the Université Catholique de
Louvain, that develops innovative treatments based on allogeneic adult stem cell technology.
Promethera® Biosciences' mission is to discover, develop and commercialize cell therapy products to
treat liver diseases in an innovative way using allogenic progenitor cells from healthy human livers.
Biosciences was founded in 2009. The company has completed a 5.3 million euros A-round of funding
complemented by 4M€ of loans and grants from the Walloon region end of October 2009.
www.promethera.com
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activeties: Treatments based on allogenic adult progenitor cell technology
Pipeline: Early development, about to start Phase I,II
Promethera® Biosciences develops a new cell therapy product using allogeneic stem cells expanded from healthy human
liver tissue: Promethera® HepaStem. The product aims to treat a wide variety of liver genetic and acquired diseases
affecting children and adults. The innovation resides in both the simplicity of the treatment, which doesn’t require radical
surgery (compared to liver transplantation), and in the wide variety of liver pathologies that can be addressed with the
same product. This product has received two orphan drug designations from the European Community for the treatment of
Crigler-Najjar syndrome and the treatment of urea cycle disease. In conjunction, Promethera® Biosciences is developing,
Promethera® HepaScreen, a unique cell model for the pharmaceutical industry to mimic metabolism and detoxification of
new drugs by the human liver. Both products are based on a newly discovered and patented stem cell type: the human
Adult Liver-Derived Mesenchymal Progenitor Cell (hALDMSC). Promethera is contemplating a EUR 14m capital increase (B-
round) to be placed with a selected group of professional new investors and existing shareholders to finance phase I/II of
clinical trials over the next two years.
Type of Investment: VC's/Private Equity Funds, Corporate Funds, Joint Venture Partners
Modalities: Equity, Convertible Debt; USD$ 7-14 Million
Note – Investors worked with: Vesalius Biocapital, Sopartec, Vives, SRIW, Financiere Spinnoff
Luxembourgeoise, Start-up, LRSP, KMOFIN (LRM), business angels
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ALZPROTECT
COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: No
Business Focus:
The objective of the company is to bring its first drug candidate to the clinic in 2 years. AlzProtect will
develop its candidates up to clinical phase 2a before licensing them to a Pharma partner for further
development and marketing.
www.alzprotect.com
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activeties: Biotech Pharma, CNS & Brain
Pipeline: Preclinical development
Looking for 4 million Euros to finance our clinical phase 1 (Compound AZP2006), this compound has
shown very exciting anti Alzheimer properties. We are also extending our portfolio toward Parkinson
disease and developing another compound family in Alzheimer.
Type of Investment: VC's/Private Equity Funds, Banks, Corporate Funds, Joint Venture Partners
Modalities: Equity; USD$ 7 Million
Note – Investors worked with: Inovam, Finorpa
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FORMAC PHARMACEUTICALS
COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: No
Business Focus:
Formac Pharmaceuticals has developed three proprietary drug delivery technologies allowing
pharmaceutical companies to rescue poorly soluble bioactive drug candidates and redirect their
development towards value medicines. The FORMAC solubilization technologies can also be applied
for line extension development of clinical drug candidates or established marketed drugs.
www.formacpharma.com
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activeties: Drug Development, Cardiac and Vascular & Gastrointestinal
Pipeline: Early development
FORMAC is currently developing a silica based drug delivery platform for the immediate release of poorly soluble drugs. The company is looking for funding to conduct research:
- in the field of protein/polypeptide based drug delivery using its silica based drug delivery platform
- in the field of controlled release of poorly soluble drugs
thereby increasing the potential of the platform for a broad range of therapeutic applications.
Type of Investment: VC's/Private Equity Funds, Corporate Funds
Modalities: Equity; USD$ 2 Million
Note – Investors worked with: Allegro, Vinnof, Gemma-Frisius, …
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REMYND
COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: No
Business Focus:
reMYND actively drives the development of disease modifying treatments against Alzheimer’s
disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and diabetes, either as a Contract Research Organisation
(CRO) or through its own drug discovery & development (DDD). In 2010, reMYND's CRO has
upgraded its offering, reMYND’s DDD has entered into a strategic collaboration with Roche to
develop first-in-class disease modifiers for AD and PD, and featured in an article in Nature.
www.remynd.com
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activeties: Small molecules Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Diabetes
Pipeline: Preclinical development
Type of Investment: VC's/Private Equity Funds, Corporate Funds, Joint Venture Partners
Modalities: Equity
Investors worked with: Gemma Frisius Fund, Arkimedes Fortis
REMARKS
US clients are serviced from Belgium
DAFRA PHARMA R&D
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COMPANY DETAILS
Listed: No
Business Focus:
The foundations of the current Dafra Pharma International structure have been laid by the successful
development and distribution in Africa of malaria treatments based on artemisinin derivatives. On
these stable and through customers recognized and valued foundations, Dafra Pharma built their
entire product diversification program, introducing a strong product portfolio with products from
different therapeutic classes, turning Dafra into a total health care solution provider.
www.dafra.be
INVESTMENT DETAILS
Activeties: Infectious diseases, pharmaceutics, early drug development - anti parasitic/anti-fungal
drug
Pipeline: Phase I & II
Dafra Pharma R&D is currently developping a member of the alkylphosphocholine family
(oleylphosphocholine; OlPC) for a neglected indication called leishmaniasis, but our data support that
the drug can also be used to treat invasive fungal infection. Since 2009, we have developped stable
proprietary oral-solid and injectable formulations of OlPC and performed the EMEA/FDA-compliant
preclinical safety & toxicology package using non-dilutive sources of funding. The drug was shown to
be safe and predicted low risk for first-in-man study. Dafra Pharma R&D is now looking for an
investment to perform Phase I/IIa clinical proof of concept for a specific indication (leishmaniasis or
mycosis) to build value in the molecule. The proposed vehicles for investment are the co-creation of
a new company, project out-licensing, project sale or joint development.
Type of Investment: VC's/Private Equity Funds, Joint Venture Partners
Modalities: Equit; USD$ > 5M
REMARKS
Possible co-creation of a new company depending on funding opportunities