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Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures

Venture Capital

Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Cologne, Germany, operating a Digital Health Fund.

Portfolio

2

companies


Portfolio companies

Broken String Biosciences

Broken String Biosciences

Genomics company building a platform to drive the development of safer cell and gene therapies.

OKKO Health

OKKO Health

OKKO Health develops smartphone applications for remote eye health self monitoring.


Team

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Fabian von Trotha


Recent investments

Series A
£12.0M

The financing was co-led by Illumina Ventures and Mérieux Equity Partners to support the development and commercialisation of the company gene editing safety technology.

"Our vision is a future where cell and gene therapies are safer, more efficient, and affordable for patients. Operating at the intersection of biology, bioinformatics and data science, our INDUCE-seq platform offers an unbiased, end-to-end solution that expedites the measurement and assessment of off-target gene editing during therapeutic development. This provides essential information required to progress therapeutic programs that leverage gene editing and mitigate potential risks that can result in later-stage clinical failures. By developing a deployable PaaS offering, we have the opportunity to provide the cell and gene therapy community with this much-needed solution and achieve rapid market growth."
— Felix Dobbs, Chief Executive Officer
Pre-Seed
£2.0M

The pre seed round was led by Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures to fund the rollout of sight monitoring technology in Germany.

"This funding will support an important foothold in the German healthcare market, a key step in our global growth. It brings us closer to our vision to get predictive eye health care into the hands of people worldwide, and protect our most valuable sense."
— Stephanie Campbell, Founder and CEO