Profile: VC Forbion's Slootweg Sees Bigger And Better European Funds

Sander Slootweg, managing partner and co-founder of Forbion Capital Partners, talks venture capital trends, industrial changes to watch, deal making and challenges faced during his years investing in the life science industry in the latest instalment of Scrip's executive profile series.

SANDER SLOOTWEG
Sander Slootweg, Forbion Capital Partners

Before co-founding Forbion Capital Partners as a spin-out of ABN AMRO Capital Life Sciences in 2006, Slootweg was an investment director at ABN AMRO Capital Life Sciences. As Forbion's managing partner, Slootweg played a big role in selling BioVex Inc. to Amgen Inc. in 2011 for up to $1bn and the sale of Dezima Pharma BV, also to Amgen, in 2015 for around $1.55bn. He is currently on the board of Forbion portfolio companies Xention Discovery Ltd, Pulmagen Therapeutics Ltd, Oxyrane Ltd and Replimune Ltd.

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