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VC Playbook: Exploring Fund+

In this latest installment of VC Playbook, Chris Buyse – former chief financial officer of ThromboGenics – talks to In Vivo about the lessons he has learned from a career as a financial executive in the life sciences and his current venture, Fund+, a Belgian-based investment group focused on innovative companies primarily active in therapeutics R&D.

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In a candid conversation, Chris Buyse talks about moving on from ThromboGenics – a biotech that managed to discover and develop a new drug, and get it approved and licensed, only to fall at the final hurdle of doctor and patient uptake – and leading a venture capital fund. He speaks about guiding investments during the COVID-19 pandemic and plans to double the size of the fund.

Buyse, an economist by training, found his way into the life sciences sector about 15 years ago. Around 2006, Désiré...

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