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Gemma Frisius Fund
Venture capital · Leuven, Belgium · Europe
Gemma Frisius Fund is a seed capital fund established in 1997 as a joint venture between KU Leuven, KBC Bank and BNP Paribas Fortis Private Equity Belgium. It provides seed capital to KU Leuven spin-off companies and supports their creation and growth.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsuniversity spin-offsseed capitaltechnology transferresearch commercializationstudent entrepreneurship
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Or find every investor that fitsGemma Frisius Fund lists 3 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest theme is Healthcare & Biotech (100%). 100% of its companies are based in Belgium. It invests most often alongside PMV, AdBio partners and Asabys Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Gemma Frisius Fund, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 67% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| PMV | 2 |
| AdBio partners | 1 |
| Asabys Partners | 1 |
| Capricorn Partners | 1 |
| Jeito Capital | 1 |
| Newton Biocapital | 1 |
| V-Bio Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 100% | 15% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Gemma Frisius Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Gemma Frisius Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 9 Sept 2025 | Series A | |
| 24 Mar 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Gemma Frisius Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Gemma Frisius Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
3 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aspect Analytics provides software for analyzing spatial biology data to drive drug discovery and development. | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Augustine Therapeutics develops novel HDAC6 inhibitors for the treatment of chronic diseases | Healthcare & Biotech | Mar 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Runeasi provides a running gait and jump analysis tool for physios to assess runners | Healthcare & Biotech | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- kuleuven.be
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Mar 2025
- Companies checked
- 3
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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