Christoph Waer
Senior Investment Manager @ Korys
Leuven, Belgium
Christoph Waer is a Series B investor at Korys in Leuven focused on Medical and Biotechnology. Christoph Waer joined Korys in 2012 as investment analyst to support the three investment lines. Prior to that, he was active as a Junior Analyst in the Paris offices of Fortis Bank (now BNP Paribas) at the Corporate Finance and Capital Markets department. He then joined iPierian, a San Francisco biotech start-up company, as a financial analyst.Christoph earned a MSc in Bioengineering, a MSc in Applied Economics at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and holds a MSc in International Management from the IAE Aix-en-Provence (France). Christoph likes to travel and is an avid soccer player.
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Medical 1 (100%)
- Biotechnology 1 (100%)
- Manufacturing 1 (100%)
- Clinical Trials 1 (100%)
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Their Contract Research Organization (CRO) helps their clients assess the effects of their experimental Alzheimer treatments in their proprietary mouse models.They serve the majority of the Top 10 pharmaco’s worldwide with clients in the US, Europe and Japan. They have provided pivotal in-vivo proof-of-concept data for several candidate drugscurrently in clinical development, and work actively together with Dr. Sugimoto, the inventor of Aricept. | $13.7M / Series B / Dec 18, 2018 |
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About Korys
Korys is the name chosen by the Colruyt family for their investment structure. The name Korys is derived from the Latin word for hazelnut tree – Corylus - which is at the origin of the Colruyt name.Their multi-disciplinary approach enables us to create a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, anddirect participations in small and medium-sized companies. Through their investments, they aim to make a positive impact on people and the planet, while generating attractive returns. A “three P” approach (People, Planet, Profit) forms the cornerstone of their investment strategy. They invest for the long term, as they realize that it takes time to achieve the sustainable impact they are aiming for. They focus their investments in sectors in which they have built substantial expertise as a team: Cleantech, consumer goods & retail and life sciences.
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Vincent Vliebergh
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Christoph Waer
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Dirk Creado
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Dries Colpaert
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Dries Crevits
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What does Christoph Waer invest in?
Christoph Waer invests primarily in Medical, Biotechnology and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series B stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Belgium. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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