# Evotec

> Evotec is a VC fund in Hamburg backing Biotechnology and Health Care. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/evotec/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/evotec
- Website: http://evotec.com

Evotec is a drug discovery alliance and development partnership company focused on rapidly progressing innovative product approaches with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academics, patient advocacy groups, and venture capitalists. Drug discovery solutions are provided in form of fee-for-service work, integrated drug discovery alliances,development partnerships, licensing of innovative drug candidates, and consulting arrangements. The company operates worldwide and has leading scientific experts, state-of-the-art technologies as well as key therapeutic expertise in the areas of neuroscience, diabetes, and complications of diabetes, pain and inflammation, oncology, infectious diseases, respiratory diseases, and fibrosis. By leveraging this expertise, Evotec intends to develop best-in-class and first-in-class differentiated therapeutics on its systematic, unbiased, and comprehensive infrastructure.Evotec has long-term discovery alliances with partners including Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celgene, CHDI, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Sanofi, Takeda, UCB, and others. In addition, the company has existing development partnerships and product candidates both in clinical and pre-clinical development. These include partnerships with Sanofi in the field of diabetes and cancer immunotherapy, with Pfizer in the field of tissue fibrosis, with Bayer in the field of kidney diseases, and with Celgene in the field of neurodegenerative diseases.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 18 | 75% |
| Health Care | 10 | 42% |
| Therapeutics | 8 | 33% |
| Pharmaceutical | 6 | 25% |
| Life Science | 4 | 17% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 33% |
| Series B | 4 | 17% |
| Seed | 3 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 25% |
| Germany | 5 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 13% |
| Italy | 1 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Werner Lanthaler | CEO | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/werner-lanthaler |
| Aurelie Dalbiez | Chief People Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aurelie-dalbiez-463f |
| Cord Dohrmann | CSO & Managment board member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cord-dohrmann |
| Craig Johnstone | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-johnstone-0608 |
| Dimitar Hristozov | Group Leader & Research Informatics | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dimitar-hristozov |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aptadir Therapeutics | Aptadir Therapeutics is developing RNA inhibitor-based therapeutics for treating intractable cancers and genetic conditions. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Aeovian Pharmaceuticals | Aeovian Pharmaceuticals is a San Francisco Bay Area-based biopharmaceutical company aiming to discover, develop, and commercialize innovative therapeutics for the treatment of rare and age-related diseases. The company is developing compounds to modulate molecular pathways that address the underlying causes of disease initiation and progression,such as oxidative, cellular and environmental stress.Aeovian Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2012. | $50M | Series A | Mar 28, 2024 |  |
| Tubulis | Tubulis is a biotechnology company that develops antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for targeted cancer therapy. The company combines proprietary technologies with disease-specific biological insights to create highly stable and effective protein-drug conjugates. Its platform enables the design of ADCs with improved delivery, reduced toxicity, andenhanced therapeutic potential across various cancer types, including solid and hematologic tumors. Tubulis is advancing a pipeline of experimental drug candidates, such as TUB-040 and TUB-030, which are currently being evaluated in clinical settings for cancers like ovarian and lung cancer. The company also collaborates with industry partners and leverages its proprietary conjugation technologies to expand the scope and effectiveness of targeted oncology treatments. | $139.3M | Series B | Mar 14, 2024 |  |
| Carrick Therapeutics | Carrick Therapeutics is a developer of cancer therapeutics intended to transform the way cancer is treated. The company's therapeutics target molecular pathways that drive the most aggressive and resistant forms of cancer using innovative mechanisms, enabling cancer patients to get their predictive biomarkers detected and get their treatmentsstarted from early stage. | $35M | Corporate Round | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Carrick Therapeutics | Carrick Therapeutics is a developer of cancer therapeutics intended to transform the way cancer is treated. The company's therapeutics target molecular pathways that drive the most aggressive and resistant forms of cancer using innovative mechanisms, enabling cancer patients to get their predictive biomarkers detected and get their treatmentsstarted from early stage. | $60M | Series C | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Cajal Neuroscience | Cajal Neuroscience is a drug discovery company focused on neurodegenerative disease. | $96M | Series A | Nov 29, 2022 |  |
| Tubulis | Tubulis is a biotechnology company that develops antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for targeted cancer therapy. The company combines proprietary technologies with disease-specific biological insights to create highly stable and effective protein-drug conjugates. Its platform enables the design of ADCs with improved delivery, reduced toxicity, andenhanced therapeutic potential across various cancer types, including solid and hematologic tumors. Tubulis is advancing a pipeline of experimental drug candidates, such as TUB-040 and TUB-030, which are currently being evaluated in clinical settings for cancers like ovarian and lung cancer. The company also collaborates with industry partners and leverages its proprietary conjugation technologies to expand the scope and effectiveness of targeted oncology treatments. | $63.2M | Series B | May 03, 2022 |  |
| Centauri Therapeutics | Centauri Therapeutics is a UK-based biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of novel molecules targeting life threatening diseases. The Alphamer technology is based on "programmable immunity" in which chemically synthesised molecules redirect naturally occurring antibodies to selected pathogens to fight theinfection. The molecules have two distinct parts: one end binds a cell-surface target on the pathogen using an aptamer whereas the other end presents specific epitopes that attach to the circulating antibodies. It has been demonstrated that Alphamers have the potential to redirect pre-existing antibodies to bacteria in a specific manner and trigger an immediate antibacterial immune response, so clearing the infection. Centauri Therapeutics’ strategy is to redirect naturally occurring antibodies to target disease. Centauri Therapeutics' unique Chemistry Platform provides a flexible scaffold to enable the synthesis of specific Alphamers. These are bifunctional molecules which present a selective cell binding moiety as well as an epitope that recruits pre-existing antibodies, resulting in cell killing. Centauri Therapeutics believes their technology is widely applicable in the treatment of life threatening infectious diseases. Companies with an interest in accessing Centauri’s Alphamer technology or with an interest in one of their current projects, are warmly encouraged to contact them to discuss partnering opportunities. In order to drive success in the important area of immuno-oncology, Centauri Therapeutics has established a joint venture, Avvinity Therapeutics, with Horizon Discovery in March 2016. Avvinity combines Centauri’s Alphamer Technology with the gene editing and oncology expertise of Horizon. In addition to Centauri Therapeutics' immuno-oncology joint venture, Centauri maintains a strong network of collaborators in the areas of aptamer selection, drug discovery, chemistry and immunology. | $32.6M | Series A | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| IMIDomics | IMIDomics is a unique company tackling Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases (IMIDs). As an innovative leader in discovery and application of biomarkers and new targets to monitor and cure IMIDs, we create value through the combination of the world's largest IMID biobank, extensive relevant clinical expertise, high-throughput genomic andgenetic analysis, and intellectual property. IMIDomics is located at Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain and on the HudsonAlpha Institute campus in Huntsville, Alabama. |  | Corporate Round | Feb 15, 2022 |  |
| Topas Therapeutics | Topas Therapeutics GmbH is a private Hamburg, Germany-based biotechnology company focused on developing products to address areas of major unmet need, including autoimmune diseases, allergies and anti-drug antibodies. The Topas Particle Conjugates technology platform induces antigen-specific immune tolerance by harnessing the liver’s naturalimmunology capabilities. The Company has several proprietary programs; lead product candidate TPM203 has recently entered clinical testing for pemphigus vulgaris, an orphan disease. Other programs are in anti-drug antibodies, celiac disease, Type 1 diabetes, as well as a multiple sclerosis program that is available for partnering.Topas has a research and option agreement with Eli Lilly and Company focused on antigen-specific tolerance induction and a multi-year agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim to collaborate in the field of anti-drug antibodies.Topas’ investors include: Epidarex Capital, Gimv, EMBL Ventures, Evotec and Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund. | $21.4M | Series B | Jul 29, 2021 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Evotec invest in?

Evotec invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Therapeutics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Evotec?

The team at Evotec includes Werner Lanthaler (CEO), Aurelie Dalbiez (Chief People Officer) and Cord Dohrmann (CSO & Managment board member), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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