Pieter van der Meer

Gilde Investment Management BV is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 1982. Gilde Investment Management BV is headquartered in Utrecht.

Acacia Pharma Ltd. develops supportive care product opportunities for post-surgical and cancer patients. It specializes in the discovery and development of cancer supportive care product opportunities based on established drugs. The firm’s product pipeline addresses supportive care indications, such as post-operative and chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, xerostomia and cachexia. The company was founded by Andrew Muncey, Julian Clive Gilbert and Robert William Gristwood in 2006 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Agendia NV discovers and develops products for clinical management of cancer. It operates as a commercial-stage molecular diagnostic company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of products to improve the quality of life for cancer patients. The company was founded by Rene Bernards and Laura van't Veer in 2003 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Gilde Healthcare Partners BV is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Gilde Healthcare Holding BV founded in 1999 by Pieter van der Meer and Edwin William de Graaf. Gilde Healthcare Partners BV is headquartered in Utrecht with additional office in Cambridge.

Acacia Pharma Group Plc is a holding company, which engages in the development and commercialization of pharmaceutical product. It focuses on the new nausea and vomiting treatments for surgical and cancer patients. The company was founded by Julian Clive Gilbert, Robert William Gristwood, and Andrew Muncey in 2007 and is headquartered in Duxford, the United Kingdom.

Ablynx NV operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of proprietary therapeutic proteins under the Nanobodies brand. It includes haematology, inflammation, infectious disease, autoimmune disease, oncology and immune-oncology. The company was founded by Mark Vaeck in 2001 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

CropDesign NV develops traits for cereal crops. It delivers agronomic traits for the global commercial seed markets. The firm focuses on enhancing grain yield in crops such as corn and rice, and increasing biomass of energy crops. Its platform, TraitMill, lows evaluating the effect of genes on the performance of plants under different growing conditions, including drought and low nutrient stress. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Blgium.

Galapagos Biotech Ltd. operates as a drug discovery company which provides discovery technologies and services. Its technologies include Chemogenomics and Silico. The company was founded by Kenneth Leslie Powell and Janet Maureen Thornton in July 8, 1997 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.