Best in Biotech 20 Dec 2021
The Billion-Euro European Biotech Companies in 2022
Here’s a list of the public European biotech companies that are worth more than a billion euros in 2022. European…
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News and Trends 15 Oct 2021
Third-Generation DNA Sequencing Shines with Oxford Nanopore’s IPO
Oxford Nanopore Technologies, until recently one of very few unicorns in the European biotech industry, had a stellar IPO on…
News and Trends 10 Jun 2021
The Top European Biotech Investment Rounds in May
Last month saw huge biotech investment rounds dedicated to Covid-19 vaccines in Europe, including IPOs by Valneva and Vaccitech. However,…
Best in Biotech 20 Feb 2018
Money, Money, Money! Europe’s Best-Funded Biotechs in 2018
Besides struggling with ambitious New Year’s resolutions and post-holiday diets, January is a time where many of us re-examine our…
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News and Trends 30 Jan 2018
Update: Pocket Device makes its Debut in Whole Human Genome Sequencing
Update (30/01/2018): Oxford Nanopore has published a study in Nature Biotechnology outlining the first use of its pocket MinION device to…
Best in Biotech 15 Mar 2017
What are the Best Countries to Recruit Biotech Talents in 2017?
Before the “who to recruit” phase, an important question is “where?” We ran through the top countries in which to look…
Best in Biotech 3 Jan 2017
10 Hot European Biotechs to Observe in 2017 🚀
New year, new list: here are the 10 hottest Biotech companies I will watch closely in 2017 and why. This…
News and Trends 26 Dec 2016
The Largest Deals, Fundraising and Exits of 2016 in European Biotech
Curious about which technologies have attracted the most cash in biotech finance this year? Here's a list of the most impressive cash…
News and Trends 12 Dec 2016
With a new €120M Infusion, Pocket NGS CEO talks Success and Strategy
Seeking to disrupt the NGS market, Oxford Nanopore is rolling in cash. Before we heard the news, we sat down…
News and Trends 28 Jul 2016
Pocket NGS can now select DNA fragments for faster Sequencing
Researchers from the University of Nottingham have developed a way to select which DNA to sequence with the pocket-sized MinION.…
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News and Trends 12 Jul 2016
Which European Biotechs made it to the Billion-Euro Club in 2016?
Europe has a lot of successful Biotech companies, but which of those are worth a billion euros or more? I did a previous version…
News and Trends 25 Feb 2016
NGS Battle: Illumina is now suing Oxford Nanopore (and it looks suspicious)
NGS-Giant Illumina (US) is suing Oxford Nanopore (UK), the Unicorn ready to disrupt gene sequencing. What's the story? Illumina currently…
News and Trends 16 Feb 2016
The Only Real European Biotech Unicorns in 2016
Unicorns are private fast-growing companies valued more than a billion euro/dollars. This club is getting bigger and bigger, 146 companies…
News and Trends 15 Sep 2015
The 9 EU-based Billion-Euro Biotechs you Should (really) Know
Update 22/10/2015: I added Galapagos from Belgium and Basilea from Switzerland, they deserved it ... Talking about billon-dollar companies in…
News and Trends 22 Jul 2015
Nanopore cashes in €100M to revolutionize Next-gen sequencing
Personalized medicine is now becoming a reality thanks to next-gen sequencing. Illumina still remains Number 1 in the field, but…
News and Trends 18 Sep 2014
Would you be interested by MinION, the first pocket DNA sequencer ?
The first next-gen sequencing device of the size of an iPhone has been shipped. It is called MinION and is developed…