Securing Funding and Driving Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology #13 - with Dr. Isabel Vercauteren

Dr. Isabel Vercauteren is CEO at Aphea.Bio, a company dedicated to provide novel science-based solutions to build the agriculture of the future: sustainable, reliable and profitable. It founded in 2017 as a spin-off of the VIB and its partner universities Ghent University and KU Leuven. We talked with Isabel about the challenge of raising capital (they have secured € 70 million Series C Funding); the importance of IP and their incredible work at Aphea.Bio.

This episode is part of a tech transfer special, a series of interviews to better understand the transfer of knowledge from research centres, universities and laboratories, to the industry and our lives. 

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Securing Funding and Driving Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology #13 - with Dr. Isabel Vercauteren