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Florian is a seasoned venture capital professional with experience throughout...

Florian is a seasoned venture capital professional with experience throughout the lifecycle from sourcing to exits. After several years in mid-market M&A and some time in operational roles as co-founder and business development lead in early-stage companies, Florian worked as an investment manager with aws founders fund. There he led investments and served on the board of companies like Themis Bioscience, PlanRadar or ToolSense. Florian was involved in over 15 transactions in life science and tech startups during that time and was responsible for managing several exits. Florian is a managing partner of xista science ventures and serves on the board of Sarcura, CellEctric and prewave. Florian holds an LL.M. degree in Business & Law from the University of Vienna and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Stanford University under the TTLF Program.

Diederik Engbersen has more than 25 years of international executive...

Diederik Engbersen has more than 25 years of international executive experience in the life science industry. He held senior positions in strategic marketing, R&D, business development and general management amongst others Organon Teknika, bioMerieux and Accelerate Diagnostics in Belgium, Greece, USA, France and Spain. He also led start-ups in the Netherlands and was a consultant to various Life Science companies and universities. Current he is head of the TTO of the Leiden University Medical Center and CEO of CimCure, a spin-out of Amsterdam University Medical Center developing a novel vaccine based immunotherapy platform for treating solid tumors. He received an MSc in medicine from the University of Leiden, Netherlands.