Christina Takke, V-Bio Ventures 🇧🇪 | Wonder VC Woman | E17

We’re in San Sebastián 🇪🇸 with one of the top VCs in Europe, Christina Takke from V-Bio Ventures.

We talk about her path to get to the top and the benefits of gender diversity for both investing and European biotech as a whole. We also talk about her investment in Argenx when it was only three employees and the venture creation had dropped since 2022.

💎 ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Christina co-founded V-Bio Ventures in 2015 and is now the Managing Partner. Before this, she was a leader in the European Venture Capital world with 15 years of experience. She has been a partner at Forbion Capital Partners where she led many successful investments in biopharma and pharma companies.

🔗 LINKS MENTIONED

• Lean years for company creation in Europe? - BioVox, Sep 2023 - biovox.eu/lean-years-for-company-creation-in-e…
• Top 50 Investors in Biotech in 2026: Europe’s Most Active Life Sciences Funds: ⁠⁠⁠flot.bio/european-biotech-investors-2026/⁠⁠⁠ (flot.bio/european-biotech-investors-2026)

📜 TRANSCRIPT

Read the full transcript here: flot.bio/episode/christina-takke-v-bio-ventures

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⏰ TIMESTAMPS

• [00:00:00] Intro
• [00:02:03] Top VC woman in biotech
• [00:08:36] European background
• [00:13:49] Investing in Argenx at the start
• [00:20:26] V-Bio story
• [00:25:09] Tech transfer
• [00:35:44] Company creation drop
• [00:42:39] Thanks for listening