Barcelona, 14 October 2021.- The Biocat Board of Trustees, chaired by President of the Government of Catalonia Pere Aragonès, has named Robert Fabregat the organization's new CEO. Fabregat is taking over the position left vacant when the previous CEO, Jordi Naval, left to head up Danish startup InProTher.
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Will the BioRegion reach €500 million in annual investment by 2025? To answer this ambitious goal, we have developed the analysis 'The BioRegion of Catalonia: road to €500M in investment per year" which presents questions and answers about this possible ecosystem scaling.
Barcelona, March 22, 2021. In a year made difficult by the Covid-19 pandemic, the life sciences and healthcare sector in Catalonia reached an exceptional milestone. In 2020, health startups in the BioRegion managed to raise €226 million in investment, the most ever, doubling in just two years from €112 million in 2018.
The main source of this funding was venture capital, with a total of €140 million. There were 41 operations in total, up 58% from 2019. This data is from the final version of the “Investment in Startups” chapter of...
There are around 100 startups in the BioRegion of Catalonia led and/or founded by women, representing such diverse fields as biotechnology, medical technologies, digital health and investment, among others. To commemorate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, we have interviewed ten women entrepreneurs from the BioRegion who have launched a company within the past three years.
