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Galapagos
Biotech & Life Sciences · Mechelen, Belgium · Founded 1999 · IPO 2015 Unicorn
Investors
2 investors on Galapagos's cap table
Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.
Galapagos mafia
Startups founded by Galapagos alumni
Former Galapagos employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Helmuth van EsNetherlands
Dinko ValerioNetherlands
Camille BougetFrance
Ronald BrusNetherlands
Richard JonesHungaryGlobal footprint
Where Galapagos has talent and traffic
(9 of 785 staff)
across markets
Patent intelligence
$230M patent portfolio · 103 active families
Where Galapagos concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Galapagos and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Galapagos's 7 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Galapagos appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2013–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
7 deals across Galapagos's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
Galapagos's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Galapagos
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Galapagos on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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