Eline van Beest
Venture Partner at Thuja Capital
Eline van Beest
Venture Partner at Thuja Capital
The Hague, South Holland
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2020 - Current
Hybridize Therapeutics is a biotech spin-off out of the Leiden University Medical Center with a rich history in research & development in RNA-based therapies. Hybridize’s overarching goal is to help patients overcome untreated kidney diseases. We do this by developing RNA-based therapies, i.e. anti-sense oligonucleotides. Currently, we are in the pre-clinical phase for our therapy against BK-virus.
Venture Partner
2019
Thuja Capital manages several venture capital funds aimed at building and scaling companies in the fields of (bio)pharmaceuticals, medtech and digital health. Thuja aims to bring innovations to patients and society by providing capital to daring entrepreneurs with ground-breaking product concepts, addressing unmet medical needs. The investment team of Thuja consists of seasoned investors and entrepreneurs. Consistently performing in the top quartile, the team has backed and helped to build several of today’s unicorns. www.thujacapital.com
Board Member & Treasurer
2023
The Netherlands Academy of Engineering, NAE, unites the top experts active in technological sciences and applied research and development. They come from scientific, governmental, and industrial organizations, and share the passion for engineering-based innovation as a means to overcome many of our societal challenges, and to sustain our country’s earning power within the European and international context.
Member Of The Supervisory Board
2019
LivAssured introduces the NightWatch, a clinically proven wearable detection device that warns parents or caregivers on possible dangerous epileptic seizures at night.
Investment Committee member Deep Tech Fund
2022
The Deep Tech Fund (DTF), a €250mln VC fund by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and Invest-NL. DTF invests in knowledge-intensive start-ups and scale-ups in sectors such as photonics, quantum technology, nanotech, medtech, biotech and high tech to strengthen the technological knowledge and international competitive position of the Netherlands.
Investment Committee member Pre-Seed Fund
2022
Backed by over one hundred successful entrepreneurs including the founders of Picnic and Booking.com, the Graduate Entrepreneur Fund is a €56mln VC fund that envisions to create the cycle ‘from graduate entrepreneurs for graduate entrepreneurs’. As such the fund invests in very early stage technologies including medtech, logistics and AI, preferably coming from the participating universities Delft University of Technology, the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Erasmus Medical Center.
Member
2017 - 2023
the Dutch Academy of Engineering. A unique and independent association of personally elected members from industry, academia and research institutions. AcTI members are individuals with authority and involved in social, economic and cultural issues surrounding science, technology and innovation and have a proven track record in technical and applied sciences and / or science and technology-based innovation.
Co-Founder & Investor
2017 - 2021
The Blue Sparrows MedTech Fund invests money and experience in very early stage medtech companies. The fund is unique in the fact that besides 2 experienced fund managers, a total of 7 young entrepreneurs in medical technology are part of the fund. The aim is to use their recent experience for the purpose of the investments made in the fund. Read more on www.bluesparrows.nl
Ambassador
2018 - 2019
NightBalance is a spin-off from the Delft University of Technology and has developed the Sleep Position Trainer (SPT), a proprietary, highly advanced and easy to use device to prevent obstructive sleep apnea. NightBalance was acquired by Philips in May 2018.
Founder and CEO
2009 - 2018
NightBalance is a spin-off from the Delft University of Technology and has developed the Sleep Position Trainer (SPT), a proprietary, highly advanced and easy to use device to prevent obstructive sleep apnea. NightBalance was acquired by Philips in May 2018.
Education
Msc
2006 - 2008
Non-Executive Board Member Programme
2019 - 2019
MBI
2010 - 2012
Bsc
2001 - 2007
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
2006 - 2006