ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Barely a player in medtech a decade ago, Dutch venture firm Gilde Healthcare was one of Europe’s most active investors in 2010s, helped in part by a novel relationship with Philips Healthcare. Part 1 of a 2-part article.
Scan any list of the most active investors in medtech, and Utrecht-based Gilde Healthcare features prominently. Notable in its own right, Gilde’s prominence is even more remarkable in that it has risen to the top in a remarkably short period of time. Though one of the earliest of European venture capital firms, Gilde didn’t get into healthcare until the mid-2000s and into medtech until 2009, right in the middle of the global recession and a time, perhaps not coincidentally, when most investors were fleeing venture in general and medtech in particular
