Today PMV has a portfolio of over 1 billion Euros in assets under management. An experienced and highly motivated team of 120 professionals endeavors every day to create prosperity and well-being in Flanders. PMV offers tailor-made financial solutions for every entrepreneur with a solid business plan and a strong management team by providing venture capital, loans and guarantees. PMV finances promising companies from the very start to growth and internationalization. For more information please visit About PMV PMV is a do-and-dare company that shapes the economic future of Flanders. TCHFII is managed by Thuja Capital Management B.V., whose team has a long-standing and successful track record in life sciences investments and aims to help their portfolio companies to strengthen and grow their businesses. (TCHF II) is a healthcare dedicated venture capital fund that is structured to invest in life sciences innovations with a focus on therapeutics, diagnostics, and medical devices.
Indigo’s first product addresses the need for accurate, low-cost glucose monitoring systems with an optimal user experience.Ībout Thuja Thuja Capital Healthcare Fund II B.V. Access to this multi-disciplinary environment and to the cleanrooms of imec will play an important role in Indigo’s future development.Ībout Indigo – develops the next-gen needle-free glucose sensors for diabetics. Indigo is based in Ghent, Belgium, where it benefits from access to Ghent University and more specifically the Photonics Research Group and the NB-Photonics consortium, a leading European academic consortium in the field of photonics, with first-class clean room and laboratory facilities. I am delighted to be part of this endeavor to transform diabetic healthcare. An experienced syndicate of investors now complements Indigo’s dynamic team of experts and managers. “Worldwide, the number of diabetic patients has increased from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014 according to the World Health Organization”, commented Harrold van Barlingen, managing director of Thuja Capital, and added “With so many individuals reliant on frequent glucose measurements to help manage this disease, we eagerly support Indigo as it holds the essentialthe potential to enable a paradigm shift in diabetes management with a game-changing technology.”ĭiane Lejeune, senior investment manager, LifeSciences and Care, at PMV remarked “Indigo’s approach enables patients to be in better control of their disease, thereby providing an answer to the ever increasing cost pressure on our healthcare system.
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Danaë Delbeke, key-inventor, founder and managing director of Indigo stated “Licensing a series of new technologies from globally recognized research institutions UGent and imec enables Indigo to enter the market with the first needle-free and calibration-free glucose sensor”. She highlighted the usefulness of this development by saying “Indigo’s product will alleviate the pressing need for accurate, low-cost diabetes management systems with an optimal user experience.” Indigo is currently developing a needle-free glucose sensor by exploiting groundbreaking photonics technologies.
Although the impact on patient health and healthcare cost of CGM systems is well accepted, the continuous need for frequent finger-pricks has hampered widespread adoption of CGMs.
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These CGMs rely upon a needle sensor that constantly protrudes the skin to measure the glucose level, and still require multiple finger-prick calibrations per day to maintain accuracy. Monitoring and treatment schemes based around continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems have recently emerged. Each droplet lands on a test strip that is then inserted into a digital reader to analyze blood glucose level. Today, diabetics must test their blood glucose levels by an uncomfortable process of pricking their finger to acquire a droplet of blood several times per day. This financing success will fuel the company’s development towards measuring and managing blood glucose levels without the need for finger pricks. The funding is provided by an international investment syndicate led by Thuja Capital Healthcare Fund II (The Netherlands) and PMV (Belgium), and includes Sensinnovat, Parana Management Corp, Qbic Arkiv Fund, Fidimec, SOFI, Manuardeo and Capricorn ICT Arkiv as co-investors. Indigo Diabetes nv ( Indigo), a spin-off from Ghent University (UGent) and imec, today announces the successful closure of a 7 million Euros series-A financing round. Spin-off from UGent and imec is launched to develop the next generation needle-free glucose sensors, paving way to a paradigm shift in diabetes management.
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