Portfolio Companies

Co-founded by EMBLEM since 1999

We invest in core technologies that can be developed into successful, profitable businesses over time. The EMBL technology portfolio has generated more than 20 companies co-founded by EMBLEM since 1999 and new promising technologies continue to be established.

EMBLEM’s experience in founding new companies and our close working relationship EMBL’s collaboration partners in various industries provide the ideal environment for young start-ups. Please find a selection of our spin-off companies below.

ALPX

ALPX

The company ALPX was founded in 2019 in France, out of the EMBL Grenoble. It is located on the European Photon & Neutron Science Campus in close proximity to the…

Suricube

Suricube

The Suricube GmbH is another founding project from the year 2019. The company was established by EMBL and EMBLEM and is located on the Heidelberg campus. Suricube is based on…

Cellzome

Cellzome

Founded and still located on the EMBL campus in Heidelberg, Cellzome focuses on the identification of a new generation of kinase- targeted drugs to treat inflammatory diseases. Its pipeline of…

LUXENDO

LUXENDO

Luxendo is a recent spin-off from EMBL in Heidelberg, commercializing advanced Single Plane Illumination Microscopes (SPIM). Compared to modern state of the art confocal or wide-field microscopes, SPIM technology allows…

PEPperPRINT

PEPperPRINT

PEPperPRINT is an innovative biotech company founded in 2001. With their proprietary laser printing technology they established the new peptide microarray platform PEPperCHIP – a new standard in peptide microarrays.…

VERAXA

VERAXA

VERAXA combines game changing technologies developed at the EMBL Heidelberg to solve the most prominent challenges in antibody drug development. The VERAXA Biotech Company was founded in 2021 as a…