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Galapagos
Biotech & Life Sciences · Mechelen, Belgium · Founded 1999 · IPO 2015
Talent graph
Galapagos's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Investors
2 investors on Galapagos's cap table
Sourced from Dealroom's funding and investor records.
Galapagos mafia
Startups founded by Galapagos alumni
Former Galapagos employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Ronald BrusNetherlands
Camille BougetFrance
Dinko ValerioNetherlands
Richard JonesHungary
Helmuth van EsUnited KingdomGlobal footprint
Where Galapagos has talent and traffic
across markets
Patent intelligence
$225M patent portfolio · 107 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Galapagos deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
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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