AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Utrecht Holdings Seed Fund and Graduate Ventures invest in Visualise.bio, a life science technology company developing automated sample preparation for high-resolution 3D microscopy.
The company aims to make super-resolution imaging, typically available through highly priced microscope setups, such as electron microscopy, available to a broad customer base.
Visualise.bio develops GelCast, a robotic platform that automates and standardizes the expansion microscopy (ExM) workflow. Together with GelMap, an integrated fluorescent nanoscale sample grid developed at Utrecht University, and GelPlate, a dedicated well plate for manual ExM, these technologies enable super-resolution imaging on standard light microscopes.
“Together with secured grant funding, this investment will help to accelerate product development and commercialization, bringing reliable nanoscale imaging to more laboratories worldwide” said Floris van der Staaij, CEO. “Future capabilities enable applications in advanced biological models such as organoids or tissue slices, as well as high-resolution cellular and molecular research or large-scale mapping efforts like connectomics”.
“Our investment in Visualise.bio underlines our mission of creating impact with scientific research”, said Timo Koopmans, Investment Manager at Utrecht Holdings Seed Fund. “We believe that their efforts to make super-resolution accessible to more laboratories will accelerate research and enable better diagnostics”.
“Expansion microscopy has enormous potential, especially when it becomes accessible to more laboratories”, said Eva Post, Head of Pre-Seed Fund at Graduate Ventures. “We believe an innovation like this needs to read the market, that is why we are investing”.
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Contact Visualise.bio
Floris van der Staaij, CEO: info@visualise.bio
About Visualise.bio
Visualise.bio aims to make high-resolution 3D microscopy accessible and reliable, through automation and quality control solutions. We focus on expansion microscopy (ExM), with our goal to enable detailed and reproducible ExM for all. Learn more at: https://visualise.bio/
About Utrecht Holdings Seed Fund
Utrecht Holdings Seed Fund invests in science-based startups in Life Sciences, MedTech, Sustainability and Digital Innovation, linked to the research of its shareholders: Utrecht University and University Medical Center Utrecht. For more information, please visit: https://www.uhsf.nl/
About Graduate Ventures
Graduate Ventures is an alumni-backed venture capital fund: private capital from a community of 200+ founders, executives and university alumni who invest in the next generation of entrepreneurs. Closely tied to leading Dutch universities, Graduate combines early-stage capital with the knowledge and network of people who have built companies themselves, across Deep Tech, Health Tech, Climate Tech and Digital Tech. For more information, please visit: https://www.graduate.nl/
