Overview

What they do
Cascara Ventures is the new investment fund of Adriaan Hart de Ruijter, experienced entrepreneur and investor in life sciences. Founded in 2016, Cascara invests in the seed stage of companies that apply technology to prevention, therapy and research. Examples are vaccines, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, imaging, software, medical data, robotics, healthcare services, diagnostics and cell therapy.
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What they look for
Cascara invests in areas of domain expertise, preferring to act as lead investor and take board seats while offering strategic, operational, regulatory, and clinical development support to accelerate milestones.
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Stage
Seed, Series A, Series B+
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Sectors
Healthcare
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Based
Brussels, BE
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Sources

2026-08-27cascaraventures.comCascara Ventures is the new investment fund of Adriaan Hart de Ruijter , experienced…
2026-08-27cascaraventures.comWe prefer to act as lead investor and take a board seat, providing strategic, operational and…
2026-08-27cascaraventures.comAdriaan Hart de Ruijter joined as a shareholder in 2016.

Portfolio, cheque size and the rest

The 7 companies they have backed that we can see, the cheque they write, and whether they are deploying right now.

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