Confo Therapeutics
Karl joined Wellington Partners as a Managing Partner in January 2020. Since then, he has led the investments into ImCheck, MinervaX and Creative Balloons and has taken over responsibility for Confo Therapeutics, Uromems and SIRS Therapeutics.
Previously, he was a Partner at Gimv, where he had been responsible for life science investments within Gimv’s Health & Care team. He began his professional career at Atlas Venture in London and Munich, and later joined Ventech, a Paris-based venture capital firm. Notable past investments include Breath Therapeutics (acquired by Zambon), Prosonix (acquired by Circassia), Covagen (acquired by Johnson&Johnson), Themis (acquired by MSD), Nitec Pharma (merged with Horizon Pharma) and U3 Pharma (acquired by Daiichi Sankyo).
Karl earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Neurobiology from Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin and has a Diploma in Biology from Free University of Berlin.
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Confo Therapeutics
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Confo Therapeutics is an emerging drug discovery company built around a disruptive technology to enable the discovery of GPCR agonists. The CONFO® technology uses single domain antibodies to lock inherently unstable GPCRs in the druggable conformation and uses this stabilized complex as a superior starting point for GPCR drug discovery.