RV Invest

Check Size
€15K – €3M

Investment Focus

Investment Stages

Geographic Focus

Germany
Europe

Investment Thesis

Corporate VC fund of Vetter Pharma family office investing in highly differentiated technical solutions that become future standards of care in medicines and health tech.

How to Pitch RV Invest

No Stated Policy
RV Invest hasn't published an outreach policy. A short, specific cold email is the safest default.

Who To Contact

Aleksei Zeifman
Investment Director
Biotech
Medtech
Alexey A. Lugovskoy
Investment Committee
Therapeutics
Drug Discovery

YC Portfolio Overlap

RV Invest backed 1 Y Combinator company.

Valink Therapeutics
Valink Therapeutics

Discovering bispecific antibody drug-conjugates (BsADC) against cancer

Winter 2021
Healthcare

Portfolio Highlights

Asgard Therapeutics
Valink Therapeutics
Alesta Therapeutics
Immusoft

Team

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Aleksei Zeifman
Investment Director

PhD in computational chemistry with 10+ years biotech experience and prior VC investing at RBV Capital and SCOR.

Biotech
Medtech
Checked Oct 2026
Alexey A. Lugovskoy
Investment Committee

CEO of Diagonal Therapeutics, PhD in Biophysics from Harvard, former CDO at Morphic and COO at Dragonfly.

Therapeutics
Drug Discovery
Checked Oct 2026
Lu Zheng
Investment Associate

PhD in Neuroscience from EPFL, MBA from St. Gallen, prior VC experience at +ND Capital and Ysios Capital.

Biotech
Checked Oct 2026
Nicholas H. Vetter
Investment Committee

MBA from SDA Bocconi, CEO of OncoBeta, board member in healthcare companies, third generation Vetter Pharma owner.

Healthcare
Checked Oct 2026
Patrick Lally
Investment Committee

Partner at Petrichor with 15+ years healthcare investing experience, MBA from Wharton, board member at multiple biotech companies.

Healthcare
Checked Oct 2026
Susanne Schaffert
Investment Committee

Former President of Novartis Oncology with 25 years pharma experience, Fortune Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

Oncology
Pharmaceuticals
Checked Oct 2026

Focus and check size from the firm's website. Website reachable as of Sept 2026.

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A fit check scores your pitch against their thesis, stage and ticket. An email draft uses their real deals and thesis, not a template.