Last deal

Amount

Grant

Stage

28.04.2023

Date

3

all rounds

$43.43M

Total amount

Financing round

General

About Company
Araris Biotech AG is a biotechnology start-up that develops a breakthrough technology platform for the production of next-generation drugs.

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founded date

01.01.2019

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Grant

IPO status

Private

Description

Araris Biotech AG has developed a proprietary antibody-drug conjugate (ADC)-linker technology that allows for the rapid production of high-quality drugs without the need for antibody engineering. Their technology enables the attachment of drugs to off-the-shelf antibodies in a single step, resulting in efficient and cost-effective ADC therapies. Founded in 2019, Araris Biotech AG is based in Zurich, Switzerland.
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John Rim

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People

Founders
3
Dragan Grabulovski
Dragan Grabulovski

Dragan Grabulovski

Dragan received his Master’s degree and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from ETH Zürich. From 2007 to 2014 he was co-founder and CSO of Covagen, a Swiss biotech company acquired in 2014 by an affiliate of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. He was instrumental in Covagen’s trade sale to Johnson & Johnson, in establishing deals with Roche and Mitsubishi Tanabe and in the closing of Covagen’s CHF 45M ($44.5M) Series B round in 2014. Since 2015 he is a serial entrepreneur and Biotech consultant at Grabulovski Consulting Services.

current job

Covagen
Covagen

organization founded

1

Dragan Grabulovski

Philipp Spycher
Philipp Spycher

Philipp Spycher

As the inventor of the Araris Linker Technology, Philipp has a profound background in Bioconjugation and ADCs. He obtained his Master’s Degree and PhD from ETH Zurich at the interface of Material Science and Protein Engineering. During his post-doctoral work at PSI, he introduced the novel approach using transglutaminases for antibody conjugation that led to the discovery of the Araris Linker Technology.

current job

Araris Biotech
Araris Biotech

organization founded

1

Philipp Spycher

Isabella Attinger-Toller
Isabella Attinger-Toller

Isabella Attinger-Toller

Isabella holds a Master’s Degree in Molecular Biology from University of Basel and obtained a PhD in Tumorimmunology from University of Zurich (UZH). Before joining Araris, she served as Director Pharmacology at Covagen, a Swiss Biotech that was acquired in 2014 by Cilag GmbH International, an affiliate of the Janssen Pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson. She was in charge of the pharmacological characterization of various FynomAbs during pre-clinical development that entered clinical testing.

current job

Araris Biotech
Araris Biotech

organization founded

1

Isabella Attinger-Toller

Employee Profiles
4
Filippo Mulinacci

Filippo Mulinacci

Chief Business Officer

Dragan Grabulovski

Dragan Grabulovski

Co-founder

Isabella Attinger-Toller

Isabella Attinger-Toller

Co-founder and VP Translational Research

Philipp Spycher

Philipp Spycher

Co-founder and CEO

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