The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Frits Kok, managing director of Carduso Beheer, which manages Carduso Capital
Established by University of Groningen and Academic Hospital of University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG), Carduso focuses on life sciences, energy and sustainable society spinouts from Groningen and provides not only capital but also management support and access to an international network.
Kok co-initiated Carduso Capital and is a fund manager alongside fellow partners Koos Koops and Robert Polano.
Carduso invests between €100,000 ($115,000) and €5m at a time and has backed eight companies to date, most recently investing in CC Diagnostics, a cancer diagnosis technology spinout of UMCG, and AgileBiotics, an antibiotics developer spun out of University of Groningen, in July this year.
Kok was previously adviser to the board and director of RuG HoudsterMij at University of Groningen, where he helped analyse investment opportunities in intellectual property emerging from the institution from 2006 to 2012.
