Viopas Venture Consulting

What Viopas Venture Consulting does

Viopas Venture Consulting GmbH (VVC) is a privately-held healthcare and life sciences advisory firm founded in 2016 by Simon Nebel, PhD, MBA, and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, with offices in Zürich (Uster), Munich area, and Vienna. The firm serves two parallel client bases in the DACH region (Switzerland, Austria, Germany): healthcare sponsors — including private individuals, family offices, foundations, venture builders, and incubators — receiving investment screening, due diligence (technology, market, competitive, financial), portfolio review, and board representation services; and healthcare businesses — across pharma/biotech and digital health/medtech — receiving fundraising, business strategy, licensing, M&A advisory, and product commercialization support. The offering is a relationship-driven, senior-partner-led consulting service with no proprietary software platform as a standalone product.

Name

Viopas Venture Consulting

Legal name

Viopas Venture Consulting GmbH

Website

https://viopasventure.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Viopas Venture Consulting is a DACH-region healthcare advisory firm advising sponsors and biotech, pharma, and digital health companies on investment due diligence, fundraising, business strategy, licensing, and M&A, delivered by 12+ senior partners across offices in Basel, Zürich, Munich, and Vienna.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Venture Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Customer Experience (CX) & Digital Experience (BPAHAEAC)

Keywords

• Healthcare venture consulting
• Life sciences advisory
• Biotech investment advisory
• Pharma strategic consulting
• Due diligence services

Headquarters

HQ city

Uster

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Strategic Consulting Services: Advisory services for healthcare sponsors (investment evaluation, due diligence, portfolio review) and healthcare businesses (fundraising, business strategy, licensing, M&A). Revenue generated through consulting fees, which may be structured as project-based retainers or engagement-based billing.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Viopas Venture Consulting (VVC) is a healthcare-focused venture consulting firm that provides strategic advisory services to healthcare sponsors (investors) and healthcare businesses, including biotech, pharma, and digital health companies. Founded in 2016 by Simon Nebel, the firm operates from Basel with offices in Zürich, Munich, and Vienna, serving clients primarily in the DACH region.

Product overview

Viopas Venture Consulting is a single unified consulting service offering rather than a software product platform. They provide strategic, operational, business, and finance advisory services to healthcare sponsors (investors, family offices, venture builders) and healthcare businesses (biotech, pharma, digital health companies) in the DACH region. The core offering consists of consulting services for investment decision support (screening, assessment, due diligence, portfolio monitoring) and business advisory for healthcare ventures (fundraising, business strategy, licensing, M&A). Through their strategic partnership with Peak Spirit, they have expanded to include consulting and software offerings for the Biotech/Pharma sector. The company also produces industry publications on topics like HealthTech market access, AI in drug discovery, and organoids/organs on chips.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Strategic Advisory for Healthcare Sponsors Strategic advisory services for healthcare investors, including due diligence, deal sourcing support, and portfolio strategy guidance. Targeted at venture capital, private equity, and strategic investors in the healthcare sector.
• Healthcare Business Advisory Services Strategic consulting services for biotech, pharma, and digital health companies covering business development, market entry, financing strategy, and corporate development support.

Quantifiable outcome

• 14 out of 19 healthcare portfolio companies either became public or were acquired
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and supporting.

• BDO Consulting AustriamajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2026VVC together with Peak Spirit and BDO Consulting Austria awarded public tender framework agreement for 'aws First Incubator' founders advisory program in Austria (Gründungsberatung – aws First Incubator) by Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws).
• Peak SpiritcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 February 2024Strategic partnership and majority stake acquisition by VVC. Peak Spirit provides go-to-market and business development expertise for early-stage healthtech ventures, focusing on market entry, commercial validation, and revenue generation in Europe and North America. Supported by VVC team, Peak Spirit expands its consulting and software offerings to the Biotech/Pharma sector.
• Board AdvisorscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership with Board Advisors Deutschland AG for financial advisory services and digital health industry expansion. Collaboration on equity financing transactions and joint advisory mandates.
• evisorysupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership adding expertise in Digital Healthcare and Technology to VVC's service offerings. Swiss-based advisory firm specializing in digital healthcare and technology industry.
• Dao Tun GmbHsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership adding expertise in cross-border cooperation with China. VVC leverages this partnership to offer cross-border strategic advice for clients interested in business relations in China.
• Michele Pedrocchi, PhDsupportingOthersStrategic partnership with Michele Pedrocchi, PhD to add specialized expertise to VVC's advisory capabilities in the healthcare sector.
• Swiss Healthcare Startups (SHS)supportingGTM or Marketing PartnerVVC joined SHS as industry member. SHS represents over 600 healthcare startup companies in Switzerland, providing access to deal flow and networking opportunities within the Swiss healthcare startup ecosystem.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Alacrita: Boutique life-sciences consulting firm focused on pharma, biotech, and medtech strategy and transactions. Directly comparable to VVC in size, healthcare-only focus, and senior-partner-led advisory model serving investors and growth-stage companies.
• Health Advances: US-based healthcare and life-sciences strategy consulting firm advising medtech, biotech, and diagnostics companies on commercial strategy, M&A, and licensing. Comparable to VVC in vertical specialization and transaction-oriented service mix.
• ClearView Healthcare Partners: Boutique strategy consulting firm exclusively serving the healthcare and life-sciences sector, with strong diligence, commercial, and pipeline assessment practices. Closely comparable to VVC's healthcare-sponsor advisory offering.
• Back Bay Life Science Advisors: Boutique advisory firm serving life-sciences companies and investors on strategy, financing, and transaction support. Highly comparable to VVC's combination of sponsor-side diligence and portfolio-company strategic advisory.

Broad incumbents

• L.E.K. Consulting (Life Sciences): Global strategy consultancy with a large life-sciences practice serving pharma, biotech, and medtech. Comparable to VVC at the strategy and transaction support end, but with materially larger scale and broader geographic reach.
• Simon-Kucher & Partners (Life Sciences): Global consulting firm with a strong life-sciences and healthcare practice focused on pricing, market access, and commercial strategy. Overlaps with VVC's commercial and market-access advisory work for biotech and medtech clients.
• ZS Associates (Healthcare): Large global consulting firm with a major healthcare and life-sciences practice covering commercial strategy, launch, and analytics. Comparable to VVC on healthcare commercial and BD advisory, but at much larger scale.
• Charles River Associates (Life Sciences): Global consulting firm with a life-sciences practice providing economic, strategic, and transaction advisory. Comparable to VVC on healthcare transaction support and sponsor-side advice, but with broader industry coverage.

Others

• Board Advisors Deutschland AG: DACH-focused financial advisory and board advisory firm. Listed as a strategic partner of VVC, jointly delivering financial advisory mandates and equity financings (e.g., DyCare), making it a close ecosystem partner rather than direct competitor.
• BDO Consulting Austria: Austria-based consulting arm of BDO, partnered with VVC and Peak Spirit on the aws First Incubator framework agreement. An ecosystem/contractual partner delivering joint advisory mandates in Austria rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/viopas-venture-consulting-gmbh

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments1 record

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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