History

In the picture from left to right, are Paul Vulto (CEO), Jos Joore (CEO), Bas Trietsch (CTO), and Jacquelien ten Dam (CFO). Together they are forming the management team of MIMETAS. Paul, Jos, and Bas founded MIMETAS in 2013 in Leiden, the Netherlands. Since then, Paul and Jos have been CEOs, whereas Bas is now serving as CTO. In that same year, MIMETAS incorporated her US-branch in Gaithersburg (MD). Also, the Dutch-Belgian biotech company Galapagos (Euronext & NASDAQ: GLPG) became MIMETAS’ launching customer. MIMETAS expanded rapidly over the years. The company is now working with nearly all major pharmaceutical companies and many top-tier academic institutes. In 2018, MIMETAS opened a subsidiary in Tokyo to expand its presence in Asia. In 2019, the management team has been expanded en strengthened with the addition of Jacquelien ten Dam, serving as CFO.

Today, MIMETAS counts over 100 employees in four sites in the Netherlands, USA, and Japan.

In 2014, MIMETAS raised a Series A investment round of 5.6 million USD, followed by a Series B round of 21 million USD in 2018

Mission

MIMETAS strives to contribute to groundbreaking therapies with unique human disease biology, revealed by robust, screenable assays in the most versatile technology platform.

Vision

We believe that phenotypic tissue- and disease modeling is at the heart of 21st-century therapy development.

Core Values

Highly talented, friendly, and energetic people from all over the world have found their way to MIMETAS. It is these people that embody our core values by their sheer character and qualities. We call this ‘MIMETAS-do’. It`s the way we roll.

At one of our company retreats, we asked our colleagues to put MIMETAS-do into words. And as you know: a picture is worth a thousand words. Check the image for the result.

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