Evotec SE operates as drug discovery and development partner for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry worldwide.

The company is developing pharmaceutical products in various therapeutic areas, such as diabetes and complications, fibrosis, infectious diseases, CNS diseases, oncology, pain and inflammation, immunology, rare diseases, respiratory diseases, and women's health.

It has collaboration agreements with Bayer; Lilly; Almirall; Chinook Therapeutics; Novo Nordisk A/S; Galapagos; Pfizer Inc.; CONBA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; Bristol Myers Squibb Company; Zhejiang JingXin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd; Janseen Biotech; Kazia Therapeutics; Apeiron Biologics; and Takeda Pharmaceuticals, as well as a strategic partnership with Dewpoint Therapeutics to advance oncology pipeline programs of condensate modifying therapeutics to investigational new drug applications and a licensing agreement with Glycotope GmbH to develop next generation immune cell engaging bispecifics for various potential indications, including solid tumors The company was formerly known as Evotec AG and changed its name to Evotec SE in April 2019.

Evotec SE was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.