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Top 50 Biotech Startup Investors

Last updated: Jul 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Biotech startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotech companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 50 Biotech Startup Investors

Investor	Biotech investments
SOSV	255
ARCH Venture Partners	126
OrbiMed	100
Sofinnova Partners	92
Alexandria Venture Investments	88
Novo Holdings	80
New Enterprise Associates	79
Versant Ventures	79
F-Prime Capital	78
Atlas Venture	70
Khosla Ventures	67
RA Capital Management	67
5AM Ventures	66
Polaris Partners	65
MPM Capital	64
Innova Memphis	63
Qiming Venture Partners	62
Novartis Venture Fund	59
Third Rock Ventures	59
M Ventures	57
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund	54
Bpifrance	54
Sequoia Capital China	53
Canaan Partners	52
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	51
BioAdvance	50
Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund	50
Lux Capital	48
Takeda Ventures	47
Pfizer Venture Investments	47
Google Ventures	47
Fifty Years	46
DCVC	45
Lilly Asia Ventures	45
Andreessen Horowitz	45
EQT Life Sciences	45
Sofinnova Investments	45
Parkwalk Advisors	44
SR One	44
Seventure Partners	42
Casdin Capital	41
The Column Group	41
Hatteras Venture Partners	41
KdT Ventures	41
Connecticut Innovations	40
Forbion Capital Partners	39
Frazier Healthcare Partners	39
Oxford Science Enterprises	38
Northpond Ventures	38
Amgen Ventures	38

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SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
OncoPrecision — We're developing personalized assays to determine the most suitable medication for cancer therapy at the patient level. Through our proprietary Drug Activity and Resistance Test, oncologists will be able to make data-driven decisions regarding cancer therapy selection based on patient-derived samples. Our goal is to democratize access toPrecision Oncology and improve cancer patients' lives.
Sodex Innovations — Sodex Innovations is a company which is specialized in developing assistance-systems and automating-kits for excavators

ARCH Venture Partners provides seed / early stage venture capital for technology firms in information technology, life sciences, and physical sciences

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vilya — Vilya is a biotechnology company developing a novel class of drugs that precisely target the biology of disease. The company aims to create new medicines to leverage computing to make high throughput screening obsolete and cure diseases.
Moleculent — Moleculent is adding a functional layer of biology to pave the way for unparalleled advancements in biological research.
Xaira Therapeutics — Xaira Therapeutics is an integrated biotechnology company driving advances in artificial intelligence to learn the language of life and transform how we treat disease. The company seeks to rethink the drug discovery and development process from end-to-end by bringing together leading talent across three core areas: machine learning research tobetter understand biology, expansive data generation to power new models, and robust therapeutic product development to treat disease. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Leading Global Healthcare Platform with Deep Proprietary Resources and Global Industry Coverage.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Disc Medicine — Disc Medicine is led by an experienced team of scientists and industry experts, and supported by a panel of advisors with a strong track record of discovering and developing new and innovative therapies. Disc Medicine was founded by Atlas Venture and Brian MacDonald, with Novo Ventures and Access Biotechnology joining as additional investors.
Exsilio Therapeutics — Exsilio's method is based on naturally occurring genetic elements that can accurately insert new genes into cells via RNA intermediate templates. Exsilio employs predictive in-silico modeling and wet lab-based experiments to create such elements for accurate insertion of therapeutic genes into safe harbor regions of disease-relevant cells.
Corvus Pharmaceuticals — Corvus Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel, first-in-class agents that target the immune system to treat patients with cancer. With accomplished and talented scientists, and top-tier investors, we are well positioned in an exciting new era of immuno-oncology.

Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cure51 — Cure51 mission is to create a database of cancer survivors to leverage their exceptional biological features and find new drugs to cure Cancer.
May Health — May Health is developing a modern treatment - Ovarian Rebalancing - designed to restore ovulation for people with polycystic ovary syndrome.
MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas

Alexandria Venture Investments is a venture capital firm that develops work in real estate technology, and healthcare sectors. The company's strategic venture capital platform is Alexandria Venture Investments. Since its inception in 1996, the company has invested in disruptive life science, agrifood tech, and technology companies that aredeveloping transformative new modalities and platforms to meaningfully improve human health.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Umaro Foods — Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.
TwoStep Therapeutics — TwoStep Therapeutics is developing novel tumor-targeting therapeutics for solid tumors.
Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.

Novo Holdings is a world-leading life science investor with a focus on creating long-term value.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ADCendo — ADCendo ApS is a biotech company dedicated to developing new types of anti-cancer drugs. We focus on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) directed at novel targets, that have been found to be overexpressed by several cancer forms, that are all characterized by a significant unmet need for novel treatment.
CIRCTEC — CIRCTEC is an innovator and operator of pyrolysis technology to recycle waste into renewable fuels and circular chemicals. It focus is on innovation and technology leadership, scaling sustainability in the chemical, petrochemical and oil sectors.
CARGO Therapeutics — CARGO Therapeutics develops CAR T-cell therapy to overcome cancer treatment resistance and address access barriers so that more patients can benefit from potentially curative therapies. The company is on a mission to outwit cancer by developing best-in-class chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies. Despite commercially available autologousCARs advancements, these treatments are curative for less than half of all cancer patients. Furthermore, far too many patients are unable to access these potentially curative therapies due to other obstacles such as manufacturing, supply constraints, long turnaround times, and reimbursement barriers. CARGO's team is intensely focused on pursuing novel solutions to improve cancer treatment outcomes and experiences.

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Anterior — Lead your plan into the future.
Twelve Labs — Twelve Labs helps developers make programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do by giving them the most powerful video search API
Amber Therapeutics — Developing intelligent bioelectrical therapies that can adapt, respond and learn from each person's individual physiology

Versant partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build and fund breakthrough biotechnology companies around the globe.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Switzerland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Firefly Bio — Firefly specializes in Degrader Antibody Conjugates (DACs) which combine the unique strengths of ADCs with selective protein degraders.
SixPeaks Bio — SixPeaks is developing a pipeline of medicines for healthy weight loss.
Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.

F-Prime Capital is a global venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology, with a heritage that spans four decades.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

Odaseva — Odaseva is the leading enterprise data platform for Salesforce. Industry leaders rely on Odaseva to keep data protected, compliant, and agile.
RareCyte — Rarecyte provides precision medicine solutions focused on multiplexed analysis of cells and tissue with applications in both research and clinical diagnostics.
Canary Technologies — Use Canary to securely conduct contactless check-in and process credit card authorizations, contracts, and amenities online. Canary is the only PCI Level-1 Compliant solution for hotel authorizations. Schedule a demo today, and see how we can help your properties reduce chargebacks, save time, and improve the guest experience.

Atlas Venture is an early-stage venture capital firm that creates and invests in biotech startup companies led by promising entrepreneurs focusing on life sciences innovation. Its seed-led venture creation strategy rigorously selects and focuses investment on compelling opportunities to build scalable businesses and realize value.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Korro Bio — Korro Bio provides an efficient and selective method for RNA editing, leveraging natural processes common to all multi-cellular organisms.Korro Bio was created to lead the field of RNA editing. The company is advancing a proprietary platform designed to selectively edit messenger RNA and recode specific codons to effect changes in proteinstructure and function across multiple tissues.In 2018,
Disc Medicine — Disc Medicine is led by an experienced team of scientists and industry experts, and supported by a panel of advisors with a strong track record of discovering and developing new and innovative therapies. Disc Medicine was founded by Atlas Venture and Brian MacDonald, with Novo Ventures and Access Biotechnology joining as additional investors.
Pheon Therapeutics — Pheon Therapeutics is an Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) specialist that creates ADCs for a variety of difficult-to-treat cancers. Its lead program is a first-in-class ADC against a novel target that is highly expressed in solid tumors across a broad range of hard-to-treat cancer types.The company was founded in 2022 and is based in London,England.

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WindBorne Systems — WindBorne designs, builds, and operates a constellation of long-duration smart weather balloons targeting the most critical data in the atmosphere.
Honey Homes — Hassle-free Home Upkeep
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Animate characters for your video, game, movie, ad, Social or VR project simply by typing.

RA Capital Management is an investment advisor based in Boston specializing in the life-sciences and drug development sectors. The company's team has been investing since 2002 and is comprised of professionals with training in biology, chemistry, and medicine and also has industry and business development experience at the executive and boardlevels. The company invests in companies with promising technologies and products.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

ADCendo — ADCendo ApS is a biotech company dedicated to developing new types of anti-cancer drugs. We focus on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) directed at novel targets, that have been found to be overexpressed by several cancer forms, that are all characterized by a significant unmet need for novel treatment.
Adcytherix — Adcytherix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel antibody drug conjugates (ADC) to treat high unmet need diseases such as cancer.
Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.

5AM Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed- and early-stage investments to its clients. The company’s client portfolio consists of firms in the biopharmaceutical, life sciences, medical technology, and research instrument industries. 5AM Ventures was founded in 2002 by John Diekman and Andrew Schwab and is based in California.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RareCyte — Rarecyte provides precision medicine solutions focused on multiplexed analysis of cells and tissue with applications in both research and clinical diagnostics.
Tectonic Therapeutic — Tectonic and AVROBIO have completed their anticipated merger.Please follow this link to our press release for additional information.
Latigo Biotherapeutics — Operator of a drug discovery company intended to develop novel, non-opioid therapies for chronic pain. The company utilizes unique, translated insights to provide a differentiated approach to targeting therapeutics across the blood-nerve barrier, enabling patients to get access to a pain management therapy that does not create addiction, dependenceor tolerability.

Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and biotechnology companies. Their healthcare portfolio companies' care delivery models include digital health, consumer-centric businesses, patient-provider solutions, data science, and analytics. Their life sciences and biotechnology portfolio companies focus on molecules and platforms, therapeutics,and genomics.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Ireland, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nomad Health — Search travel nurse jobs nationwide. Earn more money, haggle-free. Receive expert support without the pushy tactics of a traditional recruiter.
Vico Therapeutics — Vico Therapeutics is a developer of ribonucleic acid (RNA) modulating therapies for rare neurological disorders. The company discovers, develops, and delivers therapies for CNS disorders. Its initial focus is on SCA which is a subgroup of hereditary ataxia, HD which is a neurodegenerative disorder, and RTT-a neurodevelopmental disorder primarilyaffecting girls that enable clients with providing therapy for it.Vico Therapeutics was founded in 2019 by Luc Dochez, Josh Mandel-Brehm, Judith van Deutekom, and Gail Mandel and it is headquartered in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Tectonic Therapeutic — Tectonic and AVROBIO have completed their anticipated merger.Please follow this link to our press release for additional information.

Powering Breakthroughs in Life Sciences

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AstronauTx — AstronauTx is a UCL spin-off, will develop medicines designed to reset the behaviour of astrocytes.
Firefly Bio — Firefly specializes in Degrader Antibody Conjugates (DACs) which combine the unique strengths of ADCs with selective protein degraders.
Frontier Medicines — Frontier Medicines is boldly advancing science to defeat disease by pioneering innovations in precision-based medicines to target undruggable therapies

Founded in 2007 by the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, Innova is a pre-seed, seed and early-stage investor focused on starting and funding high-growth companies in the Biosciences, Technology and AgBio fields across the state of Tennessee. Innova links capital with great ideas to create groundbreaking products and services.At Innova we invest instart-up companies, help them grow, and then assist them in linking with established corporations for licensing, buy-outs or further investments. We provide the synergy of experienced management, market expertise and venture capital to accelerate the development of new products and services into viable business units that can stand on their own and then take their place with a mature market leader, if desired.Whether an innovation is still on the drawing board or stalled in the market place the Innova staff has the expertise, skills, and experience to envision and create a functioning business unit that is prepared to thrive in the market place. Technical know-how, market-proven staffing, and "just-right" funding assure the greatest chance possible for success.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Argentina, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rantizo — Fly more acres, deliver better service. The equipment, tools, and expertise you need to be the grower's first call for drone spray services.
iYOTAH Solutions — iYOTAH Solutions is a transformational SaaS technology company that connects data to help the animal protein industry thrive.
Glanris — Glanris developed a completely green, non-toxic, filtration media for water purification from an agriculture by-product. This agricultural product is grown around the world, is plentiful, and can be used locally to ensure clean drinking water in developing countries. It also gives local farmers a significant additional income source for a productthat today they are throwing away.This media has been independently tested over the last two years of development and is ready for production.

Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners is a leading China venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong in China, and Singapore.Currently, Qiming Venture Partners manages eleven US Dollar funds and seven RMB funds with $9.5 billion in capital raised. Since our establishment, we have invested in outstanding companiesin the Technology and Consumer (T&C) and Healthcare industries at the early and growth stages.Since our debut, we have backed over 530 fast-growing and innovative companies. Over 200 of our portfolio companies have achieved exits through IPOs at the NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEX, Shanghai Stock Exchange, or Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or through M&A or other means. There are also over 70 portfolio companies that have achieved unicorn or super unicorn status.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

INF Tech — INF Tech is an AI innovative company that specializes in large language models and develops trustworthy generative AI technologies.
DK MedTech — Dingke Medical is a medical device tech firm specializing in the R&D and production of vascular interventional medical treatment products.
Galaxy Bot — Galaxy Bot is an innovative robotics company that provides intelligent universal service robotic products.

Learn about the approach the Novartis Venture Fund takes to investing in innovative life science companies developing biotechnology and biopharmaceutical therapeutics that address unmet patient needs.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hyku — Hyku Biosciences is developing the next generation of covalent medicines by targeting histidine, tyrosine and lysine binding pockets in disease-causing proteins.
Exsilio Therapeutics — Exsilio's method is based on naturally occurring genetic elements that can accurately insert new genes into cells via RNA intermediate templates. Exsilio employs predictive in-silico modeling and wet lab-based experiments to create such elements for accurate insertion of therapeutic genes into safe harbor regions of disease-relevant cells.
Enterprise Therapeutics — Enterprise Therapeutics is a drug discovery company dedicated to the researchand development of novel therapies for the treatment of respiratory diseases.In diseases such as cystic fibrosis, asthma and COPD the lungs become congested with mucus leading to difficulty in breathing. New disease modifying therapies that target the underlyingmechanisms of mucus congestion will reduce the frequency of lung infections and improve patient quality of life.

Third Rock Ventures is a leading healthcare venture firm focused on advancing disruptive areas of science and medicine to deliver breakthroughs to patients.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

Marea Therapeutics — Marea Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology firm that uses the most recent advancements in human genetics to create first-in-class, next-generation medications for cardiometabolic illnesses.
Seaport Therapeutics — Seaport Therapeutics operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company.
Synnovation Therapeutics — Synnovation Therapeutics is a precision oncology company focused on small molecule therapies optimized to target key driver mechanisms in cancers. It is dedicated to the discovery and development of therapeutics that can improve the lives of people with cancer. Leveraging its deep expertise in medicinal chemistry, cancer biology, andpatient-focused precision medicine, it builds a diverse pipeline of novel small-molecule targeted therapies. It aims to efficiently advance these agents into clinical trials with the goal of transforming cancer patient care.

Merck Ventures is the strategic, corporate venture capital arm of Merck. Its mandate is to invest in innovative technologies and products with the potential to significantly impact Merck‘s core business areas. From its headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in the US and Israel we invest globally in transformational ideas driven by greatentrepreneurs. Merck Ventures takes an active role in its portfolio companies and teams up with entrepreneurs and co-investors to translate innovation towards commercial success. Merck Ventures has a significant focus on early-stage investing and company creation including the creation of spin-offs to leverage Merck‘s science and technology base.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LabGenius — Finding the next generation of drugs with machine learning, synthetic biology and laboratory automation
Outrun TX — Outrun TX develops a platform for the identification of therapeutics that selectively target the protein degradation pathway.
Theolytics — Theolytics is a biotechnology company harnessing viruses to combat cancer. A step-change in the oncolytic viral therapy field, our phenotypic screening Platform enables the discovery and development of efficacious, targeted candidates suitable for intravenous delivery and optimised for a chosen patient population. In addition to advancing aninternal Pipeline of programs spanning both solid and liquid tumours, we are establishing select strategic partnerships to expand and accelerate pipeline development.

UKI2S, formally the Rainbow Seed Fund, is an investment fund backed by the government, providing seed funding to science & technology start-ups and SMEs

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wave Photonics — Wave Photonics utilizes computational techniques to accelerate integrated photonics product designs.The company is developing a platform that provides optimized designs and streamlined integration between the supply chain using a software tool for predicting the performance and variation of a component for a given fabrication process and anoptimizer to generate a foundry-specific component library.Wave Photonics is headquartered in Bristol, Bristol.
Vector Photonics — Vector Photonics is a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow and is based in Glasgow, Scotland, one of the UK and world’s Optical and Photonics centres of excellence.
Presymptom Health — Presymptom Health is a pioneering medtech company that creates diagnostic tests to detect illnesses earlier to help save lives.

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

RSight — RSight offers each customer, candidate, and partner with a one-of-a-kind and best-in-class recruitment, onboarding, and working experience. The company, above and beyond the current industry possibilities in providing enhanced service to recruiting organizations and individuals. The company is elevating the recruitment experience and interaction byproviding recruitment experience for each client, candidate, and partner.
Skynopy — Connecting satellites. As a service
C12 Quantum Electronics — C12 Quantum Electronics develop reliable quantum processors with carbon nanotubes. Its unique technology reduces drastically the error rate, making the platform a prime candidate for noisy intermediate-scale quantum applications. The Paris, Ile-de-France, France-based company was formed in 2019 by Pierre and Matthieu Desjardins.

We help founders build enduring companies.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Xingkeyuan — Star Science is a high-performance lithium battery silicon-carbon negative electrode material research and development company. It has achieved small-scale mass manufacture of nano-silicon as well as the experimental development of high-efficiency silicon-carbon composite materials.
Huaxuan Sensing — Huaxuan Sensing is a sensor technology company that focuses on the development of resolver sensors for the new energy automobile industry.
Martial Arts Awakening — Martial Arts Awakening is a blockchain game developer focused on the long-term development of blockchain, Web3.0, Metaverse, and NFT ecosystems.

Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud,marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health, and medtech.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Aim Security — Aim is the industry guide to secure GenAI adoption, empowering security leaders to drive business productivity while ensuring proactive protection for all GenAI use cases.
Reibus — Reibus is the leading platform for buying and selling steel and other metals, with end-to-end services including logistics and financing.
Grey Wolf Therapeutics — By targeting the ERAP proteases in the antigen presentation pathway Grey Wolf aims to change the antigen repertoire in cancer.

The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

StoryBox — StoryBox provides a Software as a Service solution for businesses to create, share and structure video content to make it searchable. With the system, companies can create and organize smartphone-based videos for any application scenario. Using the app, videos can be created and shared by every employee using templates. The app suggests picturesettings and scene lengths automatically and offers an automated creation which includes corporate design. The content can be stored in the DSGVO-compliant StoryBox cloud and can be accessed, filtered and analyzed from anywhere. Customers include Iveco, Erste Group, Evonik, Alten, and KTM.
Heidelberg Epignostix — Heidelberg Epignostix is a pioneering start-up led by a dedicated team of DNA methylation-based tumor categorization experts. Heidelberg Epignostix has revolutionized tumor categorization by using the strength of methylation-based algorithms.
InSpacePropulsion Technologies — ISPTech is a Spin-Off of the Institute of Space Propulsion at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It offers non-toxic, green propulsion solutions

BioAdvance actively invests venture capital in therapies, medical devices, research tools, diagnostics and health IT in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Senzo — SENZO HEALTH HAS DEVELOPED A REVOLUTIONARY LATERAL FLOW TEST WHICH DELIVERS THE SAME ACCURACY AS LABORATORY-BASED PCR, WITH RESULTS AVAILABLE WITHIN 10 MINUTES, AT A FRACTION OF THE COST.
KayoThera — KayoThera is a biotechnology company developing therapeutics used to cure late-stage and metastatic cancers. Its programs work on inhibiting a key enzyme that is responsible for protecting the cancer cells and depleting regulatory T-cells that intends to cure hitherto incurable cancers and give hope to patients. The company's mission is todevelop the first-in-class immuno- and targeted therapies to drive cures in advanced cancersKayoThera was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.
Palvella Therapeutics — Palvella Therapeutics is committed to developing safe and effective therapies that specifically target the root cause of genetic skin diseases.

The Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund is the strategic venture fund of the Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Actym Therapeutics, Inc. — Actym Therapeutics is developing key biotech to help target intractable immune pathways in the tumor microenvironment.
Glox Therapeutics — Developing novel precision antibiotics based on protein bacteriocins, to target Gram-negative Antimicrobial Resistant (AMR) pathogens.
Asgard Therapeutics — Asgard Therapeutics is a private biotech company exploring the application of direct cell reprogramming technologies for cancer immunotherapies. Formed as a spin-off from Lund University, the Company is pioneering a gene therapy approach based on its proprietary TrojanDC technology, designed to set in motion immune responses based on the biologicalproperties of professional antigen-presenting cells.

Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high-growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investmentstrategy ensures portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Formic Technologies — At Formic, we want to increase the collective output of humanity by making automation deployments trivial and easy. Every factory should have access to unlimited 'labor' through robotics and automation rentals. We are building technology, financing, operations and services to make this vision possible.Formic is a fast-growingventure-backed startup focused on unlocking robotic automation in labor-starved industries such as food and beverage, advanced manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and other industrial settings. We combine financial innovation with a firm understanding of what robotics are capable of, to enable manufacturing customers to scale up their manufacturing capacity quickly and with minimal risk.
Factory — Factory is bringing autonomy to software engineering.
EvolutionaryScale — ESM3. Enabling scientists to understand, imagine, and create proteins.

Takeda Ventures, Inc. (TVI) is the corporate investment arm of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TPC). TVI was founded in 2001 and invests in current and future areas of interest for TPC. They are based alongside Takeda’s R&D sites in Cambridge, MA, and San Diego, CA. As a strategic investor, TVI aims to provide support and guidance toentrepreneurs and early-stage companies driving concepts through clinical proof of concept. They also strive to forge active, collaborative interactions that result in synergies with Takeda's considerable R&D resources. Their goal is to build a portfolio of strategic investments, with an immediate emphasis on oncology, gastroenterology, neuroscience, and rare diseases.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Cerevance — Cerevance is a developer of novel therapeutics intended to advance new medicines for serious neurological diseases.The company's therapeutics applies it's technology called NETSseq to reveal transcriptional and epigenetic differences between specific cell types in mature human brains, enabling healthcare providers to detect and tackle theearly onset of various neurological diseases.
OncoResponse — OncoResponse Inc., an immuno-oncology company located in Houston, Texas, has partnered with MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) to deploy a unique and transformational approach to cancer therapeutic monoclonal antibody and target discovery. The company licensed the I-STAR™ platform, developed and validated by Theraclone Sciences of Seattle, tointerrogate the human memory B-cell repertoire of cancer patients who are considered “Elite Responders” to immunotherapy; as such, their own adaptive immune system responded to immunotherapy stimulation in a way that achieved curative or durable responses. From these Elite Responders, OncoResponse is leveraging the human immune system to identify fully human monoclonal antibodies and discover novel targets that will lead to the development of fully human antibody derived therapeutics for the treatment of cancer.
Larkspur Biosciences — Larkspur's strategy focuses on the particular ways in which tumours hijack the immune system by developing precision immunotherapies for molecularly defined patient groups to overcome the bottlenecks that allow the tumour to subvert the immune system.

Pfizer Venture Investments is a corporate venture capital firm that invests in areas of current or future strategic interest to Pfizer. It aims to remain at the forefront of life science advances. It identifies and invests in emerging companies that are developing transformative medicines and technologies that have the potential to enhance Pfizer’spipeline and shape the future of its industry.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

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Capstan Therapeutics — Capstan Therapeutics is advancing precision in vivo cell engineering to develop therapeutics for a broad range of disease categories with unmet or underserved clinical need.
MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas
Grey Wolf Therapeutics — By targeting the ERAP proteases in the antigen presentation pathway Grey Wolf aims to change the antigen repertoire in cancer.

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Sift — Comprehensive solutions with our 'Unified Observability for Modern Hardware.' We specialize in efficient ingestion, secure storage, detailed visualization, and insightful reporting for all your hardware needs. Enhance performance and streamline your operations with our expert services.
Daydream — Daydream focuses on providing personalized shopping results through generative AI, machine learning, and computer vision.

WE BACK HEROES using technology to solve the world's biggest problems

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nabla Bio — Nabla is an autoreverse platform that enables the rapid discovery of previously unattainable protein variants with supernatural qualities. Nabla Bio makes new medicines and improve nutrition by engineering novel proteins.
The Bot Company — The Bot Company a household robot startup.
Molten Industries — Decarbonizing the world's chemical and heavy industries

We are deep tech venture capital.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

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Fervo Energy — Fervo Energy delivers 24/7 carbon-free energy through development of next-generation geothermal projects.
Kanvas Biosciences — Kanvas Biosciences has developed cutting-edge imaging technology to map the microbiome and develop therapeutics.
Relation Therapeutics — Relation uses machine learning to develop drugs for pressing unmet need.

Lilly Asia Ventures (LAV) is a leading biomedical venture capital firm headquartered in China, with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Palo Alto.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Hong Kong

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ProfoundBio — ProfoundBio is an oncology biotherapeutics company focused on the development of novel antibody-based therapeutics with curative potential for patients with cancer.
Targeting One — Targeting One is an in-vitro diagnostic product developer.
Healingovation — Healingovation is a med-tech company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of surgical robots, intelligent diagnosis and treatment equipment.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

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Hebbia — Hebbia's neural search lets you execute research 10X faster and 10X more accurately. Transform your productivity today.
SDF — SDF is the next generation transformation layer and best developer platform for data. A compiler and execution engine designed to improve the data engineering experience, with compile time guarantees and composable execution.
Formation Bio — Building the pharma company of the future.

EQT life science develops innovative medicines, devices, and tools to address the single important thing that matters to the preservation of health. The organization believes that such opportunities add value to all stakeholders.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, The Netherlands, Switzerland

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Binx Health — Binx Health is creating new categories of healthcare solutions that deliver on-demand testing to people where they need it most. With its proprietary, desktop, PCR-based point-of-care testing platforms and consumer mobile offerings, the company is redefining “convenient care” for the modern consumer
Onward — Working to restore movement, independence, and health in people with spinal cord injury.
Vico Therapeutics — Vico Therapeutics is a developer of ribonucleic acid (RNA) modulating therapies for rare neurological disorders. The company discovers, develops, and delivers therapies for CNS disorders. Its initial focus is on SCA which is a subgroup of hereditary ataxia, HD which is a neurodegenerative disorder, and RTT-a neurodevelopmental disorder primarilyaffecting girls that enable clients with providing therapy for it.Vico Therapeutics was founded in 2019 by Luc Dochez, Josh Mandel-Brehm, Judith van Deutekom, and Gail Mandel and it is headquartered in Leiden, The Netherlands.

Sofinnova deploys human and financial capital to turn dreams into drugs. We are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical venture capital firm with approximately $2B in assets under management and committed capital.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, France, Switzerland

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Avenzo Therapeutics — Developing the next generation of oncology therapies for patients.
Seaport Therapeutics — Seaport Therapeutics operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company.
Aeovian Pharmaceuticals — Aeovian is a San Francisco based biopharmaceutical company developing novel and highly selective therapeutics modulating mTORC1 pathway.

Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009,anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth.Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

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Psyomics — Technology to support better mental health assessment - accelerating patients to the right care pathway, first time.
Oxford Endovascular — Oxford Endovascular are developing a novel treatment for treating brain aneurysms. The Oxford technology uses a special laser-cut metal alloy which has a shape-memory. It can be posted into a catheter during surgery, inserted into the brain and opened up into a tiny tube mesh (‘flow diverter’) that fits into the natural shape of the blood vessel.This diverts the blood away from the aneurysm, allowing it to heal.
Cambridge Electric Cement — Cambridge Electric Cement is a sustainable cement start-up. Its breakthrough process co-recycles steel and cement to produce a low carbon, circular cement product that offers very low emissions[1], circular, and scalable alternative to existing cement production.

SR One Capital Management is a leading trans-Atlantic biotech venture capital firm that partners with top entrepreneurs, scientists and investment partners to seek to build elite biotechnology companies. Our mission is to translate ground-breaking technologies into next generation medicines to benef

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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Nimbus Therapeutics — Nimbus Discovery is now Nimbus Therapeutics to reflect our transition into a clinical stage company. Nimbus Therapeutics is a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., that is pioneering a new computational technology-driven paradigm to rapidly advance a diverse pipeline of novel small molecule product candidates into clinicaldevelopment. We are designing highly selective and potent medicines to disrupt known drivers of serious diseases, including metabolic disease, cancer and immune-inflammatory disorders.
Odyssey Therapeutics — Odyssey Therapeutics is developing innovative medicines to make extraordinary leaps in outcomes for patients with cancer inflammatory diseases

Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in information and communication technology, and life sciences companies. It funds innovation and participates in the entrepreneurial adventure, alongside entrepreneurs and sharing their passion.Founded in 1997, Seventure Partners is one of the European leaders in venture capital, with€ 660 million under management as of December 31, 2016. It is an active partner of innovative companies that, according to the management team, show strong growth potential and evolving in two fields of activity: Digital Technologies and Life Sciences. With more than 20 employees, including some 15 investors, Seventure Partners has a proven track record and in-depth expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, and various private equity operations.Seventure's goal is to identify and support the development of tomorrow's European leaders in order to accelerate their growth. To do this, the firm provides entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks, and know-how of its internal team of investors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
France, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ID5 — ID5 provides a comprehensive suite of identification services designed to improve to improve addressability and measurement across all environments
Peptobiotics — We make agriculture more productive, humane and sustainable by promoting growth and protecting against pathogens using a new new type of antibiotic alternative that does not cause resistance. Our recombinant peptides are synthetic biology products manufactured in a patent pending precision fermentation process. We are launching a range of products across livestock and aquaculture in Asia.
Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and

Casdin Capital is a fundamental research investment firm focused on the life sciences and healthcare industry. It manages a long-short equity fund and makes investments in early-stage to late-stage private investments. Casdin was launched in 2012 by founder and CIO Eli Casdin and as of October 2020 has approximately $2.2 billion in assets undermanagement.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, France, China

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Remix Therapeutics — Remix Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops novel small molecule therapies designed to reprogram RNA processing and treat disease in entirely new ways.
Century Therapeutics — Century Therapeutics is on a mission to develop innovative allogeneic, iPSC-derived NK and T cell therapies that are more effective, tolerable, accessible, and affordable versus existing cells therapies.
BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics — BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics operates as a biopharmaceutical company.

The Column Group is a leading venture capital firm dedicated to creating the next generation of biotechnology companies

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

InduPro — InduPro is a biotechnology company that specializes in protein therapeutics and cell-surface platform technologies.
Kenai Therapeutics — Kenai Therapeutics focuses on developing therapies for neurodegenerative movement disorders. The company provides off-the-shelf neuron replacement medicines as effective disease-modifying treatments for neurological disorders, providing doctors with techniques to treat diseases like Parkinson's.
Neurona Therapeutics — Neurona Therapeutics is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company that was founded by four neuroscientists and stem cell pioneers at The University of California, San Francisco. They are focused on the discovery and development of cell-based therapies to treat intractable neurological disease. Its initial aim is to generate therapeuticcompositions of a specific type of nerve cell (or neuron) for targeted delivery into the injured nervous system. Based on nearly two decades of research, they believe that particular subpopulations of neurons have the unique ability to integrate and repair dysregulated neural circuits. Its talented team of scientists, scientific advisors, and board directors is working to accelerate breakthrough treatments for patients with significant unmet medical needs.

Hatteras Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Research Triangle Park, NC, with a focus on biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, and related opportunities in human medicine. Founded in 2000, the firm consists of an experienced team with a broad and complementary skill set that is particularly relevant to buildingsuccessful new biomedical companies. The Hatteras Venture Partners team brings operational experience, a successful track record, and a proven ability to enhance the value of the companies in which it invests. With three funds, the firm has more than $120 million under management.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

410 Medical — 410 Medical has developed a simple, intuitive solution that allows a single healthcare provider to rapidly deliver fluid to critically ill patients, improving care, and saving lives. Their device allows fast set-up, improves resuscitation speed, minimizes provider fatigue, and frees providers to address other patient care issues simultaneously.This solution is particularly useful in pre-hospital settings and the emergency department and where speed is critical and resources may be limited.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.
Myeloid Therapeutics — Myeloid Therapeutics is an immunology company focused on combining immunologic insights with cutting-edge technologies to harness myeloid cells to eradicate cancer and other diseases. The Company's ATAKTM platform technology can be broadly applied, and it is initially advancing a cell therapy program for T cell lymphoma and a primed monocyteapproach to treat glioblastoma. The ATAK platform is scalable to multiple treatment modalities and other disease areas in collaboration with partners.
Veralox Therapeutics — Veralox Therapeutics develops small molecule therapeutics that treat the underlying pathologies of thrombosis and type one diabetes. Based on an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of these diseases, these efforts will lead to new treatment paradigms and better outcomes for patients.

KdT Ventures is the standard for early-stage frontier science investing.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Elegen — Elegen is powering the bioeconomy with high-accuracy DNA synthesis that delivers industry-leading speed, length, and quality.
Marigold Health — Marigold Health is an anonymous social network where people with mental health and substance use conditions support each other.
Radar Therapeutics — Precision-targeted, smart therapies to conquer the world's most intractable diseases.

At Connecticut Innovations, we see venture capital the way you see your business. Like no one else. We invest in innovative biotech, IT, and other industries.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Conduce Health — Conduce Health is a multi-specialty value-based care marketplace providing turnkey solutions for primary care organizations.
DeepLook Medical — Enhancing Medical Imaging with Revolutionary Software: DeepLook Medical envisions a future where data-driven imaging enables accurate, efficient, and personalized care across the entire treatment pathway.
Manifest Technologies — Manifest Technologies was founded by a group of leading experts in computational neuroimaging and psychiatry at Yale University's School of Medicine. Our goal is to transform therapeutic development, diagnosis and treatment for CNS disorders. The company is advancing the world's first AI-powered computational neuroimaging system that quantifies neural and symptom data to create and choose the right therapy for the right patient at the right time.

Impacting the future of medicine.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Pheon Therapeutics — Pheon Therapeutics is an Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) specialist that creates ADCs for a variety of difficult-to-treat cancers. Its lead program is a first-in-class ADC against a novel target that is highly expressed in solid tumors across a broad range of hard-to-treat cancer types.The company was founded in 2022 and is based in London,England.
Bicycle Therapeutics — Bicycle Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a novel class of medicines which are referred to as Bicycles. The Bicycles are synthetic short peptides constrained to form two loops which stabilize their structural geometry. Its initial internal programs are focused on oncology indications with high unmet medical need.The company's product candidate, BT1718, is a Bicycle Toxin Conjugate, or BTC.
Progentos Therapeutics — Progentos Therapeutics develops an approach to treat multiple sclerosis that stimulates the body's natural repair mechanisms.

With its purpose-driven culture and deep industry expertise, Frazier Healthcare is the preferred partner to profitable healthcare companies.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series A, Post-IPO Equity
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Metagenomi — Metagenomi is using the power of metagenomics and machine learning to discover novel genome editing systems.
Pardes Biosciences — Pardes Biosciences is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company created by and for this moment to help solve pandemic-sized problems, starting with COVID-19. We are applying modern reversible-covalent chemistry as a starting point to discover and develop novel oral drug candidates while reimagining the patient journey to access these medicines.The company’s lead product candidate, PBI-0451, is being developed as a direct-acting, oral antiviral drug to treat and prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections, the virus responsible for COVID-19. Pardes Biosciences is on a mission to stop a pandemic and start a movement so patients everywhere can get well sooner.
New Amsterdam Pharma — NewAmsterdam Pharma is a clinical-stage company focused on the research and development of transformative therapies for cardio-metabolic diseases.

Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking onchallenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Amber Therapeutics — Developing intelligent bioelectrical therapies that can adapt, respond and learn from each person's individual physiology
Oxford Endovascular — Oxford Endovascular are developing a novel treatment for treating brain aneurysms. The Oxford technology uses a special laser-cut metal alloy which has a shape-memory. It can be posted into a catheter during surgery, inserted into the brain and opened up into a tiny tube mesh (‘flow diverter’) that fits into the natural shape of the blood vessel.This diverts the blood away from the aneurysm, allowing it to heal.
Grey Wolf Therapeutics — By targeting the ERAP proteases in the antigen presentation pathway Grey Wolf aims to change the antigen repertoire in cancer.

Northpond Ventures is a science-driven venture capital ﬁrm headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Our mission is to build a better tomorrow. Our investments are focused on life sciences, technology, and aﬃliated industries.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Totus Medicines — Applying revolutionary chemical biology technologies to create life-changing covalent therapeutics for untreatable diseases.
SeLux Diagnostics — SeLux Diagnostics is a developer of the Next-Generation Phenotyping (NGP) platform that enables personalized antibiotic therapies for patients. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Charlestown, MA.
Elephas — Elephas is a live tumor imaging company developing novel cancer diagnostic solutions to predict treatment outcomes and accelerate drug development.

Amgen Ventures is a venture capital investment arm of Amgen Inc. specializing in investments in early and later stage companies. The firm primarily invests in the biotechnology sector with a focus on discovering and developing human therapeutics with a focus on oncology, inflammation, hematology, nephrology, metabolic disorders, neuroscience, andcardiovascular therapeutics. In oncology and hematology it focuses on novel therapeutics including signal transduction, cell cycle, and apoptosis; hematopoiesis including anemia, neutropenia, and stem cell mobilization; and supportive care including mucositis and cachexia. In nephrology the firm focuses on renal failure and hyperparathyroidism. For inflammation the firm focuses on rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, systemic lupus erythematosus, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, asthma and COPD, and osteoarthritis. Under cardiovascular, it focuses on acute coronary syndromes, dyslipidemia, and heart failure and under metabolic disorders it focuses on diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and osteoporosis. The focus on neuroscience included pain including neuropathic and inflammatory, alzheimer's disease, parkinson's disease, sleep disorder, cognition, and schizophrenia. In discovery research and technology the firm focuses on early-stage drug discovery collaborations, innovative chemical entity collections, diagnostics and biomarkers, novel antibody platforms, assay biologicals and devices, and target-focused structural biology and computational tools. It primarily invests in the North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. The firm typically invests between $2 million and $3 million per transaction and may invest up to $10 million per company. It prefers to have an ownership stake of less than 15 % in its portfolio companies. Amgen Ventures was founded in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Seattle, Washington; Thousand Oaks, California; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Inversago Pharma — Inversago Pharma is a preclinical-stage, biotech company specialized in the development of new therapies focusing on CB1 blockade, based on first-in-class, peripherally-acting, CB1 inverse agonists.
Casma Therapeutics — Casma Therapeutics is a developer of a natural cellular process of autophagy to open new target areas for drug discovery and development. The company focuses on autophagy system to improve the cellular process of clearing out unwanted proteins, organelles and invading pathogens as well as tries to arrest or reverse the progression of lysosomalstorage disorders, muscle disorders, inflammatory disorders and neurodegeneration, enabling physicians to address unmet medical needs.
Feldan Therapeutics — Feldan Therapeutics has developed a patented peptide-based technology platform, the Feldan Shuttle, which enables fast and safe intracellular delivery. The company's mission is to develop leading-edge therapeutic applications based on its proprietary platform, as demonstrated by its current pipeline of clinical programs taking advantage of theunique characteristics of the Shuttle.

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