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Top 50 Biotechnology Startup Investors in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Biotechnology startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotechnology companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 50 Biotechnology Startup Investors in January 2026

Investor	Biotechnology investments
SOSV	257
ARCH Venture Partners	136
OrbiMed	111
Alexandria Venture Investments	105
Sofinnova Partners	104
Novo Holdings	89
Versant Ventures	83
F-Prime	80
Qiming Venture Partners	78
Atlas Venture	77
New Enterprise Associates	75
Khosla Ventures	74
RA Capital Management	71
Polaris Partners	69
Bpifrance	66
Novartis Venture Fund	65
MPM Capital	65
5AM Ventures	64
Innova Memphis	62
M Ventures	61
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)	60
Third Rock Ventures	60
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund	57
HSG	56
Lilly Asia Ventures	54
Canaan Partners	52
BioAdvance	51
Lux Capital	50
Andreessen Horowitz	50
Google Ventures	50
Pfizer Venture Investments	49
Fifty Years	49
Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund	49
Eli Lilly	47
SR One	47
Parkwalk Advisors	46
Takeda Ventures	46
DCVC	46
Alumni Ventures	46
The Column Group	45
KdT Ventures	45
Forbion Capital Partners	44
Seventure Partners	44
Sofinnova Investments	44
EQT Life Sciences	43
HealthCap	42
Casdin Capital	42
Hatteras Venture Partners	41
Oxford Science Enterprises	41
Connecticut Innovations	41

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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

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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

Paradigm — Paradigm is building a platform that enables equitable access to clinical trials while enhancing efficiency and improving ease of use for providers.
Basking Biosciences — Basking Biosciences is a startup that’s developing a therapy to restore blood flow to the brain during ischemic stroke, preventing hemorrhage and long-term damage.
Soufflé Therapeutics — Soufflé Therapeutics is a biotechnology company specializing in the development of nucleic acid medicines designed for precise delivery and targeting of disease-causing cells. The company's mission is to create potent, precise, and safe medicines that can be tailored for a broad range of diseases by leveraging breakthroughs in genetic medicineand drug delivery technology.

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

TandemAI — Streamline discovery with our integrated drug discovery platform, blending AI, physics-based tools, and wet lab for unparalleled innovation. Click now.
Epigenic Therapeutics — Epigenic Therapeutics is a biotech firm that offers gene editing therapy.
Pionyr Immunotherapeutics — Pionyr Immunotherapeutics is developing cancer immunotherapies that target the tumor microenvironment to enhance the body’s antitumor immunity. The company is exploiting novel target discovery and antibody generation platform technologies to create the next generation of immuno-oncology therapeutics. The company’s approach, Myeloid Tuning™, isdesigned to enhance the immune system’s anti-tumor response by altering the cellular infiltrate of the tumor microenvironment with high specificity.

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, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Tr1x — Tr1x develops cellular therapies intended for the treatment of autoimmune disorders.
Affinia Therapeutics — Affinia Therapeutics is expanding what's possible in adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy today and bringing transformative medicines for people.
Accipiter Biosciences — Accipiter Biosciences is a biotechnology company.

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

DNA Script — DNA Script is a disruptive DNA synthesis company engineering biology to accelerate breakthroughs in life science and human health. Their revolutionary enzymatic technology powers the world's first benchtop DNA printer, SYNTAX, enabling labs to print their own synthetic oligos for greater workflow control and faster access to results.
AAVantgarde Bio — AAVantgarde Bio is developing gene therapies for inherited retinal disorders.
Excelsior Sciences — Rebuilding the World, From the Bottom Up

Novo Holdings is a holding company specializing in life science investors with a focus on creating long-term value.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
Supira Medical — Next Generation Solution for Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support Developing a low-profile, high-flow percutaneous ventricular assist device (pVAD) for high risk coronary intervention and cardiogenic shock. Clinical Need Percutaneous ventricular assist devices (pVADs) are placed to provide temporary mechanical support, assisting the native pumping action of
Augustine Therapeutics — Augustine Therapeutics is developing selective, safe and efficacious HDAC6 inhibitors designed for treatment of neuromuscular, neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic diseases. Discover our pipeline poised for clinical impact.

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

Standard BioTools — Standard BioTools delivers leading genomic and proteomic solutions. Discover CyTOF, Hyperion, and Biomark technologies for deep biological insights.
Rennovia — Rennovia, Inc. produces renewable chemicals. It offers adipic acids and adiponitrile for consumer-end products, including carpets, heat-resistant automotive parts, furniture, apparel, footwear, luggage, adhesives, and coatings. Rennovia was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Menlo Park, California.
Alexza Pharmaceuticals — Alexza Pharmaceuticals is an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel, proprietary products for the treatment of acute and intermittent conditions. It was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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

iRiva Medical — iRiva Medical is developing novel neuromodulation therapies to address unmet therapeutic requirements in large patient populations.
K36 Therapeutics — K36 Therapeutics mission to translate epigenetic modulation of oncogenic pathways into first-in-class small molecule therapies.
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.

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

Keystone — Kesytone is a hardware wallet for bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, BCH, and cryptocurrencies.
Ronghe Medical — Ronghe Medical is a medical device manufacturer specializing in the design, research and development, production, and sales of high-end medical device systems based on advanced energy ablation technology platforms, delivering innovative therapeutic solutions that enhance clinical precision, improve patient outcomes, and support a wide range ofmedical applications.
InfStones — Founded in 2018 with offices across three countries and two continents, InfStones is the world's leading blockchain infrastructure provider. Currently, InfStones provides services to large institutional clients around the globe, supporting thousands of nodes on more than 50 public blockchains through its universal platform.

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

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.
Sionna Therapeutics — Sionna Therapeutics is developing novel small molecule therapies to treat cystic fibrosis (CF).
Matchpoint Therapeutics — Matchpoint aims to discover and develop precision small molecules that harness the power of covalency to bring new possibilities to the treatment of serious immune disease and cancer.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Wizard — Join the world's leading businesses using Wizard to sell, market, and engage their customers via text.
Immunomedics — Immunomedics is a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in developing monoclonal antibody-based products for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. Its corporate objective is to become a fully-integrated biopharmaceutical company. The company was founded in 1982 and headquartered in Morris Plains, New Jersey.
Willow — Willow is a female technology company that develops an in-bra wearable breast pump. Its breast pumps are cordless and spill-proof. It also tracks milk output through a mobile application along with an online portal, enabling mothers to pump anywhere without hassle. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Periodic Labs — Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning. The company applies computational models to support the discovery and design of materials used in sectors such as energy, electronics, and infrastructure. It builds tools that aim to reduce the time and costassociated with traditional research and development processes. Periodic Labs uses AI to analyze large-scale scientific data and collaborates with academic and industry partners to support material science research.
Vectra AI — Vectra is the world leader in AI threat detection and response. The Cognito platform uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive investigations.
Point One Navigation — Precise Positioning for the next generation of transportation. 10cm accuracy everywhere.

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, Post-IPO Equity
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Star Therapeutics — Star Therapeutics mission is to develop therapies for as many diseases as possible for millions of patients.
Triana Biomedicines — Triana Biomedicines is building the leading molecular glue discovery platform to regulate disease targets that are difficult to address with any other modality. Triana’s drug discovery engine is powered by high- resolution structural insights, state-of-the-art in silico tools, and bespoke chemical libraries. The research team has validated thebest-in-class platform and initiated multiple programs across different disease areas.
Alchemab Therapeutics — Alchemab Therapeutics is developing natural protective antibodies designed to keep people free of hard-to-treat diseases. They are building their transformative engine to identify novel drug targets and develop a broad pipeline of novel antibody therapeutics for hard-to-treat cancers, neurodegenerative conditions, and infectious diseases.

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

Jnana Therapeutics — Jnana was founded by leading academic scientists, drug developers and investors to develop medicines that transform the lives of patients.
Phreesia — Phreesia is a privately held company focused on patient check-in. The company replaces the outdated patient clipboard in physician offices with a free wireless touch screen and swipe card enabled PhreesiaPad. Phreesia automates the patient check-in process by collecting personal health information on the PhreesiaPad from the patient in a secure andHIPAA-compliant fashion. The product is designed to interface with physicians' existing and future technology and is compatible with electronic medical records (EMRs)Phreesia does not require any changes to the physician workflow and captures comprehensive patient information that can automatically be printed to reports for administrative and clinical staff. The company also improves the patient experience by better preparing them for their appointments, offering up-to-date health education relevant to their medical concerns, and enabling them to verify, rather than re-enter, information recorded at previous visits to the medical practice. The company draws on the expertise of a leading Medical Advisory Board and has initiated a series of patient care initiatives that concentrate on both wellness and disease prevention. The company is backed by premier venture capital firms and has received $13.25 million in financing to date.
Thirty Madison — Thirty Madison is a human-first healthcare company, powering access to affordable specialized healthcare through brands like Keeps and Cove.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AUSTRAL Dx — AUSTRAL Dx is developing a new imaging technique based on airborne ultrasounds in order to map the vibrations coming from the lungs. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Paris.
IsentroniQ — Isentroniq solves the critical cryogenic power and space bottleneck in quantum computing. Our dense, near-heatless wiring solution unlocks 1000x more qubits.
Brevo — Brevo is a developer of a cloud-based digital marketing platform used to meet the demand of businesses to engage with customers. Its platform encompasses the entire chain, from the creation of a newsletter to analysis and reporting tools to targeting modules that enable businesses, eCommerce sellers, and agencies to build customer relationshipsthrough digital marketing campaigns, transactional messaging, and marketing automation.Unlike other marketing solutions built for enterprise-level budgets and expertise, Sendinblue tailors its all-in-one suite to suit the marketing needs of growing SMBs in tough markets.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

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 A, Series B, Series C
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rhygaze — Rhygaze develops a novel gene therapy that targets cone cells to restore vision in patients suffering from diseases causing blindness.
Granite Bio — Targeting fundamentals of Inflammation, Autoimmunity and Fibrosis. Granite Bio develops first-in-class therapeutic antibodies depleting pathogenic cells with the potential to transform inflammatory and fibrotic diseases.
Atalanta Therapeutics — Atalanta was created to address the urgent global need for interventions to treat neurodegenerative diseases.

Powering Breakthroughs in Life Sciences

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Syndax Pharmaceuticals — Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company that focuses on an HDAC inhibitor for solid tumors and hematological tumors. It offers therapies to treat solid tumors and lung, breast, and hematological cancer. The company is developing axatilimab, a monoclonal antibody that blocks the colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1) receptor,in development for chronic Graft versus Host Disease, and entinostat, a class I HDAC inhibitor.Syndax Pharmaceuticals pipeline includes and SNDX-5613, a highly selective inhibitor of the Menin–MLL binding interaction, in development for the treatment of patients with MLLr and NPM1 acute leukemias.
Portola Pharmaceuticals — As Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease, we are delivering life-changing therapies to people living with rare diseases.
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals — Rhythm Pharmaceuticals is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to transforming the lives of patients with rare neuroendocrine diseases by rapidly advancing care and precision medicines that address the root cause.

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

Fellow Health — Fellow provides peer-reviewed, clinically valid, mail-in semen analysis for clinics looking for improved compliance and a patient-friendly solution to fertility testing.
Renasant Bio — Renasant Bio is a biopharmaceutical company pioneering disease-modifying oral small molecule treatments.
CAMP4 Therapeutics — CAMP4 is focused on addressing the fundamental cause of disease by controlling the output of genes central to disease. By taking advantage of the gene circuitry code, CAMP4 is able to control gene production through signaling pathways the cell is already utilizing to regulate gene expression. Their predictions enables CAMP4 to have a rapid start todisease treatment, significantly reducing the time and risk to bring new medicines to patients.

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, Funding Round
United States, Argentina, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HerdDogg — HerdDogg is passionate about livestock. Its innovative data platform sits at the intersection of agtech, the internet of things, and global food security. Our patented DoggTags and DoggBone, together with our Animal Traceability Platform, help producers make more money from every animal they raise. The HerdDogg system enables animal tracking,welfare monitoring and traceability in an easy-to-use application. For more information, visit herddogg.com.
Rescue Forensics — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
Soiltech Wireless — Soiltech Wireless is a developer of ag-tech solutions to design electronic devices for agricultural professionals. Its product provides real-time data to drive efficiency and optimize quality. It also provides actionable data without installation hassles and creates scalable monitoring solutions for farmers.The company was founded in 2019 and isheadquartered in Rupert, Idaho.

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, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
ChEmpower — ChEmpower is an advanced materials company that develops chemically reactive, abrasive-free planarization pads to improve chip yields and sustainability in semiconductor manufacturing.
Corvic AI — Corvic AI is pioneering a new era of Data-Centric AI Cognitive Infrastructure by transforming raw enterprise data into AI-ready intelligence.

High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
Zeeg — Create a customized landing page in just a few clicks and let your customers easily book appointments with you.
viboo — viboo offers self-learning predictive control on the basis of physics-informed Machine Learning as a cloud service to smart-thermostat and building automation companies.

Third Rock Ventures invests in transformational life science companies that show high growth potential and are well-positioned to make a difference in the marketplace. Third Rock Ventures believes in the companies we start and makes significant initial investments, which are frequently supplemented by strategic collaborations, to help our firmsprogress in life-changing medicines, technologies, and diagnostics.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Trace Neuroscience — Trace Neuroscience is a biopharmaceutical company that aims to extend the promise of genetic medicine to patients with neurodegenerative illnesses.
Jounce Therapeutics — Concentra is a biosciences company.
Seaport Therapeutics — Seaport Therapeutics operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company.

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

MFX — MFX is a platform designed to accelerate the development and manufacturing of cell and gene therapies.
Astut — Astut revolutionizes AI for high stakes unseen decisions.
Pencil Biosciences — Pencil Biosciences is pioneering the next generation of gene editing. We are developing a fully synthetic, RNA-guided platform designed to overcome the limitations of current technologies.

We help founders build enduring companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MarqVision — Effortlessly discover and remove counterfeits to protect your sales and reputation.
Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
Yunzhou Zhiwei — Yunzhou Zhiwei is a high-tech startup focused on serving large-scale equipment maintenance industries such as aviation, aerospace, shipbuilding, and rail transit. It leverages smart maintenance concepts and advanced digital technologies to make complex equipment maintenance more efficient and lean. The company drives industrial transformationtoward intelligent maintenance, helping enterprises enhance growth, efficiency, and operational excellence.

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

Portfolio highlights

Enchannel — Enchannel Medical is a global innovation platform that focuses on electrophysiology and provides atrial fibrillation treatment solution around "3D mapping + PFA ablation".
Kriya Therapeutics — Kriya is a biopharmaceutical company developing gene therapy to address common diseases that impact millions of people worldwide. Learn more.
LYNK Pharmaceuticals — LYNK Pharmaceuticals is a biotech company focusing on the discovery and development of novel medicines to treat oncology, immunology, and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

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

Hermeus — Hermeus is developing hypersonic aircraft to connect the world faster than ever before.
CarTrade — CarTrade - Buy and Sell Used Cars in India at right price. Find New Cars, car prices, upcoming cars and images. Read latest auto news, reviews and car comparisons.
Matrimony.com — Revolutionizing the Indian matrimonial industry with world class matchmaking and wedding planning services. Your search for the perfect match ends here!

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

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.
Tolerance Bio — Tolerance Bio will increase health span by preserving and restoring the function of the thymus, the master regulator of immune tolerance. Immune-mediated diseases represent a significant unmet medical challenge: cancer, autoimmunity, transplant rejection, infections, immune deficiencies, and allergi
Vittoria Biotherapeutics — Vittoria Biotherapeutics develops gene-edited cell therapies. they provide next-generation, paradigm-shifting T-cell therapeutics that address unmet medical needs. Senza5 Technology from viTToria improves the efficacy, safety, and utility of cell-based treatments in preclinical settings.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Clarifai — Clarifai is the leading Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP Platform. Label, train, deploy models on one AI platform for developers & data scientists.
Mendaera — Mendaera enables all healthcare providers to perform precise and consistent point-of-care interventions. Their platform combines real-time imaging, robotics, and artificial intelligence to aid physicians in image acquisition and interpretation.
Primer — At Primer, we help organizations make the best use of their investment in data, by using best-in-class machine learning and natural language processing technologies.

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, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Granular — Corteva Agriscience software and digital solutions give the real-time, field-by-field information needed to maximize yield & manage input costs.
Databricks — Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data Intelligence Platform.
Odyssey — Odyssey connects families with states to get access to funding from states to use with approved vendors to customize education for children who need it most.

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
SingleStore — SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications. It provides global enterprises with an intelligent database that works on any cloud on-premises or as a service runs transactions and analytics at the same time and lets clients promote their business through analytics and combine semi-structured datainto a consolidated big data platform.
Resistant AI — Resistant AI provides fraud detection and prevention in automated document processing workflows, transaction monitoring, and identities analysis.

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

Portfolio highlights

Triana Biomedicines — Triana Biomedicines is building the leading molecular glue discovery platform to regulate disease targets that are difficult to address with any other modality. Triana’s drug discovery engine is powered by high- resolution structural insights, state-of-the-art in silico tools, and bespoke chemical libraries. The research team has validated thebest-in-class platform and initiated multiple programs across different disease areas.
TRIMTECH Therapeutics — Transformative treatments for CNS and inflammatory disorders by selectively destroying disease-causing protein aggregates
MindImmune Therapeutics — Breaking through barriers to new therapeutics for brain disease.

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

Farcast — Unlocking satellite internet capacity through user terminal innovation
Solugen — Solugen's mission is to decarbonize the chemicals industry. Solugen combines synthetic biology with metal catalysis to make carbon negative chemicals at scale.Solugen's patented approach takes advantage of bio-inspired reactions to use plant material as a low-cost feedstock to produce novel products cost-competitive with thecompetition.
Valence Discovery — Empowering drug discovery scientists with the latest advances in AI-enabled drug design

Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund intends to invest in groundbreaking therapeutic approaches and technologies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nuevocor — Nuevocor is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing gene therapy‑based treatments that have the potential to restore cardiac function in diseased hearts.
Brainomix — Since launching as a spin-out from the University of Oxford in 2010, Brainomix has developed award-winning, AI-powered imaging biomarkers, assisting physicians across the world to make better life-saving decisions. Brainomix seminal product, e-Stroke is a collection of tools that use state-of-the-art AI algorithms to support doctors by providingreal-time interpretation of brain scans to help guide treatment and transfer decisions for stroke patients, allowing more patients to get the right treatment, in the right place, at the right time.
Aignostics — Aignostics is an AI-powered precision diagnostics focused on pathology to assist with drug development and clinical research. Its “explainable” AI overcomes the “black-box” limitations of conventional AI. Based on their patented technology for reverse-engineering the black box, they render diagnostic results explainable in the form of preciseheatmaps and image overlays. These heatmaps allow pathologists to quickly verify the results of the AI, which is crucial, as the pathologist is ultimately responsible for the diagnosis.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Lilly is a medicine company that puts health above all. Learn about our medicines, view condition support, find care, and much more.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Excelsior Sciences — Rebuilding the World, From the Bottom Up
Syndeio Biosciences — Syndeio Biosciences is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing therapies to restore and enhance synaptic health in central nervous system (CNS) disorders.
Affinia Therapeutics — Affinia Therapeutics is expanding what's possible in adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy today and bringing transformative medicines for people.

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

MiroBio — MiroBio's platform is based on ground-breaking research by their scientific founders at the University of Oxford delineating how immune cells communicate and how they are activated. These insights have enabled MiroBio to create antibodies that can leverage natural signalling mechanisms to restore immune system balance and control.
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.
MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas

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

Portfolio highlights

Brainomix — Since launching as a spin-out from the University of Oxford in 2010, Brainomix has developed award-winning, AI-powered imaging biomarkers, assisting physicians across the world to make better life-saving decisions. Brainomix seminal product, e-Stroke is a collection of tools that use state-of-the-art AI algorithms to support doctors by providingreal-time interpretation of brain scans to help guide treatment and transfer decisions for stroke patients, allowing more patients to get the right treatment, in the right place, at the right time.
Ceryx Medical — Ceryx Medical Ltd are the revolutionary business behind a unique bioelectronic technology that could change the way diseases such as heart failure are treated.
Enhanc3D Genomics — Enhanc3D Genomics is a spinout company from Babraham Institute.

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

Be Biopharma — Be Bio is developing a proprietary class of engineered B cells as medicines that unleash the potential of cell therapies in applications beyond cytotoxicity.
Degron Therapeutics — Degron Therapeutics is a leading platform company in discovery of molecular glue degraders for cancer treatment.
Accipiter Biosciences — Accipiter Biosciences is a biotechnology company.

We are deep tech venture capital.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OraLiva — OraLiva is a lean startup focused to turning medical breakthroughs into real-world applications.
Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
Shennon Biotechnologies — Shennon Biotechnologies analyzes and manipulates a massive number of cells on the single-cell level to develop more effective treatments for human diseases. It functionally profiles millions of immune cells to find the best targets for cancer immunotherapy.

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers accredited investors access to diversified venture portfolios. The firm operates multiple funds, including alumni-focused and thematic funds, and co-invests alongside established venture firms. Investors can choose between fund-based investing or selecting individual deals. Alumni Venturesleverages a broad network to source capital, evaluate opportunities, and support portfolio companies. The firm manages a portfolio encompassing over 1,400 venture-backed companies across various sectors and stages.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
ZZ Driggs — ZZ Driggs is an award-winning company reimagining how we furnish our lives for a new economy and a more sustainable future. We offer exceptional, sustainable, and ethically-made heirloom-quality furniture to rent, buy, or both, made by the best independent & emerging designers today.
Mythical Games — We are Mythical Games, a Venture-backed next-generation game technology company at the intersection of video games and economics led by industry veterans.

The Column Group (TCG) is a venture ecosystem dedicated to fueling scientific innovation in the life sciences industry.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Synthekine — Discovering, Developing and Commercializing the Next Generation of Selective Cytokine Therapeutics. We believe that cytokine therapeutics engineered to be selective can fundamentally change the treatment paradigm of cancer and inflammatory disease.
Atavistik Bio — Atavistik Bio is harnessing the power of protein-metabolite interactions to add a new lens to drug discovery.
Gritstone bio — Gritstone Oncology is a clinical-stage biotech company developing tumor-specific cancer immunotherapies to fight multiple cancer types. Its approach seeks to generate a therapeutic immune response by leveraging insights into the immune system’s ability to recognize and destroy tumor cells by targeting tumor-specific neoantigens. GritstoneOncology is headquartered in Emeryville, California, with key functions located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Pleasanton, California. It was founded in August 2015 and is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol GRTS.

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

Zag Bio — Zag Bio is harnessing the immune system in a whole new way by targeting the thymus to change treatment possibilities for millions of patients with autoimmune diseases.
PHNX Materials — PHNX Materials is a manufacturing company that specializes in turning waste into essential materials and reduce carbon emissions.
Faeth Therapeutics — Home | Faeth

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

Azafaros — Azafaros aims at developing therapeutic agents for the treatment of rare metabolic disorders such as lysosomal storage disorders through oral administration of azasugar compounds. These novel, very promising agents were discovered by Professor Hans Aerts at Leiden University and Amsterdam UMC and are exclusively licensed to Azafaros.
Eeden — Eeden engages in the manufacture and supply of textiles.
Granite Bio — Targeting fundamentals of Inflammation, Autoimmunity and Fibrosis. Granite Bio develops first-in-class therapeutic antibodies depleting pathogenic cells with the potential to transform inflammatory and fibrotic diseases.

Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in Tech/Digital 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 € 1 billion undermanagement as of December 31, 2023. 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.The different funds/verticals on which Seventure Partners are focusing on today: - Life Sciences : Biotech, Healthcare, Nutrition - Tech/Digital : B2B SaaS, Fintech, Retailtech, Cybersecurity - Sports & Wellbeing - Blue Economy

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sentryc — Protect your brand and your products from counterfeiters with Sentryc. We monitor over 120 marketplaces for you and remove potential counterfeits.
Flexvelop — Flexvelop combines financial technology with circular economy to add innovative values to the core function of equipment funding.Local vendors and online-shops integrate Flexvelop as a seamless embedded payment option. Business customers are now able to #flex new equipment per click right at the point of sale. Insurance is already covered, andour customers have now the weekly option, to buy- or return their equipment, easily. This enables a new world of worry-free and flexible business growth.We #flex business equipment from €300 up to €20.000 per item; e.g. coffee-machines, laptops, gym- or dental-equipment,... anything you need for your business.NEXT GENERATION PAYMENTS + Technological Innovation: fully automatic embedded payment option + Economical Innovation: optionality (rent/buy/return) + insurance included + Ecological Innovation: sustainability (contributing to a circular economy) = Enabling worry-free flexible business developmentForget renting. Forget leasing. Grow smart - flex it!
Hepster — hepster, die Onlineversicherung, flexibel, sicher und immer 100% digital.

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

Portfolio highlights

Invitae — Invitae and Labcorp together offer advanced genetic testing that can be easily integrated into medical practices. Improve patient care with meaningful insights based on DNA.
Bolt Biotherapeutics — Bolt is leveraging the immune system for a better way to treat cancer. Our approach works with a person's body, not against it.
Vestagen Technical Textiles — Vestagen Technical Textiles develops, manufactures, and markets textile products and technologies. The company has exclusive North American rights to patented Swiss technologies for medical textiles that can be adapted for a variety of uses and applications, from medical uniforms to athletic apparel. Vestagen Technical Textiles was founded in2009 and Based in Orlando, Florida.

Providing capital plus strategic, clinical, operational, financial, and commercial support to deliver the added value inventors seek.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cyted — Cyted focuses on providing digital diagnostic infrastructure to drive the earlier detection of disease. Our technologies use AI and novel biomarkers to improve patient outcomes.
Perfuze — Perfuze was founded in 2018 by Wayne Allen and Liam Mullins. Perfuze is located within Galway City in the West of Ireland. The founders have over 30 years combined medtech experience within start-up and large corporations.Perfuze is developing innovative medical technology to treat acute ischemic stroke.Perfuze is developing innovative cathetertechnology to treat acute ischemic stroke. Their technology is intended to provide superior clinical outcomes in shorter procedural times; resulting in safe, cost-effective therapy. Perfuze was founded in 2018 by Wayne Allen and Liam Mullins. The founders have over 30 years combined medtech experience within start-up and large corporations. Perfuze is currently located in the Business Innovation Centre on the campus of the National University of Ireland, Galway, and is in the process of relocating to the IDA Business Park in Dangan, Galway.
Avidicure — Avidicure is developing dual agonistic avidity-engineered multifunctional antibodies, AVC-Boosters, as monotherapy for treatment of cancer

HealthCap, a life science investor and company creator. Our motivation is to find innovative ideas and invest that could impact healthcare and society.

Investment focus

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

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.
HelloBetter — HelloBetter (hellobetter.de) was founded in 2015 under the name GET.ON Institut für Online Gesundheitstrainings GmbH (geton-institut.de) by internationally renowned research psychologists, and in close partnership with one of the largest public health care insurance companies in Germany (BARMER). HelloBetter is a pioneer in the field of e-mentalhealth and a leading provider of online mental health courses. Its work has a strong scientific basis – the courses were developed, evaluated, and implemented in a practice setting, and their effectiveness has been proven in 33 randomized controlled trials according to the highest standards of scientific practice. HelloBetter offers the widest range of evidence-based online mental health courses worldwide, with 11 digital courses covering 8 problem areas (stress, depression, insomnia, depression in the case of chronic illness, chronic pain, alcohol consumption, excessive worry, and panic and anxiety).In October 2021, the digital therapeutic 'HelloBetter Stress and Burnout' has been permanently approved by the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) as a Digital Health Application (DiGA) and thus is available by prescription free of charge for more than 50 million adults. It is the world’s first and so far only prescription digital therapeutic for the treatment of burnout symptoms.Through diverse cooperations with national and international research groups (including FAU Erlangen, University of Ulm, VU Amsterdam, and Harvard University) HelloBetter finds practical applications for the latest research innovations. Our products and our team have been awarded numerous national and international prizes. These include the Novartis & Sandoz/Hexal Digital Health Prize 2018, the Comenius Award of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Association, and the Good Practice in Mental Health & Wellbeing seal of approval as part of the EU Compass 2018, which recognises high-quality mental health initiatives in Europe in order to guide health care providers to effective and proven services.
Tribune Therapeutics — Tribune Therapeutics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company building a promising pipeline of novel medicines to treat patients with a wide range of fibrotic diseases. It was founded in 2020 with funding from HealthCap and Novo Seeds.

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

Portfolio highlights

Leyden Labs — Leyden Labs helps people live freely by developing products that protect from known and new respiratory viruses.
Octave — Octave Bioscience is an early-stage molecular diagnostics company focused on neurodegenerative diseases and conditions. The company was co-founded by Melinda Thomas and William Hagstrom in 2013. Octave Bioscience is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.
Auron Therapeutics — A differentiated approach to cure cancer.

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, Series C
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

iRiva Medical — iRiva Medical is developing novel neuromodulation therapies to address unmet therapeutic requirements in large patient populations.
Viamet Pharmaceuticals — Viamet Pharmaceuticals discovers and develops "best-in-class" inhibitors of validated metalloenzymes via an innovative and proprietary metal-binding approach, their Metallophileâ„¢ Technology. Viamet's disruptive Metallophileâ„¢ technology is based on their world-class expertise in bioinorganic chemistry and metalloenzymes and allowsthem to identify validated targets with high therapeutic and commercial potential; leverage existing metalloenzyme inhibitors as the basis for Viamet's best-in-class analogs; and rapidly and cost-effectively generate best-in-class, patentable, small molecule compounds by optimizing the metal-binding component of existing inhibitors.
TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals — TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals is a privately held biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops small molecule drugs that modulate programmed cell death pathways to treat debilitating diseases and conditions. The company's Smac Mimetics neutralize critical blocks in the apoptosis pathway to selectively destroy cancer cells. ItsNecrostatin drugs block critical steps in the process leading to necrosis, enabling cell survival in a wide range of diseases and injuries where necrosis is a critical component of pathology.

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, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Kneu Health — Kneu Health transforms smart phones into clinical-grade monitors to keep a tab on neurological conditions like Parkinson’s and dementia.
Oath Surgical — High quality outpatient surgical care. That's our Oath. Oath provides patients with access to high quality, lower cost surgical care in premium and convenient outpatient settings.
Wild Bioscience — Wild Bioscience is a crop improvement company that provides carbon mitigation, yield enhancement, and farm productivity solutions.

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

Normunity — We create medicines that free normal immunity to defeat cancer using proprietary platforms that uncover novel immuno-oncology mechanisms.
VeraDermics — VeraDermics Inc. is a dermatology pharmaceutical start-up, makers of WartPatch
PHȲND — PHȲND is a subscription-free cloud gaming platform that offers a way to discover, play, and socialize across a wide variety of games.

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