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Top 50 Life Science Startup Investors (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Life Science startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Life Science startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
SOSV
VC Fund
51 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
ARCH Venture Partners
VC Fund
33 United States, China, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $8.4M–$230M
Sofinnova Partners
VC Fund
29 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $6.6M–$109M
Alexandria Venture Investments
VC Fund
28 United States, Canada, France Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $2M–$150M
OrbiMed
VC Fund
21 United States, China, Israel Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $10M–$151M
Google Ventures
VC Fund
21 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.1M–$121M
Northpond Ventures
VC Fund
21 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science $10M–$100M
Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
20 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.5M–$79M
Third Rock Ventures
VC Fund
20 United States Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $11M–$190M
RA Capital Management
VC Fund
20 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series B, Series C, Post-IPO Equity Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $26M–$240M
Atlas Venture
VC Fund
20 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $3.5M–$115M
Novartis Venture Fund
VC Fund
19 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $5.1M–$120M
Bpifrance
VC Fund
18 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $726k–$34M
Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.1M–$46M
8VC
VC Fund
17 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $2.5M–$175M
M Ventures
VC Fund
16 United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $2.4M–$100M
SR One
VC Fund
16 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $3.7M–$175M
Gaingels
VC Fund
16 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$100M
DCVC
VC Fund
15 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1.5M–$130M
Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $1.3M–$168M
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $458k–$14M
Fifty Years
VC Fund
15 United States, Germany, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$91M
Versant Ventures
VC Fund
14 United States, Switzerland, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $4.7M–$108M
Antler
VC Fund
14 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $108k–$28M
Novo Holdings
VC Fund
13 United States, Denmark, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $9M–$135M
General Catalyst
VC Fund
13 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $1.8M–$130M
Alix Ventures
VC Fund
13 United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Life Science $2M–$70M
2048 Ventures
VC Fund
13 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $600k–$12M
Catalio Capital Management
VC Fund
13 United States, Switzerland, Israel Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science $15M–$150M
Omega Funds
VC Fund
13 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $14M–$208M
Forbion Capital Partners
VC Fund
13 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $16M–$176M
Civilization Ventures
VC Fund
13 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $1.7M–$144M
Lux Capital
VC Fund
13 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $1.8M–$193M
Andreessen Horowitz
VC Fund
13 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.6M–$112M
Flagship Pioneering
VC Fund
12 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series B, Series C, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $5.5M–$140M
Kurma Partners
VC Fund
12 France, Switzerland, Spain Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $2.3M–$95M
Prox Ventures
VC Fund
12 China, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care $1.9M–$28M
Artis Ventures
VC Fund
11 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $2M–$127M
F-Prime
VC Fund
11 United States, United Kingdom, China Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $9.2M–$165M
IQ Capital
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1.3M–$44M
Biotechnology Value Fund
VC Fund
11 United States, Switzerland, Canada Post-IPO Equity, Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $8M–$200M
Horizons Ventures
VC Fund
11 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$110M
Jonathan Milner
Angel
11 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $537k–$56M
MPM Capital
VC Fund
11 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical $9M–$125M
Takeda Ventures
VC Fund
11 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $10M–$130M
KdT Ventures
VC Fund
11 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2.6M–$175M
Casdin Capital
VC Fund
11 United States, China, France Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $10M–$200M
Khosla Ventures
VC Fund
11 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2M–$100M
Cormorant Asset Management
VC Fund
11 United States, China, Switzerland Series B, Series C, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $16M–$200M
Hatteras Venture Partners
VC Fund
11 United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $5M–$90M
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 51 investments in Life Science startups, 70 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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ARCH Venture Partners
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 33 investments in Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 412
  • Round size: Series A $8.4M–$213M; Series B $14M–$230M; Series C $15M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Synchron — The endovascular brain computer interface.
  • Parabilis Medicines — Parabilis Medicines is a biopharmaceutical company in the clinical stage that focuses on developing exceptional medications targeting challenging protein structures previously deemed undruggable. Utilizing more than ten years of exclusive data, innovative laboratory techniques, and algorithms based on AI and physics, the company has introduced anovel category of stabilized, cell-penetrating alpha-helical peptides known as Helicons™. These peptides can modulate intracellular proteins that traditional drug modalities cannot reach.
  • HI-Bio — HI-Bio leverages human genetic and immunological insights to deliver targeted, effective medicines to patients with immune-mediated diseases.
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Sofinnova Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 29 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 317
  • Round size: Series A $6.6M–$65M; Series B $10M–$109M; Series C $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Biosyntia — Biosyntia is a biotech startup within synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. We develop biocatalysts at an unprecedented speed and efficiency by employing our patent pending high-throughput screening technology.By developing tailored processes based on biocatalysis, Biosyntia enables production of complex chemical compounds byfermentation. Biocatalysis may substantially reduce both production costs and environmental impact compared to other processes such as chemical synthesis. We partner with manufacturers of fine chemical compounds (flavors, fragrances, APIs, pigments, additives, intermediates, and more) in order to establish more sustainable manufacturing processes for a greener tomorrow.Biosyntia is located at the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) Center for Biosustainability in Hørsholm, 25 kilometers north of Copenhagen.
  • Comet Biorefining — Comet Biorefining is a leading provider of sustainable high-quality cost-competitive cellulosic glucose technology for applications in renewable biofuels and biochemicals. The company’s proprietary technology allows for the conversion of wood, wheat straw, bagasse, corn stover and other agricultural waste materials into high purity cellulosicglucose syrup. These non-food sources offer lower cost and price stability when compared to food sugar sources such as corn or sugar cane. Demonstrated at 5 dry tons per day scale, Comet is focusing on commercial scale up and development of commercial partnerships with applications in renewables industries.
  • Forth Therapeutics — Forth Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to advancing precision treatments for fibrosis.
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Alexandria Venture Investments
VC Fund · Pasadena, California, United States · 28 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 262
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$31M; Series A $12M–$101M; Series B $25M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • miRecule — MiRecule is an early-stage biotechnology company that focuses on developing microRNA-based therapeutics. It features a genomic-based drug development platform that integrates genomic sequencing, expression, and prognostic data from cancer patients. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Gaithersburg, United States.
  • Deep Genomics — Revolutions in AI, biology and automation are enabling a new approach to medicine. Deep Genomics is at the forefront.
  • CREATE Medicines — 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.
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OrbiMed
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 21 investments in Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 611
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$140M; Series B $24M–$151M; Series C $15M–$131M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • MDClone — The MDClone ADAMS Platform is a self-service, data analytics environment powering healthcare collaboration, innovation, and data-driven projects.
  • Beijing Tianxing — Beijing Tianxing is a clinical solutions company for sports medicine for implants, arthroscopy devices, and sports medicine equipment.
  • Aspen Neuroscience — personalized cell therapy Starts with you Learn More about our technology
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Google Ventures
VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 21 investments in Life Science startups

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1110
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$16M; Series A $6M–$100M; Series B $15M–$121M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Cord Project — Cord is incredibly simple, incredibly fast voice messaging that lets you chat with one friend or shout to a whole group of friends. Start chatting for free on iPhone or Android now.
  • Parabilis Medicines — Parabilis Medicines is a biopharmaceutical company in the clinical stage that focuses on developing exceptional medications targeting challenging protein structures previously deemed undruggable. Utilizing more than ten years of exclusive data, innovative laboratory techniques, and algorithms based on AI and physics, the company has introduced anovel category of stabilized, cell-penetrating alpha-helical peptides known as Helicons™. These peptides can modulate intracellular proteins that traditional drug modalities cannot reach.
  • Cambridge Epigenetix — CEGX develops products for academia and industry, democratizing step-changes in accuracy and cost.
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Northpond Ventures
VC Fund · Bethesda, Maryland, United States · 21 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Series A $13M–$68M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $22M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vizgen — Vizgen is a privately held biotech company developing the next generation of spatially resolved, single-cell transcriptomics technology and toolbox. The company's patented MERFISH technology enables massively multiplexed, genome-scale nucleic acid imaging with high accuracy and detection efficiency at subcellular resolution. The highthroughput and resolution and the low cost per cell achieved by the technology will enable a wide range of tissue-scale basic research and development and will be instrumental to efforts to discover and map cell types and states in a range of tissues and organisms.
  • Culture Biosciences — Culture Biosciences develops automated bio-reactor that helps biotech companies optimize their manufacturing processes and brings products to market faster. The company also builds automated tools for fermentation. It has a digital bio-manufacturing platform to enable scientists to run, monitor, and analyze bio-reactors faster than traditionalapproaches by robotic sample handling and cloud data monitoring and analysis.Culture Biosciences was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • EnPlusOne Biosciences — EnPlusOne Biosciences provides innovative solutions for emerging RNA therapeutics.
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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 20 investments in Life Science startups

Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1791
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5.5M–$37M; Series B $11M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • NextDroid — NextDroid - We're Doing Something Different
  • Enact — Enact is a leading solar energy and solar software company serving homeowners, businesses, and installers. Get a free quote or request a demo today!
  • ARRIS — Using next-gen advanced manufacturing technologies, ARRIS Composites produces smarter, lighter, stronger, and more sustainable products at scale.
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Third Rock Ventures
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 20 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 161
  • Round size: Series A $19M–$110M; Series B $11M–$190M; Series C $14M–$146M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Septerna — Septerna is a biotechnology company discovering and advancing novel small molecule medicines targeting G protein-coupled receptors
  • NinePoint Medical — NinePoint Medical, Inc. is a transformational medical device company developing innovative, real-time, in vivo pathology devices. The company's first goal is to develop a device that enables remote pathology, or telepathology, which would facilitate immediate review of images during diagnostic procedures. This capability could potentiallyprovide physicians with immediately actionable information and eventually allow them to pursue therapeutic remedies at the time of diagnosis. This convergence of access, diagnosis and treatment during one procedure is expected to improve patient experiences and outcomes, improve the efficiency of care and provide important savings to the healthcare system. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., NinePoint is backed by Third Rock Ventures and Prospect Venture Partners.
  • Jounce Therapeutics — Concentra is a biosciences company.
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RA Capital Management
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 20 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 478
  • Round size: Series B $26M–$151M; Series C $44M–$183M; Post-IPO Equity $35M–$240M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Curevo — focused on a new generation of adjuvanted subunit vaccines Learn More Our Focus We're dedicated to developing non-mRNA vaccines for unmet medical needs Curevo Vaccine is a clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to developing next-generation non-mRNA vaccines. We focus on one need at a time, allowing us to bring effective and better-tolerated vaccines to market quickly
  • Nkarta Therapeutics — Nkarta seeks to improve upon the efficacy of cell therapy, making it more potent, better tolerated and more rapidly available to a broad population of patients with a variety of hematologic and solid tumor malignancies.While T-cell therapy, often known as CAR-T, has proven successful in certain cancer indications, its promise has been limited toa few hematologic malignancies and the side effects can be severe. Natural Killer cells are the immune system’s first responders against diseases and pathogens. Unlike T cells, they have an inherent ability to target tumor cells without genetic alteration, and therefore hold significant promise in the development of potent therapies that can be used more readily for diverse tumor types. Nkarta’s differentiated cell therapy approach is designed to boost and enhance the inherent power of Natural Killer cells to target and destroy tumor cells, while also offering a better tolerated safety profile.
  • Terrestrial Bio — Vaxess engineers novel technologies that uniquely engage the human immune system, enabling improved efficacy and simplified access for vaccines and therapeutics.
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Atlas Venture
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 20 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 431
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$75M; Series B $8M–$115M; Series C $6M–$95M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Grockit — Grockit is a pioneering online social learning company. Grockit has proven that people learn more, faster through combining social learning mechanics and multi-media learning content to help people teach and learn from others. Grockit.com offers Test Prep services for GMAT, IIM CAT, LSAT, GRE, ACT, SAT and AP Calculus and AP History tests.Grockit has built a social learning test prep platform for license and direct-to-consumer products. Florida Virtual Schools, KIPP Schools, Georgetown University and other schools have deployed Grockit services.
  • K36 Therapeutics — K36 Therapeutics mission to translate epigenetic modulation of oncogenic pathways into first-in-class small molecule therapies.
  • Kinaset Therapeutics — Kinaset Therapeutics is a therapeutics company that focuses on the advancement of novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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Novartis Venture Fund
VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 19 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 217
  • Round size: Series A $5.1M–$81M; Series B $11M–$120M; Series C $9M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200M in 2009

Portfolio highlights

  • Splice Bio — Splice Bio is a gene therapy company based on technology developed in the Muir Lab at Princeton University. The company is developing novel gene therapies based on its proprietary intein platform technology to treat patients that suffer from incurable genetic diseases. The company’s platform has the potential to address two existing limitations ofadeno-associated viruses (AAVs), both by increasing the size of the cargo gene that can be delivered and by expanding the range of tissues that can be targeted.
  • Bionano Genomics — Discover how Bionano is striving to elevate health and wellness for all through optical genome mapping (OGM) solutions that transform the way the world sees the genome.
  • Protego Biopharma — Protego Biopharma develops therapeutics based on the clear human genetic link, excellent human safety profile, proof-of-principle efficacy. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 18 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1268
  • Round size: Seed $726k–$6.5M; Series A $2.7M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • AQEMIA — Aqemia is an in silico drug discovery start-up, whose ambition is to discover rapidly more innovative therapeutic molecules with better chances of success.
  • Probabl — Open Source Commons for AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science.
  • Ostrea — OSTREA is a pioneering company in the creation of high-performance materials based on bio-minerals: seashells.
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 18 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 277
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $1.6M–$13M; Series B $2M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Paragraf — We Work to Develop Innovative and Useful End Products from Novel Materials. Our Analogue Sensors Are Designed to Provide Accurate Field Gradient Mapping & Alignment.
  • Psyomics — Technology to support better mental health assessment - accelerating patients to the right care pathway, first time.
  • PredictImmune — Pragmatic play menciptakan demo slot x500 yang merupakan slot online gratis. Nikmati slot demo pragmatic gacor gampang menang di demo pragmatic jamin gacor.
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8VC
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 17 investments in Life Science startups

8VC is a technology and life sciences investment firm that partners with founders to develop transformational technologies. The firm focuses on creating long-term economic and societal value through its investments across various sectors, including healthcare and logistics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 525
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$13M; Series A $8M–$57M; Series B $17M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Karat — Karat helps companies hire top engineering talent by improving the quality, efficiency, and equity of their technical hiring process
  • Apex — Apex manufactures ESPA-class satellites, ranging from 40 to 400kg. Our first spacecraft bus platform, Aries, is built for LEO missions for earth observation, communications, and more. Configure the Aries bus to meet your specific mission profile.
  • Flywheel.io — Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT.
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M Ventures
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 16 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$22M; Series A $5.6M–$49M; Series B $15M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iOnctura — Our mission is to develop high impact, low disruption therapies that extend healthspan. We do this by disrupting the dynamic interplay at the heart of the
  • Future Fertility — OUR AI-POWERED ASSESSMENTS GUIDE PERSONALIZED FERTILITY TREATMENT DECISIONS IN OVER 180 CLINICS ACROSS 32 COUNTRIES
  • ApoGen Biotechnologies — ApoGen Biotechnologies, Inc. is focused on the development of new class of therapeutics targeting drivers of cancer genomic mutation.As the arsenal of available cancer therapies has grown and evolved from cytotoxic chemotherapy to targeted therapy to immunotherapy, one fact has unfortunately remained constant nearly all cancer drug therapieseventually fail due to the development of drug resistance. Mutation of cellular DNA is central to the formation of cancer, and chronic mutation of the cancer genome is a primary cause of cancer evolution and drug resistance, resulting in ineffective therapy, cancer recurrence and metastasis, and decreased overall survival.
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SR One
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 16 investments in Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 192
  • Round size: Series A $3.7M–$100M; Series B $15M–$114M; Series C $22M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Arch Oncology — Formerly Known as Vasculox. Tioma is an immuno-oncology company developing anti-CD47 antibodies for the treatment of solid and hematologic cancers. The company's functionally diverse antibodies represent a new class of checkpoint inhibitors that harness both the adaptive and innate immune responses.
  • Aileron Therapeutics — Aileron Therapeutics - ALRN-6924 - myelopreservation
  • AGTC — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 16 investments in Life Science startups

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1006
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$40M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • BQP — BosonQ Psi Pvt. Ltd. (BQP) is a state-of-the-art SaaS-based enterprise software venture leveraging the power of Quantum computing to speed up virtual simulations of Multiphysics and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) nature. BosonQ Psi is at the forefront of this quantum revolution. Our vision is to become the premier multiphysics simulation softwareusing quantum computing. Our world-class software suite will include computational science fields of fluid dynamics, structural dynamics, thermal, chemical, and aeroacoustics. With such an innovative product, we will revolutionize the computational world by enabling high-fidelity simulations that are impossible to solve with current computing technology. Further, this product will aid aerospace, automotive, energy, manufacturing, biotechnology, civil engineering, and astrophysics industries in saving millions of dollars by reducing long turnaround times of simulations used in the design process and give higher accuracy to make significant design changes for giving rise to the next generation of an electric car, eVTOL, skyscraper, or even Mars Rover.The possibility to harness the power of quantum computers is endless, and we at BQP thrive on pushing the boundaries of quantum computing technologies to serve our clients. We have made it our mission to bring these possibilities into the hands of every person - from a researcher to a scientist, from a professor to a student. Our name, BosonQ Psi, pays tribute to the great Indian physicist Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose, after whose name the elementary particle in quantum mechanics, Boson, was named and further incorporates the fundamental quantity that describes the state of the quantum particle - Psi, thus symbolizing the company's fundamental goal to contribute in India's goal to be the leader in the Quantum realm and also become a global leader in Quantum paradigm shift in coming years.
  • Willow Wealth — Willow Wealth is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.
  • Hubble Network — Connect a Bluetooth device to a global satellite network, delivering affordable, low-power tracking and monitoring for diverse industrial and commercial applications.
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DCVC
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 investments in Life Science startups

We are deep tech venture capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 391
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5.8M–$45M; Series B $15M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Agility — Agility develops humanoid robots and automation platforms for warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics operations. It provides robotic deployment solutions and software platforms that support industrial automation and the handling of repetitive tasks. The company also offers software platforms to manage and support robotic operations in industrialenvironments.
  • CH4 Global — CH4 Global is an aquaculture solutions provider dedicated to urgently impacting climate change at scale. Lead by a world-class team of senior business builders, scientists and entrepreneurs, the company is initially leveraging proven science and technology for growing seaweed into innovative new livestock supplement that reduces methane produced bycows by up to 90%. Among early investors are a select group of prominent family offices and private investors. CH4 Global have also received non-dilutive capital support from government organizations from around the world. CH4 Global is a Delaware corporation based in Henderson, NV.
  • Tradeshift — Tradeshift is a supply chain network, Tradeshift is a market leader in e-invoicing and accounts payable automation and an innovator in supplier financing and B2B marketplaces.
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Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 15 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$46M; Series B $13M–$168M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $327M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AlveoGene — Transforming Rare Respiratory Disease Outcomes Using Inhaled Gene Therapy
  • Salience Labs — Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany.
  • Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
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UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund · Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 15 investments in Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 135
  • Round size: Seed $458k–$5.9M; Series A $2.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • MFX — MFX is a platform designed to accelerate the development and manufacturing of cell and gene therapies.
  • Zentraxa — NATURE ENGINEERED FOR PURPOSE Through millions of years of evolution, nature has found solutions to the most difficult problems. Inspired by the diversity of nature, we precision engineer bespoke biomaterials to meet the toughest challenges across
  • Hexigone Inhibitors — Hexigone aims to replace toxic chemicals used in the anti-corrosion market with our disruptive, novel, micro/nano reservoir technologies, creating 'smart' coatings. Our additives will enable the coatings to protect for longer in an intelligent manner, increasing the lifetime cycle of the end product, reducing the drain on primaryresources.
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Fifty Years
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 investments in Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $8.5M–$40M; Series B $16M–$91M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $90M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Onepot.ai — Onepot.ai offers automated synthesis of small molecules from basic building blocks using a unified, end-to-end process. It generates around fifty distinct compounds in a single workflow, eliminating the need for bespoke methods for each target. The platform employs modular couplings, deprotection, and streamlined purification steps to rapidlyassemble structurally diverse molecules. It supports chemistries that produce both sp²- and sp³-rich frameworks, enabling applications across pharmaceutical, materials, and probe development. By leveraging a catch-and-release purification protocol and iterative building-block assembly, Onepot.ai enables efficient production of complex small-molecule libraries.
  • Adaption Labs — Adaptation creates AI systems that adjust to changing real-world circumstances.
  • Tools For Humanity — Tools for Humanity is a technology company building for humans in the age of AI.
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Versant Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 14 investments in Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 287
  • Round size: Series A $4.7M–$84M; Series B $10M–$105M; Series C $12M–$108M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Graphite Bio — Graphite Bio is a next-generation gene editing company focused on therapies that harness targeted gene integration to treat or cure serious diseases
  • Lycia Therapeutics — Lycia Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing technology that utilizes lysosome-targeting chimeras. The company was founded by Carolyn R. Bertozzi in 2019 and is based in San Diego, California, USA.
  • Nested Therapeutics — Nested Therapeutics is a Cambridge-based VC-backed stealth biotech company. The company's focus is on finding and creating new precision oncology small-molecule drugs targeted toward cancer genes. Nested Therapeutics was established in 2021 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 14 investments in Life Science startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1818
  • Round size: Seed $186k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $108k–$750k; Series A $4.6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
  • Visoid — Render your 3D models with ease! Quick and easy rendering software for architects, powered by AI. Try Visoid for free!
  • One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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Novo Holdings
VC Fund · Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 13 investments in Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 350
  • Round size: Series A $9M–$125M; Series B $12M–$135M; Series C $30M–$118M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $165M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Verana Health — Verana Health is assembling the largest clinical databases in medicine to empower physicians and accelerate research for patients.
  • SCHOTT Poonawalla — SCHOTT Poonawalla is a manufacturer of pharmaceutical containers, made of neutral glass tubing. The company provides parenteral packaging systems crafted from tubular glass, serving the pharmaceutical industry with a broad range of products including vials, pre-fillable syringes, ampoules, and cartridges.
  • Nkarta Therapeutics — Nkarta seeks to improve upon the efficacy of cell therapy, making it more potent, better tolerated and more rapidly available to a broad population of patients with a variety of hematologic and solid tumor malignancies.While T-cell therapy, often known as CAR-T, has proven successful in certain cancer indications, its promise has been limited toa few hematologic malignancies and the side effects can be severe. Natural Killer cells are the immune system’s first responders against diseases and pathogens. Unlike T cells, they have an inherent ability to target tumor cells without genetic alteration, and therefore hold significant promise in the development of potent therapies that can be used more readily for diverse tumor types. Nkarta’s differentiated cell therapy approach is designed to boost and enhance the inherent power of Natural Killer cells to target and destroy tumor cells, while also offering a better tolerated safety profile.
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General Catalyst
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 13 investments in Life Science startups

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1839
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$20M; Series A $6.5M–$70M; Series B $12M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Ayr Energy
  • Prosimo — Application Experience across Multi-cloud
  • Empathy — Coping with the loss of a loved one is not easy. Download the Empathy App for guidance on what to expect following a loss and the tools to get you through each step.
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Alix Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in Life Science startups

Supporting early stage Life Science startups driving patient impact. Born from our collective experience as founders, we set out to build the fund we wanted to raise from....

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Life Science
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $2.7M–$2.7M; Series A $12M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iOrganBio — iOrganBio is a pioneering cell production platform that uses CellForge to facilitate the intelligent manufacturing of human cells and organoids.
  • Galatea Bio — Galatea Bio, a US-based biotechnology company was founder by Carlos Bustamante, Nicholas Katsanis and Alexander Ioannidis. Our mission is to drive groundbreaking discoveries in healthcare by pairing genetic diversity with cutting-edge data analytics. Our passion is fueled by a focus on populations historically underrepresented in genetics research.We achieve this by leveraging our world-class clinical network and biobank, cutting-edge algorithms, and innovative analyses to discover and validate new tests, treatments, and cures that will improve the lives of all.
  • Italic Health — Italic Health, Inc. is a healthcare technology company building a unified platform for managing patient data, medical billing, and insurance workflows. Its software integrates health records, appointment scheduling, and AI-driven analytics to improve care coordination, financial processes, and patient engagement.
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2048 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 13 investments in Life Science startups, 14 in the past 12 months

We back visionary founders who are building technologies of the future.2048 Ventures is a thesis-driven earliest stage venture capital firm. We are founders, experienced operators, nerds and dreamers obsessed with the future. We've backed over 200 startups and have the experience and conviction to lead your pre-seed or seed round.We getyou and your vision before others.We are systems thinkers, engineers, and product junkies. We think about the future non-stop and are ready to understand and back you before anyone else. When we decide to invest, we write you a check and then help you close the rest of the round. We lead rounds with high conviction, and write $500K - $2M checks.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $600k–$2.5M; Series A $6.8M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Rely — Rely is a company that focuses on converting the vast amount of unstructured data found in real estate transactions into structured.
  • Pocket — Pocket is an AI front office platform that automates insurance verification, patient intake / onboarding, scheduling and patient communications for rehab therapy practices (physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, chiropractic).
  • Century Health — Accelerating treatments with AI-powered real-world evidence. Century Health does the heavy lifting to rapidly get you the insight you need, all while supporting the research community and protecting patient privacy.
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Catalio Capital Management
VC Fund · Baltimore, Maryland, United States · 13 investments in Life Science startups

Catalio Capital Management was created by George Petrocheilos and Dr. Jacob Vogelstein to invest in breakthrough biomedical technology companies created or referred by Catalio Capital Management, an elite group of world-renowned, serial scientist-entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Series A $15M–$150M; Series B $26M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OSPRI — Multiplex qPCR reagent kits for assay development, biomarker discovery, and translational research. 120+ configurations across a broad range of research areas. Extraction-free. Customizable. For Research Use Only.
  • Parabilis Medicines — Parabilis Medicines is a biopharmaceutical company in the clinical stage that focuses on developing exceptional medications targeting challenging protein structures previously deemed undruggable. Utilizing more than ten years of exclusive data, innovative laboratory techniques, and algorithms based on AI and physics, the company has introduced anovel category of stabilized, cell-penetrating alpha-helical peptides known as Helicons™. These peptides can modulate intracellular proteins that traditional drug modalities cannot reach.
  • Medical Informatics — Medical Informatics offers solutions that give care teams access to the data they need to take action for alarm management and safety. The company’s Sickbay software platform enables continuous data collection from a comprehensive set of devices. Ultimately their alarm management solutions reduce alarm noise at the patient level, and send the rightalarms to care providers.Medical Informatics Corp was founded by Emma Fauss and Craig Rusin in 2010 and is based in Houston, Texas.
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Omega Funds
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 13 investments in Life Science startups

We aim to invest in exceptional founders and entrepreneurs and impactful products and platforms across multiple therapeutic areas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Series A $16M–$197M; Series B $35M–$162M; Series C $14M–$208M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Attenua — 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Hassle-free shopping. We help you find the right domain name.
  • Ousia Pharma — Ousia Pharma is paving the way for novel therapeutic strategies using peptide-drug-conjugates
  • Andrew Alliance — OneLab is laboratory software to design and execute liquid handling protocols. Pipette+ for manual liquid handling pipetting and Andrew+ the pipetting robot
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Forbion Capital Partners
VC Fund · Naarden, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 13 investments in Life Science startups

Impacting the future of medicine.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 198
  • Round size: Series A $19M–$176M; Series B $16M–$155M; Series C $19M–$113M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

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.
  • Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
  • Gyroscope Therapeutics — Gyroscope is a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing therapies and treating diseases of the eye.The company explores the convergence of advancements made in the understanding of the complement system’s impact on eye disease, the genetic basis of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), and gene therapy as a mode of treatmentdelivery. Its lead investigational gene therapy, GT005, is a one-time therapy delivered under the retina. GT005 is designed to restore balance to an overactive complement system by increasing the production of the Complement Factor I protein. GT005 is currently being evaluated in a Phase I/II clinical trial called FOCUS and Phase II clinical trials called EXPLORE and HORIZON.Andrew Lotery, David Kavanagh, and Peter Lachmann co-founded Gyroscope Therapeutics in Stevenage, Herefordshire in 2016.
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Civilization Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in Life Science startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$16M; Series A $8.1M–$30M; Series B $24M–$144M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OxCan — Enabling curative cancer treatment through early detection
  • 10x Science — 10x Science offers an AI software that analyzes protein data to characterize molecular structures and support biopharmaceutical research.
  • Foresight Diagnostics — We develop innovative diagnostics to advance decision-making in oncology drug development and patient care.
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Lux Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 13 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 551
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$30M; Series A $7.3M–$100M; Series B $13M–$193M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2007

Portfolio highlights

  • Adimab — Premier Human Antibody Discovery and Optimization
  • Kyruus Health — Kyruus Health is a care access platform that provides solutions for providers data management, patient engagement, and activation.
  • Cajal Neuroscience — Cajal Neuroscience is a drug discovery company focused on neurodegenerative disease.
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Andreessen Horowitz
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 13 investments in Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1759
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$17M; Series A $9M–$55M; Series B $16M–$112M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Tenfold — Tenfold connects systems of engagement and customer data to enable contextual continuous conversations. Get a free demo today.
  • Shapeways — Shapeways is the #1 online 3D printing service company. Working with over a million customers since 2007 - Get 3D products and parts delivered to over 100 countries.
  • Matik — Remove the data bottleneck & pull numbers, tables, and charts directly into decks and PDFs
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Flagship Pioneering
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 12 investments in Life Science startups

We create breakthroughs in human health and sustainability and build bioplatform companies . Companies founded

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • Round size: Series A $5.5M–$75M; Series B $11M–$140M; Series C $12M–$123M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Montai Therapeutics — Harnessing untapped diverse chemistry with AI-enabled drug discovery to develop breakthrough small molecule medicines for chronic disease.
  • Foghorn Therapeutics — Foghorn Therapeutics is developing therapies based on a system that directs which genes our cells express, and when, where, and in what order.By manipulating this system with our unique Gene Traffic ControlTM platform, Foghorn will change how genes turn “on” and “off.” Unlike approaches that edit genes, this novel way of thinking will alter whatour DNA has in store for us—and rewrite destiny for millions of people living with disease.With Gene Traffic ControlTM Foghorn is pioneering a new, major class of drug targets to develop unprecedented therapies for cancer and other serious diseases. We have already validated multiple targets, are in the process of developing drug candidates in multiple types of cancer and are beginning to explore other diseases.
  • Serif Bio­med­i­cines — Serif Biomedicines is pioneering Modified DNA as a new type of biotechnology. Serif combines nucleic acid chemistry, synthetic biology, delivery technology, and artificial intelligence to develop programmable, scalable, long-lasting, and redosable DNA therapies.
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Kurma Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 12 investments in Life Science startups

Kurma Partners is a management company based in Paris, specializing in the financing of innovation in healthcare and biotechnology, from pre-creation to development capital. Kurma Partners, which manages the Kurma Biofund I, II funds and the Kurma Diagnostics fund, is one of the main players in the financing of therapeutic and medical innovationsin Europe, particularly through links with many institutes. research and prestigious hospitals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: France, Switzerland, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$17M; Series A $3.8M–$95M; Series B $12M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • EvlaBio — EvlaBio is a biotech company focused on the development of drug programs that address significant unmet medical needs. The company's pipeline includes robust scientific antibody programs for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (Phase 1 ready) and chronic kidney disease with left ventricular hypertrophy (pre-clinical).
  • AM Pharma — AM-Pharma B.V., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and commercialization of therapeutics for human use in the Netherlands. It focuses in the pre-clinical and clinical development of novel therapeutics to treat inflammatory and infectious diseases. The company develops products based on endogenous proteins and protein derivedpeptides, as well as molecules that naturally occur in the human body. Its products include alkaline phosphatase for treatment of acute kidney injury and ulcerative colitis; and immune response amplifying peptide hLF1-11 for the treatment of drug resistant hospital acquired infections. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Bunnik, the Netherlands.
  • DAMAE Medical — Damae Medical is a Paris, France-based medtech company. It has developed a medical device capable of seeing biological tissues in depth, at a cellular level and in vivo. This innovative optical imaging technology will especially allow dermatologists to evaluate in a precise, efficient and rapid way malignancy of tumors by a simple contact with thesurface of the skin. DAMAE Medical’s mission is to put the great power of bio-photonics at the service of opening new opportunities in medical imaging and diagnosis.
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Prox Ventures
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 12 investments in Life Science startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Proxima Ventures focuses in the healthcare industry, supporting outstanding enterprises with innovative technologies or service models that have tremendous potential.They manage multiple funds in RMB and US dollar, covering from seed to growth stages. Their team members with multidisciplinary backgrounds and resourceful networks, have many yearsof remarkable venture capital experience and achievements. They believe that active and effective collaboration with entrepreneurs will make substantial economic returns while bring meaningful improvements in public health.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.6M; Series A $2.8M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shengxin Medical — Shengxin Medical is a cardiovascular interventional medical device developer, dedicated to creating innovative, high-quality solutions that improve the diagnosis, treatment, and management of cardiovascular diseases, while advancing minimally invasive medical technologies to enhance patient outcomes and clinical efficiency.
  • Bluesail Surgical — Bluesail Surgical is a surgical device company that specializes in the development of innovative surgical instruments for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular treatments.
  • Kingsung Medical Group
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Artis Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in Life Science startups

Artis Ventures has spent over a decade backing bold teams who take the hard path, building market-defining companies to re-shape, re-invent, and re-make industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$40M; Series A $4M–$55M; Series B $20M–$127M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ozlo Sleep — Ozlo Sleep is a science-driven sleep and audio technology company that supports and simplifies sleep rituals for clinical benefits, without the use of medication.
  • Stateless Networks — Find a domain name today. We make it easy.
  • Transparent Health Marketplace — Live draw hk tercepat situs resmi hongkong pools menyediakan hasil result hk hari ini dari siaran live hk malam ini untuk bettor toto hk live.
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F-Prime
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 11 investments in Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 433
  • Round size: Series A $9.2M–$87M; Series B $15M–$112M; Series C $22M–$165M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NodThera — NodThera is a biotechnology company treating chronic diseases by targeting inflammation at its source.
  • Logixboard — The best way for freight forwarders to give customers shipment visibility.
  • Orchard Therapeutics — Orchard Therapeutics is a leading global fully integrated commercial-stage company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with rare diseases through innovative gene therapies.Orchard’s portfolio of autologous ex vivo gene therapy programs has demonstrated sustained clinical benefit in over 150 patients across five disease areas. Theseprograms include Strimvelis®, the first autologous ex vivo gene therapy approved by the EMA in 2016, 3 programs in advanced registrational studies in MLD (metachromatic leukodystrophy), WAS (Wiskott Aldrich syndrome) and ADA-SCID (adenosine deaminase severe combined immunodeficiency), 2 other clinical programs in X-CGD (X-linked chronic granulomatous disease) and beta-thalassemia, as well as an extensive preclinical pipeline.The company is partnered with world-leading institutions in gene therapy, including University College London, Great Ormond Street Hospital, the University of Manchester and Central Manchester University Hospitals, the University of California Los Angeles and Boston Children’s Hospital, and Telethon Institute of Gene Therapy/Ospedale San Raffaele.Orchard is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: ORTX) with offices in the UK and the US, including London, San Francisco and Boston.
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IQ Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 11 investments in Life Science startups

IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London-based VC firm that invests in ‘deep tech’ companies capable of dominating their respective markets on a global scale. Initial investments at Seed and Series A range from £0.5m to £10m, with capacity for follow-on investment up to £30m through the Growth Fund. The team has achieved over 30 exits including toApple, Huawei, Google and Oracle.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 198
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$13M; Series A $4.5M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Virti — Discover how our Immersive Learning Platform powers impactful & engaging learning experiences to transform enterprise workplace training.
  • Nyobolt — Nyobolt develops high-power energy storage systems based on advanced lithium-ion battery technology designed for rapid charging and sustained high performance. The company focuses on battery systems that enable very fast energy replenishment, supporting applications where downtime needs to be minimized. Its technology combines specialized anodematerials, cell design, battery management systems, and power electronics to achieve high charge and discharge rates. The platform is used in sectors such as robotics, data centers, industrial equipment, and electric mobility where consistent high power delivery is required. It also develops integrated energy solutions that support demanding workloads like automated logistics systems and high-performance computing infrastructure. Nyobolt’s approach emphasizes optimizing cycle life, thermal stability, and energy density for repeated fast charging environments.
  • Dataswyft — Infrastructure for Decentralized Data Storage, Mobility and Interoperability
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Biotechnology Value Fund
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in Life Science startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Biotechnology Value Fund is a San Francisco-based private investment partnership specializing in fundamentally-driven public biotechnology investments.Since its inception in 1993, BVF has strived to build concentrated, long-term investments in small-cap biotechnology companies while performing rigorous diligence and on-going monitoring of itsinvestments.BVF is committed to working with its portfolio companies as partners in their successes.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 165
  • Round size: Series A $8M–$176M; Series B $40M–$140M; Post-IPO Equity $20M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Q32 Bio — Q32 Bio is developing drugs targeting powerful regulators of both the innate and adaptive immune systems with the goal of re-balancing the immune system.
  • Contraline — Contraline is a medical device company that has developed a proprietary injectable hydrogel platform for use in reproductive and contraceptive applications. Contraline's first product, Adam, is implanted into the vas deferens through a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure and once implanted, the gel effectively blocks sperm. Adam isnon-hormonal, designed to last years, and easily reversible.
  • Sagimet Biosciences — Sagimet Biosciences better reflects our expertise in fatty acid metabolism and current focus on developing ground-breaking therapeutics to treat the liver disease NASH.
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Horizons Ventures
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 11 investments in Life Science startups

Investing in the deep science and technology that can propel humanity towards a radically better future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 255
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $6.2M–$50M; Series B $8M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scopely — Scopely is an interactive entertainment and video game company, home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “Stumble Guys”, and “Yahtzee With Buddies,” among others.Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience.Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami™ that supports one of the diversified portfolios in the mobile games industry. Recognized multiple times as Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years. Scopely has operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia-Pacific, including Bangalore and Shanghai, among others; EMEA, including Barcelona and Dublin, among others; and North America, including Boulder, Colorado, and Culver City, California, among others, with additional game studio partners across four continents.
  • Amper Music — Amper is an AI music composition company that develops tools for content creators of all kinds. Learn about our new enterprise platform, Score, as well as our creator API.
  • Misfit Wearables — Misfit is focused on developing great wearable products: things that people would want to wear all the time for a long time. A pioneer in the emerging world of wearable sensor technology, the company is making products and services in the consumer health and fitness space to inspire people to be more active and develop healthy habits. Misfit’sfirst product is the Shine, an elegant personal activity tracker that can instantly sync with a smartphone just by placing the device on the screen. Misfit was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Burlingame, California.
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Jonathan Milner
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 11 investments in Life Science startups

Having worked in the life sciences industry for over ten years as an academic researcher, Jonathan identified the market opportunity for supplying high quality antibodies to support protein interaction studies and, in 1998, founded Abcam with David Cleevely and Professor Tony Kouzarides. Jonathan is a Non-Executive Director of Horizon DiscoveryGroup plc, The Evolution Education Trust, GeoSpock Ltd and Sydicate Room Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of Axol Bioscience Ltd, PhoreMost Ltd, Repositive Limited, Definigen Limited and Cambridge Allergy Ltd. Jonathan holds an executive director position at Meltwind Limited, being a designated member of Meltwind Advisory LLP. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups. He has provided considerable investment and support to over 30 companies and has assisted three AIM IPOs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $537k–$25M; Series A $4.1M–$50M; Series B $1.6M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Quibim — Quibim builds AI tools that turn MRI, CT and PET data into actionable predictions for hospitals and biopharma. Trusted in 230+ centers worldwide.
  • Nuclera — Nuclera makes biology accessible through desktop enzymatic protein and gene synthesis. Nuclera has since grown to fifty-seven employees across two continents as the Company delivers on its founders’ vision to make biology accessible to everyone through desktop bioprinting. With desktop bioprinting, researchers and scientists will be empowered totake control of biology through streamlined access to a next-day supply of proteins and genes.
  • 52 North Health — At 52 North we are developing fully-integrated clinical, AI and medical-device based systems.
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MPM Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 11 investments in Life Science startups

Powering Breakthroughs in Life Sciences

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 227
  • Round size: Series A $9M–$84M; Series B $20M–$125M; Series C $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $850M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Orna Therapeutics — Orna Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to designing and delivering a new class of fully engineered circular RNA (oRNA) therapeutics with the potential to change the way we treat disease. Orna’s proprietary platform combines novel technology to create oRNAs that drive protein expression with validated and unique delivery solutions.
  • Aratana Therapeutics — Aratana is uniquely positioned to deliver new, high-quality medicines to address unmet needs in companion animal care. We are committed to bringing world class science to animal health for companion animals and the people who care for them. Our competitive advantage resides in our ability to identify, acquire and develop high-value commercialproducts for companion animals in a cost effective and efficient manner.
  • 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.
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Takeda Ventures
VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 11 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$58M; Series B $20M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Integra Therapeutics — Integra Therapeutics is a developer of next generation of gene editing tools to cure diseases.
  • Accipiter Biosciences — Accipiter Biosciences is a biotechnology company.
  • Harness Therapeutics — Transine Therapeutics is a private biotechnology company focused on the development of a novel class of therapeutic RNAs that can upregulate protein expression with an unprecedented level of control and specificity: the SINEUPs®. The company's pioneering technology is expected to offer an entirely unique mechanism of action for currentlyhard-to-treat diseases by massively extending the druggable proteome and allowing it to address diseases that have been beyond the reach of small molecules, conventional biologics, or gene therapies.
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KdT Ventures
VC Fund · Austin, Texas, United States · 11 investments in Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$13M; Series A $8.5M–$70M; Series B $25M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $80M in 2022

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.
  • Skeletalis — Skeletalis is a biotechnology startup focused on developing next-generation precision medicines for musculoskeletal diseases, primarily osteoporosis.
  • Tacit Therapeutics — Tacit Therapeutics created RNA-targeting treatments for devastating diseases. By repurposing pre-existing components of human cells, we have created the first broadly applicable and inherently non-immunogenic means to repair mutated genes. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in South San Francisco, California.
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Casdin Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 11 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 197
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$200M; Series B $32M–$150M; Series C $36M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Adlai Nortye — Adlai Nortye is a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on innovative oncology drugs, with its R&D and global clinical operation centers in both China and the United States. With a strategic emphasis on oncology, it has built a global pipeline through collaborations and internal discoveries with more than 10 drug candidates indevelopment.
  • City Therapeutics — City Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focusing on engineering next-generation small-interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to enhance RNAi-based therapies. The company develops a pipeline of innovative RNAi therapeutics aimed at addressing various disease indications. City Therapeutics prioritizes improving and expanding RNAi technology to achievebetter patient outcomes. The leadership team includes experienced scientists and industry professionals dedicated to advancing the field of RNA interference.
  • Parabilis Medicines — Parabilis Medicines is a biopharmaceutical company in the clinical stage that focuses on developing exceptional medications targeting challenging protein structures previously deemed undruggable. Utilizing more than ten years of exclusive data, innovative laboratory techniques, and algorithms based on AI and physics, the company has introduced anovel category of stabilized, cell-penetrating alpha-helical peptides known as Helicons™. These peptides can modulate intracellular proteins that traditional drug modalities cannot reach.
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Khosla Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 11 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1150
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$25M; Series A $5.5M–$45M; Series B $10M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $557M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • eASIC — eASIC, a fabless semiconductor company, manufactures eASIC platforms that reduce the cost of ownership and time to production of customized silicon devices. It develops Nextreme family of devices that reduce development cost and turn-around times compared to standard cell ASICs, while reducing power consumption and unit cost for designs,Nextreme-3, a fourth generation eASIC platform, and Nextreme-2, a third generation eASIC platform. eASIC also provides easicopy ASIC that provides OEMs with a path from Nextreme-3, Nextreme-2, or Nextreme devices to a cell-based easicopy ASIC, which thereby helps OEMs reduce device cost and power consumption further, or increase performance, and eZ-IP alliance program to bring a wealth of verified eASIC-ready IP cores to help customers get to market faster. Its products are used in various applications that span from wireless infrastructure to consumer handheld devices. eASIC serves customers worldwide. Zvi Or-Bach founded eASIC in 1999, with its headquarters in Santa Clara in California with additional offices worldwide.
  • Ochre Bio — Ochre Bio is developing therapies for the biggest liver health challenges.
  • CHARM Therapeutics — CHARM Therapeutics uses deep learning on 3D molecular configurations to develop molecule therapeutics to target pathogenic proteins.
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Cormorant Asset Management
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 11 investments in Life Science startups

Cormorant Asset Management is an employee-owned hedge fund sponsor that provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. The firm also focuses on both public and private market innovative companies in the biotechnology and life sciences marketplace.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 194
  • Round size: Series A $16M–$115M; Series B $32M–$150M; Series C $30M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $393M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Quince Therapeutics — Cortexyme is a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics based on data supporting a new theory of the cause of Alzheimer's and other degenerative disorders. Cortexyme is targeting a specific, undisclosed pathogen tied to neurodegeneration. The target has been validated in a number of animal models and Cortexyme is currentlytesting several potential lead therapeutics in preclinical studies.
  • Cabaletta Bio — Cabaletta Bio discovers and develops targeted cell therapy product candidates to potentially cure patients with autoimmune diseases. Learn about our CAAR T cell products.
  • Parabilis Medicines — Parabilis Medicines is a biopharmaceutical company in the clinical stage that focuses on developing exceptional medications targeting challenging protein structures previously deemed undruggable. Utilizing more than ten years of exclusive data, innovative laboratory techniques, and algorithms based on AI and physics, the company has introduced anovel category of stabilized, cell-penetrating alpha-helical peptides known as Helicons™. These peptides can modulate intracellular proteins that traditional drug modalities cannot reach.
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Hatteras Venture Partners
VC Fund · Durham, North Carolina, United States · 11 investments in Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Series A $5.2M–$50M; Series B $5M–$90M; Series C $8M–$88M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Ribometrix — The Next Frontier of Drug Discovery
  • G1 Therapeutics — G1 Therapeutics is a clinical-stage company developing novel cancer therapies. It was founded in 2008 by Drs. Norman Sharpless and Kwok-Kin Wong to capitalize on discoveries made and patented by Dr. Sharpless’ lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and subsequently licensed to G1 Therapeutics. Trilaciclib is an investigationaltherapy designed to improve outcomes for people with cancer who are treated with chemotherapy. G1 is also advancing rintodestrant, a potential best-in-class oral selective estrogen receptor degrader, or SERD, for the treatment of ER+ breast cancer.
  • SpineAlign Medical — Get your very own domain easily. Fast and professional customer service.
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Life Science Investor funding at a glance

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6k
investors
in Life Science startups
5.6k
deals
in Life Science startups
$6M
median round
in Life Science startups
39%
lead investors
lead at least one round
21%
Seed
most common funding stage
90/10
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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