# Top 50 Life Science Startup Investors in United States in June 2026

## ARCH Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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

## Alexandria Venture Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Pasadena, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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.

## SOSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

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.

## Northpond Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bethesda, Maryland, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science

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.

## RA Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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.

## Third Rock Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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.

## Atlas Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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.

## Novartis Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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.

## DCVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

We are deep tech venture capital.

## OrbiMed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

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

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Alix Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Life Science

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....

## Google Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

## Civilization Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

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## 8VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Artis Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

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.

## General Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

## Fifty Years
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Hatteras Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Durham, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

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.

## MPM Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical

Powering Breakthroughs in Life Sciences

## Omega Funds
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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

## KdT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

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

## Sahsen Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Non Profit

Sahsen Ventures is a venture capital firm making investments in for-profit and nonprofit organizations with an emphasis on technology and biotechnology. It was established in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

## Cormorant Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

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.

## Flagship Pioneering
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

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

## SR One
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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

## Rev1 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Rev1 Ventures provides seed stage venture capital funding in Columbus, Ohio along with startup services, space, mentoring, and connections. Learn more!

## Versant Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

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

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## Lux Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

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.

## Catalio Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science

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.

## Pear VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Pear VC partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category-defining companies.

## Longwood Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Health Care

Longwood creates and invests in science-based companies that develop novel solutions for important medical problems

## 5AM Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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

5AM Ventures was founded in 2002 by John Diekman and Andrew Schwab and is based in California.

## Playground Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Robotics, Biotechnology

Playground Global is an early-stage venture capital firm backing technical and scientific founders with deep engineering expertise, a collaborative environment, and a first-hand understanding of the intricacies of deep tech. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Playground’s mission is to transform ambitious ideas into impactfulbusinesses that benefit humanity and the planet.  We invest in areas that span across next gen compute automation, energy transition and engineered biology. Playground has been an early – and frequently first investor – in companies that include PsiQuantum, Relativity Space, Ultima Genomics, MosaicML (acq. by Databricks), d-Matrix, and Strand Therapeutics.

## The Column Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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

## iSelect Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Agriculture

Venture investing in Food, Health, and AgTech. A generational investment thesis. Food is Health is longevity

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

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.

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

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

## Vivo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Post-IPO Equity, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical

The firm is a 25-year-old global investment firm focused on healthcare with approximately $5.8 billion in AUM, which we have invested in over 290 public and private companies worldwide. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Asia.  Our team consists of 50 multi-disciplinary professionals, including, physicians, scientists,entrepreneurs, operating executives, and industry experts.
The firm operates as a multi-fund investment platform, covering growth equity, private
equity including buyout, venture capital, and public equity. Vivo invests broadly in healthcare across all fund strategies, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and healthcare services, with a focus on the largest healthcare markets.

## Gaingels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Biotechnology Value Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Post-IPO Equity, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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.

## Apple Tree Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

ATP, a global leader in life sciences venture capital, is developing the next generation of transformative biotechnology companies. ATP creates science-based companies starting with assets at various stages: from working with scientists on pre-IP ideas, to spinouts from existing company pipelines. The firm provides flexible capital, strategicinsight, and operational resources to build sustainable, research-driven enterprises. ATP invests in its portfolio companies from seed stage through IPO and beyond and supports their management teams in strategic transactions and synergistic business combinations.

## Digitalis Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Engineering solutions to complex problems in health through venture investment and company creation.

## Mission BioCapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Mission BioCapital is a life science venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies. The company leadership team has a long history together, investing in and launching dozens of early-stage life science companies. They are located in regions with a rich concentration of research, discovery, and venture capital investment, and they areknown by leaders of portfolio companies for the expertise and deep support they provide.

## Connecticut Innovations
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

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

## Takeda Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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.

## Foresite Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

We are a multi-stage investment firm, investing in companies that leverage biology and big data to transform healthcare.

## Illumina Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Foster City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

We invest in companies that are advancing the field of genomics and pioneering new applications in healthcare, agriculture, environmental science, and personal 

## F-Prime
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

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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