Adage Capital Management
VC Fund
Boston, United States
Adage Capital Management is a Boston-based $8.9B Money Management firm focused on managing S&P 500 assets predominantly for Endowments and Foundations such as Harvard University, Northwestern University, Dartmouth College, the American Red Cross and the Getty Foundation. Adage and its predecessor, the Select Equity Group at the HarvardManagement Company, has outperformed the S&P index in each of the last 15 years by an average of 3.5%. The fund is run by Phill Gross, who prior to founding Adage, was a Healthcare and Retail analyst, equity research director and partner at the Harvard Management Company for 18 years..
- Total investments:
- 157
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
- Fund size:
- $15B
- Last fund:
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Industries Adage Capital Management invests in
Stages Adage Capital Management invests in
Countries Adage Capital Management invests in
Contacts
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Daniel Joseph Lehan
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Phillip Gross
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Robert George Atchinson
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 77 (49%)
- Health Care 51 (32%)
- Therapeutics 43 (27%)
- Medical 32 (20%)
- Pharmaceutical 28 (18%)
Stage
- Post-IPO Equity 35 (22%)
- Series B 23 (15%)
- Series C 16 (10%)
- Series D 8 (5%)
- Funding Round 8 (5%)
Country
- United States 89 (57%)
- United Kingdom 3 (2%)
- Australia 2 (1%)
- China 1 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Daniel Joseph Lehan
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer
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Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Phillip Gross
Co-Founder, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager
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Co-Founder, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Robert George Atchinson
Co-Founder, Managing Director, and Portfolio Manager
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Co-Founder, Managing Director, and Portfolio Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Ensysce Biosciences
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Ensysce Biosciences develops oral drug delivery technologies targeting opioid misuse and overdose. Its Trypsin-Activated Abuse Protection (TAAP™) platform activates medications only upon ingestion, minimizing abuse through non-oral routes. The Multi-Pill Abuse Resistance (MPAR®) system adds a safeguard against overdose by inhibiting drug activationwhen excessive doses are consumed. These platforms are applied to treatments for severe pain and opioid use disorder, including PF614 and PF9001. Ensysce's approach has received recognition from the FDA, with TAAP™ designated as a Fast Track development and MPAR® as a Breakthrough Therapy. The company is also exploring the use of nafamostat, a component of its overdose protection products, for treating infections and pulmonary diseases. Its pipeline includes clinical and preclinical programs focused on enhancing the safety of prescription medications. Ensysce’s products are anticipated to provide safer options to treat severe pain and assist in preventing deaths caused by opioid abuse, reducing human and economic costs. The platforms are covered by an extensive worldwide intellectual property portfolio for a wide array of prescription drug compositions. | $21.5M / Post-IPO Equity / Aug 06, 2026 | |
LB Pharmaceuticals
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LB Pharmaceuticals is a development stage life sciences company devoted to commercializing novel and improved versions of successful CNS treatments used extensively overseas but never developed, approved, or marketed in the United States. Its approach is to create a research-focused organization dedicated to generating novel intellectual propertyaround improved versions of these former best-selling drugs. The Company's lead asset is LB-102 (n-Methyl amisulpride) a novel, patented version of amisulpride, one of the most effective drugs ever developed for the treatment of schizophrenia. | $150M / Post-IPO Equity / Jul 29, 2026 | |
Claris Biotherapeutics
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Claris Biotherapeutics develops a topical formulation intended to cure corneal wounds, ulcers, and scars. The formulation creates a recombinant hepatocyte growth factor which accelerates the healing process, providing healthcare providers noninvasive therapeutic treatment. | $118M / Series B / Jul 28, 2026 | |
Lycia Therapeutics
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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. | $75M / Series D / Jun 25, 2026 | |
Artiva Biotherapeutics
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Artiva Biotherapeutics is a private biotech company advancing a pipeline of off-the-shelf, allogeneic NK cell therapies, for the treatment of hematologic cancers or solid tumors. It was founded on the understanding that NK cells hold enormous therapeutic potential as cancer therapies and the dedication and expertise to overcome technologicalbarriers in the scaling and manufacturing of these cells. At Artiva, its mission is to deliver highly effective cell therapies that are also safe and immediately available and accessible to any cancer patient who stands to benefit. Artiva’s platform delivers scalability, quality, and cryopreservation to support a pipeline of safe, effective, versatile, and accessible product candidates. | $300M / Post-IPO Equity / May 08, 2026 | |
Cabaletta Bio
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Cabaletta Bio is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of cellular therapies for B cell-mediated autoimmune diseases. The company's therapeutic platform produces highly selective autologous chimeric autoantibody receptor (CAAR) T cells that bind and destroy only disease-causing B cells while sparing healthy Bcells which are essential for human health. Cabaletta has signed an exclusive licensing agreement and partnership with Penn focused on treating B cell-mediated autoimmune diseases with CAAR T cells. Cabaletta was founded by Dr. Michael Milone, Dr. Aimee Payne and Dr. Steven Nichtberger. Dr. Milone and Dr. Payne are physicians/scientists at Penn and also serve as co-chairs of Cabaletta’s Scientific Advisory Board. The Company’s lead therapeutic program is a potential treatment for a prototypical B cell-mediated autoimmune disease, mucosal pemphigus Vulgaris (mPV). mPV is a rare skin disorder that causes painful blisters and sores on mucous membranes such as the mouth, nose, throat, and genitals, leading to severe and sometimes debilitating and life-altering effects. | $150M / Post-IPO Equity / May 04, 2026 | |
Climb Bio
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Eliem Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing treatments for nervous system disorders. The company leverages its expertise in neuroscience, translational medicine, and clinical development to meet this unmet medical need with a highly innovative pipeline.Eliem Therapeutics develops and commercializes potentially“best-in-class” drug candidates to treat neuronal excitability disorders. These conditions—such as chronic pain, depression, epilepsy, and anxiety—cause deep suffering for tens of millions of people each day. At its core, the Eliem team is motivated by the promise of helping patients live happier, more fulfilling lives. | $110M / Post-IPO Equity / Apr 28, 2026 | |
Ray Therapeutics
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Ray Therapeutics is a biotech company developing optogenetic gene therapies for patients with blinding diseases. | $125M / Series B / Apr 21, 2026 | |
SCYNEXIS
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SCYNEXIS, Inc. operates as a drug discovery and development company in the United States and internationally. It engages in drug discovery, development, and manufacturing projects in various areas, such as antibacterials, antifungals, antiparasitics, antivirals, carbohydrates, central nervous system, controlled substances, kinases, naturalproducts, neglected diseases, nuclear hormones, nucleosides, oncology, ophthalmology, pain, and prodrugs. The company offers SCY-635, a drug that is used for patients who are chronically infected with genotype 1 hepatitis C virus. It also provides contract research solutions, including medicinal chemistry, discovery biology, ADMET-PK, bioanalysis and analytical chemistry, process chemistry, and cGMP manufacturing. The company delivers drug pipeline solutions to pharmaceutical, health, and life science partners. SCYNEXIS, Inc. was formerly known as SCYNEXIS Chemistry & Automation, Inc. and changed its name to SCYNEXIS, Inc. in June 2002. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. | $40M / Post-IPO Equity / Mar 31, 2026 | |
OnKure Therapeutics
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OnKure is a biotechnology company that commercializes a new cancer therapy based on novel, less toxic kinase inhibitor drugs. The company is engaged in the discovery and development of epigenetic therapies for the treatment of cancer that includes selective inhibitors of histone deacetylases. In pre-clinical models of both hematological and solidtumor cancers, their lead candidate, OKI-179, significantly and safely reduces the growth rate of tumors when dosed by itself or in combination with other targeted therapies.OnKure advances the HDAC3 selective inhibitor OKI-422 into pre-clinical toxicology studies. The company's drug candidates aim to treat patients by targeting malignant cells directly, by working in combination with other small molecule therapies and by priming the tumor microenvironment such that checkpoint inhibition is optimized. | $150M / Post-IPO Equity / Mar 27, 2026 | |
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What does Adage Capital Management invest in?
Adage Capital Management invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Therapeutics startups, most often at Post-IPO Equity and Series B stage. Most of the 157 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Adage Capital Management includes Daniel Joseph Lehan (Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer), Phillip Gross (Co-Founder, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager) and Robert George Atchinson (Co-Founder, Managing Director, and Portfolio Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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