# Alan O'Connell

> Alan O'Connell is a Series A investor at Seroba Life Sciences backing Biotechnology. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Seroba Life Sciences](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seroba-life-sciences)
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alan-o-connell/6/227/157

Alan O'Connell is a Series A investor at Seroba Life Sciences in Dublin focused on Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical. Alan O’Connell is a Partner of Seroba Kernel Life Sciences Limited. He has a background in product development and commercialization in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Alan currently sits on the boards of Diabetica, Crescent Diagnostics and Biosensia.Prior to joining Seroba in 2003, Alan worked in a variety of product developmentand business development roles at Elan Corporation (Dublin), American Biogenetic Sciences, Inc. (New York), and the Medicines Control Agency (London). His previous venture capital experience was gained at Estée Lauder Investments (New York) and he still sits on the Lauder Scientific Advisory Board.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 57% |
| Pharmaceutical | 3 | 43% |
| Medical | 2 | 29% |
| Health Care | 2 | 29% |
| Biopharma | 1 | 14% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 43% |
| Series B | 3 | 43% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 1 | 14% |
| Ireland | 1 | 14% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 14% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Artica Therapeutics | Artica Therapeutics specializes in biotechnological research and development for medical devices, pharmaceutical processes, and food. | $12.7M | Seed | Nov 02, 2023 |  |
| Shorla Pharma | Shorla Pharma is an Irish specialty pharmaceutical company. It is growing portfolio brings accessible, affordable and life-saving treatments to patients, delivering a major contribution to patient care and providing a significant clinical impact. | $35M | Series B | Oct 04, 2023 |  |
| Shorla Pharma | Shorla Pharma is an Irish specialty pharmaceutical company. It is growing portfolio brings accessible, affordable and life-saving treatments to patients, delivering a major contribution to patient care and providing a significant clinical impact. | $8.3M | Series A | Jun 03, 2020 |  |
| Fusion Pharmaceuticals | Fusion Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada focused on becoming the leader in the targeted alpha therapy field. It is a spinout of the Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization (CPDC), a leading radiopharmaceutical research and GMP production centre.Fusion’s deepradiochemistry expertise presents a technology platform that can be replicated to turn internalizing antibodies that have previously demonstrated limited clinical efficacy into highly effective cytotoxic drugs. Fusion’s ability to link the most effective isotopes to the targeting antibody allows for the creation of optimized agents for both diagnostic imaging and radioimmunotherapy (Precision Medicine). Following positive tumor identification with the imaging agent, treatment with the antibody linked to a therapeutic isotope delivers a cytotoxic payload into the cancer cell.Fusion’s lead product candidate, FPX-01, is a precision RIT that is a product of this innovative approach. FPX-01 has been designed to internalize into targeted cancer cells and deliver a lethal and highly localized radioactive payload. The precise targeting of this radiolabeled antibody causes selective and extremely effective cytotoxicity of tumor cells at relatively low doses of radioactivity. | $105M | Series B | Apr 02, 2019 |  |
| Fusion Pharmaceuticals | Fusion Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada focused on becoming the leader in the targeted alpha therapy field. It is a spinout of the Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization (CPDC), a leading radiopharmaceutical research and GMP production centre.Fusion’s deepradiochemistry expertise presents a technology platform that can be replicated to turn internalizing antibodies that have previously demonstrated limited clinical efficacy into highly effective cytotoxic drugs. Fusion’s ability to link the most effective isotopes to the targeting antibody allows for the creation of optimized agents for both diagnostic imaging and radioimmunotherapy (Precision Medicine). Following positive tumor identification with the imaging agent, treatment with the antibody linked to a therapeutic isotope delivers a cytotoxic payload into the cancer cell.Fusion’s lead product candidate, FPX-01, is a precision RIT that is a product of this innovative approach. FPX-01 has been designed to internalize into targeted cancer cells and deliver a lethal and highly localized radioactive payload. The precise targeting of this radiolabeled antibody causes selective and extremely effective cytotoxicity of tumor cells at relatively low doses of radioactivity. | $21M | Series A | Sep 25, 2017 |  |
| Prexton Therapeutics | Prexton Therapeutics is a Swiss-based biopharmaceutical company, founded in 2012 by Francois Conquet and MS Ventures as part of the Merck Serono Entrepreneur Partnership Program, a facility to support the creation of spin-offs from Merck Serono. Prexton Therapeutics applies a new scientific approach that fully integrates molecular, behavioural andchemistry technologies to address Parkinson’s disease and other brain disorders. Prexton Therapeutics uses its powerful discovery platform to target specific novel compounds focused on the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. | $36.1M | Series B | Feb 07, 2017 |  |
| Heart Metabolics | Heart Metabolics Limited is pioneering a pharmaceutical therapy for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (“HCM”).HCM is a condition in which the heart muscle becomes thick. The thickening makes it harder for blood to leave the heart forcing the heart to work harder to pump blood, leading in many cases to heart failure. Sudden death iscaused frequently.There are over 100,000 cases of HCM in the United States alone, often presenting more severely in young adults and athletes; unfortunately the younger the individual is when diagnosed with HCM, the more likely that the individual has a severe form.Although various cardiovascular drugs are currently used to treat HCM, there are patients who are not being helped by current therapeutics. In response to this medical need and based on encouraging phase II clinical trial results to date, Heart Metabolics is developing perhexiline as a therapeutic for all types of HCM. Perhexiline is currently an approved drug in Australia and New Zealand for the treatment of angina.Heart Metabolics plans to conduct clinical trials in the U.S. and seek FDA approval of perhexiline as an orphan drug; the company currently has such an orphan designation from the FDA. | $20M | Series A | Apr 16, 2014 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Adams Street Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adams-street-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Genesys Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesys-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HealthCap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/healthcap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Varian](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/varian-medical-systems) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BioGeneration Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/biogeneration-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Seroba Life Sciences

VC Fund · Dublin, Ireland

Seroba is a life sciences venture capital firm, focused on investing in breakthrough healthcare technologies that promise to improve lives and make a difference worldwide.Headquartered in Ireland, the firm works with some of the world’s best entrepreneurs developing innovative medical devices, diagnostics, and therapeutic drugs. It funds newhealthcare opportunities through key value-adding stages, assisting its invested companies from inception through development and clinical evaluation, the generation of intellectual property, regulatory approvals and market launch, and partnering with leading pharmaceutical or medtech companies.The Seroba team combines in-depth scientific and medical knowledge with broad regulatory and commercial expertise. They are known for patience, understanding, commitment and passion, well-demonstrated by the caliber of entrepreneurs they back, and an overriding focus on delivering improvements to people's lives and value to their stakeholders.

5 contacts available at Seroba Life Sciences.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alan O'Connell | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-oconnell |
| Bruno Montanari | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruno-montanari |
| Daniel O' Mahony | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-o-mahony |
| Seamus O’Hara | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seamus-ohara |
| Andrew Duignan | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-duignan |

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## FAQ

### What does Alan O'Connell invest in?

Alan O'Connell invests primarily in Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Medical startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alan O'Connell last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alan O'Connell closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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