# CTI Life Sciences Fund

> CTI Life Sciences Fund is a VC fund backing Biotechnology and Therapeutics. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.ctisciences.com

CTI Life Sciences Fund is a VC fund in Montréal focused on Biotechnology and Therapeutics. CTI Life Sciences, a Canadian venture firm makes venture capital investments in high quality emerging life sciences companies at the pre-clinical and clinical development stage in Canada and in the U.S. CTI Life Sciences currently manage $345 million of assets.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.4M–$31M |
| Series A | $7.2M–$62M |
| Series B | $23M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 19 | 70% |
| Therapeutics | 10 | 37% |
| Health Care | 9 | 33% |
| Pharmaceutical | 7 | 26% |
| Medical | 4 | 15% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 19% |
| Series B | 5 | 19% |
| Seed | 3 | 11% |
| Series C | 3 | 11% |
| Series D | 2 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 10 | 37% |
| United States | 7 | 26% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Youssef Bennani | Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/youssef-bennani-d1a3 |
| Jean-Francois Leprince | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-francois-leprince |
| Ken Pastor | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-pastor |
| Shermaine Tilley | Managing Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-shermaine-tilley |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kainova Therapeutics | Domain Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company located in Strasbourg, France, dedicated to the discovery and early development of small molecules targeting G-coupled Protein Receptors (GPCRs), one of the best classes of drug targets. Domain Therapeutics is using its innovative and proprietary technology platform DTect-Allâ„¢ to identifyorthosteric and allosteric ligands of GPCRs, including the so called Silent Allosteric Modulators (SAMs) that represent a unique source of compounds that cannot be discovered by standard technologies. DTect-Allâ„¢ is able to address difficult GPCRs such as orphan and peptidic GPCRs. | $23.5M | Series B | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| Find therapeutics | Find therapeutics provides biotechnology research services. They also provide CTI life sciences, frontiers of therapy, treat inflammatory autoimmune diseases, domain therapeutics, and GPCR technology services. | $7.2M | Series A | Jan 09, 2026 |  |
| Aeovian Pharmaceuticals | Aeovian Pharmaceuticals is a San Francisco Bay Area-based biopharmaceutical company aiming to discover, develop, and commercialize innovative therapeutics for the treatment of rare and age-related diseases. The company is developing compounds to modulate molecular pathways that address the underlying causes of disease initiation and progression,such as oxidative, cellular and environmental stress.Aeovian Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2012. | $55M | Series B | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| Oligon | Oligon company provides emerging biotechnology services developing a novel class of multimodal RNA therapeutics. They provide RNA oligonucleotide consultants, research associates, and research scientists. Their contact is done through phone and email. | $14M |  | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Thryv Therapeutics | Thryv Therapeutics is a genetic disorder that causes a prolongation between the beginning of the QRS complex and the end of the T waveQ and T waves on the EKG, indicating a prolongation of ventricular repolarization and the action potential duration. The lengthening of this complex is associated with unexpected and life-threatening ventriculararrhythmias. Click below to learn more about our programs. |  |  | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Ability Pharmaceuticals | Ability Pharmaceuticals is a drug discovery and development company based in Barcelona, Spain. It develops human therapeutics targeting cell membranes to treat cancer and other indications with unmet medical needs.Ability Pharmaceuticals is focused on developing new drugs for the treatment of lung cancer and pancreatic cancer. The companydevelops Lipid Analogue Therapeutics, a new drug class that modifies the composition of the cell membrane and displays a capacity to influence the local organization of lipid structures in the cell membrane, inducing the formation of non-lamellar phase structures.Its development pipeline includes ABTL0812 product in preclinical development; and ABTL1014, a drug candidate in preclinical characterization. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Glycomine | Glycomine is early-stage biotech working on replacement therapies for rare diseases. There are approximately 7,000 rare disorders worldwide. Each day more are being discovered. 95% of rare diseases have not one single FDA-approved treatment. Glycomine develops therapeutics for diseases that have no treatment options. | $115M | Series C | Apr 16, 2025 |  |
| Epitopea | Epitopea is a transatlantic biotechnology company developing transformational immunotherapies to treat cancer by targeting a new class of antigens that are broadly shared between patients with the same cancer indication. Cryptigen™ TSAs are discovered by a proprietary approach deploying immunopetidomics, mass spectrometry, genomics, andbioinformatics, which allows the identification of conserved, aberrantly-expressed, tumour-specific antigens, hidden in cancer's 'junk' DNA. These hidden Cryptigen™ TSAs have been identified by research led by Drs. Claude Perreault and Pierre Thibault at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer at Université de Montréal. | $31M | Seed | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| Find therapeutics | Find therapeutics provides biotechnology research services. They also provide CTI life sciences, frontiers of therapy, treat inflammatory autoimmune diseases, domain therapeutics, and GPCR technology services. | $8.1M | Convertible Note | Sep 16, 2024 |  |
| Ability Pharmaceuticals | Ability Pharmaceuticals is a drug discovery and development company based in Barcelona, Spain. It develops human therapeutics targeting cell membranes to treat cancer and other indications with unmet medical needs.Ability Pharmaceuticals is focused on developing new drugs for the treatment of lung cancer and pancreatic cancer. The companydevelops Lipid Analogue Therapeutics, a new drug class that modifies the composition of the cell membrane and displays a capacity to influence the local organization of lipid structures in the cell membrane, inducing the formation of non-lamellar phase structures.Its development pipeline includes ABTL0812 product in preclinical development; and ABTL1014, a drug candidate in preclinical characterization. | $7.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 11, 2024 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [Abingworth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abingworth-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does CTI Life Sciences Fund invest in?

CTI Life Sciences Fund invests primarily in Biotechnology, Therapeutics and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is CTI Life Sciences Fund's check size?

CTI Life Sciences Fund typically joins rounds of $3.4M–$31M at Seed, $7.2M–$62M at Series A and $23M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds CTI Life Sciences Fund participates in.

### How do I contact CTI Life Sciences Fund?

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### Who are the partners at CTI Life Sciences Fund?

The team at CTI Life Sciences Fund includes Youssef Bennani (Managing Partner), Jean-Francois Leprince (Managing Partner) and Ken Pastor (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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