Douglas Crawford
Founder & Managing Director @ Mission Bay Capital
San Francisco, United States
Douglas Crawford is a Series A investor at Mission Bay Capital in San Francisco focused on Health Care and Therapeutics. Douglas Crawford’s goal is to help stimulate economic growth in California by promoting cross-discipline academic research and accelerating the transfer of the resulting innovations to the market. Crawford created and manages the first incubator within the University of California, the QB3 Garage@UCSF, which has now expanded to include the QB3Garage@Berkeley, the QB3 Mission Bay Innovation Center, and the QB3 East Bay Innovation Center. Together these incubators are currently home to 42 companies. Crawford is also a founder and managing director of Mission Bay Capital, an $11.3M seed-stage venture fund that seeks to make pivotal early-stage investments in bioscience companies emerging from UC. He is a board member of Redwood Biosciences (observer), Delpor, and the BayBio Institute. Crawford received his PhD in biochemistry from UCSF.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 2 (100%)
- Therapeutics 1 (50%)
- Biotechnology 1 (50%)
- Medical Device 1 (50%)
- Nanotechnology 1 (50%)
Investments
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| GraphWear is reinventing the way we map human health. Pioneering a no-needle, no-blood approach to disease monitoring, GraphWear’s technology offers the first genuinely non-invasive method to map patient health, unlocking a new adherence for some of the most significant chronic diseases. By empowering access to accurate and timely healthinformation in an easy-to-use format, GraphWear aims to drive greater efficiency across diagnosis, management, and care. GraphWear is currently in clinical trials for its first target, monitoring glucose levels for diabetes, with additional potential across conditions like heart disease and cancer. | $4.2M / Series A / Apr 17, 2018 | ||
| Circle Pharma is an early-stage biotechnology company applying proprietary computational design algorithms and innovative chemistry to develop cell-permeable macrocycle peptide therapeutics against important clinical targets. It does this through an iterative, rational design process that deploys large virtual libraries of conformationally diversemacrocycle scaffolds selected for inherent permeability. The company was founded by Matt Jacobson and Scott Lokey in 2012 and is headed by David J. Earp. | $2M / Series A / Apr 25, 2017 |
Co-Investors
About Mission Bay Capital
Mission Bay Capital is a venture capital firm for early-stage investments.
Mission Bay Capital Contacts
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Ralph E. Christofferson
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Brian Atwood
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Brook Byers
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David DesJardins
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Doug Cameron
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What does Douglas Crawford invest in?
Douglas Crawford invests primarily in Health Care, Therapeutics and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 2 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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