# dRx Capital

> dRx Capital is a VC fund in Basel backing Health Care and Biotechnology. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basel, Switzerland
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 13%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Jun 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/drxcapital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/dRxCapital
- Website: http://www.drxcapital.com/

dRx Capital is a VC fund in Basel focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. Founded in 2015, dRx Capital is Novartis' Digital Health Venture Fund investing in entrepreneurs transforming healthcare through data and digital technology. The fund invests in technology platforms improving access to healthcare and reimagining the practice of medicine, with a focus on AI & ML, big data, R&D optimization, patientcare, and pharma supply chain and commercialization.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3M–$40M |
| Series B | $15M–$160M |
| Series C | $21M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 15 | 47% |
| Biotechnology | 10 | 31% |
| Medical | 6 | 19% |
| Therapeutics | 6 | 19% |
| Software | 4 | 13% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 10 | 31% |
| Series C | 9 | 28% |
| Series A | 7 | 22% |
| Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 2 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 59% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eric Boutin | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-boutin |
| Rana Lonnen | Managing Director | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rana-lonnen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Peptone | We are the first in class pre-clinical translational biophysics company focusing on the discovery of novel therapeutics against intrinsically disordered targets. | $40M | Series A | Jun 09, 2022 |  |
| Koneksa Health | Koneksa Health is a healthcare data analytics company that helps researchers incorporate emerging technologies (bio-sensors, activity trackers, mobile-based questionnaires, etc.) into their clinical studies. Their Koneksa Compare software dashboard enables the collection, visualization, and analysis of these patient-generated data sets.Koneksacurrently supports academic and life sciences researchers, expands the universe of data that can be analyzed while also removing subjective characteristics from clinical endpoints. It was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, United States. | $45M | Series C | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| Pear Therapeutics | Pear Therapeutics is a provider of a software-based digital therapeutics platform designed to treat disease and enhance the efficacy of pharmaceuticals. The company's platform combines novel digital interventions with drugs to enhance efficacy well beyond anything that is commercially available or in clinical development, enabling clients toget better outcomes for patients, smarter engagement and tracking tools for clinicians, and cost-effective services for payors. | $125M | Post-IPO Equity | Dec 06, 2021 |  |
| H1.co | H1 is an AI-powered platform that helps identify and engage the right doctors for critical workflows across pharma, health plan, health system, and technology companies. At the core of the platform is H1’s Doctor Graph—a structured representation of physician identity, expertise, relationships, and behavioral signals, creating a powerful networkeffect as it is continuously enriched by participants across the healthcare ecosystem. Built on one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive global datasets of healthcare professionals, H1 combines deep healthcare data with agentic AI workflows to power critical workflows across drug development, medical and commercial engagement, care navigation, and provider data and network intelligence. Founded in 2017, the company is based in New York, United States. | $100M | Series C | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Science 37 | Science 37 is making the promise of virtual trials the new reality. By engaging with patients from the comfort of their own home, the company provides access to patients who can never be reached by traditional site-based research models. Its virtual model has proven to enroll faster, retain patients at a higher rate, and reach a more representativepatient population. Science 37 has conducted more virtual (or decentralized), interventional trials than any other company, using an expansive, in-house network of telemedicine investigators and home-health nurses. The company's research is powered by the industry’s most comprehensive, fully integrated clinical trial platform purpose-built to conduct virtual trials. | $200M | Post-IPO Equity | Oct 07, 2021 |  |
| Flywheel.io | Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT. | $27M | Series C | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Dopavision | Dopavision is a therapeutic company developing a digital therapeutic for myopia. Myopia, or shortsightedness, is a condition where the visual image is focused in front of the retina, instead of on the retina itself, as it should. People with myopia have good near sight vision but poor distance vision. Dopavision is developing a digital therapeuticfor myopia which can be seamlessly and invisibly integrated with the use of a smartphone. Myopia is a visual condition that affects on average every third person globally, a share that has increased rapidly during the last two decades. The goal of the Berlin-based startup is to develop a clinically validated therapy for myopia progression in children and adolescents. The technology delivers light stimulation to specific photosensitive cells on the retina which in turn modulate dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is important for the regulation of eye growth. Founded in 2017, Dopavision GmbH is supported by the German government via the “Industrie-in-Klinik” program of the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) with the amount of € 1.4 million over three years. | $14.2M | Series A | Jul 14, 2021 |  |
| NuvoAir | NuvoAir Medical is a value-based specialty management platform transforming the diagnosis and management of chronic heart and lung conditions. NuvoAir’s care model integrates advanced monitoring technology and analytics with evidence-based interventions, all delivered by a multidisciplinary team. This approach ensures that each patient'sjourney is highly personalized. Collaborating with health plans and risk-bearing entities through flexible, value-based payment arrangements, NuvoAir distinguishes itself as a specialty care provider, effectively reducing healthcare costs and enhancing overall outcomes. | $12M | Series A | Jun 22, 2021 |  |
| Flywheel.io | Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT. | $15M | Series B | Feb 03, 2021 |  |
| Peptone | We are the first in class pre-clinical translational biophysics company focusing on the discovery of novel therapeutics against intrinsically disordered targets. | $2.4M | Seed | Jan 08, 2021 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
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- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does dRx Capital invest in?

dRx Capital invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Medical startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is dRx Capital's check size?

dRx Capital typically joins rounds of $3M–$40M at Series A, $15M–$160M at Series B and $21M–$100M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds dRx Capital participates in.

### How do I contact dRx Capital?

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### Who are the partners at dRx Capital?

The team at dRx Capital includes Eric Boutin (Managing Director) and Rana Lonnen (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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