# Eli Lilly

> Eli Lilly is a VC fund in Indianapolis backing Biotechnology and Health Care. See 140 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Indianapolis, United States
- Total investments: 140
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/1663
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/LillyPad
- Website: http://www.lilly.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/elilillyandco

Eli Lilly is a VC fund in Indianapolis focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. Eli Lilly engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of products in the pharmaceutical products business segment. The company manufactures and distributes products through owned or leased facilities in the United States, Puerto Rico, and 25 other countries. Its products are sold in approximately 135 countries. It also conductsresearch to find products to treat diseases in animals and to increase the efficiency of animal food production.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $7M–$94M |
| Series B | $6.5M–$150M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 89 | 64% |
| Health Care | 50 | 36% |
| Medical | 35 | 25% |
| Therapeutics | 32 | 23% |
| Pharmaceutical | 28 | 20% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 43 | 31% |
| Series B | 29 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 9% |
| Series C | 10 | 7% |
| Seed | 8 | 6% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 79 | 56% |
| United Kingdom | 12 | 9% |
| Canada | 3 | 2% |
| China | 2 | 1% |
| France | 2 | 1% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Barton Peterson | Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Communications | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barton-r-peterson |
| Bill Ringo | President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-ringo |
| Daniel Skovronsky | Senior Vice President, and Chief Scientific Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-m-skovronsky |
| Dr Eddie Guzdar | Senior Medical Director - Immunology Northern Europe | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-eddie-guzdar |
| Eric Dozier | SVP, Human Resources, and Diversity | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-dozier-06d4 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Remedium Bio | Remedium Bio is a Boston area gene therapy company focused on the development of curative treatments for a number of highly debilitating conditions. Our fundamental approach to product development utilizes proven technologies in novel ways to treat well-characterized disease pathology. To streamline R&D, we modularly apply elements of proventechnology to develop local, targeted treatments focusing on clinically validated molecules and mechanistic pathways. Today, our leading candidates include gene therapy treatments in the fields of Rheumatology / Osteoarthritis, Endocrinology / Diabetes, and Neurology / Stroke. | $10M | Series A | Aug 10, 2026 |  |
| Ratio Therapeutics | Ratio Therapeutics develops radiotherapeutics for the treatment of cancers. They engaged in research and development platforms, trillium and macropa, enable the imaging, discovery, and advancement of radiopharmaceuticals. It enables doctors to detect a wide range of epithelial-derived cancers, such as breast, pancreatic, lung, colon cancers, andmore. | $70M | Series C | Jul 31, 2026 |  |
| Oura | Oura develops a smart ring that collects data on various biometrics to support health and wellness. The device tracks sleep, readiness, and activity levels, which users can monitor through the Oura app. It employs sensors to measure heart rate, sleep cycles, and overall activity. The company operates in the health and wellness industry. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Flare Therapeutics | Flare Therapeutics is a biotechnology company opening up a new therapeutic space with a novel approach to decipher the biology of transcription factors to develop small molecule medicines. Based on insights from the seminal work of its scientific founders, Flare’s team has uncovered ‘switch sites,’ druggable regions that are key targets fortranscription factor regulation to address mutations that cause disease. Its drug discovery to target switch sites has rapidly advanced, resulting in an emerging pipeline of drug programs that address well-validated transcription factors, initially focused on precision oncology with future potential in neurology, rare genetic disorders, immunology, and inflammation. | $85M | Series C | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| Lycia Therapeutics | 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 |  |
| ProQR Therapeutics | ProQR Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company. It discovers and develops RNA therapeutics for patients with severe genetic rare diseases such as cystic fibrosis, Leber's congenital amaurosis type 10 and dyastrophic epidermolysis bullosa. The company's main product candidates are QR-010, QR-110, and QR-313. Its product pipelineincludes QRX-704, QRX-504, QRX-421, QRX-323 etc. | $59.2M | Post-IPO Equity | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Absci | Absci is the drug and target discovery company harnessing deep learning AI and synthetic biology to expand the therapeutic potential of proteins. We built our Integrated Drug Creation™ Platform to identify novel drug targets, discover optimal biotherapeutic candidates, and generate the cell lines to manufacture them in a single efficient process.Biotech and pharma innovators partner with us to create the next generation of protein-based drugs, including Bionic Proteins™ containing nonstandard amino acids, and other novel drug designs that may be impossible to make with other technologies. Our goal is to enable the development of better medicines by Translating Ideas into Drugs™. For more information visit www.absci.com. | $100M | Post-IPO Equity | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| TRIMTECH Therapeutics | TRIMTECH Therapeutics is a biotech organization that treats neurodegenerative illnesses by using targeted protein degradation (TPD). | $14M | Seed | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Sangamo Therapeutics | Sangamo Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that translates ground-breaking science into genomic therapies transforming patients' lives using platform technologies in genome editing, gene therapy, gene regulation and cell therapy. The company's product pipeline includes Hemophilia, Central Nervous System, HIV, LysosomalStorage Disorders, and Hemoglobinopathies. |  | Post-IPO Debt | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Abridge | Abridge provides an AI platform that transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured, billable clinical notes. This technology aims to reduce documentation burdens for clinicians and nurses. The system integrates into existing healthcare workflows and electronic health record systems. |  | Corporate Round | Jun 11, 2026 |  |

10 of 140 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Eli Lilly invest in?

Eli Lilly invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Medical startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 140 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 Eli Lilly's check size?

Eli Lilly typically joins rounds of $7M–$94M at Series A and $6.5M–$150M 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 Eli Lilly participates in.

### How do I contact Eli Lilly?

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### Who are the partners at Eli Lilly?

The team at Eli Lilly includes Barton Peterson (Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Communications), Bill Ringo (President) and Daniel Skovronsky (Senior Vice President, and Chief Scientific Officer), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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