HealthCare Ventures
VC Fund
Cambridge, United States
HealthCare Ventures is a leading life science venture capital firm investing in pre-clinical or early clinical stage, focused companies with potential to transform patient care.
- Total investments:
- 104
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
- Fund size:
- $250M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries HealthCare Ventures invests in
Stages HealthCare Ventures invests in
Countries HealthCare Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $4.4M–$37M
- Series B
- $10M–$50M
- Series C
- $15M–$44M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 48 (46%)
- Health Care 35 (34%)
- Pharmaceutical 22 (21%)
- Medical 21 (20%)
- Therapeutics 14 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 27 (26%)
- Series A 22 (21%)
- Series C 11 (11%)
- Funding Round 9 (9%)
- Series D 7 (7%)
Country
- United States 53 (51%)
- Australia 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
James H. Cavanaugh
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
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John Littlechild
Managing Director & General Partner
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Managing Director & General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Christopher K. Mirabelli
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Douglas E. Onsi
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Harold Werner
Co-Founder & Managing Director
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Co-Founder & Managing Director | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorescience is a luxury aesthetic makeup line in the medical and resort spa channel, differentiating their products from other makeup lines through high quality, efficacious ingredients, luxury colores and formulations, and convenience and simplicity of use. With every product the company strives to make a difference in the diminution of skincancer and skin conditions. | $30M / Debt Financing / Sep 14, 2020 | ||
| Leap Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, is engaged in acquiring and developing novel therapeutics. The company focus is to identify translational-stage molecules in the areas of cell signaling and immuno-oncology. | Jan 01, 2016 | ||
| Cypherpunk Technologies is a biopharmaceutical company developing antibody therapies for cancer while simultaneously executing a digital-asset treasury strategy centered on Zcash. Their oncology pipeline includes sirexatamab (DKN-01), a monoclonal antibody targeting DKK-1, and FL-501, another antibody in preclinical development. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2016 | ||
| Proteostasis Therapeutics is discovering and developing novel small molecule therapeutics designed to control the body's protein homeostasis, or Proteostasis Network. The Proteostasis Network maintains the body's natural balance of proteins to protect us from numerous diseases. These novel therapies, or Proteostasis Regulators, aredesigned to treat multiple genetic and degenerative disorders associated with deficiencies of the Proteostasis Network, such as emphysema, type II diabetes, Alzheimer's Disease and Huntington's Disease. | $37M / Series B / Sep 08, 2015 | ||
| Galleon Pharmaceuticals engages in the discovery and development of medicines for breathing-control conditions in the United States. It focuses on developing a portfolio of therapeutics for the treatment of sleep apnea, ventilator weaning, anesthetic/analgesic-induced respiratory depression, COPD, obesity-hypoventilation syndrome, and othercommon diseases. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Horsham, Pennsylvania. | $10M / Series B / Jun 11, 2015 | ||
| Vaxxas develops and commercializes needle-free vaccine delivery system. Vaxxas was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brisbane, Australia. | $25M / Series B / Feb 10, 2015 | ||
| Colorescience is a luxury aesthetic makeup line in the medical and resort spa channel, differentiating their products from other makeup lines through high quality, efficacious ingredients, luxury colores and formulations, and convenience and simplicity of use. With every product the company strives to make a difference in the diminution of skincancer and skin conditions. | $15M / Series B / Sep 10, 2014 | ||
| Senseonics is a medical device startup company in Germantown, Maryland, USA (near Washington, DC) developing transformative glucose monitoring products that is intended to enable people with diabetes to confidently live their lives with ease. Utilizing breakthrough fluorescence sensing technology, the Senseonics continuous glucose monitoring("CGM") system is being designed to be the first fully implantable CGM that is highly accurate and stable throughout its long sensor life. | $20M / Jun 05, 2014 | ||
| PathoGenetiX is developing an automated system for the rapid identification of pathogenic bacterial strains using proprietary Genome Sequence Scanning Technology. The company's approach, which employs a single reagent set to generate genomic bar codes based on bacterial DNA, can cost-effectively identify thousands of strains in a single testfrom complex samples in three hours. PathoGenetiX is developing its GSS platform for use in genomics research, food and product safety testing, and clinical infectious disease diagnostics, with the initial commercial introduction into the research market planned for 2012. | Series C / Oct 30, 2013 | ||
| Catalyst Biosciences is a drug discovery and development company. It is creating novel catalytic biopharmaceutical products based on engineered human proteases. The mission is to establish protease therapeutics as a new therapeutic platform comparable in depth and scope to antibody pharmaceuticals. The Company is developing proteases for thetreatment of a broad range of diseases with a strong focus on hemostasis and inflammation. Founded in 1997, the company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California. | Post-IPO Equity / Apr 01, 2013 | ||
| See all 104 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does HealthCare Ventures invest in?
HealthCare Ventures invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Pharmaceutical startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 104 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 HealthCare Ventures's check size?
HealthCare Ventures typically joins rounds of $4.4M–$37M at Series A, $10M–$50M at Series B and $15M–$44M 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 HealthCare Ventures participates in.
How do I contact HealthCare Ventures?
Public channels for HealthCare Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at HealthCare Ventures?
The team at HealthCare Ventures includes James H. Cavanaugh (Managing Director), John Littlechild (Managing Director & General Partner) and Christopher K. Mirabelli (Managing Director), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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