# Iaso Ventures

> Iaso Ventures is a VC fund in Boston backing Biotechnology and Health Care. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iasoventures
- Website: https://iasoventures.com

Iaso Ventures is a VC fund in Boston focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. Iaso Ventures is the nation's first venture capital firm focusing on the behavioral and neurological health sector.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 7 | 41% |
| Health Care | 5 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 18% |
| Software | 2 | 12% |
| Life Science | 2 | 12% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 47% |
| Seed | 5 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 65% |
| Norway | 1 | 6% |
| Ireland | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Reynders | Venture Partner and Chief Data Scientist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-reynders-8f41 |
| Wasim Malik | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wasim-malik |
| William Morrison | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-morrison |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aerska | Aerska is a biotechnology company that is creating RNA medications to treat, postpone, and prevent brain disorders. | $39M | Series A | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| Prudentia Sciences | Prudentia Sciences is a platform enables AI-powered Asset Diligence and Valuation to De-Risk Investment in Drug Development. | $20M | Series A | Jan 07, 2026 |  |
| Ryght AI | Synthetica Bio develops an enterprise-scale generative AI for biopharma. It empowers discovery, clinical, and commercial teams with actionable knowledge in real-time. Its platform fine-tunes LLMs for real-time data with the verified and secure customer data store. | $3M | Seed | Jun 12, 2025 |  |
| Prudentia Sciences | Prudentia Sciences is a platform enables AI-powered Asset Diligence and Valuation to De-Risk Investment in Drug Development. | $7M |  | Jan 09, 2025 |  |
| Prudentia Sciences | Prudentia Sciences is a platform enables AI-powered Asset Diligence and Valuation to De-Risk Investment in Drug Development. | $7M | Seed | Jan 09, 2025 |  |
| Axonis Therapeutics | Axonis translates breakthrough regeneration research to groundbreaking paralysis therapy, to transform the lives of spinal cord injury patients. | $115M | Series A | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Scaffold Therapeutics | A venture backed, tech-accelerated drug development company. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Zafrens | Zafrens specializes in developing tools and generating insights at the interface of biology, chemistry, and engineering. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Diego, California, United States. | $23M | Series A | Dec 11, 2023 |  |
| Ryght AI | Synthetica Bio develops an enterprise-scale generative AI for biopharma. It empowers discovery, clinical, and commercial teams with actionable knowledge in real-time. Its platform fine-tunes LLMs for real-time data with the verified and secure customer data store. | $2.5M | Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| Pragma Bio | VastBiome is a biotechnology company that mines microbiome drugs to treat cancer and autoimmune disease.The company employs its proprietary methods in genomic sequencing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology to discover biomarkers and therapeutics for challenging immunologic disorders. It offers a platform that aims to aggregate publicand private data in order to generate a microbiome database and leverages analytical processes to discover connections between distinct and biologically related data in order to increase statistical power and drive discovery. In addition, the platform can be used to identify novel biomarkers to risk-stratify patients and predict clinical outcomes.It was co-founded by Peter McCaffrey, Kovi Bessoff, Ayin Vala, and Kareem Barghouti in Millbrae, California in 2018. | $10M | Series A | Mar 22, 2023 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Virtue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/virtuevc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Iaso Ventures invest in?

Iaso Ventures invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Iaso Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Iaso Ventures?

The team at Iaso Ventures includes John Reynders (Venture Partner and Chief Data Scientist), Wasim Malik (Managing Partner) and William Morrison (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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