Jens Eckstein
Managing Partner @ Apollo Health Ventures
Cambridge, United States
Jens Eckstein is a Series A investor at Apollo Health Ventures in Cambridge focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. Dr. Eckstein is president of SR One in Cambridge, MA, USA.Prior to joining SR One, he was a Venture Partner at TVM Capital, Entrepreneur-in-Residence and appointed CEO and President of SelectX Pharmaceuticals.Prior to that, he was a General Partner in TVMs Boston life sciences practice where he focused on earlier-stage investments.He isthe Chairman of the Board of Directors for Thrasos Therapeutics.He was a member of the Board of Directors for CoNCERT Pharmaceuticals, Enanta Pharmaceuticals, SelectX Pharmaceuticals, Rapid Micro Biosystems, Anchor Therapeutics, and an Advisor to Sirtris Pharmaceuticals.Prior to joining TVM Capital, Jens led drug discovery programs at Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Mitotix, Inc. Jens is a Kauffman Fellow.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
Last updated:
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Industries Jens Eckstein invests in
Stages Jens Eckstein invests in
Countries Jens Eckstein invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 10 (56%)
- Health Care 8 (44%)
- Therapeutics 5 (28%)
- Pharmaceutical 5 (28%)
- Biopharma 3 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (39%)
- Series B 4 (22%)
- Series C 3 (17%)
- Seed 2 (11%)
- Series D 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 7 (39%)
- Canada 2 (11%)
- Switzerland 2 (11%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
Investments
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Aeovian Pharmaceuticals
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Aeovian Pharmaceuticals is a San Francisco Bay Area-based biopharmaceutical company aiming to discover, develop, and commercialize innovative therapeutics for the treatment of rare and age-related diseases. The company is developing compounds to modulate molecular pathways that address the underlying causes of disease initiation and progression,such as oxidative, cellular and environmental stress.Aeovian Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2012. | $55M / Series B / Dec 16, 2025 | |
HAYA Therapeutics
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HAYA Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing precision RNA-guided medicines that target the dark genome. The company leverages its proprietary platform to uncover new insights into disease-associated cell states and the long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) that control them. Its lead candidate, HTX-001, is being developed as a potentialtreatment for heart failure. In addition, the company is advancing a pipeline of precision therapies that target lncRNAs for cell-specific treatment of conditions affecting other tissues. | $65M / Series A / May 08, 2025 | |
Vandria
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Vandria creates mitophagy inducers that renew cells in order to address aging and chronic disorders. | $10.1M / Series A / Aug 21, 2024 | |
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HAYA Therapeutics
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HAYA Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing precision RNA-guided medicines that target the dark genome. The company leverages its proprietary platform to uncover new insights into disease-associated cell states and the long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) that control them. Its lead candidate, HTX-001, is being developed as a potentialtreatment for heart failure. In addition, the company is advancing a pipeline of precision therapies that target lncRNAs for cell-specific treatment of conditions affecting other tissues. | $5M / Seed / Feb 09, 2022 | |
Ochre Bio
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Ochre Bio develops genomic medicines to rejuvenate donors' livers before transplant, so that everyone who needs a new liver gets one. They use genomics to find and shut down over-active genes driving disease and then go directly to testing therapies in discarded donor livers that keep alive outside of the body.Ochre Bio is within the heartof Oxford’s biotech innovation hub. Their scientific roots can be traced back to over 15 years leading liver genomics research and experience in bringing advanced therapies to market. | $9.6M / Seed / Jun 16, 2021 | |
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HAYA Therapeutics
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HAYA Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing precision RNA-guided medicines that target the dark genome. The company leverages its proprietary platform to uncover new insights into disease-associated cell states and the long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) that control them. Its lead candidate, HTX-001, is being developed as a potentialtreatment for heart failure. In addition, the company is advancing a pipeline of precision therapies that target lncRNAs for cell-specific treatment of conditions affecting other tissues. | $20.1M / Seed / May 20, 2021 | |
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Aeovian Pharmaceuticals
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Aeovian Pharmaceuticals is a San Francisco Bay Area-based biopharmaceutical company aiming to discover, develop, and commercialize innovative therapeutics for the treatment of rare and age-related diseases. The company is developing compounds to modulate molecular pathways that address the underlying causes of disease initiation and progression,such as oxidative, cellular and environmental stress.Aeovian Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2012. | $37M / Series A / Oct 03, 2019 | |
Decibel Therapeutics
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Decibel Therapeutics is a developer of hearing disorder therapeutics intended to protect, repair and restore hearing. The company's therapeutics have provided insights into the link between hearing dysfunction and inner ear pathology and it has capabilities to encompass animal models, drug delivery to the inner ear, imaging, inner earPK/PD modeling and measurement, bioinformatics, genetics and target identification, enabling patients to experience hearing loss therapies with different forms of hearing disorders for their recovery. | $55M / Series C / Jun 19, 2018 | |
Palleon Pharmaceuticals
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Palleon Pharmaceuticals is a developer of a biotechnology platform designed to offer glycoimmune checkpoint inhibitors to treat cancer.The company's biotechnology platform integrates technologies and insights from scientific leaders all over the world in the fields of glycoscience and human immunology to create a novel approach to treatingcancer by targeting multiple immune cell types, providing physicians with a wider range of rational combination therapies to treat cancer and tackle resistance to first-generation immuno-oncology agents. | $47.6M / Series A / Oct 04, 2017 | |
ZappRx
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ZappRx is a digital health company that is modernizing and simplifying the way specialty drugs are managed. We provide a secure, collaborative online platform that allows patients, physicians, and pharmacists to work together to improve patients’ access to treatment and deliver medicine faster. | $25M / Series B / Apr 20, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Apollo Health Ventures
Apollo Health Ventures is an Early Stage Investment Firm interested in accelerating breakthrough scientific discoveries to the clinic by building life science companies around new therapeutic technologies. Apollo Ventures focuses on assets with the potential to treat, prevent, or even reverse age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's, HeartDisease, Sarcopenia, Frailty, and Cancer, with the ultimate goal of increasing healthy human lifespan. Apollo invests in early stage companies, works with scientists and entrepreneurs to create new ventures, and engages in hypothesis-driven company building.
Apollo Health Ventures Contacts
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Alexandra Bause
Co-Founder, Investment Director and Head of VentureLabs
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Jens Eckstein
Managing Partner
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Marianne Mertens
Partner
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Marianne Mertens
Partner
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Nils Regge
Co-Founder and Managing Director
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What does Jens Eckstein invest in?
Jens Eckstein invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Therapeutics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Jens Eckstein last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jens Eckstein closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 18 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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