# Johnson & Johnson Foundation

> Johnson & Johnson Foundation is a VC fund backing Health Care, Medical and Health Diagnostics. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.jnjfoundation.com/

Johnson & Johnson Foundation is a VC fund focused on Health Care and Medical. The Johnson & Johnson Foundation is a registered charitable organization that reflects the commitment of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies to keeping people well at every age and every stage of life by blending heart, science, and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Grant | $25k–$50k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 10 | 56% |
| Medical | 4 | 22% |
| Health Diagnostics | 4 | 22% |
| Medical Device | 3 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 17% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 11 | 61% |
| Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 4 | 22% |
| United States | 3 | 17% |
| Colombia | 2 | 11% |
| Argentina | 2 | 11% |
| Ghana | 1 | 6% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kintsu | Kintsu operates as a healthtech platform that bridges the gap between patients, healthcare professionals, and institutions. | $25K | Grant | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Salva Health | Salva Health is a healthcare solutions provider company that develops products to enable the prevention and early detection of diseases. | $50K | Grant | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Sofya | Sofya AI is a healthcare AI platform that uses NLP and voice tech to boost patient engagement and streamline clinical workflows. | $25K | Grant | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Panarum | Panarum produces therapeutic proteins, homogeneous powders, encapsulated products, and pharmaceutical products. They also provide product production support and on site troubleshooting services for the pharmaceutical industry. |  | Grant | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Epiliquid | Epiliquid develops a platform for early cancer detection using specific biomarkers through liquid biopsies. |  | Grant | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| AfroSaude | AfroSaúde is a Brazil company that develops technological solutions in health services. |  | Grant | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Cardiotrack | Cardiotrack and CardioStation, a remote monitoring tool, aim to bridge this healthcare gap. |  | Grant | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| TELL Toolkit | TELL is on a mission to revolutionize the fight against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and frontotemporal dementia. The company's innovative approach to brain health combines automated speech and language analysis with cutting-edge AI technology to detect early markers and provide reliable data to get todiagnoses.The company's HIPAA-compliant SaaS solution is designed to address the challenges of early detection, specificity, cost, access, and reliability. By offering a unified, user-friendly, and scalable tool for discovering and implementing novel markers, we're bringing hope to patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals across the globe.So, whether you're a patient, physician, biotech company, health insurance provider, or government agency, TELL is here to help you make better decisions and improve brain health for all. |  | Grant | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| TERAL | TERAL is a secure and exclusive app for health professionals that facilitates peer consultation among doctors using an AI real-time communication platform. |  | Grant | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Huna | Huna's cloud-based AI platform is intended to help big hospital networks and small clinics identify cancer early from routine blood tests. |  | Grant | Feb 18, 2025 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Johnson & Johnson Foundation invest in?

Johnson & Johnson Foundation invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Health Diagnostics startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Johnson & Johnson Foundation's check size?

Johnson & Johnson Foundation typically joins rounds of $25k–$50k at Grant. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Johnson & Johnson Foundation participates in.

### When did Johnson & Johnson Foundation last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Johnson & Johnson Foundation closed in Apr 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.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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