# Juvenescence

> Juvenescence is a VC fund in Douglas backing Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Douglas, Isle of Man
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juvenescence1
- Website: https://www.juvlabs.com

Juvenescence is a VC fund in Douglas focused on Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical. Juvenescence Limited is a British Virgin Islands-based holding company that invests in human aging and longevity. Juvenescence has raised $111M to build an ecosystem and pipeline of assets targeting aging, age-related disease, and regeneration. Juvenescence believes that recent scientific and medical advances will enable the development oftherapeutics that meaningfully extend human healthspan and eventually lifespan. A meaningful increase in lifespan in the already aging world will have profound implications on all sectors of society, and in particular healthcare, education, insurance, and leisure.The company creates and partners with new companies with longevity-related therapeutics, by in-licensing compounds from academia and industry, or forming joint ventures with the foremost longevity scientists and leading research institutions. Their work is based on a novel scientific understanding of the underlying biological causes of aging, to create evidence-based therapeutics that can treat diseases of aging.Juvenescence's goal is to extend both lifespan and healthspan, by developing therapeutics that slow aging and promote juvenescence.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3M–$19M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 9 | 64% |
| Pharmaceutical | 4 | 29% |
| Health Care | 3 | 21% |
| Medical | 2 | 14% |
| Life Science | 2 | 14% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 5 | 36% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 7% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 57% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 7% |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anthony Chow | VP IR | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-chow-297b |
| Jim Mellon | Chairman | 32 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-mellon |
| Alexander Pickett | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-pickett |
| Casey Swerner | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/casey-swerner |
| Declan Doogan | Chief Medical Officer | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/declan-doogan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LyGenesis | LyGenesis is an organ regeneration company enabling a patient's own lymph nodes to be used as bioreactors to regrow functioning ectopic organs. Their initial target organ for clinical development is liver regeneration, with a focus on helping patients with end stage liver disease (ESLD). | $19M | Series A | Oct 24, 2023 |  |
| Morphoceuticals | Morphoceuticals is a biotechnology platform establishing a basis for limb regeneration and the discovery of regenerative interventions. It focuses on the understanding of the biophysical mechanisms that implement decision-making during complex pattern regulation and utilizes bioelectric dynamics to change developmental patterning and spurregeneration in organisms that do not regenerate tissues or organs. It helps medical researchers to treat complicated health states through limb regeneration, improving amputation stump health, promoting organ regeneration, and the treatment of channelopathies. | $8M | Seed | Jan 23, 2023 |  |
| MDI Therapeutics | MDI Therapeutics is an operator of a discovery stage company focused on developing novel therapies for fibrotic diseases. The company have developed a proprietary discovery platform which has successfully identified novel small molecule and protein drug candidates, and have advanced these programs through key translational experiments usingclinical biomarkers. | $9M | Series A | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| LyGenesis | LyGenesis is an organ regeneration company enabling a patient's own lymph nodes to be used as bioreactors to regrow functioning ectopic organs. Their initial target organ for clinical development is liver regeneration, with a focus on helping patients with end stage liver disease (ESLD). | $11M | Convertible Note | Dec 30, 2020 |  |
| LyGenesis | LyGenesis is an organ regeneration company enabling a patient's own lymph nodes to be used as bioreactors to regrow functioning ectopic organs. Their initial target organ for clinical development is liver regeneration, with a focus on helping patients with end stage liver disease (ESLD). | $4M | Debt Financing | Oct 21, 2019 |  |
| Souvien Therapeutics | Souvien Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutic agents to modulate critical epigenetic mechanisms associated with neurodegeneration. | $3.5M |  | May 28, 2019 |  |
| BYOMass | BYOMass is developing therapeutics to modulate the central control of metabolism associated with aging and age-related chronic illnesses. | $1.5M |  | Mar 27, 2019 |  |
| BHB Therapeutics | BHB Therapeutics is developing novel approaches to induce a state of ketosis, which may have protective effects against age-related disease. | $3M |  | Feb 04, 2019 |  |
| AgeX Therapeutics | AgeX is a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel therapeutics for age-related degenerative disease. AgeX’s mission is to apply the proprietary technology platform related to telomerase-mediated cell immortality and regenerative biology to address a broad range of diseases of aging. The current preclinical development effortsinclude two cell-based therapies derived from telomerase-positive pluripotent stem cells and two product candidates derived from the company’s proprietary induced Tissue Regeneration (iTR™) technology. AGEX-BAT1 and AGEX-VASC1 are cell-based approaches in the preclinical stage of development comprised of young regenerative cells modified using AgeX’s UniverCyte™ technology facilitating immune tolerance, formulated in HyStem® matrix, designed to correct metabolic imbalances in aging and to restore vascular support in ischemic tissues respectively. AGEX-iTR1547 is a drug-based formulation in preclinical development intended to restore regenerative potential in a wide array of aged tissues afflicted with degenerative disease using the company’s proprietary iTR technology. | $43.2M | Private Equity | Sep 04, 2018 |  |
| Napa Therapeutics | Napa Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on a novel target linked to one of the fundamental processes of aging. A privately held British Virgin Islands company with an office in the Isle of Man, Napa is developing small molecule drugs to address this target. | $3M |  | Aug 06, 2018 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Longevity Vision Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/longevity-vision-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Prime Movers Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prime-movers-lab) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bold Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bold-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [KIZOO Technology Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kizoo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pavilion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pavilion-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [WuXi AppTec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wuxi-apptec) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Juvenescence invest in?

Juvenescence invests primarily in Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Health Care startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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 Juvenescence's check size?

Juvenescence typically joins rounds of $3M–$19M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Juvenescence participates in.

### How do I contact Juvenescence?

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### Who are the partners at Juvenescence?

The team at Juvenescence includes Anthony Chow (VP IR), Jim Mellon (Chairman) and Alexander Pickett (Managing Director), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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