Milad Alucozai
Head of Life Sciences & Deep Tech @ BoxOne Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Milad Alucozai is a seed investor at BoxOne Ventures in San Francisco focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. Recognized by Business Insider in 2025 as “one of the top 100 early-stage investors,” Dr. Alucozai has experience translating exceptional science and technology into scalable commercial ventures. Alongside his experience as a founder and operator, he has actively invested in over 100 startups across North America and Europe. He has often been thefirst investor to back high-growth companies like Seqera Labs. Milad began his career as a neuroscientist at the intersection of bioengineering, computational biology, and machine learning, where he commercialized platforms designed to deliver promising medicines to patients more efficiently and safely. His focus as an investor has been to accelerate the journey of groundbreaking discoveries from the lab to the market, particularly in the life sciences sector and related computational fields.Milad is a co-founder and General Partner at Pamir Ventures, an early-stage venture firm that invests in technical pioneers developing B2B companies utilizing AI in antiquated industries. He is also a co-founder of Revalia Bio, which aims to establish a human-centric infrastructure for drug discovery and development. By using non-transplantable human organs donated for research, Revalia offers the scientific community unparalleled insights into patient biology, ultimately aiding in the creation of improved treatments and cures. Throughout his operating and investing career, Milad has played a crucial role in helping founders secure hundreds of millions in capital and facilitating over $1 billion in startup-pharma partnerships. His previous roles include supporting business development at Accenture, Absci, Bit Bio, Numerate, Mekonos, and AstraZeneca. Through Digitalis Commons, he was an Expert in Residence in support of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), where he aided the US government and ARPA-H mission to enable transformative biomedical and health breakthroughs, providing health solutions through $1.5 billion in non-dilutive investments. He was a National Science Foundation Scholar and Macklin Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Neuroscience from Purdue University’s Honors Program, earned a master’s in Immunology and Public Health as a George J. Mitchell Scholar, and holds a doctorate from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Additionally, he completed a Visiting Scholar appointment at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.
- Total investments:
- 56
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 9%
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Industries Milad Alucozai invests in
Stages Milad Alucozai invests in
Countries Milad Alucozai invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$7M
- Pre-Seed
- $110k–$5M
- Series A
- $13M–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 23 (41%)
- Health Care 17 (30%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (14%)
- Medical 6 (11%)
- Life Science 6 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 24 (43%)
- Series A 12 (21%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (14%)
- Funding Round 3 (5%)
- Series B 2 (4%)
Country
- United States 26 (46%)
- Canada 8 (14%)
- United Kingdom 3 (5%)
- Spain 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Replit provides a cloud-based software development platform that allows users to write, run, and deploy applications through a browser-based environment. The platform includes an integrated code editor, terminal, debugging tools, and hosting features that support the creation and deployment of full-stack applications from a single workspace. Replitsupports multiple programming languages and provides preconfigured development environments so projects can start without installing local software.The platform includes collaboration features that enable multiple users to edit and run code within the same project in real time. It also offers AI-assisted coding tools that generate code suggestions, help debug programs, and assist with building applications through natural language prompts. Replit provides project sharing, templates, and integration with external services and repositories to support development workflows. | $250M / Series C / Jul 30, 2025 | ||
| Axonis translates breakthrough regeneration research to groundbreaking paralysis therapy, to transform the lives of spinal cord injury patients. | $115M / Series A / Oct 30, 2024 | ||
| Pathway is a health tech company working on helping clinicians and patients access important medical information more effectively throughout the care journey. We leverage AI and big data to create a medical knowledge graph and software solutions that drive evidence-based medicine into clinical practice. | $5M / Seed / Nov 10, 2023 | ||
| Revalia Bio develops curative drugs for chronic organ-centered disease. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| Future Fields is committed to producing sustainable components for science through insect biotechnology. Its EntoEngine™ platform is the first to harness the genetic prowess of fruit flies to produce Earth’s most environmentally and economically sustainable biomolecules. Founded in 2018, Future Fields is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada andproudly backed by marquee venture capital firms and investors from Silicon Valley and beyond. Learn more about how Future Fields is enabling great science at https://futurefields.io/. | $11.1M / Series A / Feb 22, 2023 | ||
| Eigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company on a mission to make therapies that make cancer easier to find and eliminate. Eigen is focused on the development of “priming” therapies, therapies that help targeted therapies reach their full potential by addressing cancer heterogeneity, making cancer cells more vulnerable and/or making healthycells more resilient to treatment. Eigen is building a high-throughput discovery platform to explore the space of priming therapies, leveraging proprietary machine learning algorithms to discover novel associations, new classes of drugs, and new potential therapies that change a cell's state to make it more vulnerable to a targeted therapy. The Eigen platform represents the intersection of biology and engineering, and includes robotic systems, laboratory operations software, and machine learning analysis pipelines—all developed in-house—with the ultimate goal of saving more lives. | $7M / Seed / Dec 08, 2022 | ||
| Wayfinder Biosciences is a biotechnology company developing orally available small molecule drugs that modulate the function of the RNAs encoding key disease targets. The company's proprietary platform combines unique screening and computational technologies to rapidly discover potent, selective and biologically active RNA-targeting smallmolecules. Wayfinder's programs are focused on traditionally inaccessible targets in oncology and neurodegenerative disease. Wayfinder Biosciences was established in 2021 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | $3.6M / Seed / Oct 17, 2022 | ||
| Seqera Labs is a Barcelona-based business creating solutions for high-performance computing workloads across cloud and clusters. It was founded by the creators of the popular open-source workflow software Nextflow (http://www.nextflow.io). | $21.4M / Series A / Oct 10, 2022 | ||
| Arpeggio Biosciences leverages state of the art sequencing approaches coupled with powerful machine learning to uncover novel insights into a compound's biological mechanism of action.The company is diverse set of molecular biologists, computer scientists, and biotechnology enthusiasts passionate about understanding where, why, and howtherapeutics work. | $17M / Series A / Sep 07, 2022 | ||
| Notable Labs is a personalized testing service for cancer patients that prioritizes combinations of FDA-approved treatments that can be immediately prescribed by a doctor without a clinical trial. | $189.2K / Series B / Jul 01, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About BoxOne Ventures
BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across all markets: biotech, fintech, agtech, healthcare, data, engineering, and AI/ML. We strive to balance the best elements of patient angel capital with the value-add often found at venture funds. You will often find us as the first cheque into acompany.We invest our own capital and bring our experience as operators that have scaled many startups from founding to exit. We like partnering in the earliest days and continuing to support entrepreneurs with capital, expertise, and our network across their entire journey while making sure to never get in their way.
BoxOne Ventures Contacts
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FAQ
What does Milad Alucozai invest in?
Milad Alucozai invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 56 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 Milad Alucozai's check size?
Milad Alucozai typically joins rounds of $1M–$7M at Seed, $110k–$5M at Pre-Seed and $13M–$60M 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 Milad Alucozai participates in.
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When did Milad Alucozai last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Milad Alucozai closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 56 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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