# Nan Fung Life Sciences

> Nan Fung Life Sciences is a VC fund backing Biotechnology and Health Care. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://hk.linkedin.com/company/nan-fung-life-sciences?trk=public_profile_position_group_header
- Website: https://www.nanfunglifesciences.com/

Nan Fung Life Sciences is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. Nan Fung Life Sciences are a global life sciences investment platform with a long-term capital commitment from the Nan Fung Group. Our team possesses diverse experience with long track records in company formation, venture capital, growth/buyout investments, and drug discovery and development. Through direct investments via Pivotal bioVenturePartners US and Pivotal bioVenture Partners China as well as fund investments, we cover the full spectrum of the life sciences industry including therapeutics, medical devices and diagnostics and across all development stages.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 14 | 52% |
| Health Care | 13 | 48% |
| Medical | 6 | 22% |
| Pharmaceutical | 6 | 22% |
| Life Science | 5 | 19% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 7 | 26% |
| Series A | 5 | 19% |
| Series C | 5 | 19% |
| Seed | 3 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 44% |
| China | 4 | 15% |
| Iceland | 1 | 4% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Peter Bisgaard | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-bisgaard-b598 |
| Peter Bisgaard | Managing Director | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-bisgaard |
| Vincent Cheung | Founder, Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vincent-cheung-90b8 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Editact | Editact specializes in the development of novel gene treatments for Alzheimer's disease. It focuses on unmet clinical requirements in familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) and is developing "one-to-many" gene editing therapeutics. |  | Seed | Jul 21, 2025 |  |
| Heranova Lifesciences | Hekaiwei is a provider of innovative solutions for women's health. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 28, 2023 |  |
| DermBiont | DermBiont is a biotech company that develops skin microbiome therapeutics to treat and prevent skin diseases. It is at the intersection of two highly active sectors: dermatology and the microbiome. They harness naturally occurring microbes on the human skin that have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to compete with pathogenic microbes(fungi, bacteria, viruses, etc.). The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with a satellite office in Emeryville, California. | $28M | Series A | Dec 21, 2021 |  |
| Ablaze Pharmaceuticals | Ablaze Pharma is a clinical stage bio-pharmaceutical company that is focused on developing Targeted Radiotherapy (TRT) to benefit cancer patients. | $75M | Series A | Nov 29, 2021 |  |
| Fountain Therapeutics | Fountain Therapeutics is discovering and developing treatments for aging-associated diseases.Fountain Therapeutics was founded with the belief that a future in which we live healthier lives longer is more desirable than one in which the company continues to be afflicted by the disease of aging. The company builds a transformative model of agingthat re-creates many of the complex hallmark features of aging but in a laboratory dish. We are combining this powerful cellular model with the latest in artificial intelligence and computer vision to develop a disruptive unbiased platform for the identification of novel targets and potential therapeutics. | $15M | Series A | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Engrail Therapeutics | Engrail is forging a new direction to reduce the enormous burden of diseases that impact the nervous system. We unite biological insights with clinically meaningful solutions to build and catalyze a diversified portfolio of transformative medicines. Harnessing our rigorous scientific approach to identify the most promising therapies, we leverageour flexible transaction model to advance assets with validated mechanisms and efficiently move them through development to commercialization. | $32M | Series A | Aug 03, 2021 |  |
| Oculis | The Oculis drug delivery platform consists of a novel technique to facilitate drug absorption to both anterior and posterior parts of the eye. The advantage is a drug delivery system where diseases of the posterior part of the eye can be treated with a simple topical application. The Oculis drug delivery platform allows diseases such as DME(diabetic macular edema) at the posterior part of the eye to be treated with a non-invasive topical application. Furthermore, the technique has been demonstrated to allow diseases at the anterior part of the eye to be treated with a reduced number of topical applications compared to conventional eye-drops. | $57M | Series C | May 04, 2021 |  |
| Arctic Vision | Arctic Vision is a China-based clinical-stage specialty ophthalmology company with a leading portfolio of breakthrough technologies. The Company's vision is to address ophthalmology's unmet needs through innovative therapies in China, Asia, and globally. Arctic Vision is established by top-tier life sciences investors and led by an eliteteam of ophthalmic industry veterans with substantial and compelling China and global experiences in R&D and commercialization of eye care products. | $100M | Series B | Mar 09, 2021 |  |
| Encodia | Encodia provides in-depth information on cellular processes to enable personalized medicine.Our technology reverse translates peptide sequence information into a DNA library. This means scientists can scale their research more easily to accelerate novel approaches to our most challenging diseases.Encodia was established on January 1, 2015 inSan Diego, California. | $75M | Series C | Jan 27, 2021 |  |
| Visen Pharmaceuticals | Visen Pharmaceuticals is a biotech company focused on developing and commercializing innovative endocrine drugs that address significant unmet needs for patients in Greater China. | $150M | Series B | Jan 08, 2021 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pivotal bioVenture Partners China](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pivotal-bioventure-partners-china) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Vivo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vivo-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [HBM Healthcare Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hbm-healthcare-investments-ag) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Morningside](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morningside-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [ARCH Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arch-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Nan Fung Life Sciences invest in?

Nan Fung Life Sciences invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Medical startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Nan Fung Life Sciences?

The team at Nan Fung Life Sciences includes Peter Bisgaard (Managing Director), Peter Bisgaard (Managing Director) and Vincent Cheung (Founder, Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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