# New Leaf Ventures

> New Leaf Ventures is a VC fund in Vancouver backing Health Care and Medical. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://newleafventuresinc.com/

New Leaf Ventures is a VC fund in Vancouver focused on Health Care and Medical. New Leaf Ventures provides strategic, structured financing opportunities to undercapitalized ventures.The company is building a scalable business concept transforming cannabis sector opportunities through the application of professional management and targeted investment to achieve sustainable growth and revenues. New Leaf Ventures intends torapidly spur growth at New Leaf USA through the rapid execution of its strategic plan as a demonstration to potential future brand partners the importance and inherent power of the House of Brands (“HOB”) business model. HOB offers tangible benefits for adoption and participation in the NLV multi-state operational concept.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 5 | 63% |
| Medical | 3 | 38% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 38% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 3 | 38% |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dax Colwell | Co-Founder & Director | 0 | — |
| Michael Stier | President and CEO | 0 | — |
| Terence Lee | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abcuro | Abcuro’s mission is to develop a new class of immune-modulatory bio-therapeutics for treating both autoimmunity and cancer. They leverage the systematic target validation and clinical insights gained by its founders to identify new targets. Their intensive use of bioinformatics to interrogate the transcriptome of human disease together with ex-vivovalidation in diseased tissue has uncovered new approaches to target key compartments of the immune system.The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Newton, Massachusetts. | $200M | Series C | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| Abcuro | Abcuro’s mission is to develop a new class of immune-modulatory bio-therapeutics for treating both autoimmunity and cancer. They leverage the systematic target validation and clinical insights gained by its founders to identify new targets. Their intensive use of bioinformatics to interrogate the transcriptome of human disease together with ex-vivovalidation in diseased tissue has uncovered new approaches to target key compartments of the immune system.The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Newton, Massachusetts. | $155M | Series B | Aug 17, 2023 |  |
| Windup Minds | Windup Minds is a game studio focused on creating VR and MR virtual pet experiences. The company runs a gaming studio that aims to bring virtual pet games to market. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Aug 07, 2023 |  |
| Cleerly | Cleerly is a healthcare company whose mission is to create digital care pathways to prevent heart attacks. The company develops a new standard for coronary artery disease by integrating quality clinical science with the latest-generation AI, in order to offer actionable clinical insights to every stakeholder in the heart care pathway.Throughthese data-driven solutions, the company aims to provide a comprehensive solution for cardiovascular disease evaluation that offers value to the healthcare system and improves heart health for patients at risk of heart attacks. | $223M | Series C | Jul 25, 2022 |  |
| Edgewise Therapeutics | Edgewise Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative treatments for severe, rare muscle disorders for which there is significant unmet medical need. Guided by its holistic drug discovery approach to targeting the muscle as an organ, Edgewise has combined itsfoundational expertise in muscle biology and small molecule engineering to build its proprietary, muscle focused drug discovery platform. Edgewise’s platform utilizes custom-built high throughput and translatable systems that measure integrated muscle function in whole organ extracts to identify small molecule precision medicines regulating key proteins in muscle tissue, initially focused on addressing rare neuromuscular and cardiac diseases. | $95M | Series C | Dec 08, 2020 |  |
| TigerConnect | TigerConnect is a provider of clinical communication solutions, TigerConnect helps physicians, nurses, and other staff communicate and collaborate more effectively, accelerating productivity, reducing costs, and improving patient outcomes. Trusted by more than 4,000 healthcare organizations, TigerConnect maintains 99.99% uptime and processes over10 million messages each day. Its category-leading product innovations and advanced integrations with critical hospital systems deliver high value for hospitals and large health systems.Their commitment to client success is reflected in their broad support organization that works directly with clients at every stage to streamline communication workflows and achieve the highest possible ROI. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. | $45M | Series D | Oct 08, 2020 |  |
| ESCAPE Bio | Escape Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops small molecule drugs intended to treat neurodegenerative diseases. The company is developing therapeutics for the novel, precisely therapies for genetic neurodegenerative diseases. Escape Bio's pipeline includes candidates targeting known genetic drivers of multiplediseases, including ESB1609, a small molecule S1P5 receptor agonist for the treatment of CNS lysosomal storage disorders and ESB5070, a small molecule kinase inhibitor for Parkinson’s disease patients who have an LRRK2 G2019S variant and an Alzheimer's disease program targeting ApoE4. E-scape Bio was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $73M |  | Sep 14, 2020 |  |
| ESCAPE Bio | Escape Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops small molecule drugs intended to treat neurodegenerative diseases. The company is developing therapeutics for the novel, precisely therapies for genetic neurodegenerative diseases. Escape Bio's pipeline includes candidates targeting known genetic drivers of multiplediseases, including ESB1609, a small molecule S1P5 receptor agonist for the treatment of CNS lysosomal storage disorders and ESB5070, a small molecule kinase inhibitor for Parkinson’s disease patients who have an LRRK2 G2019S variant and an Alzheimer's disease program targeting ApoE4. E-scape Bio was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $73M | Series B | Sep 14, 2020 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Novo Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/novo-a-s) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [OrbiMed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orbimed-advisors) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [RA Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ra-capital-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Surveyor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/surveyor-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Wellington Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wellington-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Avidity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avidity-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does New Leaf Ventures invest in?

New Leaf Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 8 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 New Leaf Ventures?

The team at New Leaf Ventures includes Dax Colwell (Co-Founder & Director), Michael Stier (President and CEO) and Terence Lee (Chief Financial Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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