RA Capital Management
VC Fund
Boston, United States
RA Capital Management is an investment advisor based in Boston specializing in the life-sciences and drug development sectors. The company's team has been investing since 2002 and is comprised of professionals with training in biology, chemistry, and medicine and also has industry and business development experience at the executive and boardlevels. The company invests in companies with promising technologies and products.
- Total investments:
- 521
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries RA Capital Management invests in
Stages RA Capital Management invests in
Countries RA Capital Management invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series B
- $27M–$152M
- Series C
- $44M–$183M
- Post-IPO Equity
- $35M–$240M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 240 (46%)
- Health Care 153 (29%)
- Therapeutics 97 (19%)
- Pharmaceutical 83 (16%)
- Medical 77 (15%)
Stage
- Series B 102 (20%)
- Series C 65 (12%)
- Post-IPO Equity 63 (12%)
- Series A 61 (12%)
- Funding Round 24 (5%)
Country
- United States 228 (44%)
- United Kingdom 10 (2%)
- Canada 6 (1%)
- China 5 (1%)
- Denmark 4 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cristina Ghenoiu
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Ajay Yekkirala
VP, Head of Biology
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VP, Head of Biology | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andrew Levin
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 24 | Find email | |
Barbara Herbst
Deputy Chief Compliance Officer
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Deputy Chief Compliance Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Dan Marks
Venture Senior Associate
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Venture Senior Associate | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 20 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
LifeMine Therapeutics
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Discovering powerful new drugs from eukaryotic microbes by combining Genomics with AI and Synthetic Biology. Founded by Gregory Verdine, PhD, Rick Klausner, MD and WeiQing Zhou, MBA, LifeMine Therapeutics is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $188M / Series E / Aug 06, 2026 | |
Plantible Foods
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Plantible Foods is a B2B food technology company producing sustainable plant-based protein to optimize the food industry. The company develops a proprietary and vertically integrated agricultural manufacturing platform to allow food companies to innovate while optimizing costs and delivering products with improved taste, texture, health, andenvironmental footprint. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 06, 2026 | |
Expedition Therapeutics
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Expedition Therapeutics operates as an unincorporated association. | $115M / Series B / Aug 05, 2026 | |
Obsidian Therapeutics
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Obsidian Therapeutics is a developer of a next-generation cell and gene therapies created to extend adoptive immunotherapy to every patient with cancer.The company's next-generation cell and gene therapies with pharmacologic operating systems provide exquisite control of protein activity in cells and create adoptive cell therapies with newfunctions that are under control of the treating physician using simple, safe, orally-active, marketed drugs, enabling patients to improve on the current generation of cell therapies. | $350M / Post-IPO Equity / Aug 04, 2026 | |
Processa Pharmaceuticals
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Processa Pharmaceuticals operates as a pharmaceutical company. The company focuses on development of drug products that are intended to improve the survival and quality of life for patients who have unmet medical need. | $200M / Post-IPO Equity / Jul 29, 2026 | |
Entera Bio
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Entera Bio is developing novel oral drugs by utilizing its proprietary cutting edge delivery technology This technology protects large molecules and peptides in the GI tract. Oral drug delivery is the most straight forward and user friendly approach to medical treatment. Entera Bio has key personnel with the relevant know how, experience andnetworks working together to enable rapid development of its products. The company has an experienced management team with more than 50 years of combined drug development experience. | $275M / Post-IPO Equity / Jul 27, 2026 | |
Freenome
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Freenome is a biotechnology company developing blood tests for early cancer detection to improve access to routine screening. | $240M / Post-IPO Equity / Jul 20, 2026 | |
Agenus
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Agenus develops and commercializes immunotherapies and vaccines for cancer and infectious diseases. The company's treatment aims to stimulate the immune system to recognize and fight cancer cells. Its goal is to treat cancers with novel combinations utilizing its unique portfolio of checkpoint antibodies, tumor microenvironment modifiers,vaccines, and adjuvants. In addition to a broad portfolio, the company has an accomplished team of scientists, novel technology platforms, and fully-integrated end-to-end capabilities from discovery to GMP manufacturing.It was established in 1994 and is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts. | $85M / Post-IPO Debt / Jul 13, 2026 | |
Celea Therapeutics
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Celea Therapeutics develops drug therapies for serious respiratory and fibrotic lung diseases. The company focuses on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and is advancing deupirfenidone (LYT-100), an oral investigational therapy. Deupirfenidone is being studied as a potential new standard of care for IPF, with completed Phase 2b data and a pivotalPhase 3 trial planned. Celea also runs an open-label extension study to assess long-term outcomes and collaborates with clinicians and patient groups on IPF patient experience research. Celea is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PureTech Health plc. | $180M / Private Equity / Jul 02, 2026 | |
Ollin Biosciences
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Ollin Biosciences operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to acquiring and developing best-in-disease therapies for vision-threatening diseases. | $330M / Series B / Jun 24, 2026 | |
| See all 521 investments → | |||
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Janus Henderson Investors
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65 deals together
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FAQ
What does RA Capital Management invest in?
RA Capital Management invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Therapeutics startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 521 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 RA Capital Management's check size?
RA Capital Management typically joins rounds of $27M–$152M at Series B, $44M–$183M at Series C and $35M–$240M at Post-IPO Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds RA Capital Management participates in.
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Who are the partners at RA Capital Management?
The team at RA Capital Management includes Cristina Ghenoiu (Principal), Ajay Yekkirala (VP, Head of Biology) and Andrew Levin (Managing Director), among 20 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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