Torrey Pines Investment
VC Fund
San Diego, United States
Torrey Pines Investment is a VC fund in San Diego focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. Torrey Pines Investment, founded in 2002, is a specialty life-science investment company located in San Diego. Torrey Pines has a team of investment professionals with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, venture capital and operations. Our firm has created biopharma incubators investing in early development stage assets from international pharma and biotech partners in CNS, oncology, and virology areas to bring them to commercial success through pharma partnering and M&A. We are committed to capitalizing on the unique opportunities in biotech and pharma, where we can add value in development or regulatory strategy by utilizing resources of our portfolio CRO companies. We seek to leverage our industry knowledge, network of industry and financial contacts, and internal resources to assist our portfolio management in developing and executing their business strategy. Our bottom line is to help our companies achieve growth, build value and realize wealth.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
- Fund size:
- $60M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Torrey Pines Investment invests in
Stages Torrey Pines Investment invests in
Countries Torrey Pines Investment invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$3.1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 13 (39%)
- Health Care 8 (24%)
- Pharmaceutical 7 (21%)
- Medical 5 (15%)
- Life Science 4 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (42%)
- Funding Round 4 (12%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (9%)
- Series A 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 18 (55%)
- Russian Federation 3 (9%)
- The Netherlands 2 (6%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Zambia 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ronald Demuth
President
|
President | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Steve Adler
CEO and VP Business Development
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CEO and VP Business Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headquartered in Portugal’s main biotech park, Biocant, Mondego Bio is developing best-in-class protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 2 (PTPN2) inhibitors, providing a potential immuno-oncological therapy with an improved safety and tolerability profile. | Series A / Sep 18, 2025 | ||
| Mair Therapeutics main goal is finding and creating a small-molecule ion channel activator to treat Parkinson's disease, a preclinical drug discovery business. | Pre-Seed / Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Mair Pharmaceutical creates innovative processes and produces well-known unique substances for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical firms worldwide. | Pre-Seed / Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Lomond Therapeutics is a pharmaceutical firm that discovers and develops small molecule inhibitors that target escape variants in hematologic malignancies. | $44M / Post-IPO Equity / Nov 04, 2024 | ||
| Polku Therapeutics operates as a therapeutics company. Polku Therapeutics develops novel disease-halting therapies which provides new treatment options. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Sep 17, 2024 | ||
Brenig Therapeutics
|
Brenig Therapeutics develops therapies for neurodegenerative disorders. | $65M / Series A / Jul 24, 2024 | |
| The i2020 Accelerator will provide funding and resources to companies in the areas of inflammation, oncology, CNS, and infectious diseases | Seed / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| Context Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to creating new medicines to treat hormone-responsive cancers. Context’s lead program is Apristor (Onapristone XR), an investigational Phase 2 drug that is being developed for progesterone receptor positive (PR+) metastatic breast and ovarian cancers. In addition, Contextis advancing CTX-030916, a potential best-in-class oral antiprogestin for the treatment of uterine fibroids and endometriosis, and a discovery-stage program targeting Sigma1. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 15, 2017 | ||
| Viriom Inc. is a development and commercial stage biotech company developing novel and affordable medicines against life threatening infections such as HIV and HBV. The company has an exclusive worldwide license to its phase 3 and commercial stage lead compounds (Elpida/elsulfavirine and VM1500A) from Hoffmann-La Roche and has developedproprietary drug candidates VM2500, VM3500 LAI formulations and combinations with cell, vaccine and antibody drugs for treatment, prophylaxis and cure of HIV. Viriom makes a breakthrough in treating, preventing and curing HIV and chronic HBV infections worldwide. | $2.6M / Convertible Note / Jun 06, 2017 | ||
| TealTech MMO develop a way to avoid unnecessary travel, waiting and worry when you do not feel well. What if instead of coming to a doctor, a doctor will come to you?There are already doctors doing home calls, but still most of the primary care is provided in clinics, since medical equipment and laboratory are not portable. Digital era changesthe game. With point-of-care diagnostics, secure cloud data-bases and telemedicine we can make doctor’s office portable. Miniaturization of diagnostic and laboratory devices along with telecommunication helps to avoid travel, waiting and exposure to other patient’s pathogens by replacing the unnecessary ER/Urgent care visits with a professional care in the comfort of patient’s home. Mobile Office Point-of-Care lab ensures hospital quality rapid blood, and urine testing 24/7 along with instrumental tests and on-line consultations’ by specialists. We enable family doctors to continuously serve their patients - after hours, during weekends and travel time. The key elements are:· Care in the comfort of patients’ home (nurse house call visits within 1.5 hour after a call)· Point-of-care diagnostics enabling results of lab and instrumental tests in minutes during the house call visit;· Providing a patient with tools to objectively monitor health parameters and communicate them to the doctor at any time;· Dramatic reduction of the paperwork for doctors and nurses allowing to spend more time with a patient;· Control the quality of care by peer reviews (second opinion) and patient evaluation of the services and results of the treatment;ServiceTraveling nurses visit patients at home, provide on-site diagnostics and communication with primary physicians and specialists to treat a wide spectrum of diseases. Nurses come equipped with hospital grade POC diagnostic instruments to provide quality care 24/7 and replace costly ER visits for non-life threatening conditions.ProductThe product consists of hardware and software. The hardware is a set of FDA-approved portable diagnostic devices including blood cell counter, blood chemistry, coagulation meter, urine analyzer, pathogen and biomarker detecting devices, ultrasound, ECG, vital signs monitor, digital stethoscope and multipurpose video camera. All devices are connected to the laptop and packed in the convenient lightweight case that fits in the trunk of the car and can be easily delivered to the patient’s bed. The software enables automatic secure transfer of the test and lab results from devices into the patient records and further to any EHR. The friendly interface tailored to primary care needs reduces the amount of time physicians spend on paperwork and patient evaluation by automating diagnosis, prescription creation, and progress notes. Unlike other EMRs the system works in on-line and off-line mode and could be applied at any patient site independent of Internet accessibility.Mobile Medical Office platform connects patients with healthcare providers, enabling scheduling of house call visits similar to scheduling Uber taxi rides as well as secured video chat with a doctor or a team of doctors. | $400K / May 17, 2017 | ||
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FAQ
What does Torrey Pines Investment invest in?
Torrey Pines Investment invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Pharmaceutical startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Torrey Pines Investment invest in?
Torrey Pines Investment typically joins rounds of $3M–$3.1M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Torrey Pines Investment's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Torrey Pines Investment took part in.
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Who are the partners at Torrey Pines Investment?
The team at Torrey Pines Investment includes Ronald Demuth (President) and Steve Adler (CEO and VP Business Development). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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