# Willard Umphrey

> Willard Umphrey is a seed investor at U.S. Boston Capital backing Analytics and Life Science. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [U.S. Boston Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/u-s-boston-capital)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Aug 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Willard Umphrey is a seed investor at U.S. Boston Capital focused on Analytics and Life Science. Bill is the Chairman and Co-Founder of the Pear Tree Funds, the President of Pear Tree Investment Advisors, Inc., and the Chairman of U.S. Boston Capital Corporation. He has over 40 years of experience in the finance and investment management business.Bill holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFAInstitute and the Boston Security Analysts Society. He obtained his JD from Harvard Law School, an LLM in taxation from Boston University School of Law, a Masters in Personnel Administration from George Washington University, and a BS with distinction from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Life Science | 1 | 100% |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thrive Bioscience | Thrive Bioscience is commercializing a family of instruments and software that provide imaging, analytics, and automation to significantly improve cell culture and the analysis of live cells. Thrive’s instruments empower biologists to deliver consistent, reproducible results by leveraging microscopy, robotics, fluidics, and other fields, to captureimages and data and provide analysis, reports, guidance, documentation, and a database on the cells and on cell culture processes. | $4M | Seed | Aug 18, 2015 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lauder Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauder-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Life Science Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/life-science-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sidecar Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sidecar-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Triple Ring Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/triple-ring-technologies) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About U.S. Boston Capital

VC Fund · Lincoln, United States

At U.S. Boston Capital, they provide wealth management services to their clients by forming lasting relationships built on trust, respect, and thoughtful advice. For four decades and counting, U.S. Boston has been offering strategic perspective, personalized service, and sophisticated investment management and opportunities to individual investors,families, and their affiliated businesses and organizations.

1 contacts available at U.S. Boston Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Willard Umphrey | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/willard-umphrey |

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## FAQ

### What does Willard Umphrey invest in?

Willard Umphrey invests primarily in Analytics, Life Science and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Willard Umphrey last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Willard Umphrey closed in Aug 2015. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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