Takeda Ventures

Takeda Ventures is a strategic investment arm of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, focusing on direct and fund-of-fund investments in healthcare and life sciences sectors. It specializes in seed to mid-stage investments, with a primary focus on therapeutics, regenerative medicines, RNA/DNA modulation, and innovative protein/peptide biologics. The firm invests globally but has a strong presence in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Jasmina Marjanovic

Partner

Michael Martin

Investor

Victor Stone

Partner

Robbie Woodman Ph.D

Senior Partner

Suzie Yoon

Investment Principal

Past deals in Non-Profit

Daily Table

Grant in 2025
Daily Table is a non-profit grocery food store.

Reach Out Cameroon

Grant in 2024
Reach Out Cameroon is a non profit organisation aim is to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people using a community-centred approach.

Seed Global Health

Grant in 2024
Seed Global Health is an organization dedicated to improving health education and delivery in regions experiencing significant shortages of healthcare professionals. By partnering with countries in need, it aims to address long-term human resource challenges in healthcare. The organization provides experienced health professionals, who collaborate with local medical and nursing faculty to enhance training and educational programs. Additionally, Seed Global Health offers support in site selection, applicant recruitment, orientation, training, and ongoing field support. Its initiatives are designed to empower healthcare professionals to become leaders within their health systems, fostering advocacy for improved health outcomes through a sustainable, positive feedback loop.

Bulungula Incubator

Grant in 2024
Bulungula Incubator is an NPO that aims to sustainably end poverty in a generation while enhancing community life and cohesiveness.

VillageReach

Grant in 2024
VillageReach is an international NGO headquartered in Seattle, WA with field offices located in Malawi and Mozambique, Africa. Through collaboration with public and private sector partners, VillageReach seeks to increase access to quality healthcare for the world most underserved communities, bringing life-saving innovations to scale and sustainability. VillageReach develops, tests and implements solutions that uniquely address barriers at the lower levels or last mile of healthcare delivery in low-resource communities including medicine availability, human resource constraints, data visibility and lack of infrastructure.

Greater Chicago Food Depository

Grant in 2023
Greater Chicago Food Depository they programs includes food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters,

Breakthrough Greater Boston

Grant in 2023
Breakthrough Greater Boston transforms urban education for students and teachers through its unique Students Teaching Students model. Through six years of intensive, tuition-free out-of-school-time programming for traditionally underserved middle and high school students.

American Forests

Grant in 2023
American Forests offers services to restore threatened forest ecosystems and inspire people to value and protect urban and wildland forests. Their projects have restored hundreds of thousands of acres of wildlife habitat, protected vital watersheds, and sequestered millions of tons of greenhouse gases. They are advocates for expanding urban tree canopy and green space, and a key funder of urban forest initiatives that have transformed communities across the country.

Food For Free

Grant in 2023
Food For Free improves access to healthy food through establishing innovative programming and partnerships to overcome barriers and strengthen the community food system.

Red Sox Foundation

Grant in 2023
Red Sox Foundation is a Red Sox Nation power that improves health, educational, and recreational opportunities for kids, families, veterans, and communities in need. As part of their commitment to creating a good influence in their communities, Boston Red Sox Owner John Henry, Chairman Tom Werner, President/CEO Emeritus Larry Lucchino, and the team's partners formed and supported the Red Sox Foundation immediately after assuming ownership.

San Diego River Park Foundation

Grant in 2023
San Diego River Park Foundation is a nonprofit organization created in 2001 to improve the future of the historic San Diego River, as well as the residents of San Diego and its visitors.

Mamas Kitchen

Grant in 2023
Mama's Kitchen aims to offer nutritional assistance to San Diego individuals at risk of undernourishment because of serious conditions like HIV, cancer, congestive heart failure, type 2 diabetes, and chronic renal disease.

Acumen

Grant in 2023
Acumen is a nonprofit organization established in 2001 and based in New York City, with additional offices in Mumbai, Nairobi, Karachi, and Accra. The organization is dedicated to poverty eradication by raising charitable funds to invest in early-stage companies that provide essential services such as clean energy, healthcare, education, agricultural inputs, formal housing, and safe drinking water to low-income communities. Acumen has made significant investments totaling $128 million in 128 companies across 14 countries, impacting the lives of over 308 million individuals. The organization collaborates with notable partners, including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Google.org, to address critical challenges faced by underserved populations.

Boston Community Pediatrics

Grant in 2023
Boston Community Pediatrics is the first nonprofit private pediatric practice bringing equity to pediatric healthcare in Boston. BCP is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses the social determinants of health within a relationship-driven framework.
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