Investors in Life Science

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SOSV

Founded in 1995, SOSV is a global venture capital firm headquartered in New Jersey. It focuses on seed-to-growth stage investments in deep tech innovations, primarily in bio-tech/life sciences and hardware/robotics sectors, with a commitment to human and planetary health.
Made 299 investments in Life Science

RA Capital

Founded in Boston in 2004, RA Capital is an investment firm specializing in life sciences and drug development. Its team, with backgrounds in biology, chemistry, medicine, and industry experience, invests in early-stage companies with promising technologies and products across healthcare and life science sectors.
Made 184 investments in Life Science

Eli Lilly and Company

Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical leader engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of medicines. It operates facilities in the United States, Puerto Rico, and many other countries, with products sold in about 135 countries. The company focuses on therapies in neuroscience, cardiometabolic, cancer, and immunology, and also conducts research in animal health and animal agriculture. Lilly supports patient outcomes and education through a philanthropic foundation that funds programs in underserved communities, including STEM education in Indianapolis.
Made 192 investments in Life Science

OrbiMed

Founded in 1989, OrbiMed is a New York-based healthcare-dedicated investment firm managing approximately $5 billion in assets. It invests across the spectrum of healthcare companies, from private start-ups to large multinational corporations, focusing on biopharmaceuticals, life sciences, digital health, medical devices, and diagnostics sectors globally.
Made 225 investments in Life Science

Qiming Venture Partners

Qiming Venture Partners is a China-based venture capital firm founded in 2006, with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong and Singapore, and a global arm through Qiming Venture Partners USA. It manages multiple funds and invests in early and growth-stage companies across technology, information technology, healthcare, new consumer sectors, AI, robotics, semiconductors, software and digital health. The firm emphasizes a hands-on approach, often taking board seats and providing operational guidance to help CEOs scale and reach exits. Through its investments, it has backed hundreds of companies and supported numerous IPOs and M&A outcomes, with unicorns among its portfolio, illustrating breadth and depth across China and international markets.
Made 157 investments in Life Science

Alexandria Venture Investments

Alexandria Venture Investments is the strategic venture capital arm of Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Based in Pasadena, California, it provides long-term strategic capital to innovative life sciences and technology companies developing breakthrough therapies, diagnostics, and platforms across biopharma, digital health, agrifoodtech, agtech, and related healthcare fields. Established in 1996, the firm invests across seed, early, and growth stages and leverages its deep industry knowledge, extensive investor networks, and scientific advisory resources to support portfolio companies. The unit also pursues opportunities at the intersection of real estate, life sciences, and technology, reflecting its parent company's sector focus and integrated ecosystem approach. It aims to help entities advance human health by partnering with founders to scale transformative technologies.
Made 141 investments in Life Science

Novo Holdings

Novo Holdings is a Danish holding and investment firm managing the assets of the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Established in 1999, it invests globally in life science companies at all stages of development, with a portfolio also including equities, bonds, real estate, and infrastructure.
Made 175 investments in Life Science

ARCH Venture Partners

Founded in 1986, ARCH Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investments that bring innovations in life sciences to market. It focuses on companies co-founded by scientists and entrepreneurs, with a strong track record in commercializing technologies from academic research institutions and national laboratories.
Made 183 investments in Life Science

European Innovation Council

Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.
Made 123 investments in Life Science

Sofinnova Partners

Founded in Paris in 1972, Sofinnova Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to life sciences investments. With over €2 billion under management, the firm actively partners with entrepreneurs from seed to later-stage, focusing on biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, and industrial biotechnology. Sofinnova proactively sources deals, often leading Round A financings, and plays an active role in portfolio companies until exit.
Made 113 investments in Life Science

Mission BioCapital

Mission BioCapital is a life science venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies within the biotechnology sector. Founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2009, the company is known for its experienced leadership team and deep support provided to portfolio companies.
Made 49 investments in Life Science

Samsara BioCapital

Samsara BioCapital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, that focuses on biotechnology and life sciences companies in the United States. The firm seeks to invest in pharmaceutical and biotechnology ventures, including oncology and other healthcare technologies, with a goal of supporting entrepreneurs in turning ideas into developed therapies. It emphasizes collaboration with ambitious partners and aims to advance biotech innovation and important new therapies by providing capital and advisory support. The organization also operates as a registered investment adviser, offering investment advisory services to guide portfolio companies through growth and development.
Made 76 investments in Life Science

Versant Ventures

Founded in 1999, Versant Ventures is a global healthcare investment firm dedicated to supporting exceptional entrepreneurs building innovative companies. With over $2 billion under management and offices across North America and Europe, the firm invests across all stages of healthcare company development, with a focus on novel therapeutics. Versant's team, with deep investment, operating, and scientific expertise, takes a hands-on approach to company building.
Made 113 investments in Life Science

Casdin Capital

Casdin Capital is a New York‑based investment firm founded in 2012 by Eli Casdin. The firm specializes in fundamental research and long‑short equity strategies focused on the life sciences and healthcare sectors, including oncology, digital health, and agtech. In addition to its public‑market fund, Casdin Capital invests in early‑stage to late‑stage private companies within these industries. It operates as a Registered Investment Adviser and, as of October 2020, managed approximately $2.2 billion in assets.
Made 100 investments in Life Science

Redmile Group

Redmile Group, established in 2007, is a private equity firm headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in New York. The company specializes in healthcare investments, focusing on venture capital opportunities within the sector.
Made 86 investments in Life Science

Invus Financial Advisors

Invus Financial Advisors, LLC is an employee-owned investment firm based in New York, founded in 2006. The firm specializes in private equity investments and manages pooled investment vehicles, including hedge funds and funds of funds. Invus focuses on making direct and indirect investments in special situations, venture capital, and growth equity stages, with an emphasis on smaller companies and opportunistic co-investments. The firm adopts a flexible approach, recognizing the uniqueness of each company and the complexities of business transformation. Invus maintains a long-term commitment to its investments, aligning its incentives with those of its partners. With a history of empowering owner-managers since 1985 and a strong backing from a group of European families, Invus Financial Advisors manages over $4 billion in an evergreen fund and operates additional offices in London, Paris, and Hong Kong.
Made 78 investments in Life Science

Pfizer

Founded in 1849, Pfizer is a global pharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering and developing safe, effective, and affordable medicines. With a broad portfolio across various therapeutic areas, Pfizer focuses on wellness, prevention, treatment, and cures for diseases, including investments in emerging technologies to shape the future of healthcare.
Made 109 investments in Life Science

Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. It provides capital and strategic guidance to startups across stages, focusing on technology-driven companies in areas such as artificial intelligence, climate and sustainability, enterprise software and services, fintech, digital health, medical technology and diagnostics, therapeutics, consumer products, and frontier technologies. The firm backs bold ventures with the potential to disrupt markets and improve lives, supporting companies from early to growth stages and working closely with entrepreneurs to apply science, technology and innovative business models. While primarily investing in North American technology companies, Khosla Ventures pursues opportunities globally and emphasizes experimentation and impact alongside financial returns. The firm also maintains related impact initiatives that support entrepreneurs addressing socio-economic challenges in emerging markets.
Made 88 investments in Life Science

Morningside Group

Founded in 1986, Morningside Group is a venture capital firm based in the greater Boston area. It invests in companies with innovative science and technology across life sciences, digital health, AI, materials, and technology sectors.

Polaris Partners

Polaris Partners is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in San Francisco. Founded in 1996, it targets investments in technology and life science companies across the United States and Europe, supporting startups from early formation to profitable growth. The firm's healthcare and biotechnology focus encompasses digital health, consumer-centric care delivery, patient-provider solutions, data science and analytics, as well as therapeutics, genomics and other life science platforms. It backs companies across business-to-business and business-to-consumer models, software as a service, healthcare information technology and health tech sectors, partnering with repeat entrepreneurs to build durable, scale-ready businesses.
Made 111 investments in Life Science

Northpond Ventures

Northpond Ventures is a science-driven venture capital firm based in Bethesda, Maryland, with additional offices in San Francisco, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2018, the firm concentrates its investments in life sciences, diagnostics, therapeutics, digital health, and related technologies, including AI and machine learning applications in biotech and medical fields, as well as environmental and other emerging technologies. It seeks to back early- and growth-stage companies that advance biomedical research, diagnostics, medical devices, and technology-enabled health solutions. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser and emphasizes building a better tomorrow through science-driven investing. It focuses on strategy, value creation, and supporting companies at the intersection of life sciences and technology, aiming to accelerate innovations that improve health outcomes.
Made 67 investments in Life Science

New Enterprise Associates

New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm founded in 1977 and based in Menlo Park, California, with offices in the United States, India and China. It makes investments across technology and healthcare startups at multiple stages, from seed to growth, including software, cloud, data, internet services, fintech, AI, e-commerce, and enterprise technology, as well as healthcare information technology, life sciences, medical devices, and biopharma. It also considers energy technology and infrastructure opportunities, such as solar, batteries and smart grids. The firm pursues a global approach, with activity in the United States, Asia and other regions, and supports companies through rounds of financing ranging from small to sizable investments as they scale. NEA focuses on building portfolios in software, IT services, consumer technology, and healthcare technology, backing ambitious entrepreneurs across sectors and geographies.
Made 123 investments in Life Science

The Column Group

The Column Group is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on biotechnology and life sciences, with emphasis on drug discovery and development. It backs early-stage and seed companies in the United States, aiming to build science-driven businesses capable of delivering multiple product opportunities rather than short-term exits. The firm concentrates on oncology and other disease areas including inflammation, infectious disease, metabolic and cardiovascular disorders, and nervous system conditions, seeking to support platform-based discoveries with potential for significant therapeutic impact.
Made 75 investments in Life Science

Deerfield Management

Deerfield Management is a New York-based investment firm established in 1994 that focuses on healthcare. It operates across investment, information, and philanthropy to support the healthcare ecosystem. The firm provides private and public investments and offers long-term, structured capital to both public and private healthcare companies. Its portfolio spans life sciences, medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, and health services. As an investment adviser, it seeks opportunities in healthcare products and services and aims to accelerate innovation by combining capital with industry insight.
Made 82 investments in Life Science

Deep Track Capital

Deep Track Capital is a venture capital firm focused on life sciences and biotechnology. Based in Greenwich, Connecticut, it partners with management teams of innovative public and pre-IPO companies, offering capital and strategic support through its network and expertise. The firm aims to lead transactions, form large syndicates, and participate in rounds led by other investors, applying time and resources to help portfolio companies grow.
Made 32 investments in Life Science

SR One

SR One is the corporate venture capital arm of GlaxoSmithKline, investing globally in early-stage life science companies pursuing innovative science with the potential to significantly improve medical care. Since 1985, SR One has invested about $800 million in more than 180 companies.
Made 96 investments in Life Science

F-Prime Capital

Founded in 1969, F-Prime Capital is a venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It invests globally in technology and healthcare sectors, supporting entrepreneurs with its extensive domain expertise and relationships.
Made 86 investments in Life Science

Forbion Capital Partners

Forbion is a venture capital firm based in Naarden, Netherlands, established in 2006. It specializes in early-stage investments within the life sciences and MedTech sectors, focusing on companies involved in drug development and addressing critical medical needs. The firm has a team of nine investment professionals and has built a strong track record since the late 1990s, with successful investments in various notable companies. Forbion manages assets exceeding €400 million across three active funds and co-manages BioGeneration Ventures, which targets academic spin-outs and seed investments in the Netherlands. The firm continues to play a significant role in advancing innovative healthcare solutions through its strategic investments.
Made 58 investments in Life Science

BioVenture

BioVenture, established in September 2013, specializes in early-stage venture capital investments in the field of life sciences, focusing on biotechnology, drug discovery, medical devices, and healthcare services companies. With a fund size of 540 million yuan, BioVenture provides capital and post-investment support to innovative companies with high growth potential. Backed by Suzhou Industrial Park and BioBay, BioVenture aims to become one of China's most successful medical and pharmaceutical venture funds by leveraging its industry expertise and resources. The team at BioVenture consists of senior investment professionals with deep knowledge of domestic and foreign markets, aiming to help companies grow rapidly and achieve greater success while delivering considerable returns to fund investors. Through joint venture development cooperation, BioVenture seeks to drive innovation and growth in the medical and pharmaceutical industry.
Made 45 investments in Life Science

Sequoia Capital Israel

Sequoia Capital Israel is a venture capital firm that backs startups and growth companies across seed to late-stage rounds, with a focus on Israel. It invests across sectors including fintech, financial services, internet, mobile, technology, and healthcare, spanning banking, payments, advertising, ecommerce, data, security, software, and related enabling tech. Typical commitments range from 100,000 to 1 million in seed, 1 to 10 million in early venture, and 10 to 100 million in growth rounds. The firm is based in Tel Aviv and operates as part of Sequoia Capital's global network.
Made 82 investments in Life Science

Morningside

Morningside is a venture capital firm based in the greater Boston area, specializing in investments in companies that focus on innovative science and technology. Established in 1986 as a family office for the Chan family, Morningside emphasizes a long-term approach to company-building and maintains a strong commitment to ethical practices. The firm is staffed by a team of experienced investment professionals with expertise in various sectors, including life sciences, digital health, artificial intelligence, materials, and technology. In addition to its investment activities, Morningside is dedicated to philanthropic efforts, supporting education, research, and healthcare initiatives such as the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, UMass Chan Medical School, and the MIT Morningside Academy for Design.
Made 75 investments in Life Science

SV Health Investors

SV Health Investors is a venture capital and growth equity firm focused on healthcare and life sciences. Headquartered in the United States with offices in Boston, San Francisco and London, the firm supports entrepreneurs who develop breakthrough medicines, devices and related technologies. It manages multiple private healthcare funds and has a 20-year track record in the US and Europe, investing across North America and Western Europe to advance innovative treatments and diagnostics. SV Health Investors aims to transform healthcare by backing early-stage and growth opportunities in biotechnology, medical devices and related sectors.
Made 80 investments in Life Science

Atlas Venture

Atlas Venture is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializing in life sciences and biotechnology. It supports the translation of high-impact scientific discoveries into medicines for patients through a seed-led venture creation strategy that identifies and builds scalable companies with strong scientific foundations. The firm combines experienced scientists and career venture capitalists to select compelling opportunities and realize value, emphasizing early-stage investments in life sciences and technology. Atlas Venture also maintains a multi-disciplinary team able to advance startups from concept to clinical development and commercial viability.
Made 97 investments in Life Science

EcoR1 Capital

EcoR1 Capital is a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on biotechnology. It provides advisory and investment services to biotechnology companies, pursuing venture-style opportunities in both private and public markets and supporting therapies with potential patient impact. Founded in 2012, the firm emphasizes scientific innovation and translational research and draws inspiration from the EcoR1 restriction enzyme. As an investment adviser, EcoR1 Capital collaborates with clients and partners in the biotech sector to identify promising treatments and help companies address unmet medical needs.
Made 48 investments in Life Science

Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based venture creation firm that conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category companies across health technology, biotechnology, medicine, engineering, energy, and related fields. The organization aims to transform human health and sustainability by turning seemingly unreasonable ideas into transformational ventures through an evolutionary, science-driven approach. It combines inventive capacity, entrepreneurial leadership, and capital management within a single enterprise to systematically build new companies that pursue breakthrough advances in biology, engineering, and medicine. Since its founding in 2000, Flagship Pioneering has developed and nurtured a portfolio of ventures by integrating scientific discovery with disciplined entrepreneurship, seeking to accelerate innovations from concept to market.
Made 101 investments in Life Science

Sofinnova Investments

Sofinnova Investments is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 and based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in La Jolla, California; Montreal, Quebec; and Tokyo, Japan. It backs early to later-stage startups in life sciences and information technology across the United States and Europe, focusing on West Coast U.S. and developed European markets. In life sciences, the firm pursues clinical-stage pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical technology companies, including drug discovery platforms and entities addressing diseases with unmet medical needs, covering therapeutic areas such as oncology, respiratory, dermatology, ophthalmology, neurology and women's health. In information technology, it funds product-oriented software, enterprise software, service-provider software, and telecommunications infrastructure. Seed investments in both domains typically range from 0.1 million to 1 million, with initial rounds for technology commonly 3-5 million and life science rounds 5-15 million; total commitments generally span 5-15 million for tech and 15-30 million for life sciences. The firm seeks board seats when leading or co-leading early-stage investments.
Made 97 investments in Life Science

Nextech Invest

Founded in 1998, Nextech Invest is a venture capital firm based in Zurich, Switzerland. It specializes in early-stage investments globally in healthcare and life science companies, with a focus on biotechnology, therapeutics, drug discovery, and oncology sectors.
Made 47 investments in Life Science

IP Group

IP Group is a London-based corporate firm that provides financial, strategic, and commercial expertise to clients internationally. Founded in 2001, the company focuses on creating value through the commercialisation of intellectual property derived from research-intensive institutions. It manages the end-to-end process of identifying viable IP, developing or partnering to build value, and establishing commercial arrangements that translate scientific advances into practical products and businesses. IP Group combines industry insight and financial experience to support science- and technology-based ventures, offering capital as well as strategic guidance to help companies grow and accelerate the impact of research. Its work spans clean technology, life sciences, and other deep technology sectors, with a track record of backing and developing ventures that aim to deliver tangible societal and economic outcomes.
Made 52 investments in Life Science

MPM Capital

Founded in 1996, MPM Capital is a global investment firm focused on the healthcare and life sciences sectors. It specializes in early-stage investments, typically ranging from $5 million to $50 million, with a primary focus on biotechnology, oncology, medical technology, and specialty pharma. The firm invests globally, with a concentration in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Made 90 investments in Life Science

Venrock

Venrock is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 1969 as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. It concentrates on seed and early-stage investments in technology and healthcare, with interests spanning information technology, life sciences and related sectors in the United States. The firm has supported a broad portfolio of companies, including Apple, Intel, Illumina, DoubleClick, Athenahealth, Gilead Sciences, Nest, SlideShare and Tudou. Venrock emphasizes long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs, combining hands-on venture support with rigorous data analysis to help startups grow into enduring companies.
Made 95 investments in Life Science

DCVC

Founded in 2011, DCVC is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm invests in early-stage companies utilizing deep tech to solve complex problems across sectors such as artificial intelligence, exascale computing, climate, engineering, materials science, robotics, space, water, biology, defense, and security.
Made 56 investments in Life Science

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.
Made 70 investments in Life Science

Logos Capital

Logos Capital is a hedge fund manager based in San Francisco, founded in 2019, specializing in fundamental biotechnology investments. The firm combines in-house data analytics with scientific and clinical expertise to rigorously evaluate potential therapies and treatment platforms. It uses fundamental and sector-focused equity strategies and applies statistical modeling of clinical data to strengthen diligence and identify compelling opportunities with the aim of delivering uncorrelated returns. By integrating medical, scientific, and statistical perspectives, Logos Capital seeks to deepen its conviction in investment ideas and maintain disciplined risk management.
Made 54 investments in Life Science

Omega Funds

Omega Funds is a Boston-based venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2004 that concentrates on early-stage investments in healthcare and biotech across North America and Western Europe, backing companies in life sciences, digital health, immunology, rare diseases, precision medicine, oncology, cybersecurity, and software-as-a-service.
Made 58 investments in Life Science

Boxer Capital

Boxer Capital LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 and based in San Diego, California. As a subsidiary of Tavistock Life Sciences, it specializes in investing in both private and public companies within the biotechnology and life science sectors. Boxer Capital focuses on a wide range of companies involved in the drug development lifecycle, from early stage preclinical discovery assets to late stage clinical and commercial entities. The firm aims to support the growth and advancement of biotechnology innovations through its strategic investments.
Made 39 investments in Life Science

Lux Capital

Founded in 2000, Lux Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York and Silicon Valley. It manages over $5 billion in assets, focusing on seed to growth investments at the intersection of technology and sciences. Lux actively supports entrepreneurs building successful businesses in high-growth sectors such as biochemistry, material science, electronics, infrastructure, aerospace, genomics, synthetic biology, and robotics.
Made 49 investments in Life Science

Shenzhen Capital Group

Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd (SCGC) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by the Shenzhen Government. The company is dedicated to fostering national industries, developing national brands, and promoting economic transformation through investments in emerging sectors. SCGC primarily targets small to medium enterprises and innovative high-tech companies, focusing on those in various stages of growth, including startups and those undergoing transformation. Its investment portfolio spans industries that align with national policy support, such as information technology, internet services, new media, biopharmaceuticals, new energy, environmental protection, chemical engineering, and high-end equipment manufacturing. With a registered capital of 5.42 billion RMB and significant assets under management, SCGC has established itself as a leader in the venture capital landscape, having invested in numerous companies, many of which have achieved public listings across global capital markets.
Made 39 investments in Life Science

Leaps by Bayer

Leaps by Bayer is the corporate venture capital arm of Bayer. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, it invests in life sciences, including healthcare, biotechnology, and agriculture. The firm seeks long-term, disruptive technologies and supports innovations with potential for significant societal impact.
Made 38 investments in Life Science

Vivo Capital

Founded in 1996, Vivo Capital is a global investment firm focused on healthcare. With approximately $5.8 billion in assets under management and investments in over 290 public and private companies worldwide, the firm operates from Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Asia. Its team comprises 50 multidisciplinary professionals, including physicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, operating executives, and industry experts. Vivo Capital invests across various healthcare sectors such as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and healthcare services.
Made 56 investments in Life Science

Canaan Partners

Founded in 1987, Canaan Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. With over $5 billion under management, the firm invests in early-stage technology and healthcare companies worldwide.
Made 55 investments in Life Science