Alexandria

Alexandria Venture Investments, a strategic venture capital arm of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, provides long-term strategic investment capital to innovative life science and technology entities developing breakthrough technologies and therapies. With a focus on the healthcare sector, including biopharma, diagnostics, life sciences, research tools, agrifoodtech, and agtech, they support seed-, early-, and growth-stage companies. Leveraging their experience, industry understanding, relationships with leading investors, and scientific advisory network, they are uniquely positioned to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the science and technology sectors. Founded in 1996 and based in Pasadena, California, Alexandria Venture Investments operates as a subsidiary of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.

Thomas Andrews

Co-President & Regional Market Director

John Cox

Senior Vice President - Regional Market Director

John H. Cunningham

Executive Vice President - Regional Market Director

Larry Diamond

Co-Chief Operating Officer & Regional Market Director

Joel Marcus

Head of Alexandria Venture Investments

Todd Miller

Senior Vice President -Regional Leasing & Asset Services

Daniel J. Ryan

Co-CIO

Oliver Sherrill

Senior Vice President - Regional Market Director

Past deals in Therapeutics

Myeloid Therapeutics

Series A in 2023
Myeloid Therapeutics is an immunology company focused on combining immunologic insights with cutting-edge technologies to harness myeloid cells to eradicate cancer and other diseases. The Company's ATAKTM platform technology can be broadly applied, and it is initially advancing a cell therapy program for T cell lymphoma and a primed monocyte approach to treat glioblastoma. The ATAK platform is scalable to multiple treatment modalities and other disease areas in collaboration with partners.

Ten63 Therapeutics

Series A in 2023
Ten63 Therapeutics is a venture-backed startup developing durable therapeutics against some of the most lethal diseases. It combines low-residual, ML-based computational chemistry and mathematically guaranteed, superlinear search algorithms to find optimized drug candidates. The company's platform, COPPER, leverages its proprietary AI and state-of-the-art physical models to explore an unprecedentedly large chemical space, allowing them to discover new therapeutics to targets previously believed undruggable.

Garuda Therapeutics

Series B in 2023
Garuda Therapeutics is developing off-the-shelf hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) therapies to treat a broad range of severe and life-threatening diseases.

Tavros Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
Tavros Therapeutics is an emerging biotechnology company that discovers and develops therapies for cancer. The company was founded in 2019 and based in Durham, North Carolina.

Remix Therapeutics

Series B in 2022
Remix Therapeutics Inc. engages in the biotech research and development business. It discovers and develops various novel therapeutic RNA processing modulators to target various undruggable disease drivers. The company also offers biology platform to identify and prioritize targets with therapeutically-tractable intervention points in RNA processing. Its REMseq platform validates targets and chemical matter discovery and optimization. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Terray Therapeutics

Series A in 2022
Terray Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company develops treatments for intractable cause of human diseases. It engages in development of a screening platform for drug discovery and Platinum Technology, which is working on an electrode-like product for deep brain stimulation. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Pasadena, California.

Ambys Medicines

Series A in 2021
Ambys Medicines is working to fundamentally transform the lives of people suffering from severe liver diseases by creating breakthrough therapies capable of restoring liver function, preventing the progression of liver disease, and treating the devastating complications of liver failure.

Fountain Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Fountain Therapeutics is discovering and developing treatments for aging-associated diseases. Fountain Therapeutics was founded with the belief that a future in which we live healthier lives longer is more desirable than one in which the company continues to be afflicted by the disease of aging. The company builds a transformative model of aging that re-creates many of the complex hallmark features of aging but in a laboratory dish. We are combining this powerful cellular model with the latest in artificial intelligence and computer vision to develop a disruptive unbiased platform for the identification of novel targets and potential therapeutics.

Parthenon Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Parthenon Therapeutics is inventing a novel class of anti-cancer therapies that reprogram the tumor microenvironment (TME). The interplay between cancer cells and their surrounding microenvironment is relevant in drug development as manycancers use the TME to build barriers that shield immune system attack. One approach, PRTH-101, breaks these barriers to overcome recalcitrant cancers. Based on research, the company is designing a portfolio of drug candidates to treat the right patients at the right time.

Deka Biosciences

Series A in 2021
Early stage biotechnology start-up developing next generation cytokine therapeutics

IpiNovyx Bio

Seed Round in 2021
IpiNovyx Bio is a biopharmaceutical company developing a platform of best-in-class immunoproteasome modulating therapeutics to transform the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

Kytopen

Series A in 2021
Kytopen is a developer of a cell therapy platform designed for non-viral delivery of molecules into hard-to-transfect immune cells. The company's technology combines microfluidics and automation to make non-viral delivery of molecules easier, faster and cheaper through an automated cell engineering platform, enabling researchers to find new discoveries in biology that will lead to cost effective cell and gene therapies.

ROME Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
ROME Therapeutics is developing novel therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases by harnessing the power of the repeatome – vast stretches of uncharted genetic material that have long been dismissed as “junk DNA.” With several drug targets identified and multiple discovery programs underway, ROME is moving rapidly to leverage this new frontier in biology. To lead this exploration, ROME has assembled a team of world-class leaders across fields including oncology, immunology, virology and machine learning.

Lycia Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Lycia Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing technology that utilizes lysosome-targeting chimeras. The company was founded by Carolyn R. Bertozzi in 2019 and is based in San Diego, California, USA.
eFFECTOR Therapeutics is an early stage company focused on the discovery and development of new small molecule cancer therapeutics. eFFECTOR is developing translation regulators to selectively block disregulated translation impacting tumor growth and survival. The company has selected control of mRNA translation as a key point of theerapeutic intervention, providing potency and selectivity while inhibiting growth of cancer cells. eFFECTOR's novel approach provides a real opportunity to bring innovative new medicines to patients in need.

Deep Genomics

Series C in 2021
Deep Genomics Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) therapeutics company, develops individualized genetic medicines by creating AI systems that are used to accelerate various steps of drug discovery and development, including target discovery, lead optimization, toxicity assessment, and innovative trial design. It develops and markets therapies for rare metabolic, ophthalmologic, and neurodegenerative disorders. The company develops oligonucleotide therapies that target the genetic determinants of disease at the level of RNA or DNA. Deep Genomics Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

ImmuneID

Series A in 2021
ImmuneID is a precision immunology company using its proprietary platform to simultaneously identify and therapeutically target millions of antibody interactions that drive immune diseases.

Neurona Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2021
Neurona Therapeutics Inc. develops cell-based therapies for the treatment of neurological disorders. The company develop therapeutic compositions of specific nerve cells for targeted delivery into the injured nervous system. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in South San Francisco, California.

Veralox Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Veralox Therapeutics develops small molecule therapeutics that treat the underlying pathologies of thrombosis and type one diabetes. Based on an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of these diseases, these efforts will lead to new treatment paradigms and better outcomes for patients.

Bright Peak Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Bright Peak Therapeutics is a biotechnology company with a platform capable of chemically synthesizing and optimizing natural proteins such as cytokines.

Soteria Biotherapeutics

Series A in 2021
Soteria is developing a next generation of conditionally active bispecific t-cell engaging antibodies to treat cancer patients with solid tumors. Soteria’s highly innovative T-LITE™ platform provides small molecule-dependent activation of bispecific antibody therapies, enabling safer and more efficacious treatments through pulsatile activity, reduced side effects and higher dosing.

Ventus Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Ventus Therapeutics U.S., Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops novel therapeutics that target the innate immune system to treat autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, and cancer. It offers structural immunology platform that employs protein engineering to solve molecular structures, enable novel binding and functional screening assays, and power structure-based modeling. The company develops small-molecule medicines to target proteins in the inflammasome and nucleic acid sensing signaling pathways. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Natick, Massachusetts. It has an additional location in Montreal, Canada.

Alloy Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
Alloy Therapeutics makes medicine by democratizing access to foundational drug discovery platforms and services. Alloy-Gx, its first platform, is a royalty-free suite of immunocompetent transgenic mice enabling best-in-class in vivo human antibody discovery. Founded in 2017, Alloy Therapeutics is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Ensoma

Series A in 2021
Ensoma is expanding the reach of the curative power of genomic medicine by pioneering a next-generation in vivo approach using its Engenious™ vectors. Ensoma’s vectors are designed to deliver a diverse range of gene modification technologies without the need for stem cell collection or prior myeloablative conditioning (e.g., chemotherapy). As a result, Ensoma’s therapies can be delivered as a single injection in a diverse range of settings, including outpatient and settings where access to sophisticated healthcare systems may be limited.

LEXEO Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
LEXEO Therapeutics is a fully integrated biotechnology company. LEXEO Therapeutics’ pipeline consists of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated therapies primarily developed at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Genetic Medicine. Beyond LEXEO Therapeutics’ lead programs – which are focused on both rare and non-rare monogenic (single genemutation) diseases – the company’s preclinical pipeline spans monogenic diseases, as well as hereditary and acquired diseases across a spectrum of patient population sizes and a range of unmet medical needs. Importantly, LEXEO Therapeutics will focus on advancing clinical programs through to commercialization, with the goal of maintaining an ongoing research collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Genetic Medicine to help advance the company’s pre-clinical pipeline.

Myeloid Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Myeloid Therapeutics is an immunology company focused on combining immunologic insights with cutting-edge technologies to harness myeloid cells to eradicate cancer and other diseases. The Company's ATAKTM platform technology can be broadly applied, and it is initially advancing a cell therapy program for T cell lymphoma and a primed monocyte approach to treat glioblastoma. The ATAK platform is scalable to multiple treatment modalities and other disease areas in collaboration with partners.

Faze Medicines

Series A in 2020
Faze Medicines, a pharmaceutical company, develops interventions against driver of disease pathology. It develops small molecule drugs for initial therapeutic focus areas, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and myotonic dystrophy type 1. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Remix Therapeutics

Series A in 2020
Remix Therapeutics Inc. engages in the biotech research and development business. It discovers and develops various novel therapeutic RNA processing modulators to target various undruggable disease drivers. The company also offers biology platform to identify and prioritize targets with therapeutically-tractable intervention points in RNA processing. Its REMseq platform validates targets and chemical matter discovery and optimization. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sonoma Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2020
Sonoma Pharmaceuticals is a global healthcare company that designs, manufactures and markets prescription and non-prescription products in 33 countries. The company’s products, over 100 SKUs commercialized worldwide, are used to treat patients in advanced wound management, dermatology, women’s health and animal health; addressing the unmet medical needs of these markets—while raising the standard of patient care and lowering overall healthcare costs.

Sonoma BioTherapeutics

Series A in 2020
Sonoma Biotherapeutics is a company invloved the development of adoptive Treg therapies cell for autoimmune and degenerative diseases. Using next generation genome editing and target-specific cell therapy, Sonoma is focused on developing its best-in-class platform across the entire spectrum of Treg cell therapeutic capabilities. Founded by pioneers in Treg biology and cell therapy, the company brings together leading expertise and proprietary methodologies for the discovery and development of disease modifying and curative therapies.

Vesigen, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Vesigen, Inc. develops therapeutic products directed to intracellular targets using extracellular vesicle delivery technology. The company designs, discovers, and develops medicines that target intracellular delivery, cell membranes, and degradative systems barriers. Its ARMMs technology enables translation of new modalities, such as RNAs and gene-editing complexes into novel treatments for multiple diseases. Vesigen, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Frequency Therapeutics develops small molecule drugs that activate progenitor cells within the body to restore healthy tissue. Through the transitory activation of these progenitor cells, Frequency enables disease modification without the complexity of genetic engineering. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Autobahn Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
Autobahn Therapeutics, Inc. develops small molecule therapies for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) disorders. The company develops ABX-002, a thyroid hormone receptor beta agonist therapy for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), and adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN). Autobahn Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Llama Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Autobahn Therapeutics, Inc. in December 2019. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Diego, California.

MOMA Therapeutics

Series A in 2020
MoMa Therapeutics, Inc. discovers precision medicines by targeting the molecular machines that underlie human disease. MoMa Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as ATPases NewCo, Inc. and changed its name to MoMa Therapeutics, Inc. in March 2020. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Affinia Therapeutics

Series A in 2020
Affinia Therapeutics is a developer of a platform for rationally designed adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors and gene therapies intended to develop medicines for devastating diseases. The company leverages synthetic and systems biology combined with high-throughput screening and tissue and single-cell resolution for people affected by muscle and central nervous system (CNS) diseases with significant unmet needs, thereby providing medical professionals with the rational design of novel vectors and gene therapies with remarkably improved properties.

Redpin Therapeutics

Series A in 2020
Redpin Therapeutics, Inc., gene therapy company, develops a chemo genetics platform for targeted cell therapies that address intractable diseases of the nervous system. It discovers and develops an ion channel-based chemo genetics platform that enables targeted cell activation/inhibition controlled by low doses of the anti-smoking drug Varenicline. Redpin Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Silverback Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
Silverback Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that develops ImmunoTAC therapies targeting previously inaccessible disease pathways. They developing a new generation of systemically delivered, locally active therapies that potently modulate fundamental disease pathways once deemed inaccessible. Silverback Therapeutics is building a platform technology capable of unlocking potent immuno-modulatory pathways using an established antibody-guided approach for targeting disease sites. The company's proprietary ImmunoTAC technology and integrated R&D approach enables the design of product candidates that can be administered systemically, but that act only at the sites of disease.

Triplet Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
Triplet Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapeutics and treatments for triplet disorders. It develops treatment for repeat expansion disorders, including Huntington’s disease, myotonic dystrophy, and spinocerebellar ataxias. Triplet Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as rzna, Inc. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jasper Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
Jasper Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops therapeutic agents for hematopoietic stem cell transplants and gene therapies. It offers JSP191, a humanized monoclonal antibody in clinical development as a conditioning agent that clears hematopoietic stem cells from bone marrow, which binds to human CD117, a receptor for stem cell factor that is expressed on the surface of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Jasper Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

ImCheck Therapeutics

Series B in 2019
ImCheck Therapeutics SAS develops immunotherapeutics for patients with severe unmet medical needs. The company primarily focuses on immuno-oncology. It develops immunotherapy antibodies, which include immunomodulators and butyrophilins to treat a range of autoimmune diseases. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Marseille, France.

Immunitas Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
Immunitas Therapeutics, Inc. develops targeted therapeutic for patients with cancer using single cell analyses. It employs a single cell sequencing platform to dissect the biology of immune cells in human tumors and develop key biomarkers. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Verseau Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2019
Verseau is creating a new class of therapeutics, macrophage checkpoint modulators, to benefit patients with cancer, immune and inflammatory diseases. The company's modulators identify novel targets and develop therapies that shift macrophages between immune activators and silencers in disease, enabling physicians to benefit patients from immunotherapy.

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2019
Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, Inc. offers therapeutic solutions for the global rise of multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogenic bacteria. The company offers PhageBank, a large and dynamically growing collection of bacteriophages or phages (viruses that attack specific targeted bacteria) and a rapid system for matching phage to patient-specific bacterial infections. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Boundless Bio

Series A in 2019
Boundless Bio, Inc., biopharma company, develops therapies and medicines for the treatment of cancers. It offers therapeutics based on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) one of the drivers of the aggressive cancers, such as cancers characterized by high copy number amplification of oncogenes. The company was formerly known as Pretzel Therapeutics, Inc. Boundless Bio, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in LA Jolla, California.

X-Vax Technology

Series A in 2019
X-Vax Technology is a biotechnology company focused on the preclinical and clinical development of vaccines against pathogens that cause mucosal infections such as herpes, influenza, tuberculosis and HIV, affecting hundreds of millions of people around the globe. They believe that inducing antibodies that mediate the killing of infected cells will provoke an entirely new and effective immune response – so that they can finally beat these pathogens. The company was founded in 2015 and based in Jupiter, Florida.

Encoded Therapeutics

Series C in 2019
Encoded Therapeutics is a developer of precision gene therapies intended to provide treatment for a broad range of severe genetic disorders. The company's therapy pipeline addresses devastating genetic and acquired disorders spanning multiple disease pathways including neurocircuitry, metabolic disorders, neurodegeneration and cardiovascular disease, enabling medical practitioners to treat patients and improve their lives.

Inhibrx

Convertible Note in 2019
Inhibrx is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing a broad pipeline of novel biologic therapeutic candidates. Inhibrx utilizes diverse methods of protein engineering to address the specific requirements of complex target and disease biology, including its proprietary sdAb platform. The Inhibrx pipeline is focused on oncology, orphan diseases and infectious diseases. Inhibrx has collaborations with Celgene and bluebird bio and has received awards from several granting agencies, including NIH, NIAID and CARB-X.

Prevail Therapeutics

Series B in 2019
Prevail Therapeutics Inc., a gene therapy company, focuses on developing and commercializing disease-modifying AAV-based gene therapies for patients with neurodegenerative diseases. The company’s lead product candidate is PR001, which is in Phase I/II clinical trial for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease with GBA1 mutation and neuronopathic Gaucher disease. It is also developing PR006 for the treatment of frontotemporal dementia with GRN mutation; and PR004 for the treatment of synucleinopathies. Prevail Therapeutics Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Imara

Series B in 2019
Imara, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes therapeutics for patients with rare genetic disorders of hemoglobin. It develops IMR-687, which is an oral, once-a-day therapeutic for the treatment of sickle cell disease and b-thalassemia. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Maze Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
Maze Therapeutics is a operator of a biotechnology firm intended to focused on translating genetic insights into new medicines. The company's translating genetic insights into new medicines by utilizing an approach that combines the analysis of large-scale human genetics data, functional genomics and an array of drug discovery approaches.and its also reveals modifier genes that confer protection and provides deeper understanding of the target biology and how these targets can be targeted with drug therapies, enabling patients with protection against diseases.

Applied Therapeutics

Series B in 2019
Applied Therapeutics operates as a biotechnology company. The company focuses on developing transformative drugs in areas of high unmet medical need -fatal and debilitating diseases for which no therapies are approved. The company is developing a pipeline of novel product candidates against previously validated and well-known molecular targets. It uses technological advances and abbreviated regulatory pathways, wherever possible, to design drugs for indications of significant unmet medical need. Applied Therapeutics conducts its business in the United States.

Dewpoint Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
Dewpoint Therapeutics, Inc., a biotech company, engages in research of biomolecular condensates and cellular function to develop treatments for diseases like cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, immunology, cardiovascular, women’s health, and virology. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Frequency Therapeutics

Series B in 2019
Frequency Therapeutics develops small molecule drugs that activate progenitor cells within the body to restore healthy tissue. Through the transitory activation of these progenitor cells, Frequency enables disease modification without the complexity of genetic engineering. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Tiburio Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
Tiburio Therapeutics is a developer of drug compounds intended to treat tumors and endocrine diseases.The company's compounds aid in the treatment of non-functioning pituitary adenoma using a dopamine-somatostatin chimeric molecule that has the potential to shrink or halt tumor growth, providing patients with effective treatment for rare neuroendocrine tumors and endocrine diseases.

Relay Therapeutics

Series C in 2018
Relay therapeutics is a developer of an allosteric drug-discovery platform intended to apply computational techniques to protein motion.The company's platform detects and characterizes interactions that occur anywhere on a protein and combines computational methods with experimental approaches across the fields of structural biology, biophysics and chemistry, enabling pharmaceutical companies to solve and design therapies against complex diseases like cancer and others.

Caraway Therapeutics

Series A in 2018
Rheostat’s mission is to invent novel treatments for neurodegenerative disease through modulation of mitophagy and autophagy. They believe that the degradation of toxic cellular components, whether they are damaged organelles or aggregated proteins, is a fundamental node of biology. Mutations that impair these clearance pathways cause multiple neurodegenerative diseases, many of which are associated with cognitive impairment. They aim to leverage our understanding of these critical pathways to discover and develop novel small molecules that will restore cellular balance and treat neurodegenerative and rare diseases.

Ribometrix

Series A in 2018
Ribometrix is a platform therapeutics company that discovers small molecule drugs that target functional 3D RNA structures to treat human diseases. Our scientific offices are located in the newly renovated Biolabs Space in Durham, with offices in Chapel Hill and Boston.

Stoke Therapeutics

Series B in 2018
Stoke Therapeutics, Inc., an early-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops novel antisense oligonucleotide medicines to treat the underlying causes of severe genetic diseases. Its lead product candidate, STK-001 used to treat Dravet syndrome, a severe and progressive genetic epilepsy. Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. has a partnership with Invitae Corporation to offer genetic testing. The company was formerly known as ASOthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. in May 2016. Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Inspirna

Series C in 2018
Rgenix is a a discovery platform, revolutionizing the treatment of cancer by generating the first-in-class therapeutics that target key nodes in cancer progression. Its proprietary discovery platform is based on innovations in cancer biology that enable the identification and validation of novel post-transcriptionally regulated targets. Rgenix’s productive approach has yielded multiple novel targets to date across several cancer types for which the company is developing drugs, and its scientific approach has led to the discovery of novel therapeutic targets and first-in-class drugs for several cancer subtypes, including melanoma, colorectal cancer, and triple-negative breast cancer, among others. Its aim is to discover and develop safe, effective, and commercially viable therapies that will transform the lives of cancer patients by treating metastatic disease.

ENB Therapeutics

Series A in 2018
ENB Therapeutics, LLC develops small molecule inhibitors to treat melanoma and other cancers. The product includes ENB-001 that restores the ability of T-cells to infiltrate tumors and inhibits metastasis. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Silverback Therapeutics

Series A in 2018
Silverback Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that develops ImmunoTAC therapies targeting previously inaccessible disease pathways. They developing a new generation of systemically delivered, locally active therapies that potently modulate fundamental disease pathways once deemed inaccessible. Silverback Therapeutics is building a platform technology capable of unlocking potent immuno-modulatory pathways using an established antibody-guided approach for targeting disease sites. The company's proprietary ImmunoTAC technology and integrated R&D approach enables the design of product candidates that can be administered systemically, but that act only at the sites of disease.

OncoResponse

Series B in 2018
OncoResponse Inc. is an immuno-oncology company that discovers cancer immunotherapies and therapeutic antibodies against immuno-oncology targets by interrogating the human immune system. It develops human antibody derived therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. The company is based in Houston, Texas.

Magnolia Neurosciences

Series A in 2018
Magnolia Neurosciences aims to discover and develop proprietary, selective, and drug-like small molecule therapeutics for the prevention of neuronal cell death, thereby providing novel treatment options for patients suffering from neurodegeneration and related conditions. Magnolia Neurosciences Corporation, created to pursue technologies developed at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Therapeutics Discovery Division and the Neurodegeneration Consortium (NDC), is a New York-based Accelerator Life Science Partner portfolio company.
Compass Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company targeting the human immune synapse with a new generation of antibody therapeutics. Compass has broadly drugged the immune system by generating epitopically diverse antibody panels to more than 40 targets across all immune cell types and is leveraging its proprietary StitchMabs and common light-chain based multispecific platforms to empirically identify combinations and multispecific with optimized activity. The company’s lead product candidate, CTX-471, is a fully human agonistic antibody of CD137, which is in a Phase 1 study in patients with inadequate responses to PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors. Compass is also progressing several preclinical assets including a novel class of NK cell engagers targeting NKp30 and multiple bispecific checkpoint programs. The company’s offices and labs are based in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Mass.

Nohla Therapeutics

Series B in 2018
Nohla Therapeutics' singular passion is the development of best-in-class ex vivo expanded universal donor cellular therapies to transform the treatment of patients with cancer and other life threatening illnesses. Our products are manufactured and cryopreserved on an ongoing basis allowing for a bank of doses that are available for immediate (on demand) use. This is tremendously advantageous with regards to the ease and timing of treatment, the ability to provide repeated dosing for immune-oncology indications and reduction in patient risk and cost relative to other cell therapies.

Antiva Biosciences

Series C in 2018
Antiva Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, localized therapeutics for the treatment of diseases caused by HPV infection. The company was founded as Hera Therapeutics in 2012 by Dr. Karl Hostetler at The University of California San Diego. They are now Antiva Biosciences which is headquartered in South San Francisco.

Skyhawk Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2018
Skyhawk Therapeutics is a provvider of small molecule therapeutics designed to offer therapies that correct RNA expression.The company's therapeutics use proprietary technology that helps the rational design of small molecules that target specific binding pocket regions on RNA, using both sequence and structural specificity, at particular moments in the RNA splicing process, enabling physicians to target diseases driven by a type of RNA mis-splicing called exon skipping.

Celsius Therapeutics

Series A in 2018
Celsius Therapeutics, Inc. develops and researches drugs. The company publishes researches topics, such as single-cell genomic analysis to develop life-changing medicines. Celsius Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Nohla Therapeutics

Series B in 2018
Nohla Therapeutics' singular passion is the development of best-in-class ex vivo expanded universal donor cellular therapies to transform the treatment of patients with cancer and other life threatening illnesses. Our products are manufactured and cryopreserved on an ongoing basis allowing for a bank of doses that are available for immediate (on demand) use. This is tremendously advantageous with regards to the ease and timing of treatment, the ability to provide repeated dosing for immune-oncology indications and reduction in patient risk and cost relative to other cell therapies.

QurAlis

Seed Round in 2018
QurAlis Corporation discovers and develops therapeutics for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurological diseases. The company’s pipeline includes treatments for subtypes of ALS, such as a drug to restore a dysfunctional cellular waste clearance system that poisons neurons; a therapy to treat overactive neurons and prevents resulting cell death; and an approach to remove toxic proteins. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. QurAlis Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Q-State Biosciences, Inc.

Prevail Therapeutics

Series A in 2018
Prevail Therapeutics Inc., a gene therapy company, focuses on developing and commercializing disease-modifying AAV-based gene therapies for patients with neurodegenerative diseases. The company’s lead product candidate is PR001, which is in Phase I/II clinical trial for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease with GBA1 mutation and neuronopathic Gaucher disease. It is also developing PR006 for the treatment of frontotemporal dementia with GRN mutation; and PR004 for the treatment of synucleinopathies. Prevail Therapeutics Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Quentis Therapeutics

Series A in 2018
Quentis Therapeutics is a developer of immuno-therapeutics designed to address ER stress in multiple diseases. The company's therapeutics are designed to target ER stress pathways and awaken the immune system's ability to fight cancer, enabling patients to get access to new treatments for cancer.

Moderna

Series G in 2018
Moderna Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops messenger RNA therapeutics. Every cell in the body uses mRNA to provide real-time instructions to make the proteins necessary to drive all aspects of biology, including in human health and disease. It provides in vivo drug modality that produces human proteins or antibodies inside patient cells. Moderna Therapeutics also develops various patent applications with various claims ranging from novel nucleotide chemistries to specific drug compositions. It focuses on disease areas, such as inherited genetic disorders, hemophilia, and blood factors, and oncology. Moderna Therapeutics in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge in Massachusetts. It has strategic option agreements with AstraZeneca and Alexion Pharmaceuticals and strategic collaborations with Karolinska Institutet, Institut Pasteur, Karolinska University Hospital, and Merck.

Skyhawk Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2018
Skyhawk Therapeutics is a provvider of small molecule therapeutics designed to offer therapies that correct RNA expression.The company's therapeutics use proprietary technology that helps the rational design of small molecules that target specific binding pocket regions on RNA, using both sequence and structural specificity, at particular moments in the RNA splicing process, enabling physicians to target diseases driven by a type of RNA mis-splicing called exon skipping.

Expansion Therapeutics

Series A in 2018
Expansion Therapeutics is a drug discovery and development company pursuing the vast potential of small molecule medicines for RNA-mediated diseases.

Relay Therapeutics

Series B in 2017
Relay therapeutics is a developer of an allosteric drug-discovery platform intended to apply computational techniques to protein motion.The company's platform detects and characterizes interactions that occur anywhere on a protein and combines computational methods with experimental approaches across the fields of structural biology, biophysics and chemistry, enabling pharmaceutical companies to solve and design therapies against complex diseases like cancer and others.

Metacrine

Series B in 2017
Metacrine is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on building an innovative pipeline of best-in-class drugs to treat liver and gastrointestinal (GI) diseases. The most advanced program is focused on the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) an important drug target in multiple liver and GI diseases. Beyond the FXR program, a pipeline of novel drug candidates against other drug targets is being explored by taking advantage of internal drug discovery and development capabilities.

Obsidian Therapeutics

Series A in 2017
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 new functions 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.

Codiak Biosciences

Series C in 2017
Codiak is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on pioneering the development of exosome-based therapeutics, a new class of medicines with the potential to transform the treatment of a wide spectrum of diseases with high unmet medical need. By leveraging the biology of exosomes as natural intercellular transfer mechanisms, Codiak has developed its proprietary engEx Platform to expand upon the innate properties of exosomes to design, engineer and manufacture novel exosome therapeutic candidates. Codiak has utilized its engEx Platform to generate a deep pipeline of engineered exosomes aimed at treating a broad range of disease areas, spanning oncology, neuro-oncology, neurology, neuromuscular disease and infectious disease.

Ribometrix

Seed Round in 2017
Ribometrix is a platform therapeutics company that discovers small molecule drugs that target functional 3D RNA structures to treat human diseases. Our scientific offices are located in the newly renovated Biolabs Space in Durham, with offices in Chapel Hill and Boston.

LifeMine Therapeutics

Series A in 2017
LifeMine Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the genomic discovery of new drug modalities from eukaryotic microbes. It utilizes an integrated genomically-enabled drug discovery platform to discover and develop a pipeline of new drugs from fungi. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with an additional office in New York, New York.

Rodeo Therapeutics

Series A in 2017
Rodeo Therapeutics Corp. is a drug development company. The company develops novel small molecules therapies for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease and the promotion of blood cell reconstitution following bone marrow transplant. It develops drugs for tissue repair and regeneration. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Evelo Biosciences

Series B in 2017
Evelo Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology company, discovers and develops oral biologics for the treatment of inflammatory diseases and cancer. It is developing EDP1815, a monoclonal microbial candidate, which is in Phase 1b placebo-controlled dose-escalating safety and tolerability clinical study for the treatment of psoriasis or atopic dermatitis. The company is also developing monoclonal microbial candidates, which are in pre-clinical development stage include EDP1815 for treating psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and axial spondyloarthritis; EDP1867 for asthma; EDP2939 for inflammatory disease; and EDP1632 for neuro-inflammatory diseases. In addition, it is developing EDP1503, a monoclonal microbial candidate, which is in Phase 1/2 clinical study for the treatment of colorectal cancer, triple-negative breast cancer, and melanoma, as well as patients who have relapsed on prior PD-1/L1 inhibitor treatment. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Forge Therapeutics

Series A in 2017
Forge Therapeutics, Inc is a biotechnology company discovering and developing novel therapeutics using an innovative chemistry platform targeting metalloproteins. Forge uses a proprietary approach combining bioinorganic (study of metals in biology) and medicinal chemistry to generate selective inhibitors of this large class of targets.

Antiva Biosciences

Series C in 2017
Antiva Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, localized therapeutics for the treatment of diseases caused by HPV infection. The company was founded as Hera Therapeutics in 2012 by Dr. Karl Hostetler at The University of California San Diego. They are now Antiva Biosciences which is headquartered in South San Francisco.

Applied Therapeutics

Series A in 2017
Applied Therapeutics operates as a biotechnology company. The company focuses on developing transformative drugs in areas of high unmet medical need -fatal and debilitating diseases for which no therapies are approved. The company is developing a pipeline of novel product candidates against previously validated and well-known molecular targets. It uses technological advances and abbreviated regulatory pathways, wherever possible, to design drugs for indications of significant unmet medical need. Applied Therapeutics conducts its business in the United States.

ApoGen Biotechnologies

Series A in 2016
ApoGen Biotechnologies, Inc. is focused on the development of new class of therapeutics targeting drivers of cancer genomic mutation.As the arsenal of available cancer therapies has grown and evolved from cytotoxic chemotherapy to targeted therapy to immunotherapy, one fact has unfortunately remained constant nearly all cancer drug therapies eventually fail due to the development of drug resistance. Mutation of cellular DNA is central to the formation of cancer, and chronic mutation of the cancer genome is a primary cause of cancer evolution and drug resistance, resulting in ineffective therapy, cancer recurrence and metastasis, and decreased overall survival.

Imara

Series A in 2016
Imara, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes therapeutics for patients with rare genetic disorders of hemoglobin. It develops IMR-687, which is an oral, once-a-day therapeutic for the treatment of sickle cell disease and b-thalassemia. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Codiak Biosciences

Series B in 2016
Codiak is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on pioneering the development of exosome-based therapeutics, a new class of medicines with the potential to transform the treatment of a wide spectrum of diseases with high unmet medical need. By leveraging the biology of exosomes as natural intercellular transfer mechanisms, Codiak has developed its proprietary engEx Platform to expand upon the innate properties of exosomes to design, engineer and manufacture novel exosome therapeutic candidates. Codiak has utilized its engEx Platform to generate a deep pipeline of engineered exosomes aimed at treating a broad range of disease areas, spanning oncology, neuro-oncology, neurology, neuromuscular disease and infectious disease.

Syros Pharmaceuticals

Series C in 2016
Syros Pharmaceuticals is a life sciences company that is focused on treating disease by mapping gene regulatory circuits and modulating the factors that regulate gene expression. Syros has pioneered world-leading gene control research and drug discovery capabilities with a proven ability to integrate disease biology and genomic data--a proficiency that is not well represented in pharmaceutical R&D. Central to the Syros approach is a proprietary platform of carefully integrated assay technologies, bioinformatics, and biologic insights developed by members of Syros' senior leadership. While this scientific approach has applications in many therapeutic areas, Syros has demonstrated success initially in oncology, where it may help address numerous unmet medical needs.

Lodo Therapeutics

Series A in 2016
Lodo Therapeutics Corporation is a drug discovery and development company focused on the creation of naturally derived novel therapeutics that will have a dramatic impact human health on a global basis. Lodo seeks to work in partnership with global pharmaceutical companies and world leading Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) to tackle some of the greatest challenges in human health: resistant infectious disease and cancers. Lodo Therapeutics was created to pursue the scientific vision of Dr. Sean Brady at Rockefeller University. Dr. Brady and his laboratory have developed a genome-based, culture-independent platform for the discovery, biosynthesis, and characterization of small molecules from microbial sources present in soil samples. Lodo believes that the potential cures for a number of deadly and/or debilitating diseases literally lie at our feet. By combining the advancements in DNA sequencing and bioinformatics, this innovative discovery platform exploits the power of microbial evolution for the identification of therapeutically valuable pharmaceutical products derived from natural sources. Lodo Therapeutics, an Accelerator Corporation-backed entity, is headquartered in New York City. The company’s lab and offices are located in the Alexandria Center for Life Science, New York City’s first and only premier life science park.

NextCure

Series A in 2016
NextCure is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing next generation immuno-oncology-based drugs. The Company is applying its proprietary platforms and know-how to identify novel and biologically relevant targets and develop first-in-class immunotherapy products.

Petra Pharma

Series A in 2016
Petra Pharma Corporation, a pharmaceutical company, discovers and develops therapies that modulate phosphoinositide (PI) signaling pathways for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. It focuses on novel enzyme targets that play a central role in various important cellular processes, including cell division, growth, trafficking, and signaling. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Syros Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2014
Syros Pharmaceuticals is a life sciences company that is focused on treating disease by mapping gene regulatory circuits and modulating the factors that regulate gene expression. Syros has pioneered world-leading gene control research and drug discovery capabilities with a proven ability to integrate disease biology and genomic data--a proficiency that is not well represented in pharmaceutical R&D. Central to the Syros approach is a proprietary platform of carefully integrated assay technologies, bioinformatics, and biologic insights developed by members of Syros' senior leadership. While this scientific approach has applications in many therapeutic areas, Syros has demonstrated success initially in oncology, where it may help address numerous unmet medical needs.

Visterra

Series B in 2014
Visterra, Inc. engages in pharmaceutical drug research and development of therapeutic and diagnostic products for infectious diseases. It also provides structure-based design of therapeutics and diagnostic platforms, based on an understanding of glycobiology and glycochemistry. The company was formerly known as Parasol Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name in May 2010. Visterra, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Seres Health

Series B in 2014
Seres Health is a clinical-stage therapeutics company focused on discovering and developing drugs to treat diseases of the microbiome. The biology of the microbiome is driven by ecologies—the functional collections of various organisms—which are central to health and disease. Seres is developing Ecobiotic™ therapeutics to treat diseases that have an underlying microbiome biology. Our first clinical program is in the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection.