Aberdare Ventures

Aberdare Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm specializes in investing in the healthcare sector, focusing on technologies and services such as pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceutical products, medical devices, and healthcare technology convergence. Aberdare Ventures aims to support early-stage and growth-oriented companies that are developing innovative solutions in transformational healthcare and enterprise software. The firm typically engages in financings ranging from $1 million to $7 million and can invest up to $15 million in a company throughout its lifetime. While it primarily targets U.S.-based companies, particularly those in California, it is open to investing in firms located elsewhere. Aberdare Ventures emphasizes a selective investment strategy, working closely with a limited number of entrepreneurial teams to enhance the likelihood of success for its portfolio companies.

Sigrid Van Bladel

Venture Partner

Paul Klingenstein

Managing Partner

69 past transactions

Gravia

Series C in 2017
Gravia offers steel products and services tailored for construction, industry, agribusiness, and metalworking. Its products include steel plates, coils, sheets, pipes, tubes, rebars, beams, angles, wires, bars, rods, mesh, gratings, and customized steel solutions for various industries.

Realeve

Series D in 2015
Realeve develops miniaturized neurostimulation devices designed to set a new standard in treating severe headache. It focuses on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of autonomic disorders, particularly severe headache. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Jiff

Series C in 2015
Jiff is a venture-backed, Mountain View-based technology company that is reinventing healthcare, one employee at a time. It builds customized mobile and web experiences that connect company benefits and incentives design to healthy employee behaviors using the wearables and apps that they all know and love. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Realeve

Series D in 2015
Realeve develops miniaturized neurostimulation devices designed to set a new standard in treating severe headache. It focuses on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of autonomic disorders, particularly severe headache. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Gravia

Series B in 2015
Gravia offers steel products and services tailored for construction, industry, agribusiness, and metalworking. Its products include steel plates, coils, sheets, pipes, tubes, rebars, beams, angles, wires, bars, rods, mesh, gratings, and customized steel solutions for various industries.

goBalto

Series C in 2015
GoBalto is a software platform that develops cloud-based solutions for drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations. Its products offer drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations the fastest, easiest possible way to start clinical studies on the web. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Jiff

Series B in 2014
Jiff is a venture-backed, Mountain View-based technology company that is reinventing healthcare, one employee at a time. It builds customized mobile and web experiences that connect company benefits and incentives design to healthy employee behaviors using the wearables and apps that they all know and love. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Gravia

Series A in 2014
Gravia offers steel products and services tailored for construction, industry, agribusiness, and metalworking. Its products include steel plates, coils, sheets, pipes, tubes, rebars, beams, angles, wires, bars, rods, mesh, gratings, and customized steel solutions for various industries.

goBalto

Venture Round in 2014
GoBalto is a software platform that develops cloud-based solutions for drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations. Its products offer drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations the fastest, easiest possible way to start clinical studies on the web. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Advance Medical

Series B in 2013
Advance Medical is one of the largest, physician-based telemedicine providers, offering employers and insurers the ability to provide top-quality, concierge-level medical advice and support to patients around the globe via offices in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South America. Founded in 1999, Advance Medical has emerged as the global leader in expert medical opinions because of its programs executed exclusively by board-certified physicians – doctors who speak by phone or video consultation with every patient, no matter what the issue or concern and for as much time as necessary, to provide best-in-class medical expertise.

Adavium

Private Equity Round in 2013
Adavium Medical is a medical equipment and diagnostics company aimed at bringing commercial sophistication to a highly fragmented market. The Company was formed with the intent to commercialize the most innovative portfolio of medical device and diagnostics products in Brazil. Adavium Medical portfolio today is made up of products that we commercialize on behalf of leading international companies. Adavium Medical assembled an experienced team of more than 300 employees that ensure that its fully-integrated commercial platform operates at world-class standards. Adavium Medical have the largest customer base across premium and “long tail” customers of any medical equipment and/or diagnostics company in Brazil, with more than 2,500 customers respectively in medical equipment and diagnostics. This is exponentially more than the average distributor or multinational in the region. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Aviir

Series B in 2013
Aviir is a venture-funded biotechnology company developing cutting-edge, diagnostic tests enabling accurate diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular disease. The company’s proprietary technology is based on ten years of research at Stanford University, and combines the scientific founder’s deep understanding of biomarker assay development and advanced biostatistics. Aviir has pursued an aggressive commercialization strategy, and initial products, including the MIRISK VP™ test, are currently on the market. The Aviir leadership team includes the founding scientists and highly experienced management.

Cervel Neurotech

Venture Round in 2013
Cervel Neurotech, Inc. (formerly NeoStim, Inc.) located in San Mateo, CA is a privately held medical device company that is pioneering an innovative, proprietary approach to non-invasive deep brain neuro-modulation. Cervel’s technology is a form of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) which uses magnetic fields to induce electrical currents within the brain to modulate the function of specific areas. The company was founded in 2008 by M. Bret Schneider, MD, and David J. Mishelevich, MD, PhD, and entrepreneur Michael J. Partsch, using technology licensed from Stanford Univesity. Acquired by Rio Grande Neurosciences in 2015

Aviir

Series B in 2013
Aviir is a venture-funded biotechnology company developing cutting-edge, diagnostic tests enabling accurate diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular disease. The company’s proprietary technology is based on ten years of research at Stanford University, and combines the scientific founder’s deep understanding of biomarker assay development and advanced biostatistics. Aviir has pursued an aggressive commercialization strategy, and initial products, including the MIRISK VP™ test, are currently on the market. The Aviir leadership team includes the founding scientists and highly experienced management.

goBalto

Series B in 2012
GoBalto is a software platform that develops cloud-based solutions for drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations. Its products offer drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations the fastest, easiest possible way to start clinical studies on the web. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MC10

Series C in 2012
MC10, Inc. extends human capabilities through virtually invisible and conformal electronics. They reshape rigid, conventional electronics into thin, flexible devices that can stretch, bend and twist seamlessly with their bodies and the natural world. It combines breakthrough technology with innovative engineering to develop products that advance the quality of life. The company's end-to-end system designed for In-Home and In-Clinic Study Execution. Its proprietary BioStamp system wearable health tech creates comfortable, discreet sensors that can be applied anywhere on the body for targeted data collection. With location-specific sensing capabilities, BioStamp sensors are able to retrieve real-world data about muscle activation and movement.

Wello

Seed Round in 2012
Wello is an online platform offering live fitness training over two-way video. It provides an affordable and easy way for its users to workout with a live fitness professional of their choice. Its first product called 1-on-1 personal training was launched in 2012. In 2013, Wello completed the program at Rock Health and became part of a prolific network of the best digital health companies in the country. It matches clients with the right Wello-vetted trainer and workout program for them, provides seamless scheduling and payment, and establishes the live video connection for the workout to take place. Wello was launched in 2011 by Stanford MBA students Ann Scott Plante and Leslie Silverglide. It is based in San Francisco, C.A.

Bluesight

Seed Round in 2012
Bluesight solves supply chain inefficiencies and reduces risk by providing actionable analytics for every step of the medication lifecycle. Through the company's suite of Medication Intelligence solutions, Bluesight brings simplicity, visibility, and predictability to the complex of medication management.

RxAnte

Series A in 2012
RxAnte provides predictive analytics and targeted clinical programs that improve medication prescribing and adherence for health plans and their members. A significant component to these clinical programs is RxAnte’s Mosaic Pharmacy Service, which provides a superior pharmacy experience to a health plan’s most complex and vulnerable members while working with their prescribers and caregivers to make regimens safer, simpler, and more affordable.

Jiff

Series A in 2012
Jiff is a venture-backed, Mountain View-based technology company that is reinventing healthcare, one employee at a time. It builds customized mobile and web experiences that connect company benefits and incentives design to healthy employee behaviors using the wearables and apps that they all know and love. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Viracta Therapeutics

Series B in 2012
Viracta is a precision oncology company targeting virus-associated malignancies. Viracta's proprietary investigational drug, nanatinostat, is currently being evaluated in combination with the antiviral agent valganciclovir as an oral combination therapy in a Phase 2 clinical trial for EBV-positive lymphoma. Viracta is pursuing application of this inducible synthetic lethality approach in other EBV-associated malignancies, such as nasopharyngeal carcinoma, gastric carcinoma, and other virus-related cancers.

MC10

Venture Round in 2012
MC10, Inc. extends human capabilities through virtually invisible and conformal electronics. They reshape rigid, conventional electronics into thin, flexible devices that can stretch, bend and twist seamlessly with their bodies and the natural world. It combines breakthrough technology with innovative engineering to develop products that advance the quality of life. The company's end-to-end system designed for In-Home and In-Clinic Study Execution. Its proprietary BioStamp system wearable health tech creates comfortable, discreet sensors that can be applied anywhere on the body for targeted data collection. With location-specific sensing capabilities, BioStamp sensors are able to retrieve real-world data about muscle activation and movement.

Omada Health

Seed Round in 2011
Omada Health is a digital care company that offers innovative and clinically effective digital health programs to empower individuals to engage in their health and lead healthier lives. The program is personalized to meet each participant’s unique needs as they evolve, ranging from diabetes prevention, type 2 diabetes management, hypertension, behavioral health, and musculoskeletal issues. Omada combines professional health coaching, connected health devices, real-time data, and personalized feedback to deliver clinically meaningful results. The company is the largest CDC-recognized provider of the National Diabetes Prevention Program.

Aviir

Venture Round in 2011
Aviir is a venture-funded biotechnology company developing cutting-edge, diagnostic tests enabling accurate diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular disease. The company’s proprietary technology is based on ten years of research at Stanford University, and combines the scientific founder’s deep understanding of biomarker assay development and advanced biostatistics. Aviir has pursued an aggressive commercialization strategy, and initial products, including the MIRISK VP™ test, are currently on the market. The Aviir leadership team includes the founding scientists and highly experienced management.

Realeve

Series C in 2011
Realeve develops miniaturized neurostimulation devices designed to set a new standard in treating severe headache. It focuses on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of autonomic disorders, particularly severe headache. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

NxThera

Series B in 2011
NxThera develops medical technologies to treat a variety of endourology conditions, including BPH. The company's technology platform utilizes a simple, minimally invasive, vapor therapy designed to measurably improve urinary flow and patient quality of life. BPH afflicts more than 32 million men in the United States.

Nevro

Series B in 2011
Nevro is a global medical device company focused on providing innovative products that improve the quality of life of patients suffering from debilitating chronic pain. Nevro has developed and commercialized the Senza spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system, an evidence-based neuromodulation platform for the treatment of chronic pain. The Senza system is the only SCS system that delivers Nevro's proprietary HF10 therapy. Senza, HF10, Nevro and the Nevro logo are trademarks of Nevro.

Aviir

Venture Round in 2011
Aviir is a venture-funded biotechnology company developing cutting-edge, diagnostic tests enabling accurate diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular disease. The company’s proprietary technology is based on ten years of research at Stanford University, and combines the scientific founder’s deep understanding of biomarker assay development and advanced biostatistics. Aviir has pursued an aggressive commercialization strategy, and initial products, including the MIRISK VP™ test, are currently on the market. The Aviir leadership team includes the founding scientists and highly experienced management.

Posit Science

Venture Round in 2011
Posit Science helps people be at their best throughout their lives by providing brain training programs that are clinically proven to improve cognitive performance. Posit Science's brain training programs build on breakthroughs in the science of brain plasticity–the ability of the brain to change itself at any age–to improve the speed and accuracy of brain information processing, and so improve cognitive function and real-world performance. Posit Science Corporation was formerly known as Neuroscience Solutions Corporation and changed its name in January, 2005. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Conatus Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2011
Conatus Pharmaceuticals is a privately-held biotechnology company focused on the development of innovative human therapeutics to treat liver disease and cancer. Their lead program, CTS-1027, is currently undergoing Phase 2 clinical trials for the treatment of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). Conatus licensed CTS-1027 from Hoffmann-La Roche in 2006, and to date its development has been the primary focus of the Company.

VertiFlex

Venture Round in 2011
VertiFlex, Inc., a medical device company, provides minimally invasive and motion preserving spinal surgery technologies in the United States and internationally. The company offers superion interspinous spacer, a percutaneous titanium implant that fits between the spinous processes in the lumbar spine. Its Superion is a motion-preserving interspinous spacer for the treatment of moderate spinal stenosis. Vertiflex Inc was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in California, USA.

Jiff

Seed Round in 2010
Jiff is a venture-backed, Mountain View-based technology company that is reinventing healthcare, one employee at a time. It builds customized mobile and web experiences that connect company benefits and incentives design to healthy employee behaviors using the wearables and apps that they all know and love. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

EnteroMedics

Post in 2010
EnteroMedics® Inc. is the developer of vBloc® neurometabolic therapy, delivered by a pacemaker-like device called the Maestro® Rechargeable System, a first-in-class weight loss treatment for obesity and obesity related risk factors, such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol levels. vBloc Therapy is a non-anatomy altering or restricting, reversible therapy that allows patients to safely lose weight by helping patients feel less hungry, reduce the amount of food eaten at a meal, and feel full longer in between meals.

Viracta Therapeutics

Series B in 2010
Viracta is a precision oncology company targeting virus-associated malignancies. Viracta's proprietary investigational drug, nanatinostat, is currently being evaluated in combination with the antiviral agent valganciclovir as an oral combination therapy in a Phase 2 clinical trial for EBV-positive lymphoma. Viracta is pursuing application of this inducible synthetic lethality approach in other EBV-associated malignancies, such as nasopharyngeal carcinoma, gastric carcinoma, and other virus-related cancers.

Aviir

Venture Round in 2010
Aviir is a venture-funded biotechnology company developing cutting-edge, diagnostic tests enabling accurate diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular disease. The company’s proprietary technology is based on ten years of research at Stanford University, and combines the scientific founder’s deep understanding of biomarker assay development and advanced biostatistics. Aviir has pursued an aggressive commercialization strategy, and initial products, including the MIRISK VP™ test, are currently on the market. The Aviir leadership team includes the founding scientists and highly experienced management.

Aviir

Venture Round in 2009
Aviir is a venture-funded biotechnology company developing cutting-edge, diagnostic tests enabling accurate diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular disease. The company’s proprietary technology is based on ten years of research at Stanford University, and combines the scientific founder’s deep understanding of biomarker assay development and advanced biostatistics. Aviir has pursued an aggressive commercialization strategy, and initial products, including the MIRISK VP™ test, are currently on the market. The Aviir leadership team includes the founding scientists and highly experienced management.

Clovis Oncology

Venture Round in 2009
Clovis Oncology is a biopharmaceutical company focused on acquiring, developing and commercializing cancer treatments in the United States, Europe and other international markets. Their development programs are targeted at specific subsets of cancer, combining precision medicine with companion diagnostics to direct therapeutics to those patients most likely to benefit from them.

Posit Science

Venture Round in 2009
Posit Science helps people be at their best throughout their lives by providing brain training programs that are clinically proven to improve cognitive performance. Posit Science's brain training programs build on breakthroughs in the science of brain plasticity–the ability of the brain to change itself at any age–to improve the speed and accuracy of brain information processing, and so improve cognitive function and real-world performance. Posit Science Corporation was formerly known as Neuroscience Solutions Corporation and changed its name in January, 2005. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Mpex Pharmaceuticals

Series D in 2009
Mpex Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company developing new therapies to combat the growing issue of antibiotic resistance, with a particular focus on gram-negative organisms. The Company's internal development pipeline focuses on combining proprietary formulations, PK/PD strategies and novel potentiating agents with proven antibiotics to overcome or directly inhibit the molecular mechanisms in bacteria responsible for antibiotic resistance.

Anacor Pharmaceutical

Series E in 2009
Anacor Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company that engages in developing small-molecule therapeutics from its boron chemistry platform. It focuses on developing topical applications of its compounds to treat fungal, bacterial, and inflammatory diseases. The company’s primary product candidate, AN2690, is a novel topical antifungal for the treatment of toenail onychomycosis, a fungal infection of the nail and nail bed. It is also developing AN2728, an anti-inflammatory product candidate for the treatment of psoriasis; AN0128, a product candidate that has antibiotic and anti-inflammatory properties; and AN2718, which is in preclinical development for the topical treatment of vaginal candidiasis and tineapedis.

Aviir

Venture Round in 2008
Aviir is a venture-funded biotechnology company developing cutting-edge, diagnostic tests enabling accurate diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular disease. The company’s proprietary technology is based on ten years of research at Stanford University, and combines the scientific founder’s deep understanding of biomarker assay development and advanced biostatistics. Aviir has pursued an aggressive commercialization strategy, and initial products, including the MIRISK VP™ test, are currently on the market. The Aviir leadership team includes the founding scientists and highly experienced management.

Nevro

Series A in 2008
Nevro is a global medical device company focused on providing innovative products that improve the quality of life of patients suffering from debilitating chronic pain. Nevro has developed and commercialized the Senza spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system, an evidence-based neuromodulation platform for the treatment of chronic pain. The Senza system is the only SCS system that delivers Nevro's proprietary HF10 therapy. Senza, HF10, Nevro and the Nevro logo are trademarks of Nevro.

Cervel Neurotech

Series A in 2008
Cervel Neurotech, Inc. (formerly NeoStim, Inc.) located in San Mateo, CA is a privately held medical device company that is pioneering an innovative, proprietary approach to non-invasive deep brain neuro-modulation. Cervel’s technology is a form of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) which uses magnetic fields to induce electrical currents within the brain to modulate the function of specific areas. The company was founded in 2008 by M. Bret Schneider, MD, and David J. Mishelevich, MD, PhD, and entrepreneur Michael J. Partsch, using technology licensed from Stanford Univesity. Acquired by Rio Grande Neurosciences in 2015

VertiFlex

Series C in 2008
VertiFlex, Inc., a medical device company, provides minimally invasive and motion preserving spinal surgery technologies in the United States and internationally. The company offers superion interspinous spacer, a percutaneous titanium implant that fits between the spinous processes in the lumbar spine. Its Superion is a motion-preserving interspinous spacer for the treatment of moderate spinal stenosis. Vertiflex Inc was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in California, USA.

Aviir

Venture Round in 2008
Aviir is a venture-funded biotechnology company developing cutting-edge, diagnostic tests enabling accurate diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular disease. The company’s proprietary technology is based on ten years of research at Stanford University, and combines the scientific founder’s deep understanding of biomarker assay development and advanced biostatistics. Aviir has pursued an aggressive commercialization strategy, and initial products, including the MIRISK VP™ test, are currently on the market. The Aviir leadership team includes the founding scientists and highly experienced management.

Aviir

Series B in 2007
Aviir is a venture-funded biotechnology company developing cutting-edge, diagnostic tests enabling accurate diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular disease. The company’s proprietary technology is based on ten years of research at Stanford University, and combines the scientific founder’s deep understanding of biomarker assay development and advanced biostatistics. Aviir has pursued an aggressive commercialization strategy, and initial products, including the MIRISK VP™ test, are currently on the market. The Aviir leadership team includes the founding scientists and highly experienced management.

Ablation Frontiers

Series C in 2007
Ablation Frontiers, Inc. (www.ablationfrontiers.com) is a medical device company based in Carlsbad, Calif., dedicated to helping individuals suffering from AF and other cardiac arrhythmias. In 2006, Ablation Frontiers received CE Mark to begin marketing its system of catheters and the GENius™ Radiofrequency (RF) Generator in the European Union to treat supraventricular arrhythmias and for use in atrioventricular node ablation. Ablation Frontiers is conducting a clinical trial under a United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigational device exemption (IDE) to gain approval of the catheter system for permanent/long-standing persistent/chronic AF in the United States. Ablation Frontiers products are not approved for marketing or sales in the United States.

Paracor Medical

Series D in 2007
Paracor Medical is an innovative medical device company focused on providing unique, technology-driven solutions for the treatment of heart failure. Founded in 1999, Paracor was established to pursue new and innovative ways to treat heart failure (HF) that would not require the patient to undergo open chest surgery. Paracor engineers recognized that a mechanical approach to reducing the workload of a failing, diseased heart muscle could be a new and effective solution.

Conatus Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2007
Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in developing innovative therapeutics for liver diseases and chronic conditions with significant unmet medical needs. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company has focused on its lead product candidate, Emricasan, an orally active caspase protease inhibitor currently in Phase IIb clinical trials for various liver-related conditions, including post-orthotopic liver transplant complications and liver fibrosis linked to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Additionally, Conatus is advancing CTS-2090, an orally active inhibitor of caspase 1, which is in the preclinical stage for treating chronic diseases associated with inflammasome pathways. The company has also entered into a collaboration agreement with Novartis to conduct three Phase IIb clinical trials. In May 2020, Conatus Pharmaceuticals was acquired by Histogen Inc. in a reverse merger transaction.

VertiFlex

Series B in 2007
VertiFlex, Inc., a medical device company, provides minimally invasive and motion preserving spinal surgery technologies in the United States and internationally. The company offers superion interspinous spacer, a percutaneous titanium implant that fits between the spinous processes in the lumbar spine. Its Superion is a motion-preserving interspinous spacer for the treatment of moderate spinal stenosis. Vertiflex Inc was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in California, USA.

Sequoia Pharmaceuticals

Series C in 2007
Sequoia Pharmaceuticals is a private, venture-capital funded company founded in 2002. They are engaged in the discovery and development of novel antiviral therapeutics with a focus on combating drug-resistant HIV and HCV. They are also developing pharmacokinetic enhancers to improve the exposure of co-administered therapeutics.

Nevro

Series A in 2006
Nevro is a global medical device company focused on providing innovative products that improve the quality of life of patients suffering from debilitating chronic pain. Nevro has developed and commercialized the Senza spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system, an evidence-based neuromodulation platform for the treatment of chronic pain. The Senza system is the only SCS system that delivers Nevro's proprietary HF10 therapy. Senza, HF10, Nevro and the Nevro logo are trademarks of Nevro.

NBI Development

Seed Round in 2006
NBI Development is an implantable medical device company focused on the development of novel neuromodulation therapies. The company develops neuromodulation, the use of electrical impulses to manage activity in the nervous system.

Posit Science

Series B in 2006
Posit Science helps people be at their best throughout their lives by providing brain training programs that are clinically proven to improve cognitive performance. Posit Science's brain training programs build on breakthroughs in the science of brain plasticity–the ability of the brain to change itself at any age–to improve the speed and accuracy of brain information processing, and so improve cognitive function and real-world performance. Posit Science Corporation was formerly known as Neuroscience Solutions Corporation and changed its name in January, 2005. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Kemia

Series C in 2006
Kémia operates as a pharmaceutical company. The company discovers and develops small molecule therapeutics. It offers allosteric kinase inhibitors for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, as well as for cardiovascular and metabolic conditions; and modulators of G protein-coupled receptors. The company specializes in the fields of medicinal and analytical chemistry, biology, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and clinical development.

KAI Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2006
KAI Pharmaceuticals is a drug discovery and development company with multiple, novel clinical-stage programs in the areas of cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and pain. KAI lead product candidate, KAI-9803, is currently in a Phase 2b study (PROTECTION AMI) designed to assess the effect of KAI-9803 on reducing myocardial injury in heart attack patients. KAI second core program, KAI-4169 for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) in kidney disease patients, is expected to enter human clinical trials in 2010. KAI also has an ongoing pain program, KAI-1678, which is currently in Phase 2a testing.

Eledon Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2006
Eledon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing products for patients with ear, nose, and throat disorders. The company's lead product, OP0201, is a surfactant-based nasal aerosol designed for individuals at risk of or suffering from otitis media, which is inflammation of the middle ear. In addition to OP0201, Eledon has developed foam-based drug delivery technologies, OP0101 and OP0102, aimed at administering medications to the ear, nose, and sinus cavities. Founded in 2004 and initially known as Novus Therapeutics, the company rebranded in January 2021 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Mpex Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2005
Mpex Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company developing new therapies to combat the growing issue of antibiotic resistance, with a particular focus on gram-negative organisms. The Company's internal development pipeline focuses on combining proprietary formulations, PK/PD strategies and novel potentiating agents with proven antibiotics to overcome or directly inhibit the molecular mechanisms in bacteria responsible for antibiotic resistance.

VertiFlex

Series A in 2005
VertiFlex, Inc., a medical device company, provides minimally invasive and motion preserving spinal surgery technologies in the United States and internationally. The company offers superion interspinous spacer, a percutaneous titanium implant that fits between the spinous processes in the lumbar spine. Its Superion is a motion-preserving interspinous spacer for the treatment of moderate spinal stenosis. Vertiflex Inc was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in California, USA.

Anacor Pharmaceutical

Series C in 2005
Anacor Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company that engages in developing small-molecule therapeutics from its boron chemistry platform. It focuses on developing topical applications of its compounds to treat fungal, bacterial, and inflammatory diseases. The company’s primary product candidate, AN2690, is a novel topical antifungal for the treatment of toenail onychomycosis, a fungal infection of the nail and nail bed. It is also developing AN2728, an anti-inflammatory product candidate for the treatment of psoriasis; AN0128, a product candidate that has antibiotic and anti-inflammatory properties; and AN2718, which is in preclinical development for the topical treatment of vaginal candidiasis and tineapedis.

Sequoia Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2005
Sequoia Pharmaceuticals is a private, venture-capital funded company founded in 2002. They are engaged in the discovery and development of novel antiviral therapeutics with a focus on combating drug-resistant HIV and HCV. They are also developing pharmacokinetic enhancers to improve the exposure of co-administered therapeutics.

Idun Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2004
IDUN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery and development of human therapeutics to control apoptosis. Its products under Phase 2 and preclinical trials include drugs for liver disease, CNS diseases, inflammation, and cancer, as well as IDN-6556 for the treatment of liver diseases in patients infected with Hepatitis C virus. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in San Diego, California. As of July 30, 2010, IDUN Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Anacor Pharmaceutical

Venture Round in 2002
Anacor Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company that engages in developing small-molecule therapeutics from its boron chemistry platform. It focuses on developing topical applications of its compounds to treat fungal, bacterial, and inflammatory diseases. The company’s primary product candidate, AN2690, is a novel topical antifungal for the treatment of toenail onychomycosis, a fungal infection of the nail and nail bed. It is also developing AN2728, an anti-inflammatory product candidate for the treatment of psoriasis; AN0128, a product candidate that has antibiotic and anti-inflammatory properties; and AN2718, which is in preclinical development for the topical treatment of vaginal candidiasis and tineapedis.

Anacor Pharmaceutical

Series A in 2002
Anacor Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company that engages in developing small-molecule therapeutics from its boron chemistry platform. It focuses on developing topical applications of its compounds to treat fungal, bacterial, and inflammatory diseases. The company’s primary product candidate, AN2690, is a novel topical antifungal for the treatment of toenail onychomycosis, a fungal infection of the nail and nail bed. It is also developing AN2728, an anti-inflammatory product candidate for the treatment of psoriasis; AN0128, a product candidate that has antibiotic and anti-inflammatory properties; and AN2718, which is in preclinical development for the topical treatment of vaginal candidiasis and tineapedis.

Salmedix

Series B in 2002
Salmedix is an oncology drug development company with a commercial focus on the treatment of hematologic malignancies, or blood cancers. Its primary product, SDX-105, is marketed by healthcare professionals in Germany for the treatment of several types of blood cancers. Salmedix conducts Phase II clinical trials for SDX-105 in the U.S. and Canada. Its other clinical-stage product candidates, SDX-101 and SDX-102, each with significant prior human clinical experience, are also in Phase II development. Founded in 2000 by David Kabakoff, Salmedix is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Pharmion

Venture Round in 2001
Pharmion is a global biotech company that is dedicated to the hematology and oncology communities. We work in partnership with a network of scientific and clinical advisors to identify and develop products for global hematology and oncology markets. To expand each product's potential, we have established our own regulatory, development and sales and marketing organizations in the United States, Europe, and Australia, and we have developed a third-party distributor network to serve the hematology and oncology markets in 20 additional countries throughout the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. The global capabilities within our sales, marketing and distribution organization distinguishes us from other companies of a similar size. With our international network we can reach physicians and their patients in more than 30 countries. With proven development and regulatory professionals and an experienced global commercialization team, we concentrate our resources on licensing, developing, and commercializing therapeutic products for the treatment of hematology and oncology patients. Through these efforts, we seek to provide greater therapeutic options to hematologists and oncologists with the ultimate goal of extending survival and improving patients’ quality of life.

Microbia

Series B in 2000
Microbia an industrial biotechnology company, engages in the development, production, and commercialization of specialty ingredients and biomaterials utilizing fermentation technology. Its products include carotenoids, specialty ingredients, biopolymers, and other biomaterials. The company has a strategic alliance with Tate & Lyle Investments, Ltd. to develop and commercialize fermentation-derived renewable ingredients.

Alibris

Series D in 2000
Alibris (pronounced "uh-LEE-briss") is the premier online marketplace for independent sellers of new and used books, music, and movies, as well as rare and collectible titles. They connect people who love books, music, and movies to more than 100 million items from thousands of sellers worldwide. Since launching in November 1998, They've grown to become the Internet’s largest independently owned and operated marketplace. Join them in their second decade. They promise you'll always be able to find plenty of good books, music, and movies. We look forward to many more years together.

CapitalThinking

Series A in 1999
CapitalThinking is a mortgage financial services company that offers fixed and flexible payment solutions. It offers an online platform that enables its customers to apply and obtain quotations. CapitalThinking is acquired by CapitalStream in January 2004. CapitalThinking was founded in 1999 and is based in New York.
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