Agent Capital

Agent Capital, established in 2017, is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm specializing in early-to-late stage investments in healthcare. It focuses on companies within the Immunology, Neuroscience, Oncology, Ophthalmology, and Rare Diseases sectors across the United States. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Agent Capital supports the growth of innovative healthcare businesses.

Anthony DiNatale

Investment Associate

Kirti Nimmala

Investment Analyst

Preston Noon

General Partner

Bruce Peacock

Venture Partner and Operating Partner

Geeta Vemuri

Managing Partner

33 past transactions

TRex Bio

Series B in 2024
TRexBio is a biotechnology company that leverages cutting-edge computational biology tools, a focus on human tissue, and expertise in immunobiology to develop therapeutics for cancer and inflammatory diseases. Its 'deep biology' discovery engine maps human tissue Treg behavior to disease processes, identifying and characterizing novel targets for therapeutic intervention. The platform supports the development of a portfolio of therapies that modulate the immune system to restore tissue immune homeostasis.

Foresight Diagnostics

Series B in 2024
Foresight Diagnostics develops a novel liquid biopsy test to measure minimal residual disease in cancer patients. This aids in patient management and has garnered significant interest from pharmaceutical companies.

Cerevance

Series B in 2024
Cerevance develops novel therapeutics for neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other chronic neurodegenerative conditions. It uses a proprietary platform to profile specific brain cell types in human tissue samples, enabling the identification of promising targets for new treatments.

Q32 Bio

Post in 2024
Q32 Bio is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on restoring healthy immune balance in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases by developing antibody-based therapies that modulate regulators of the innate and adaptive immune systems. Its development program includes ADX-914, a human anti-IL-7R antibody aimed at rebalancing adaptive immune function, and ADX-097, which demonstrates tissue-targeted distribution and durable pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics. Founded in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company emphasizes a team of scientists and immunology experts pursuing novel biologics to address diseases with limited or inadequate treatment options.

Cantai Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2023
Cantai Therapeutics operates as a developer of drug candidates.

Vittoria Biotherapeutics

Venture Round in 2023
Vittoria Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing gene-edited T-cell therapies to address unmet medical needs in oncology and autoimmune diseases. It utilizes Senza5 technology to enhance the efficacy, safety, and practical utility of cell-based therapeutics, aiming to lower dosing requirements, ease preconditioning regimens, reduce manufacturing failures, and shorten vein-to-vein times. By expanding the potential applications of T-cell therapies, the company seeks to improve patient outcomes across its therapeutic pipeline and advance next-generation cell-based treatments from research toward clinical use.

Jana Care

Series B in 2023
Jana Care is a medical technology company that develops a mobile point-of-care diagnostic platform to screen, manage, and monitor chronic diseases. Its Aina system includes a home-use Aina Device and a clinic-based Aina Station capable of performing tests such as blood glucose, HbA1c, lipid profiles (total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, and triglycerides), creatinine, and hemoglobin, with connectivity and remote support to bring lab-quality testing to primary care, home, and point-of-care settings. The Habits Program delivers a twelve-week digital coaching program for diabetes and pre-diabetes management. Headquartered in Boston with an additional office in Bengaluru, Jana Care focuses on enabling clinicians and patients to monitor chronic conditions through connected diagnostics and streamlined care pathways.

Foresight Diagnostics

Series B in 2023
Foresight Diagnostics develops a novel liquid biopsy test to measure minimal residual disease in cancer patients. This aids in patient management and has garnered significant interest from pharmaceutical companies.

Palvella Therapeutics

Series D in 2023
Palvella Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The company focuses on developing pathogenetically targeted therapies for serious and rare genetic skin diseases that lack approved treatments. Its lead candidate, QTORIN 3.9 % rapamycin anhydrous gel, is built on a patented QTORIN platform and is in late‑stage clinical development for two rare genodermatoses. Palvella’s approach emphasizes addressing the root cause of disease and delivering stable, room‑temperature formulations that penetrate the epidermis and dermis.

Carisma Therapeutics

Series C in 2022
Carisma Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing innovative immunotherapies for cancer and other serious diseases through its proprietary chimeric antigen receptor macrophage technology. The company focuses on engineering macrophages and monocytes, which are specialized white blood cells, to enhance their ability to infiltrate solid tumors and deliver potent cellular immunotherapy. By leveraging advanced cell engineering techniques, Carisma aims to provide effective treatments that enable patients with solid tumors to benefit from targeted and robust cancer therapies.

Carbon Biosciences

Series A in 2022
Carbon Biosciences specializes in developing genetic medicines for treating severe diseases. They employ industrial-scale viral production platforms to create vectors capable of delivering diverse therapeutic modalities.

Vittoria Biotherapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
Vittoria Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing gene-edited T-cell therapies to address unmet medical needs in oncology and autoimmune diseases. It utilizes Senza5 technology to enhance the efficacy, safety, and practical utility of cell-based therapeutics, aiming to lower dosing requirements, ease preconditioning regimens, reduce manufacturing failures, and shorten vein-to-vein times. By expanding the potential applications of T-cell therapies, the company seeks to improve patient outcomes across its therapeutic pipeline and advance next-generation cell-based treatments from research toward clinical use.

Affini-T Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2022
Affini-T Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing T-cell therapies for patients suffering from cancer. Affini-T uses a validated platform to select high-affinity T cell receptors specific to oncogenic mutations to pioneer cutting-edge solid tumor therapies. Affini-T leverages gene editing and synthetic biology to engineer novel T-cell therapies designed to eradicate tumors.

Cyrus Biotechnology

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2014, Cyrus Biotechnology develops software tools for accelerating basic research in biotech, pharma, and industrial biotechnology. Its flagship product, Cyrus Bench, offers an enterprise version of the Rosetta molecular modeling and design toolkit along with associated bio-molecular computation tools.

Mediar Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2021
Mediar Therapeutics is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics to treat fibrosis in chronically damaged organs. It designs antibodies that neutralize mediators driving fibrotic activity with the aim of halting and reversing fibrosis to improve patient outcomes. Founded in 2019 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company targets key fibrotic mediator proteins to address late-stage disease with precision and efficacy.

Carisma Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Carisma Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing innovative immunotherapies for cancer and other serious diseases through its proprietary chimeric antigen receptor macrophage technology. The company focuses on engineering macrophages and monocytes, which are specialized white blood cells, to enhance their ability to infiltrate solid tumors and deliver potent cellular immunotherapy. By leveraging advanced cell engineering techniques, Carisma aims to provide effective treatments that enable patients with solid tumors to benefit from targeted and robust cancer therapies.

Carisma Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Carisma Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing innovative immunotherapies for cancer and other serious diseases through its proprietary chimeric antigen receptor macrophage technology. The company focuses on engineering macrophages and monocytes, which are specialized white blood cells, to enhance their ability to infiltrate solid tumors and deliver potent cellular immunotherapy. By leveraging advanced cell engineering techniques, Carisma aims to provide effective treatments that enable patients with solid tumors to benefit from targeted and robust cancer therapies.

Metagenomi

Series A in 2020
Metagenomi, Inc. is a genetic medicines company focused on developing innovative gene editing systems to address genetic diseases. Incorporated in 2016 and headquartered in Emeryville, California, Metagenomi utilizes metagenomics and machine learning to discover novel genome editing technologies. By sourcing cellular machinery from previously uncharacterized organisms, the company creates a proprietary toolbox that includes programmable nucleases, base editors, and advanced integration systems like prime editing and CRISPR-associated transposases. These systems are designed to be ultra-small, efficient, and highly specific, minimizing the risk of immune responses. Metagenomi aims to revolutionize gene editing techniques and deliver curative therapeutics to patients worldwide.

Palvella Therapeutics

Series C in 2020
Palvella Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The company focuses on developing pathogenetically targeted therapies for serious and rare genetic skin diseases that lack approved treatments. Its lead candidate, QTORIN 3.9 % rapamycin anhydrous gel, is built on a patented QTORIN platform and is in late‑stage clinical development for two rare genodermatoses. Palvella’s approach emphasizes addressing the root cause of disease and delivering stable, room‑temperature formulations that penetrate the epidermis and dermis.

Interius BioTherapeutics

Private Equity Round in 2020
Interius BioTherapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that develops in vivo cell-specific gene medicines to treat B cell lymphomas. Intravenous in vivo CAR treatment, which treats B cell lymphomas, is the company's flagship program. Its unique engineering provides exceptional target tissue specificity. The business is working on a second initiative to address autoimmune conditions. With the help of Interius, a novel and distinct therapeutic modality for the precise administration of gene therapies may soon be made available to patients in expanded care settings, without the need for preconditioning chemotherapy.

ImCheck Therapeutics

Series B in 2019
Founded in 2015, ImCheck Therapeutics specializes in developing immunotherapeutics targeting members of the butyrophilin super-family for treating a range of autoimmune diseases, with a primary focus on immuno-oncology.

Metagenomi

Series A in 2019
Metagenomi, Inc. is a genetic medicines company focused on developing innovative gene editing systems to address genetic diseases. Incorporated in 2016 and headquartered in Emeryville, California, Metagenomi utilizes metagenomics and machine learning to discover novel genome editing technologies. By sourcing cellular machinery from previously uncharacterized organisms, the company creates a proprietary toolbox that includes programmable nucleases, base editors, and advanced integration systems like prime editing and CRISPR-associated transposases. These systems are designed to be ultra-small, efficient, and highly specific, minimizing the risk of immune responses. Metagenomi aims to revolutionize gene editing techniques and deliver curative therapeutics to patients worldwide.

Pyxis Oncology

Series A in 2019
Pyxis Oncology, established in 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts, is a biotechnology company specializing in the development of antibody therapeutics for cancer treatment. The company focuses on promoting the body's immune response to cancer by analyzing tumor antigen-specific tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) within hot tumors and tumor cell signaling pathways within cold tumors. Pyxis aims to create novel antibody-based immunotherapies to directly kill tumor cells and address underlying pathologies that enable cancer proliferation and immune evasion, with the goal of improving patient outcomes for difficult-to-treat cancers.

Entrada Therapeutics

Series A in 2018
Entrada Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, focused on treating diseases through the intracellular delivery of biologics. Founded in 2016, the company has developed innovative technologies that facilitate the efficient delivery of proteins, peptides, and nucleic acids, targeting intracellular sites that have traditionally been difficult to access. Entrada's approach includes Intracellular Enzyme Replacement Therapy (IC-ERT) and Endosomal Escape Vehicle (EEV) therapeutics, which aim to improve the therapeutic index by enabling the delivery of a wide range of therapeutics across various organs and tissues. The company's pipeline addresses conditions related to neuromuscular diseases and expands into additional therapeutic areas, positioning Entrada at the forefront of advancing treatment options for patients with devastating illnesses.

Verge Genomics

Series A in 2018
Verge Genomics is a biotechnology company focused on transforming drug discovery through the application of artificial intelligence. Founded by experts in machine learning and seasoned neuroscience drug developers, the company aims to leverage advancements in computational genomics and insights into neuroscience to discover innovative therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases. Its drug discovery platform employs machine learning algorithms to analyze large datasets, identifying potential drug targets and predicting effective treatments. By accelerating the development of life-saving therapies, Verge Genomics seeks to enhance patient outcomes and reduce the costs associated with pharmaceutical development, thereby addressing critical challenges in the healthcare sector.

Pliant Therapeutics

Series B in 2018
Pliant Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in South San Francisco, California, dedicated to discovering and developing innovative therapies for fibrotic diseases. Its lead product candidate, PLN-74809, is an oral small-molecule dual selective inhibitor of avß6 and avß1 integrins, targeting idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis. PLN-74809 has received Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for both indications and is currently undergoing Phase 2a clinical trials. The company is also developing PLN-1474, a small-molecule selective inhibitor of avß1, for the treatment of liver fibrosis associated with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, which is in Phase 1 trials. Founded in 2015, Pliant Therapeutics is also advancing preclinical programs aimed at addressing oncology and muscular dystrophies.

Carisma Therapeutics

Series A in 2018
Carisma Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing innovative immunotherapies for cancer and other serious diseases through its proprietary chimeric antigen receptor macrophage technology. The company focuses on engineering macrophages and monocytes, which are specialized white blood cells, to enhance their ability to infiltrate solid tumors and deliver potent cellular immunotherapy. By leveraging advanced cell engineering techniques, Carisma aims to provide effective treatments that enable patients with solid tumors to benefit from targeted and robust cancer therapies.

Skyhawk Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2018
Skyhawk Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of small molecule therapeutics that aim to correct RNA expression. The company's proprietary technology facilitates the rational design of these small molecules to target specific binding pocket regions on RNA, employing both sequence and structural specificity at critical moments during the RNA splicing process. This innovative approach allows for the targeting of diseases associated with RNA mis-splicing, particularly those characterized by exon skipping. Skyhawk Therapeutics is committed to developing treatments for various conditions, including cancer, neurological diseases, and rare disorders. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company has evolved from its initial identity as Rare Genetix, Inc., adopting its current name in May 2018.

Hinge Bio

Venture Round in 2018
Hinge Bio is a biotechnology company based in Burlingame, California, founded in 2015. The company specializes in developing bispecific and multispecific antibodies using its proprietary Flex-Hinge antibody platform. This platform enables the creation of therapeutic candidates with enhanced affinity and specificity through a chemical ligation process technology. Hinge Bio's approach allows for the production of therapeutics that can simultaneously bind to multiple disease targets, making it applicable to various conditions including oncology, metabolic diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders.

Orchard Therapeutics

Series B in 2017
Orchard Therapeutics is a UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commercializing innovative gene therapies for rare diseases. Its core focus is autologous ex vivo gene therapy, transforming hematopoietic stem cells into a gene-modified drug product for single-administration treatments. The company's portfolio includes Strimvelis, approved by the EMA in 2016, and several programs in advanced registrational studies across various disease areas.

Orbus Therapeutics

Series B in 2017
Orbus Therapeutics, Inc., established in 2012 and based in Palo Alto, California, is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commercializing therapies for rare diseases, with a focus on brain cancers. Its lead product, Eflornithine, is an orally bioavailable small molecule that acts as a cytostatic agent, inhibiting tumor growth by targeting ornithine decarboxylase (ODC). Currently, Orbus Therapeutics is working to bring Eflornithine to patients in North America affected by recurrent anaplastic astrocytoma, a rare and life-threatening form of central nervous system cancer. The company's mission is to improve the health and quality of life for these underserved patients by delivering innovative products that offer more positive outcomes.

Dragonfly Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2017
Dragonfly Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, founded in 2015. The company specializes in developing innovative therapeutics that stimulate immune responses against cancer, utilizing its proprietary TriNKET platform. Dragonfly's approach focuses on harnessing the power of natural killer cells and other components of the innate immune system to counteract the immune suppressive factors found in the tumor microenvironment. Its drug candidates are designed to be effective both as standalone treatments and in combination with existing cancer immunotherapies. The company has established strategic collaborations with major pharmaceutical firms, including Celgene Corporation and Merck, to further advance its therapeutic offerings. Dragonfly Therapeutics aims to provide breakthrough cancer treatments, informed by the expertise of its scientific founders, who are recognized leaders in cancer biology and immunology.

GlycoEra

GlycoEra is a biotechnology company focused on developing novel therapeutics by harnessing the power of glycan-mediated biology.
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