Aravis

Aravis, founded in 2001 and based in Zurich, Switzerland, is an independent private equity firm specializing in growth-oriented investments in various sectors, including biotech, clean technology, energy, industrial, and technology companies across Europe. The firm takes a hands-on approach, actively managing over a quarter of a billion Swiss francs and serving more than 30 prominent investors, including corporates, pension funds, and family offices. With a history of investing in over 100 companies, Aravis has achieved notable exits, particularly in renewable energy and life sciences. The firm’s expertise encompasses a comprehensive range of investment, accounting, regulatory, and reporting services, which supports its strategic investments in diverse fields such as oncology, digital healthcare, machine learning, and agricultural disruption.

Jean-Philippe Tripet

Founder and Chairman

31 past transactions

Athelas

Series A in 2019
Athelas develops technology to monitor chronically ill patients in their homes. The company has deployed an FDA-cleared blood diagnostic device along with an array of other sensors to manage Blood Pressure, Weight, Glucose, and Medication Adherence.

Bird Rock Bio

Series B in 2014
Bird Rock Bio is focused on the discovery and development of novel biologic therapeutics that meet the medical and commercial needs for China’s patients and healthcare system and that have the potential to be disruptive globally. RYI-008 is a novel, extremely potent monoclonal antibody that is highly selective to IL-6, a cytokine widely implicated in inflammation and cancer. In addition to RYI-008, RuiYi has a growing pipeline of monoclonal antibodies from its internal discovery efforts utilizing a series of the Company’s technologies, including the iCAP (intramembranous Conformation Antigen Presenting) system. Targets include a select subset of G protein coupled receptors (GPCR), where specificity in binding is critical but has proven difficult to achieve with small molecule modulators.

Synaffix BV

Series A in 2014
Synaffix BV is a clinical-stage biotech company that has established a proprietary antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) technology platform that enhances efficacy and tolerability. The company features technology offering (including 4 different ADC payloads) that enables the development of proprietary ADCs from any antibody and a patent portfolio provides patent protection of resulting Products through at least 2035. The company's technology employs an enzymatic modification of naturally occurring glycan anchor points found on all antibodies to enable efficient, site-specific, and stable conjugation of potent anti-cancer molecules using extensively optimized metal-free click chemistry, allowing clinicians to design complex biological drugs without the need for prior genetic modifications.

Bellerophon Therapeutics

Series A in 2013
Bellerophon Therapeutics LLC is a clinical stage biotherapeutics company focused on developing innovative therapies at the intersection of drugs and devices that address significant unmet medical needs in the treatment of cardiopulmonary and cardiac diseases. Two of the company's product candidates are based on its proprietary pulsatile nitric oxide delivery device, INOpulse®, and are in Phase 2 clinical trials – one for the treatment of PAH and a second for the treatment of PH-COPD. The company's third product candidate, bioabsorbable cardiac matrix (BCM), is an injectable device currently undergoing a feasibility clinical trial, which is a CE mark registration trial in the European Union and is comparable to a Phase 2 trial in U.S. drug development, for the prevention of cardiac remodeling and subsequent congestive heart failure following acute myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Telormedix

Series B in 2013
Telormedix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on targeted immunity and the role of the innate immune system in treating cancer and autoimmune diseases.

Telormedix

Series B in 2012
Telormedix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on targeted immunity and the role of the innate immune system in treating cancer and autoimmune diseases.

Synosia Therapeutics

Series C in 2010
Synosia Therapeutics develops and intends to commercialise products for unmet medical needs in psychiatry and neurology. The privately-owned company has in its pipeline six clinical-stage compounds acquired through partnerships with Novartis, Roche and Syngenta. Two of the compounds are marketed drugs being tested in new indications to extend their reach into neurological and psychiatric diseases with high unmet medical need, including anxiety and Parkinson's disease.

Evolva

Post in 2009
Evolva is a biotech company that develops and commercializes ready-to-formulate and nature-based ingredients. Evolva was founded in 2004 around a distinctive, proprietary, technology platform that uses synthetic biology to create innovative small-molecule drugs and other compounds. In particular, their platform allows the creation of chemistries that recapitulate the themes found in natural products, but without the disadvantages of those approaches. The company is headquartered in Reinach, Switzerland.

Evolva

Series B in 2009
Evolva is a biotech company that develops and commercializes ready-to-formulate and nature-based ingredients. Evolva was founded in 2004 around a distinctive, proprietary, technology platform that uses synthetic biology to create innovative small-molecule drugs and other compounds. In particular, their platform allows the creation of chemistries that recapitulate the themes found in natural products, but without the disadvantages of those approaches. The company is headquartered in Reinach, Switzerland.

Symetis

Series B in 2009
Symetis is a Swiss Company developing innovative minimally invasive heart valve replacement therapies for patients suffering from heart valve diseases. Symetis is dedicated to improving patient care and safety by offering simple, accurate solutions for heart valve replacement. Its proprietary Acurateâ„¢Aortic Valve Replacement System features a unique self-positioning design providing facile implant positioning and alignment as well as unrivalled ease of use.

Bird Rock Bio

Series A in 2009
Bird Rock Bio is focused on the discovery and development of novel biologic therapeutics that meet the medical and commercial needs for China’s patients and healthcare system and that have the potential to be disruptive globally. RYI-008 is a novel, extremely potent monoclonal antibody that is highly selective to IL-6, a cytokine widely implicated in inflammation and cancer. In addition to RYI-008, RuiYi has a growing pipeline of monoclonal antibodies from its internal discovery efforts utilizing a series of the Company’s technologies, including the iCAP (intramembranous Conformation Antigen Presenting) system. Targets include a select subset of G protein coupled receptors (GPCR), where specificity in binding is critical but has proven difficult to achieve with small molecule modulators.

NovImmune

Venture Round in 2009
NovImmmune is committed to innovation by discovering and developing therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to treat patients suffering from immune-related disorders.

Ambrx

Series D in 2009
Ambrx is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company using an expanded genetic code technology platform to discover and develop Engineered Precision Biologics. These include next generation antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), bispecifics, targeted immuno-oncology therapies, novel cytokines to modulate the immune system, and long-acting therapeutic peptides for metabolic and cardiovascular disease. Ambrx is advancing a robust portfolio of clinical and preclinical programs designed to optimize efficacy, safety and ease of use, in multiple therapeutic areas, including its lead product candidate ARX788.

Synosia Therapeutics

Series B in 2009
Synosia Therapeutics develops and intends to commercialise products for unmet medical needs in psychiatry and neurology. The privately-owned company has in its pipeline six clinical-stage compounds acquired through partnerships with Novartis, Roche and Syngenta. Two of the compounds are marketed drugs being tested in new indications to extend their reach into neurological and psychiatric diseases with high unmet medical need, including anxiety and Parkinson's disease.

S*Bio

Venture Round in 2008
S*BIO Pte, Ltd., a biotech company, focuses on the discovery and clinical development of novel targeted small drugs for the treatment of cancer. It serves the biotechnology industry in Singapore. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Singapore, Singapore. S*BIO Pte, Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Chiron Corporation Limited.

Telormedix

Series A in 2008
Telormedix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on targeted immunity and the role of the innate immune system in treating cancer and autoimmune diseases.

ImVisioN Therapeutics

Series A in 2008
ImVisioN Therapeutics is pioneering ILIT, a proprietary technology for the delivery of immunotherapy in the treatment of allergies. ILIT is clinically proven and has been shown to be a safer, more effective means of delivering allergy therapeutics. By applying another technology called modular antigen transporter (MAT), ImVisioN leverages the potential of ILIT to develop drugs that use allergens safely for specific and highly effective antigen presentation. In addition to the company’s lead product for the treatment of cat dander allergy, it also has programs addressing birch pollen and house dust mite allergies.

Omeros

Series E in 2007
Omeros is a Seattle-based commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing, and commercializing small-molecule and protein therapeutics for large-market as well as orphan indications targeting inflammation, complement-mediated diseases and disorders of the central nervous system.

Evolva

Series A in 2006
Evolva is a biotech company that develops and commercializes ready-to-formulate and nature-based ingredients. Evolva was founded in 2004 around a distinctive, proprietary, technology platform that uses synthetic biology to create innovative small-molecule drugs and other compounds. In particular, their platform allows the creation of chemistries that recapitulate the themes found in natural products, but without the disadvantages of those approaches. The company is headquartered in Reinach, Switzerland.

Ambrx

Series C in 2006
Ambrx is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company using an expanded genetic code technology platform to discover and develop Engineered Precision Biologics. These include next generation antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), bispecifics, targeted immuno-oncology therapies, novel cytokines to modulate the immune system, and long-acting therapeutic peptides for metabolic and cardiovascular disease. Ambrx is advancing a robust portfolio of clinical and preclinical programs designed to optimize efficacy, safety and ease of use, in multiple therapeutic areas, including its lead product candidate ARX788.

NovImmune

Series B in 2006
NovImmmune is committed to innovation by discovering and developing therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to treat patients suffering from immune-related disorders.

Ikaria

Series A in 2005
Ikaria develop and deliver innovative therapeutics and interventions to meet the significant needs of critically ill patients. It is our aim to be an indispensable partner to clinicians, providing help and critically caring just when patients need it the most.

Borean Pharma

Series A in 2005
Borean Pharma ApS operates as a drug discovery and development company. The company's technology platform enables to design, develop, and produce pharmaceutical protein products. The company focuses on recombinant protein technology, as well as on antibody biopharmaceuticals. It offers protein products, antibody analogues, and CTLD library, as well as TNF antagonist for rheumatoid arthritis. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Aarhus, Denmark.

Symetis

Series A in 2004
Symetis is a Swiss Company developing innovative minimally invasive heart valve replacement therapies for patients suffering from heart valve diseases. Symetis is dedicated to improving patient care and safety by offering simple, accurate solutions for heart valve replacement. Its proprietary Acurateâ„¢Aortic Valve Replacement System features a unique self-positioning design providing facile implant positioning and alignment as well as unrivalled ease of use.

Miikana Therapeutics

Series A in 2004
Miikana Therapeutics is a private held biotechnology company. It is a biopharmaceutical company focuses on the discovery and development of medicines for the treatment of cancer.

Nura

Series A in 2004
Nura, Inc. purpose of discovering and developing pharmaceuticals for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimers’s diseases, and behavioral disorders, such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, obesity and addiction.

Evolva

Series A in 2004
Evolva is a biotech company that develops and commercializes ready-to-formulate and nature-based ingredients. Evolva was founded in 2004 around a distinctive, proprietary, technology platform that uses synthetic biology to create innovative small-molecule drugs and other compounds. In particular, their platform allows the creation of chemistries that recapitulate the themes found in natural products, but without the disadvantages of those approaches. The company is headquartered in Reinach, Switzerland.

Kalypsys

Series B in 2004
Kalypsys provides pathway-based drug discovery and development services. The company implements discovery programs across a broad number of therapeutic areas using its automated and integrated suite of discovery technologies in biology, chemistry and informatics.

Miikana Therapeutics

Series A in 2003
Miikana Therapeutics is a private held biotechnology company. It is a biopharmaceutical company focuses on the discovery and development of medicines for the treatment of cancer.
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