ZB

Zainab Bakrin

Associate

Lawrence Canzoneri

CFO

Eli Casdin

CIO and Founder

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Matthew Hartzell

Associate

EM

Eileen Maysek

Senior Associate

JM

Jeet Mukherjee

Senior Associate

Past deals in Genetics

amunix

Series A in 2020
Amunix Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, discovers and develops protein and peptide therapeutics products for cancer. It focuses on XTEN, a half-life extension platform; XPAT (XTENylated Protease-Activated T Cell Engager) platform using its XTEN technology to analyze protease activity in the tumor microenvironment; and Protease Triggered Immune Activator (ProTIA), an immuno-oncology therapeutic. The company caters to the academic, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical sectors. It has strategic partnerships with Janssen, Biogen-Idec, Noxxon, Baxalta, Ambrx, Seattle Genetics, and Versartis. The company was formerly known as Amunix, Inc. Amunix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

ROME Therapeutics, Inc.

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.

Omniox

Venture Round in 2014
Omniox is a biopharmaceutical company developing new medicines for hypoxic diseases. Hypoxia, defined as insufficient levels of oxygen in tissues, is known to trigger or impact a range of serious illnesses and conditions including many cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and trauma. At the center of Omniox’ work is a protein-based platform technology (H-NOX), that is engineered to reverse hypoxic disease states by delivering oxygen or nitric oxide preferentially to hypoxic tissues.

23andMe

Post in 2021
23andMe, Inc. provides consumer genetics and research services. The company offers DNA analysis services through home-based saliva collection kit for consumers to access and understand the human genome. Its services include Health + Ancestry, a genetic insight into ancestry, traits, and health; and Ancestry + Traits, a DNA kit with an ancestry breakdown and 30+ trait reports. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. With an additional office in Mountain View, California.

Monte Rosa Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
Monte Rosa Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops cancer therapeutics that modulate protein degradation pathways. It is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Xcell Biosciences, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
Xcell Biosciences is a San Francisco-based life science start-up company that is developing novel and disruptive systems for cell therapy development and production. Our proprietary technology enables fine control of primary cell phenotype and function, enabling an entirely new capability for optimizing efficacy and persistence of immune cell therapies.

Cedilla Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
Cedilla is a developer of therapeutics technologies intended to broaden the reach of small molecule therapeutics. The company's technology is focused on destabilizing oncoprotein targets that are also applicable to therapies outside of oncology, enabling doctors to treat diseases caused by protein dysregulation. The company was founded in 2018 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Born from the founders’ recognition that their diverse but complementary skills and experiences would enable them to successfully address challenges that others had not, the company set about solving a vexing problem: how to bring true proteomics to the world in a way that accelerates therapeutic development, dramatically improves medical diagnostics, and makes personalized and predictive medicine a reality. The extraordinary team at Nautilus represents a wide spectrum of disciplines and expertise, including protein chemists, chip designers, molecular biologists, data scientists, material scientists, biophysicists, optical engineers, microfluidics engineers, bioinformaticists, software engineers, and more. Nautilus is positioned to revolutionize proteomics, transform the way drugs are developed, and significantly improve the way human health is managed.

Singular Bio

Venture Round in 2019
Singular Bio's technology provides single molecule analysis of a patient's DNA, giving exquisite sensitivity for detecting many common conditions. The company's mission is to expand access to fundamental healthcare information by making advanced genetic tests available to everyone.

Hexagon Bio

Series B in 2021
Hexagon Bio is a data-driven biotech developing targeted small molecule therapeutics. Our proprietary platform combines data science and synthetic biology to discover and engineer drugs from DNA sequences. We are mining fungal genomes for inspiration for the next generation of targeted therapies for diseases with unmet needs.

Foundation Medicine

Series B in 2012
Foundation Medicine plans to create clinical diagnostic tests that can use the latest in genetic sequencing technology to identify personalized cancer therapies for patients.

Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapeutics for heart failure. It offers cellular regeneration platform, that enables in vivo reprogramming of cardiac fibroblasts into cardio myocytes by delivering proprietary transcription factors; gene therapy platform, that enables the targeted delivery of a payload to cardiac fibroblasts ; and precision medicine platform, which provides personalized medicine approach to treat heart disease. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

Paige.AI

Series C in 2021
Paige builds software to advance the diagnosis, treatment, and biomarker discovery for cancer. The Memorial Sloan Kettering spin-out aims to help pathologists and clinicians make faster, more informed diagnostic and treatment decisions and to bring new digital biomarkers to their practice. Paige’s proprietary Machine Learning solutions provide insights from decades of data from the world’s experts in cancer care and were recently published in Nature Medicine. The company’s first product for prostate cancer detection received Breakthrough Designation from the FDA as a novel therapy that stands to improve diagnostic accuracy while reducing costs to health systems.

GeneMatters

Venture Round in 2020
GeneMatters delivers genetic counseling services for hospitals, health networks, clinics, academic research centers, and genetic testing labs. The company is the operator of an online genetic counseling network intended for providing genetic counseling and caregiving services. The company's genetic counseling network facilitates pre-test counseling, full-service genetic counseling, and caregiving services for people seeking genetic insights, enabling users in understanding their genetic family history and make informed decisions based on genetic tests. GeneMatters was established in 2016 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

Arzeda Corporation

Series B in 2022
Arzeda develops enzyme design technology that presents a new way of thinking about biocatalysis. The company was founded by David Baker and three senior members of his lab to commercialize and further develop its computational enzyme design technology.

Amplo Biotechnology

Seed Round in 2021
Diseases of the neuromuscular junction have profound health effects including paralysis, breathing and swallowing difficulties. Amplo Biotechnology plans to develop multiple, potentially curative, Adeno-Associated Viral (AAV) therapies for the neuromuscular junction with an initial focus on congenital myasthenic syndromes. Amplo’s lead program, AAV-Dok7, was developed by Professor Yuji Yamanashi's group of the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo, and is applicable to multiple rare, severe diseases.

Revolution Medicines

Series B in 2018
Revolution Medicines is developing new therapies through an innovative approach that harnesses the complex chemicals of life by reconfiguring natural substances into best-in-class medicines. REVOLUTION Medicines builds upon the vision of the company’s founder, Martin D. Burke, M.D., Ph.D., professor of chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Early Career Scientist of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, who invented a transformative method for synthesizing original compounds that are pharmaceutically optimized analogues of complex natural products. REVOLUTION Medicines has entered into an exclusive license agreement with the University of Illinois to practice and expand this technology. REVOLUTION Medicines’ approach is a rapid, standardized and powerful process for assembling simple “chemical building blocks” into refined natural product-like structures. These optimized compounds have significant potential as best-in-class drug candidates.

Meiogenix SAS

Series A in 2021
Meiogenix SAS operates as a biotech company that develops breeding and genomic technologies. It offers SpiX technology, which modulates the process of homologous recombination in the genome by increasing its frequency in cold regions and PhoeniX, which is a non-GM method that induces meiotic recombination in hybrid diploid (or polyploid) yeast cells without the need to go through the entire process of meiosis. The company helps to develop new products to address global food and industrial challenges. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.

A2 Biotherapeutics

Series B in 2020
A2 Biotherapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company located in Southern California that develops novel medicines for serious illnesses. We utilize an advanced targeting technology platform to increase the effectiveness of the body’s natural immune defenses.

Invetx, Inc.

Series B in 2022
Invetx, Inc. develops biotechnology platform for protein-based therapeutics in animal health care and veterinary medicine. Its team of veterinary scientists and clinicians engages in the discovery and development of veterinary bio therapeutics for pets and farm animals. Invetx, Inc. is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Lunit

Venture Round in 2021
Lunit Inc. develops algorithms for general object detection and medical image analysis that help physicians to make objective diagnosis through machine learning technology. It develops solutions in the areas of digital chest X-ray, digital mammography, digital pathology, and fundus photography. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Verana Health

Series E in 2022
Innovation in healthcare is hindered by the time and cost of bringing new products to market. Verana Health is partnering with medical associations to build a regulatory-grade data platform for health care innovation that utilizes specialty clinical data sets. Verana Health’s platform enables physicians and industry to work together towards their shared goal of accelerating the availability of better treatments and cures for patients. Learn more at veranahealth.com.

Deepcell

Series B in 2022
Deepcell, Inc. develops a technology that offers a non-invasive test with diagnostic-level accuracy. The company focuses on enabling novel biological insights at the single-cell level for improved diagnosis and treatment of disease. It also provides detailed genetic health information through ordinary blood sampling. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Mountain View, California.

GenapSys, Inc.

Series C in 2018
GenapSys is actively looking to partner with local health agencies and researchers to arm researchers with access to the insight afforded by sequencing. With its sequencing technology, the company aims to help support the control and limit the spread of current and future outbreaks. The device can run off of a standard power source and is small enough to fit in the back of a truck or be deployed at hospitals, airports, and public transportation hubs for quick results on virus samples. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

TMRW Life Sciences

Series C in 2021
TMRW Life Sciences is a developer of a cryo-storage platform intended to improve the success rates of assisted reproductive technology. The company's platform offers an in-clinic robotic storage system and a fully digital chain of custody from clinic to offsite longterm storage, continuous remote and local monitoring and electronically integrated processes characterized by digital health signals received from every oocyte and embryo daily, enabling clients to streamline embryology lab operations, eliminate manual steps and integrates digital quality control.

Leyden Labs

Series B in 2022
Leyden Labs aims to help people live their lives to the fullest. Its platform targets commonalities of viral families to protect humanity from known and future viruses. Its portfolio of accessible intranasal product candidates may provide people with the freedom to immediately protect themselves from and prevent the spread of many strains of respiratory viruses, including ones in the influenza and coronavirus families. The Company’s energetic team of world-renown biotechnology veterans and fresh talent is dedicated to thinking differently to free humanity from the burden of respiratory viruses.
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.
A peloton is a team of bicyclists who achieve great efficiency of motion through cooperative action. It is also the root of platoon, a nimble military unit with capabilities that exceed the sum of its component parts. Founded by Chairman of Biochemistry Steven L. McKnight of UT Southwestern Medical Center, Peloton Therapeutics represents a unique combination of innovative science, strong financial support from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), and seasoned investors and management. Working in close collaboration with scientists at UT Southwestern, Peloton is advancing a promising discovery and development pipeline, comprised of several small molecule-based programs, each with a distinct target and mechanism of action. Peloton's vision is to become a major biotech company in Dallas with a passion for discovering and developing novel cancer drugs.

Cerevance

Series B in 2020
Cerevance is a developer of novel therapeutics intended to advance new medicines for serious neurological diseases.The company's therapeutics applies it's technology called NETSseq to reveal transcriptional and epigenetic differences between specific cell types in mature human brains, enabling healthcare providers to detect and tackle the early onset of various neurological diseases.

Volta Labs, Inc.

Series A in 2022
Volta Labs, Inc., a biotechnology company, engineers and develops tools for biological automation. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ventus Therapeutics

Series C in 2022
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.

Exscientia

Series D in 2021
Exscientia is applying AI and big data processing to accelerate drug discovery and development. At the forefront of small molecule drug discovery. They are the first company to automate drug design, surpassing conventional human endeavor. Their AI-driven systems actively learn best practice from vast repositories of discovery data and are further enhanced with knowledge acquired from seasoned drug hunters. With better information to hand than any researcher could acquire individually, their knowledge-driven systems design millions of novel, project-specific compounds and pre-assess each for predicted potency, selectivity, ADME and other key criteria. From this, a selection of the best, information-rich compounds are selected for synthesis and assay. With new experimental data generated, the results are integrated and the next design cycle initiated. Rapid design-make-test cycles ensure unparalleled progress towards desired project goals. Exscientia has already delivered exceptional productivity, generating candidates in roughly one-quarter of the time of traditional approaches.

Maze Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2022
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.

Sema4

Post in 2021
Sema4 is a patient-centered predictive health company dedicated to advancing the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. With their innovative Sema4 Health Intelligence Platform, they’re using advanced network analysis to build better models of human health and deliver personalized insights for patients.

PACT Pharma, Inc.

Series B in 2018
Pact Pharma is a developer of personalized adoptive T cell therapies designed for the eradication of solid tumors.The company's therapies help in the identification of neo-epitopes that serve as private mutations for each patient's cancer as well as creates an opportunity to engineer autologous T cells that target and kill tumors expressing these neo-antigens, enabling physicians to recognize and remove each patient's cancer cells.

Paige.AI

Series C in 2021
Paige builds software to advance the diagnosis, treatment, and biomarker discovery for cancer. The Memorial Sloan Kettering spin-out aims to help pathologists and clinicians make faster, more informed diagnostic and treatment decisions and to bring new digital biomarkers to their practice. Paige’s proprietary Machine Learning solutions provide insights from decades of data from the world’s experts in cancer care and were recently published in Nature Medicine. The company’s first product for prostate cancer detection received Breakthrough Designation from the FDA as a novel therapy that stands to improve diagnostic accuracy while reducing costs to health systems.
Fabric Genomics is making genomics-driven precision medicine a reality. We provide clinical decision support software that enables clinical labs, hospital systems and country-sequencing programs to gain actionable genomic insights, resulting in faster and more accurate diagnoses and reduced turnaround time. Fabric’s end-to-end genomic analysis platform incorporates proven AI algorithms, and has applications in both hereditary disease and oncology. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Fabric Genomics was founded by industry veterans and innovators with a deep understanding of bioinformatics, large-scale genomics and clinical diagnostics.

nplex biosciences

Series A in 2021
NPlex Biosciences develops a proteomic technology platform designed to understand, detect, and treat diseases with DNA nanotechnology. NPlex's platform and research provides cost-effective measurement of protein data with sample, fits seamlessly within industry cytometers for high-throughput analysis, and development of custom protein panels. It allows nanotechnology developers and businesses to bring improvement in existing instrument, workflow, and bring automation in the system.

DNA Script SAS

Series C in 2022
DNA Script is a disruptive DNA synthesis company engineering biology to accelerate breakthroughs in life science and human health. Our revolutionary enzymatic technology powers the world's first benchtop DNA printer, SYNTAX, enabling labs to print their own synthetic oligos for greater workflow control and faster access to results.

Molecular Assemblies

Series B in 2022
Molecular Assemblies, Inc. develops an enzymatic DNA synthesis technology for DNA-based products. Its technology enables the reading and writing of DNA for various industries. The company serves life sciences, industrial, information storage, nanotechnology, and DNA electronics markets. Molecular Assemblies, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California.

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.

AbSci, LLC

Venture Round in 2021
AbSci, LLC develops protein production technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry. The company offers SoluPro, a genetically engineered E. coli-based expression system that enables optimizable and scalable production of antibodies, antibody fragments, and other soluble recombinant proteins to be produced at a fraction of their current cost. Its therapeutic proteins and antibodies are used in cancer and hormone therapies, as well as autoimmune and blood disorder therapies. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Clover Therapeutics

Series A in 2022
Biopharmaceutical research and development company that's an affiliate of Clover Health

ONI (Oxford Nanoimaging)

Series B in 2021
Oxford NanoImaging Limited develops and manufactures microscope. It offers Nanoimager, a single-molecule fluorescence microscope which enables researchers to detect biomolecules, such as protein markers for disease or pathogenic bacteria, and viruses at single copy numbers with single-molecule imaging, 3D, and dual-color super-resolution functionality. It also offers Förster Resonance Energy Transfer microscopy technology that reports distances in real time; direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (dSTORM); and photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) technology based microscope. Oxford NanoImaging Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom. The company has additional office in Menlo Park, California.

Tango Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
Tango Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops cancer drugs based on synthetic lethality. The company uses the genetic principle of synthetic lethality to discover and develop therapies that take aim at driver genes in cancer. It focuses counteracting tumor suppressor gene loss; reversing the ability of cancer cells to evade the immune system; and identifying novel combinations that are more effective than single agent therapy. Tango Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Cancer Combos NewCo, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Auron Therapeutics

Series A in 2022
Auron Therapeutics is to develop therapies to cure cancer by radically changing the paradigm of cancer therapeutics from cell killing, to transformation of malignant cells into normal cells. This transformation, called differentiation therapy, reactivates endogenous cellular programs to elicit tumor cell maturation and the transition from cancer to normal tissue. Its unique platforms allow for integration of large-omic datasets and miniaturized high throughput flow cytometry to rapidly identify and validate multiple targets and drugs in primary human patient samples.

Generation Bio Co.

Series B in 2018
Generation Bio Co., a genetic medicines company, develops gene therapies for the treatment of rare and prevalent diseases. The company is developing a portfolio of programs for rare and prevalent diseases of the liver and retina. It also focuses on the diseases of skeletal muscle, central nervous system, and oncology. The company was formerly known as Torus Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Generation Bio Co. in November 2017. Generation Bio Co. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Apton Biosystems, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Apton Biosystems develops a high-throughput and low-cost sequencing platform that revolutionizes the availability of genetic analysis. It enables biomarker discovery, early disease detection, and therapeutic monitoring, advancing preventive health and precision medicine.

Apella Technology

Series A in 2021
Apella is a technology company that brings modern engineering to improve surgery. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

T-knife

Series B in 2021
T-knife is a developer of T cell receptors intended for T cell therapy of cancer.The company uses a humanized TCR mice platform to carry human TCRαβ gene loci and recombine a broad repertoire of human TCRs, enabling the efficient generation and virtual selection of cell receptors for any human tumor antigen.

Zentera Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Zentera Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company.

EQRx

Post in 2021
EQRx operates as a biotechnology company, focused on re-engineering the process from drug discovery to patient delivery with the goal of offering a market-based solution for the rising cost of medicines. By bringing together stakeholders from across the healthcare system and utilizing the latest advances in science and technology, the company seeks to discover, develop and deliver high-quality, patent-protected medicines more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Stilla Technologies SA

Debt Financing in 2021
Stilla Technologies is a Paris-based European Biotechnology company that focuses on accelerating the development of next-generation genetic tests by providing a ground-breaking and flexible digital PCR (dPCR) solution: the Naica System. Taking advantage of cutting-edge microfluidic innovations, Stilla aims to make dPCR a lab commodity to all Life Sciences areas: research, therapeutics, and all the “omics”.
Orchard Therapeutics plc, a biopharmaceutical company, develops gene therapies for serious and life-threatening rare diseases in the United Kingdom, European Union, and the United States. The company’s gene therapy approach seeks to transform a patient’s hematopoietic stem cells into a gene-modified drug product to treat the patient’s disease through a single administration. It provides Strimvelis, a gammaretroviral-based product for the treatment of adenosine deaminase-severe combined immunodeficiency (ADA-SCID). The company’s clinical development products comprise OTL-101 for the treatment of ADA-SCID; OTL-200 to treat metachromatic leukodystrophy; OTL-103 for the treatment of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome; OTL-102 for X-linked chronic granulomatous disease; and OTL-300 for transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia. Its preclinical programs include OTL-203 for mucopolysaccharidosis type I, OTL-201 for mucopolysaccharidosis type MPS-IIIA, and OTL-202 for mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIB. The company was formerly known as Orchard Rx Limited. Orchard Therapeutics plc was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Wamberg Genomic Advisors

Seed Round in 2020
At WGA our mission is to bring genomic products to policyholders and employees around the world through trusted life insurance and employee benefit brokers. We believe the genomic industry and its discoveries will enhance healthy life and longevity. WGA stands at the crossroads of these two industries. We use our collective knowledge to guide our clients in their successful adaptation of this new technology.

Depixus SAS

Series A in 2021
Depixus SAS, a biotechnology company, develops a technology platform for the extraction of genetic and epigenetic information from single DNA and RNA molecules. It offers SIngle-molecule Magnetic DEtection and Quantification technology platform, a DNA/RNA interrogation technology that enables the analysis of genomes and epigenetic modifications. The company serves life-science and medical industries. Depixus SAS was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Paris, France.

AbSci, LLC

Series E in 2020
AbSci, LLC develops protein production technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry. The company offers SoluPro, a genetically engineered E. coli-based expression system that enables optimizable and scalable production of antibodies, antibody fragments, and other soluble recombinant proteins to be produced at a fraction of their current cost. Its therapeutic proteins and antibodies are used in cancer and hormone therapies, as well as autoimmune and blood disorder therapies. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Fog Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
FogPharma derives financial support from a unique syndicate of extraordinary private and institutional investors. FogPharma’s network of friends includes our founders, employees, investors, advisors, collaborators, and cancer patients; all working together to pioneer a unique approach toward conquering cancer. FogPharma is laser-focused and unstoppable in its mission to deliver the new class of medicines to patients and their families to bring them years to life and life to years.

Fluidigm

Post in 2022
Fluidigm Corporation develops and distributes systems based on the properties of integrated fluidic circuits to control precisely fluids on a nano volume scale. The company's product line includes the TOPAZ system, which is used for protein crystallization; and the BioMark system, which is used for genetic analysis. Fluidigm Corporation was founded as Mycometrix Corporation in 1999 and was renamed as Fluidigm Corporation in 2001. The company is based in San Francisco, California.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Limited develops and commercializes nanopore-based electronic systems for analysis of single molecules. The company offers MinION, a portable device for molecular analysis based on nanopore technology and is adaptable for the analysis of DNA, RNA, proteins, and small molecules; MinIT, an analysis and device control accessory for nanopore DNA sequencing; PromethION, a tablet-sized benchtop instrument that provides real-time data streaming; GridION system for molecular sensing applications; 109 cDNA Kits for its real-time and scalable sequencing technology that provides high throughput whilst generating complete sequences of full-length cDNA strands; and Flongle, a paradigm of smaller on-demand DNA or RNA sequencing tests with the potential to transform a range of applications where insights are required at low cost. Its devices are used in scientific research, personalized medicine, crop science, and security and defense applications. The company sells its products online. Oxford Nanopore Technologies Limited was formerly known as Oxford NanoLabs Limited and changed its name to Oxford Nanopore Technologies Limited in May 2008. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom with additional offices in the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Japan, Germany, France, India, and Singapore.

Loop Medical SA

Series A in 2021
Loop Medical is on a mission to develop an easy and painless blood collection technology making it accessible to all. Loop Medical ensure blood collection fits into patients’ lifestyle while simplifying the process for the healthcare professionals. Loop collects blood samples in a proprietary cartridge that is fully compatible with standard laboratory processes. This venture is supported by Cerba Healthcare and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc. develops flow cytometry and cell sorting technology solutions for life science researchers to perform cellular analysis, develop molecular diagnostics, and improve personalized medicine. The company offers WOLF Cell Sorter, which uses a closed fluid-path microfluidic cartridge that enables cell sorting, and avoids biohazard and shear stress issues associated with traditional cell sorters. NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in San Diego, California.

MyoKardia

Series B in 2015
MyoKardia is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that engages in discovering, developing, and commercializing targeted therapies for the treatment of rare cardiovascular diseases. The company's focus is on the treatment of heritable cardiomyopathies and genetically-driven forms of heart failure that result from biomechanical defects in cardiac muscle contraction. It utilizes its medicine platform to generate an initial pipeline of therapeutic programs for the chronic treatment of the two most common forms of heritable cardiomyopathy-hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Brisbane, California.

Thyme Care

Series A in 2021
Thyme Care is a Nashville TN-based provider of oncology care management solutions.

Imagen Technologies

Series C in 2021
Imagen is a healthcare company whose mission is to save patient lives by making accurate medical image interpretation universally available and affordable. Currently, over two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have access to basic radiology services. Through our technology and close collaboration with world-leading clinicians, we believe that we can do something about it. We take an interdisciplinary approach: we are a team of experts in machine learning, healthcare, software engineering, and regulatory affairs who research and develop assistive software for clinicians. Our FDA-cleared software analyzes the content of medical images and produces diagnoses, improving the diagnostic accuracy of clinicians by highlighting detected pathology. We are advised by some of the world’s leading scientists and medical researchers, including Turing Award winner Yann LeCun. We have raised over $60M from leading investors including GV, DFJ, and Zach Weinberg. Imagen is based in New York and actively hiring. Are you excited about joining our mission? Reach out directly to us at recruitingteam@imagen.ai

SomaLogic

Post in 2021
SomaLogic operates as a protein biomarker discovery and clinical diagnostics company. It offers SOMAmers (Slow-Offrate Modified Aptamers), which are modified nucleic acid-based protein-binding reagents that are specific for their cognate protein; and SOMAscan that provides protein detection and equipment. The company’s SOMAmer/SOMAscan technology enables to discover protein biomarker signatures; drug discovery and development; and clinical diagnostics. Its products have applications in the diagnostics of various diseases in oncology, neurology, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and other diseases and conditions. SomaLogic was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Insitro

Series C in 2021
Insitro is a operator of a data-driven drug discovery and development company that uses machine learning and high-throughput biology to transform the way that drugs are discovered and delivered to patients. The company uses state-of-the-art technologies from Bioengineering enabling it to generate high-throughput, functional genomic data sets and aligning them with patient data via a novel machine learning methods, thereby building predictive models that can accelerate target selection and the design and development of effective therapeutics.

Ginkgo Bioworks

Post in 2021
Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. designs, engineers, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. The company also provides probiotic bacteria to protect the body from dangerous infections; and generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets. Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Genomatica, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Genomatica, Inc. delivers manufacturing processes to produce intermediate and basic chemicals from renewable feedstocks. The company’s proprietary biotechnology platform allows the company to create fermentation-based manufacturing processes and to engineer the enabling microorganisms that drive the conversion of renewable feedstocks into intermediate and basic chemicals. It is developing a pipeline of manufacturing processes for the production of 20 intermediate and basic chemicals, including butanediol and butadiene. The company intends to offer its chemical products to large consumer products or chemical companies. Genomatica, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Genomatica, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
Genomatica, Inc. delivers manufacturing processes to produce intermediate and basic chemicals from renewable feedstocks. The company’s proprietary biotechnology platform allows the company to create fermentation-based manufacturing processes and to engineer the enabling microorganisms that drive the conversion of renewable feedstocks into intermediate and basic chemicals. It is developing a pipeline of manufacturing processes for the production of 20 intermediate and basic chemicals, including butanediol and butadiene. The company intends to offer its chemical products to large consumer products or chemical companies. Genomatica, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Insitro

Series B in 2020
Insitro is a operator of a data-driven drug discovery and development company that uses machine learning and high-throughput biology to transform the way that drugs are discovered and delivered to patients. The company uses state-of-the-art technologies from Bioengineering enabling it to generate high-throughput, functional genomic data sets and aligning them with patient data via a novel machine learning methods, thereby building predictive models that can accelerate target selection and the design and development of effective therapeutics.
Magenta is focused on improving the patient experience in transplant medicine, with the goal of bringing this lifesaving procedure to more patients. Over the past 50 years, stem cell transplantation has been used in more than 1M patients worldwide. It is currently the only treatment with the potential to cure some of the most devastating hematologic cancers and autoimmune diseases. Despite the increased use and clinical advancements over the past several decades, stem cell transplant remains a high-risk last-resort therapeutic option due to the toxicity and potential long-term side effects.

Vedere Bio

Series A in 2021
Vedere is developing cutting-edge gene therapy products to restore functional vision to patients who have suffered vision loss from Inherited Retinal Degenerations (IRDs), as well as other causes of both genetic and non-genetic vision loss. While the vast majority of ocular gene therapies only limit the rate of inevitable vision loss, we aim to restore lost vision regardless of a patient’s underlying genetics or their stage of disease.

ONI (Oxford Nanoimaging)

Series A in 2020
Oxford NanoImaging Limited develops and manufactures microscope. It offers Nanoimager, a single-molecule fluorescence microscope which enables researchers to detect biomolecules, such as protein markers for disease or pathogenic bacteria, and viruses at single copy numbers with single-molecule imaging, 3D, and dual-color super-resolution functionality. It also offers Förster Resonance Energy Transfer microscopy technology that reports distances in real time; direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (dSTORM); and photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) technology based microscope. Oxford NanoImaging Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom. The company has additional office in Menlo Park, California.

Flare Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Flare Therapeutics is a biotechnology company opening up a new therapeutic space with a novel approach to decipher the biology of transcription factors to develop small molecule medicines. Based on insights from the seminal work of its scientific founders, Flare’s team has uncovered ‘switch sites,’ druggable regions that are key targets for transcription factor regulation to address mutations that cause disease. Our drug discovery to target switch sites has rapidly advanced, resulting in an emerging pipeline of drug programs that address well-validated transcription factors, initially focused on precision oncology with future potential in neurology, rare genetic disorders, immunology, and inflammation.

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.
Blueprint Medicines is driving the development of personalized, highly-selective cancer therapies that harness the growing understanding of the molecular blueprint of cancer. Using its powerful Insights-to-Validation Platform and proprietary chemical library, Blueprint Medicines is working to develop new therapeutic compounds and combination therapies that target the molecular aberrations that cause cancer and the emerging resistance mechanisms that make it increasingly difficult to treat. Founded in 2011 by a proven team of scientists and entrepreneurs with world-renowned expertise in the development of targeted cancer therapies, cancer genomics, and rational drug development, Blueprint Medicines is poised to realize the promise of the cancer data revolution: truly personalized therapies that improve outcomes and shift cancer to a manageable condition.

Multiply Labs

Series A in 2021
Multiply Labs manufactures personalized pharmaceutical capsules that are tailor-made to the unique needs of each patient. Multiply Labs’ product is enabled by the combination of pharmaceutical science with robotics technology. The company has built and operates a unique robotic pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. Multiply Labs is the first company ever to bring to the market 3D printed capsules.

Treeline Biosciences

Series A in 2021
Treeline Biosciences is a biotech company building transformative precision medicines for patients with cancer and other serious conditions. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Komodo Health

Series E in 2021
Komodo Health Inc. develops and provides a platform that offers healthcare data to deliver real-time healthcare intelligence and transparency. The company develops Healthcare map, a software that tracks the patient outcomes through the health care system. Its solutions include Aperture, which reveals healthcare intricate connections; Pulse, it alerts a position to positively influence disease burden to a range of clinical information; and Serenity, which explores and analyze patient cohorts and provide insights. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office San Francisco, California.

Jounce Therapeutics, Inc.

Series B in 2015
Jounce Therapeutics is dedicated to transforming the treatment of cancer. The company is discovering and developing first-in-class cancer immunotherapies designed to harness the immune system to seek out and attack cancerous cells and tumors. Jounce’s proprietary product engine is driving this transformational approach, which has the potential to drive significantly more durable responses to treatment, extending and improving patients’ quality of life. Founded by world leaders in immunobiology, cancer biology and clinical and translational medicine, Jounce Therapeutics was launched in 2013 with funding from leading life sciences investor, Third Rock Ventures.

Leyden Labs

Series A in 2021
Leyden Labs aims to help people live their lives to the fullest. Its platform targets commonalities of viral families to protect humanity from known and future viruses. Its portfolio of accessible intranasal product candidates may provide people with the freedom to immediately protect themselves from and prevent the spread of many strains of respiratory viruses, including ones in the influenza and coronavirus families. The Company’s energetic team of world-renown biotechnology veterans and fresh talent is dedicated to thinking differently to free humanity from the burden of respiratory viruses.

CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.

Series D in 2015
CytomX Therapeutics is an early stage, privately-funded biotechnology company developing Probodiesâ„¢, proteolytically-activated antibodies. Probodies, by their ability to site-direct the activity of antibodies, will result in an improved therapeutic index for validated targets as well enable the drugging of targets with broad tissue expression. Their mission, alone and with the help of partners, is to provide patients with more effective and less toxic therapies for severe illnesses such as cancer and inflammatory diseases.

PACT Pharma, Inc.

Series C in 2020
Pact Pharma is a developer of personalized adoptive T cell therapies designed for the eradication of solid tumors.The company's therapies help in the identification of neo-epitopes that serve as private mutations for each patient's cancer as well as creates an opportunity to engineer autologous T cells that target and kill tumors expressing these neo-antigens, enabling physicians to recognize and remove each patient's cancer cells.

C2i Genomics

Series B in 2021
C2i Genomics provides cloud-based cancer diagnostic services to pharmaceutical and diagnostic organizations. The company's ultra-sensitive liquid biopsy assay will allow physicians to monitor patient treatment response and detect treatment failure or disease recurrence months and potentially years earlier than current monitoring methods.

23andMe

Series E in 2015
23andMe, Inc. provides consumer genetics and research services. The company offers DNA analysis services through home-based saliva collection kit for consumers to access and understand the human genome. Its services include Health + Ancestry, a genetic insight into ancestry, traits, and health; and Ancestry + Traits, a DNA kit with an ancestry breakdown and 30+ trait reports. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. With an additional office in Mountain View, California.

Dyno Therapeutics Inc.

Series A in 2021
Dyno Therapeutics is pioneering an artificial intelligence (AI) powered approach to gene therapy. Using machine learning and quantitative high-throughput in vivo experimentation, we are inventing new ways to design gene vectors with a focus on cell-targeting capsid proteins from adeno-associated virus (AAV), the most widely-used vector for gene therapies.

Imagen Technologies

Series B in 2018
Imagen is a healthcare company whose mission is to save patient lives by making accurate medical image interpretation universally available and affordable. Currently, over two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have access to basic radiology services. Through our technology and close collaboration with world-leading clinicians, we believe that we can do something about it. We take an interdisciplinary approach: we are a team of experts in machine learning, healthcare, software engineering, and regulatory affairs who research and develop assistive software for clinicians. Our FDA-cleared software analyzes the content of medical images and produces diagnoses, improving the diagnostic accuracy of clinicians by highlighting detected pathology. We are advised by some of the world’s leading scientists and medical researchers, including Turing Award winner Yann LeCun. We have raised over $60M from leading investors including GV, DFJ, and Zach Weinberg. Imagen is based in New York and actively hiring. Are you excited about joining our mission? Reach out directly to us at recruitingteam@imagen.ai

Verana Health

Series D in 2020
Innovation in healthcare is hindered by the time and cost of bringing new products to market. Verana Health is partnering with medical associations to build a regulatory-grade data platform for health care innovation that utilizes specialty clinical data sets. Verana Health’s platform enables physicians and industry to work together towards their shared goal of accelerating the availability of better treatments and cures for patients. Learn more at veranahealth.com.

Ignyta

Venture Round in 2013
Ignyta is a scientifically-driven biotechnology company catalyzing personalized medicine in autoimmune diseases. Their goal is to revolutionize the quality of biomarkers and tests available to rheumatologists and patients to help them make better informed, more individualized treatment decisions; and to identify truly novel autoimmune disease targets for biopharmaceutical companies to enable the development of precise therapies for patients worldwide. Ignyta was incorporated in 2011 and operates in San Diego, California.

Helix

Venture Round in 2017
Helix is the leading population genomics company working at the intersection of clinical care, research, and genomics. Its end-to-end platform enables health systems, life sciences companies, and payers to advance genomic research and accelerate the integration of genomic data into clinical care. Powered by one of the world's largest CLIA / CAP next-generation sequencing labs and its proprietary Exome+™ assay, Helix supports all aspects of population genomics including recruitment and engagement, clinically actionable disease screening, return of results, and basic and translational research.

SeQure DX

Venture Round in 2021
SeQure DX is in the business activities at non-commercial site business. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

908 Devices Inc.

Series E in 2019
908 Devices is bringing the powerful capabilities of Mass Spectrometry out of the confines of centralized facilities and mobile laboratories. The company makes battery-operated, handheld, chemical detection tools, rugged enough to exceed military standards, and trusted enough for immediate action in the field. For biologists and chemists in need of answers, 908 Devices makes personal analyzers, small and simple enough for every workspace.

Clover Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2020
Biopharmaceutical research and development company that's an affiliate of Clover Health

LetsGetChecked

Series D in 2021
LetsGetChecked is an at-home health testing platform that connects customers to regulated laboratory testing to better manage and control one's individual health. LetsGetChecked is making healthcare and diagnostics open and patient-led, empowering people to use technology in a simple yet powerful way. This offers consumers greater control over their individual health. LetsGetChecked is headquartered in New York, NY, with tests covering general wellness, sexual health, women's health and men's health, and is available nationwide, as well as in Canada and Europe.

Exo Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Exo Therapeutics, Inc. is a molecule drug discovery and development company to address intractable pharmaceutical targets. The company develops a pipeline of drug candidates that bind exosites, distal, and unique binding pockets that reprogram enzyme activity for therapeutic effect in oncology, inflammation. Exo Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Vineti, Inc.

Series C in 2020
Vineti is a commercial cloud-based platform that expands patient access to life-saving cells and gene therapies. The software solution offers an independent, purpose-built enterprise solution that is essential for enabling the growth and wide distribution of transformative personalized therapeutics, such as CAR-T cell therapies, for the treatment of late-stage cancer. The Vineti Personalized Therapy Management (PTM) ® platform automates patient-centric supply chains for a wide range of advanced therapies, in all phases of clinical development and commercial operations. Veneti aims to solve the key challenges patients, medical providers, pharmaceutical companies, and regulators face in the delivery and commercialization of personalized medicine. Amy DuRoss, Heidi M. Hagen, Malek Faham, Razmik Abnous, and Stephen Ting co-founded Vineti in San Francisco, California in 2016.

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.

Vividion Therapeutics

Series B in 2019
Vividion Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops therapeutics to treat major unmet medical needs using the platform for proteome-wide small molecule drug discovery. The company combines a proteome-wide small molecule screening approach and synthetic chemistry techniques. It provides small molecule selectivity and creates a path to drugging any protein. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California.

Goldfinch Bio, Inc.

Series B in 2020
Goldfinch is a clinical-stage biotech company focused on discovering and developing precision therapies for patients with kidney disease. It is integrating breakthroughs in kidney genetics and biology to identify new therapeutic targets and advance first-in-class drug candidates to treat patients with kidney disease. Its Product Engine will industrialize the integration of genetics and kidney biology and confer a differentiated ability to identify, validate, and pursue novel therapeutic targets to treat progressive kidney disease. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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.

Gritstone Oncology

Series A in 2015
Gritstone Oncology is a cancer immunotherapy company developing next-generation personalized cancer therapeutics. Gritstone brings together distinguished scientific founders, an experienced and diverse management team, a seasoned and successful board of directors, and very deep financial backing to tackle fundamental challenges at the intersection of cancer biology, immunology, and immunotherapy design. The company’s initial goal is to identify and deploy therapeutic neo-antigens from individual patients’ tumors to develop novel treatments for lung cancer.

Vineti, Inc.

Series B in 2018
Vineti is a commercial cloud-based platform that expands patient access to life-saving cells and gene therapies. The software solution offers an independent, purpose-built enterprise solution that is essential for enabling the growth and wide distribution of transformative personalized therapeutics, such as CAR-T cell therapies, for the treatment of late-stage cancer. The Vineti Personalized Therapy Management (PTM) ® platform automates patient-centric supply chains for a wide range of advanced therapies, in all phases of clinical development and commercial operations. Veneti aims to solve the key challenges patients, medical providers, pharmaceutical companies, and regulators face in the delivery and commercialization of personalized medicine. Amy DuRoss, Heidi M. Hagen, Malek Faham, Razmik Abnous, and Stephen Ting co-founded Vineti in San Francisco, California in 2016.

Notch Therapeutics Inc.

Series A in 2021
Notch Therapeutics Inc., an immune cell therapy company, develops gene-edited allogenic T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. The company offers induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) AlloCAR therapy products for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma. Notch Therapeutics Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

ONI (Oxford Nanoimaging)

Series A in 2018
Oxford NanoImaging Limited develops and manufactures microscope. It offers Nanoimager, a single-molecule fluorescence microscope which enables researchers to detect biomolecules, such as protein markers for disease or pathogenic bacteria, and viruses at single copy numbers with single-molecule imaging, 3D, and dual-color super-resolution functionality. It also offers Förster Resonance Energy Transfer microscopy technology that reports distances in real time; direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (dSTORM); and photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) technology based microscope. Oxford NanoImaging Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom. The company has additional office in Menlo Park, California.

Foghorn Therapeutics Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Foghorn Therapeutics is developing therapies based on a system that directs which genes our cells express, and when, where, and in what order.By manipulating this system with our unique Gene Traffic ControlTM platform, Foghorn will change how genes turn “on” and “off.” Unlike approaches that edit genes, this novel way of thinking will alter what our DNA has in store for us—and rewrite destiny for millions of people living with disease.With Gene Traffic ControlTM Foghorn is pioneering a new, major class of drug targets to develop unprecedented therapies for cancer and other serious diseases. We have already validated multiple targets, are in the process of developing drug candidates in multiple types of cancer and are beginning to explore other diseases.

Lyra Health

Series D in 2020
Lyra helps companies improve access to effective, high-quality mental health care for their employees. Lyra's matching technology and innovative digital platform connect members to a curated network of top therapists and coaches, which results in 3x more people receiving care and 7x better outcomes than traditional plans and EAPs. Members can find the right personalized care, match with the right provider for their needs, and feel motivated and supported throughout the entire treatment journey.

Variant Bio Inc.

Series A in 2019
Variant Bio is leveraging the power of human genetic diversity to discover new therapeutics. The company's focus is to identify individuals and populations around the world who are extreme outliers for traits of medical relevance and to use innovative sequencing and analytic approaches to identify genes and pathways linked to these traits. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Genome Medical

Series B in 2019
Genome Medical, Inc. operates a platform that provides genetic consultation and medical consulting services to individuals. The company through its Genome Care Delivery technology platform provides genetic solutions in the areas of clinical care, such as cancer, cardio, proactive, reproductive, pediatric, and pharmacy. Genome Medical, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in South San Francisco, California.

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.
Voyager Therapeutics is a gene therapy company developing life-changing treatments for fatal and debilitating diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). Voyager is committed to advancing the field of AAV (adeno-associated virus) gene therapy through innovation and investment in vector optimization and engineering, dosing techniques, as well as process development and production. The company’s initial pipeline is focused on CNS diseases in dire need of effective new therapies, including Parkinson’s disease, a monogenic form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Friedreich’s ataxia. Founded by scientific and clinical leaders in the fields of AAV gene therapy, expressed RNA interference and neuroscience, Voyager Therapeutics was launched in 2014 with funding from leading life sciences investor Third Rock Ventures and is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass.

C2i Genomics

Series A in 2020
C2i Genomics provides cloud-based cancer diagnostic services to pharmaceutical and diagnostic organizations. The company's ultra-sensitive liquid biopsy assay will allow physicians to monitor patient treatment response and detect treatment failure or disease recurrence months and potentially years earlier than current monitoring methods.

Invetx, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Invetx, Inc. develops biotechnology platform for protein-based therapeutics in animal health care and veterinary medicine. Its team of veterinary scientists and clinicians engages in the discovery and development of veterinary bio therapeutics for pets and farm animals. Invetx, Inc. is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

Auron Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2021
Auron Therapeutics is to develop therapies to cure cancer by radically changing the paradigm of cancer therapeutics from cell killing, to transformation of malignant cells into normal cells. This transformation, called differentiation therapy, reactivates endogenous cellular programs to elicit tumor cell maturation and the transition from cancer to normal tissue. Its unique platforms allow for integration of large-omic datasets and miniaturized high throughput flow cytometry to rapidly identify and validate multiple targets and drugs in primary human patient samples.

Lyra Health

Series C in 2020
Lyra helps companies improve access to effective, high-quality mental health care for their employees. Lyra's matching technology and innovative digital platform connect members to a curated network of top therapists and coaches, which results in 3x more people receiving care and 7x better outcomes than traditional plans and EAPs. Members can find the right personalized care, match with the right provider for their needs, and feel motivated and supported throughout the entire treatment journey.

Invitae

Series E in 2013
Invitae is a genetic information company whose mission is to bring genetic information into routine medical practice to improve the quality of healthcare for billions of people. Specializing in genetic diagnostics for hereditary disorders, Invitae is aggregating the world’s genetic tests into a single service with better quality, faster turnaround time, and a lower price than most single-gene diagnostic tests today. What’s our plan? It takes three steps: --Make genetic testing more affordable and accessible than ever before. --Build a secure and trusted genome management infrastructure. --Design a new global community for sharing genetic information to advance science and medicine. Today, we are reinventing genetic testing by lowering the barriers for clinicians and patients to obtain diagnostic genetic information. Together we can improve healthcare for billions of people.
CANbridge Life Sciences Ltd., a bio-pharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes healthcare products in China and North Asia. It offers products for oncology and rare diseases. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Beijing, China with additional offices in Shanghai, China; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong.

SomaLogic

Series A in 2020
SomaLogic operates as a protein biomarker discovery and clinical diagnostics company. It offers SOMAmers (Slow-Offrate Modified Aptamers), which are modified nucleic acid-based protein-binding reagents that are specific for their cognate protein; and SOMAscan that provides protein detection and equipment. The company’s SOMAmer/SOMAscan technology enables to discover protein biomarker signatures; drug discovery and development; and clinical diagnostics. Its products have applications in the diagnostics of various diseases in oncology, neurology, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and other diseases and conditions. SomaLogic was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

iVexSol Inc.

Series A in 2020
iVexSol Inc. develops a lentiviral vector (LVV) manufacturing technology and process that addresses the shortage of LVV. It offers Lentiviral Vectors, a gene delivery vehicle that is used in the manufacturing of life-changing cell and gene therapies (CGTs). The company’s technology also reduces the complexity and development time of critical reagents and accelerates the development and enabling access to cell and gene therapies for CGT researchers and manufacturers. iVexSol Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Octave Bioscience

Series B in 2020
Octave Bioscience is an early-stage molecular diagnostics company focused on neurodegenerative diseases and conditions. The company was co-founded by Melinda Thomas and William Hagstrom in 2013. Octave Bioscience is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.

Sexton Biotechnologies

Venture Round in 2019
Sexton Biotechnologies announced today that it has raised $5 million in growth capital and is the first company incubated by Indianapolis-based Cook Regentec to secure outside investment capital and spin out as an independent biotechnology company. In addition to ongoing research and product development, Sexton Biotechnologies will expand and scale commercialization of its portfolio of container closure and media supplementation tools for cell and gene therapy bioproduction.

Tango Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2020
Tango Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops cancer drugs based on synthetic lethality. The company uses the genetic principle of synthetic lethality to discover and develop therapies that take aim at driver genes in cancer. It focuses counteracting tumor suppressor gene loss; reversing the ability of cancer cells to evade the immune system; and identifying novel combinations that are more effective than single agent therapy. Tango Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Cancer Combos NewCo, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

EQRx

Series A in 2020
EQRx operates as a biotechnology company, focused on re-engineering the process from drug discovery to patient delivery with the goal of offering a market-based solution for the rising cost of medicines. By bringing together stakeholders from across the healthcare system and utilizing the latest advances in science and technology, the company seeks to discover, develop and deliver high-quality, patent-protected medicines more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Lyra Health

Series B in 2018
Lyra helps companies improve access to effective, high-quality mental health care for their employees. Lyra's matching technology and innovative digital platform connect members to a curated network of top therapists and coaches, which results in 3x more people receiving care and 7x better outcomes than traditional plans and EAPs. Members can find the right personalized care, match with the right provider for their needs, and feel motivated and supported throughout the entire treatment journey.

908 Devices Inc.

Series D in 2017
908 Devices is bringing the powerful capabilities of Mass Spectrometry out of the confines of centralized facilities and mobile laboratories. The company makes battery-operated, handheld, chemical detection tools, rugged enough to exceed military standards, and trusted enough for immediate action in the field. For biologists and chemists in need of answers, 908 Devices makes personal analyzers, small and simple enough for every workspace.

Codexis

Post in 2019
Codexis, Inc. is an industrial biotechnology company that specializes in engineers enzymes for pharmaceutical and chemical production through biocatalysis. Codexis’ technologies enable scale-up and implementation of biocatalytic solutions to optimize process development, from research to manufacturing. There are currently over 50 pharmaceutical firms using Codexis’ technology, products and services in their manufacturing process development. Codexis creates its products by applying its CodeEvolver® directed evolution technology platform, which introduces genetic mutations into microorganisms. Codexis, Inc. began operations as an independent company in 2002, and became a publicly traded company in 2009. They are located in Redwood City, CA USA

Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc.

Series B in 2019
Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapeutics for heart failure. It offers cellular regeneration platform, that enables in vivo reprogramming of cardiac fibroblasts into cardio myocytes by delivering proprietary transcription factors; gene therapy platform, that enables the targeted delivery of a payload to cardiac fibroblasts ; and precision medicine platform, which provides personalized medicine approach to treat heart disease. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

DNA Script SAS

Series B in 2020
DNA Script is a disruptive DNA synthesis company engineering biology to accelerate breakthroughs in life science and human health. Our revolutionary enzymatic technology powers the world's first benchtop DNA printer, SYNTAX, enabling labs to print their own synthetic oligos for greater workflow control and faster access to results.

Flatiron Health

Series C in 2016
Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology and services company focused on accelerating cancer research and improving patient care. Our platform enables cancer researchers and care providers to learn from the experience of every patient. Currently, Flatiron partners with over 280 community cancer practices, seven major academic research centers and over 15 of the top therapeutic oncology companies.

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.

Arzeda Corporation

Series A in 2017
Arzeda develops enzyme design technology that presents a new way of thinking about biocatalysis. The company was founded by David Baker and three senior members of his lab to commercialize and further develop its computational enzyme design technology.

Prominex, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Prominex, Inc. develops and manufactures molecular diagnostic assays for Point-of-Care (POC) infectious disease testing. The company develops Validex System that enables the development of diagnostic assays. The Validex System eliminates the need for thermal cycling, requires no microfluidics, polymerases, primers, NTPs, dNTPs, pumps, and mechanized valves, and works in crude clinical samples. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Diego, California.

Thrive Earlier Detection

Series A in 2019
Thrive is a healthcare company focused on saving lives by making earlier detection of cancer a routine part of medical care. It develops CancerSEEK, a liquid biopsy test that is designed to detect many cancers at earlier stages of the disease. CancerSEEK will serve as the core of Thrive’s integrated cancer information offering. The company was launched in 2019 by Third Rock Ventures, with funding from additional investors Section 32, Casdin Capital, Biomatics Capital, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, The Invus Group, Camden Partners Nexus, Cowin Venture, Exact Sciences, and Gamma3.

Neon Therapeutics

Series B in 2017
Neon Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It is focused in the field of neoantigen-targeted therapies, dedicated to transforming the treatment of cancer by directing the immune system towards neoantigens. The company's pipeline products are NEO-PV-01, NEO-PTC-01, and NEO-SV-01.

Spotfire

Series C in 2000
TIBCO Software empowers executives, developers, and business users with Fast Data solutions that make the right data available in real time for faster answers, better decisions, and smarter action. Over the past 15 years, thousands of businesses across the globe have relied on TIBCO technology to integrate their applications and ecosystems, analyze their data, and create real-time solutions. Learn how TIBCO turns data—big or small—into differentiation at www.tibco.com.

Revolution Medicines

Series C in 2019
Revolution Medicines is developing new therapies through an innovative approach that harnesses the complex chemicals of life by reconfiguring natural substances into best-in-class medicines. REVOLUTION Medicines builds upon the vision of the company’s founder, Martin D. Burke, M.D., Ph.D., professor of chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Early Career Scientist of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, who invented a transformative method for synthesizing original compounds that are pharmaceutically optimized analogues of complex natural products. REVOLUTION Medicines has entered into an exclusive license agreement with the University of Illinois to practice and expand this technology. REVOLUTION Medicines’ approach is a rapid, standardized and powerful process for assembling simple “chemical building blocks” into refined natural product-like structures. These optimized compounds have significant potential as best-in-class drug candidates.

Generation Bio Co.

Series C in 2020
Generation Bio Co., a genetic medicines company, develops gene therapies for the treatment of rare and prevalent diseases. The company is developing a portfolio of programs for rare and prevalent diseases of the liver and retina. It also focuses on the diseases of skeletal muscle, central nervous system, and oncology. The company was formerly known as Torus Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Generation Bio Co. in November 2017. Generation Bio Co. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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.

NiKang Therapeutics, Inc.

Series B in 2020
NiKang Therapeutics is an early-stage biotech company focused on discovering and developing innovative small molecule oncology medicines to help patients with unmet medical needs. Its discovery approach is informed by target structure biology and capitalizes on structure-based drug design enabling a rapid and efficient discovery and development of proprietary drug candidates with the most desirable pharmacological features into clinical studies.
Over half of the genetic errors associated with disease result from a single-letter change in the billions of bases that form the genome. In other cases, certain natural genetic variations in DNA are known to protect against disease. By changing a single letter – to eliminate errors or write in protective changes – in enough cells, base editing may help us prevent, modify, and even cure a wide range of diseases affecting patients’ lives.
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.

Monte Rosa Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
Monte Rosa Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops cancer therapeutics that modulate protein degradation pathways. It is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

23andMe

Series F in 2017
23andMe, Inc. provides consumer genetics and research services. The company offers DNA analysis services through home-based saliva collection kit for consumers to access and understand the human genome. Its services include Health + Ancestry, a genetic insight into ancestry, traits, and health; and Ancestry + Traits, a DNA kit with an ancestry breakdown and 30+ trait reports. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. With an additional office in Mountain View, California.
Decibel Therapeutics is a developer of hearing disorder therapeutics intended to protect, repair and restore hearing. The company's therapeutics have provided insights into the link between hearing dysfunction and inner ear pathology and it has capabilities to encompass animal models, drug delivery to the inner ear, imaging, inner ear PK/PD modeling and measurement, bioinformatics, genetics and target identification, enabling patients to experience hearing loss therapies with different forms of hearing disorders for their recovery.

EQRx

Series B in 2021
EQRx operates as a biotechnology company, focused on re-engineering the process from drug discovery to patient delivery with the goal of offering a market-based solution for the rising cost of medicines. By bringing together stakeholders from across the healthcare system and utilizing the latest advances in science and technology, the company seeks to discover, develop and deliver high-quality, patent-protected medicines more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Vineti, Inc.

Series C in 2020
Vineti is a commercial cloud-based platform that expands patient access to life-saving cells and gene therapies. The software solution offers an independent, purpose-built enterprise solution that is essential for enabling the growth and wide distribution of transformative personalized therapeutics, such as CAR-T cell therapies, for the treatment of late-stage cancer. The Vineti Personalized Therapy Management (PTM) ® platform automates patient-centric supply chains for a wide range of advanced therapies, in all phases of clinical development and commercial operations. Veneti aims to solve the key challenges patients, medical providers, pharmaceutical companies, and regulators face in the delivery and commercialization of personalized medicine. Amy DuRoss, Heidi M. Hagen, Malek Faham, Razmik Abnous, and Stephen Ting co-founded Vineti in San Francisco, California in 2016.

Verve Therapeutics

Series A in 2020
Verve Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies for editing the adult human genomes. It utilizes human genetic analysis and gene-editing technology for developing therapies to reduce the risk of coronary artery diseases. The company serves the biotechnology and health care sectors. It has a strategic alliance with Beam Therapeutics for developing delivery technologies against cardiovascular targets; and Verily, for the development of gene editing delivery vehicles. Verve Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Endcadia, Inc. and changed its name to Verve Therapeutics, Inc. in September 2019. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a research facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Fulcrum Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing new medicines to deliver a new future to patients. The company develops a proprietary product engine that employs to identify and validate cellular drug targets that can modulate gene expression. Its product candidate, losmapimod, is a small molecule that was developed for the treatment of FSHD, a muscle-wasting disorder that leads to physical impairments and disability. It is focused on improving the lives of patients with genetically defined diseases in areas of high unmet medical need, with an initial focus on rare diseases.

Codiak BioSciences, Inc.

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.

iVexSol Inc.

Debt Financing in 2019
iVexSol Inc. develops a lentiviral vector (LVV) manufacturing technology and process that addresses the shortage of LVV. It offers Lentiviral Vectors, a gene delivery vehicle that is used in the manufacturing of life-changing cell and gene therapies (CGTs). The company’s technology also reduces the complexity and development time of critical reagents and accelerates the development and enabling access to cell and gene therapies for CGT researchers and manufacturers. iVexSol Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Worcester, Massachusetts.

MyoKardia

Venture Round in 2014
MyoKardia is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that engages in discovering, developing, and commercializing targeted therapies for the treatment of rare cardiovascular diseases. The company's focus is on the treatment of heritable cardiomyopathies and genetically-driven forms of heart failure that result from biomechanical defects in cardiac muscle contraction. It utilizes its medicine platform to generate an initial pipeline of therapeutic programs for the chronic treatment of the two most common forms of heritable cardiomyopathy-hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Brisbane, California.

Kallyope

Series C in 2020
Kallyope, we believe that the gut is the gateway to our internal world. Containing millions of neurons, the gut informs our brains about our well-being, metabolism, and nutritional state. The gut-brain axis—the communication highway between our gut and our brain—offers an unprecedented opportunity to access and influence brain centers involved in fundamental human processes. An understanding of the biology mediated by the gut and gut-brain circuits will change the way we think about food, nutrition, and human physiology
Magenta is focused on improving the patient experience in transplant medicine, with the goal of bringing this lifesaving procedure to more patients. Over the past 50 years, stem cell transplantation has been used in more than 1M patients worldwide. It is currently the only treatment with the potential to cure some of the most devastating hematologic cancers and autoimmune diseases. Despite the increased use and clinical advancements over the past several decades, stem cell transplant remains a high-risk last-resort therapeutic option due to the toxicity and potential long-term side effects.