Boxer Capital

Boxer Capital LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 and based in the United States. The firm specializes in investing in both early-stage and late-stage biotechnology companies, focusing on the entire drug development lifecycle, from preclinical discovery to clinical and commercial stages. Boxer Capital targets private and public companies within the biotechnology sector, providing capital to support their growth and development. It operates as a subsidiary of Tavistock Life Sciences, leveraging its resources and expertise to foster innovation in the biotechnology field.

Aaron I. Davis

Co-Founder, CEO

Christopher Fuglesang

Co-Founder, Managing Director

Dominik Naczynski

Senior Vice President

Sid Subramony

Vice President

Norman Zhou

SVP

Past deals in TMT

Tyra Biosciences

Series B in 2021
Tyra Biosciences is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Carlsbad, California, focused on developing small molecule therapies for cancer treatment. Founded in 2018, the company aims to address drug resistance in oncology by targeting specific pathways associated with acquired resistance. Tyra Biosciences employs its proprietary precision medicine platform, SNÅP, to facilitate rapid drug design through molecular snapshots, enabling the prediction of genetic alterations that may lead to resistance against existing therapies. The company's lead product candidate, TYRA 300, is an FGFR3 selective inhibitor, primarily aimed at treating patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma of the bladder and urinary tract. Through innovative approaches, Tyra Biosciences seeks to create next-generation precision medicines that significantly improve treatment outcomes for cancer patients.

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.

PMV Pharmaceutcals

Series D in 2020
PMV Pharma is developing first-in-class p53 and p53 pathway modulators for the treatment of cancer. Bringing together leaders in the field to utilize over three decades of p53 biology, PMV Pharma combines unique biological understanding with pharmaceutical development focus.

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.

Tyra Biosciences

Series A in 2020
Tyra Biosciences is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Carlsbad, California, focused on developing small molecule therapies for cancer treatment. Founded in 2018, the company aims to address drug resistance in oncology by targeting specific pathways associated with acquired resistance. Tyra Biosciences employs its proprietary precision medicine platform, SNÅP, to facilitate rapid drug design through molecular snapshots, enabling the prediction of genetic alterations that may lead to resistance against existing therapies. The company's lead product candidate, TYRA 300, is an FGFR3 selective inhibitor, primarily aimed at treating patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma of the bladder and urinary tract. Through innovative approaches, Tyra Biosciences seeks to create next-generation precision medicines that significantly improve treatment outcomes for cancer patients.

PMV Pharmaceutcals

Series C in 2019
PMV Pharma is developing first-in-class p53 and p53 pathway modulators for the treatment of cancer. Bringing together leaders in the field to utilize over three decades of p53 biology, PMV Pharma combines unique biological understanding with pharmaceutical development focus.

Milestone Pharmaceuticals

Series D in 2018
Milestone Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes etripamil for the treatment of cardiovascular indications. It is developing etripamil, a novel channel blocker, which is in Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia in the United States and Canada, as well as for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, angina, and other cardiovascular indications. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

GTx

Post in 2017
GTx, Inc. is a company of pioneering and driven individuals who are delivering better medicines with new science through established pathways.

Telesta Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2015
Telesta Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacturing and commercialization of transformative human therapeutics. Our main focus is on novel medicines that address major unmet medical needs, particularly in oncology. Our anchor product, MCNA, has completed a Phase III pivotal study in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer that have failed the first line therapy, bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG). Telesta submitted a Biologics Licensing Application (BLA) for MCNA with the U.S. FDA on June 29, 2015 and is seeking, upon marketing approval in the U.S., to make MCNA available for patients and their physicians. Our ultimate goal is to transform the treatment landscape and prolong and improve the lives of those affected by bladder cancer, one of the most common types of cancers today.