Nextech Invest Ltd.

Nextech Invest Ltd. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in early, mid stage and late stage, and emerging growth investments. The firm also invests in incorporation, spin-outs, reverse-take-over, and PIPE transactions. It only considers investments where evidence in preclinical animal models that a drug is efficacious is available or a device prototype fulfills the requirements. The firm seeks to invest in the field of information technology, biotechnology, healthcare with a focus on oncology companies developing cancer drugs and diagnostics. It prefers to invest in life science and enabling technologies with a focus on interdisciplinary technical and scientific projects, therapies, diagnostics, medical technologies, and services. The firm seeks to invest globally with a focus on companies based in Africa, Middle East, Asia, North America, Europe including Switzerland, Germany, and neighboring regions. It also considers co-investments in rest of Europe. The firm seeks to invest between CHF 1 million ($0.93 million) and CHF 5 million ($4.7 million) per financing round. It seeks a Board position in the portfolio companies. The firm seeks to exit its investments within three years via trade sale. Nextech Invest Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Niresh Berinpanathan

Associate

WG

Wolfram Grüning

Investment Analyst

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Gábor Gyülvészi

Senior Associate

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Thomas Lips

General Partner

Jakob Loven

Partner

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Melissa McCracken

Principal

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Suzanne M. Obenshain

Head of Investor Relations

Alfred Scheidegger

Partner, Founder

Thilo Schroeder

Partner

Rocco Sgobbo

Partner

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Marco Weibel

CFO

64 past transactions

Boundless Bio, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Boundless Bio, Inc., biopharma company, develops therapies and medicines for the treatment of cancers. It offers therapeutics based on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) one of the drivers of the aggressive cancers, such as cancers characterized by high copy number amplification of oncogenes. The company was formerly known as Pretzel Therapeutics, Inc. Boundless Bio, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in LA Jolla, California.

Flare Therapeutics

Series B in 2023
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.

Hexagon Bio

Series B in 2022
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.

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.

Hexagon Bio

Series B in 2022
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.

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.

Boundless Bio, Inc.

Series C in 2023
Boundless Bio, Inc., biopharma company, develops therapies and medicines for the treatment of cancers. It offers therapeutics based on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) one of the drivers of the aggressive cancers, such as cancers characterized by high copy number amplification of oncogenes. The company was formerly known as Pretzel Therapeutics, Inc. Boundless Bio, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in LA Jolla, California.

Circle Pharma

Series C in 2021
Circle Pharma is an early stage biotechnology company applying proprietary computational design algorithms and innovative chemistry to develop cell permeable macrocycle peptide therapeutics against important clinical targets. It does this through an iterative, rational design process that deploys large virtual libraries of conformationally diverse macrocycle scaffolds selected for inherent permeability. The company was founded by Prof. Matt Jacobson, Ph.D. (U.C. San Francisco) and Prof. Scott Lokey, Ph.D. (U.C. Santa Cruz) and is headed by David J. Earp, J.D., Ph.D.

ImaginAb, Inc.

Series B in 2014
ImaginAb is a biotechnology company focused on developing a new class of highly targeted diagnostic imaging agents based on engineered antibody fragments. ImaginAb's platform technology enables the rapid engineering of antibodies into fragments that retain the parental antibody but are immunologically passive and kinetically-optimized for clinical imaging. This combination of superior specificity and kinetics enables ImaginAb to generate agents that can address the unmet needs in diagnosis and patient selection for therapeutics.

MOMA Therapeutics

Series B in 2022
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.

Cleave Biosciences

Series B in 2016
Cleave Therapeutics develops oncology pharmaceuticals designed to target neurodengeneration and pathways used by cancer cells to grow. The company is engaged in the discovery of novel, small-molecule drugs that affect protein-degradation pathways, upon which cancer cells depend for survival, enabling patients to get cured from cancer.
Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc., a precision oncology medicine company, discovers and develops small molecule, tumor-agnostic therapies. Its lead product candidate is BDTX-189, an inhibitor of non-canonical and oncogenic mutations of ErbB kinases epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and tyrosine-protein kinase. The company is also developing allosteric-EGFR mutation inhibitors; and various early stage pipeline programs targeting allosteric mutations in kinases related to cancer and/or rare genetic diseases. The company was formerly known as ASET Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc. in January 2018. Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sunesis is an emerging biopharmaceutical company creating new medicines to improve the lives of people with cancer. They are building a pipeline of drugs that selectively block critical mechanisms required for tumor growth and survival. The fight against cancer is an enormous mission that requires an integrated approach fueled by a commitment to innovation.

AmbAgon Therapeutics

Series A in 2022
AmbAgon Therapeutics is a developer of cancer molecule therapeutics. The company offers research of a small molecule that augments a tumor-suppressing protein. AmbAgon Therapeutics was founded by Christian Ottmann, Lucas Brunsveld, and Michelle Arkin.

Atavistik Bio

Series A in 2021
Atavistik Bio is a pre-clinical biotechnology company pioneering the identification of metabolite-protein interactions that have the potential to lead to the discovery and development of first-in-class drug candidates powered by distinct allosteric control mechanisms.
Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc., a precision oncology medicine company, discovers and develops small molecule, tumor-agnostic therapies. Its lead product candidate is BDTX-189, an inhibitor of non-canonical and oncogenic mutations of ErbB kinases epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and tyrosine-protein kinase. The company is also developing allosteric-EGFR mutation inhibitors; and various early stage pipeline programs targeting allosteric mutations in kinases related to cancer and/or rare genetic diseases. The company was formerly known as ASET Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc. in January 2018. Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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.

Tyra Biosciences

Series B in 2021
Tyra Biosciences, Inc. develops small molecule therapies for the treatment of cancer. It offers therapies to combat drug resistance in cancer treatments. Tyra Biosciences, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Carlsbad, California.

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.

TRACON Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2011
TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops, licenses, and commercializes targeted therapies for cancer and age-related macular degeneration. Its products include TRC093, a recombinant humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody that inhibits angiogenesis, tumor cell growth, and cancer metastasis by binding cleaved collagen in the extracellular matrix of solid tumors; TRC105, a human chimeric monoclonal antibody that binds endoglin for angiogenesis; TRC102, a molecule that reverses resistance to chemotherapeutics; and TRC101, a nanoliposome embedded with ceramide used to improve the activity and delivery of chemotherapeutics. TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was formerly known as Lexington Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in April 2005. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in San Diego, California.
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.

Silverback Therapeutics

Series C in 2020
Silverback Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that develops ImmunoTAC therapies targeting previously inaccessible disease pathways. They developing a new generation of systemically delivered, locally active therapies that potently modulate fundamental disease pathways once deemed inaccessible. Silverback Therapeutics is building a platform technology capable of unlocking potent immuno-modulatory pathways using an established antibody-guided approach for targeting disease sites. The company's proprietary ImmunoTAC technology and integrated R&D approach enables the design of product candidates that can be administered systemically, but that act only at the sites of disease.

ImaginAb, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
ImaginAb is a biotechnology company focused on developing a new class of highly targeted diagnostic imaging agents based on engineered antibody fragments. ImaginAb's platform technology enables the rapid engineering of antibodies into fragments that retain the parental antibody but are immunologically passive and kinetically-optimized for clinical imaging. This combination of superior specificity and kinetics enables ImaginAb to generate agents that can address the unmet needs in diagnosis and patient selection for therapeutics.

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.

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.

Theseus Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2021
Theseus Pharmaceuticals is a Technology based company.

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.

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.

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.
TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals is a privately held biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops small molecule drugs that modulate programmed cell death pathways to treat debilitating diseases and conditions. The company's Smac Mimetics neutralize critical blocks in the apoptosis pathway to selectively destroy cancer cells. Its Necrostatin drugs block critical steps in the process leading to necrosis, enabling cell survival in a wide range of diseases and injuries where necrosis is a critical component of pathology.

Autolus Therapeutics plc

Series C in 2017
Autolus Therapeutics plc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops T cell therapies for the treatment of hematological malignancies and solid tumors. The company is developing AUTO1 and AUTO3 for B cell malignancies; AUTO2 for the treatment of multiple myeloma; AUTO4 and AUTO 5 for T cell lymphoma; and AUTO6 and AUTO7 to treat solid tumors. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

MolecularMD

Series B in 2012
MolecularMD Corp. develops and commercializes specialty molecular diagnostics for oncology applications. It offers services in the areas of assay design and development services; sample banking and bridging strategies; clinical trial design and development; regulatory planning; analytical and clinical assay validation; full-service histology and pathology offerings that include immunohistochemistry assay development; FDA submission services; and custom clinical GMP kit manufacturing. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Portland, Oregon with a location in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As of January 25, 2019, MolecularMD Corp. operates as a subsidiary of ICON Laboratory Services Inc..

Ganymed Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2002
Ganymed Pharmaceuticals AG is a biopharmaceutical company with the mission of revolutionizing cancer treatment by developing a new class of therapeutic drugs called Ideal Monoclonal Antibodies (IMABs). IMABs are unique in that they are highly selective for proteins which are present on tumor cells, but do not bind to healthy cells. This unmatched tumor cell specificity makes IMABs cancer cell selective allowing them to efficiently kill tumor cells without harming normal healthy tissues. They can thus be administered at optimal dose and have a broad therapeutic window with reduced risks of side effects.

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.

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.

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.

Agensys

Series D in 2007
Agensys a biotechnology company, engages in the research and development of therapeutic human monoclonal antibodies and antibody drug conjugates for the treatment of cancer. It offers products to treat various tumors, as well as prostate, pancreatic, and bladder cancers. The company, formerly known as UroGenesys, was founded in 1997 and is based in Santa Monica, California. As of December 18, 2007, Agensys, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma US, Inc.
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.

Kinnate Biopharma

Series C in 2020
Kinnate Biopharma develops precision oncology therapeutics to treat patients with genomically-defined cancers. Its mission is to expand the reach of targeted therapeutics by developing products for underserved populations. The company utilizes its deep expertise in structure-based drug discovery, translational research, and patient-driven precision medicine. Its programs include candidates in preclinical development for cancers that are driven by specific oncogenic alterations in either the BRAF kinase gene or in the FGFR2 and FGFR3 kinase genes.

Ganymed Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2005
Ganymed Pharmaceuticals AG is a biopharmaceutical company with the mission of revolutionizing cancer treatment by developing a new class of therapeutic drugs called Ideal Monoclonal Antibodies (IMABs). IMABs are unique in that they are highly selective for proteins which are present on tumor cells, but do not bind to healthy cells. This unmatched tumor cell specificity makes IMABs cancer cell selective allowing them to efficiently kill tumor cells without harming normal healthy tissues. They can thus be administered at optimal dose and have a broad therapeutic window with reduced risks of side effects.
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.

Kronos Bio, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Kronos Bio focuses on the research and development of first-in-class therapies that modulate historically recalcitrant cancer targets. It develops therapies that modulate historically undruggable targets. The company leverages deep capabilities in high-throughput small-molecule microarrays (SMM), targeted protein degradation, and cancer biology in order to identify potent and selective compounds against transcription factors and other central drivers of oncogenic signaling.

Telormedix

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

C4 Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
C4 is building on the knowledge with synthetic chemical compounds which it calls Degronimids. These compounds can be engineered and linked together to bind with many molecular targets that today’s drugs can’t bind with, Cohen said. The key insight, he said, is that the scientific founders have discovered a way to bind with select disease-causing proteins, and flag them as cellular trash, so that the ordinary proteasome garbage disposal system can get rid of them. Selecting the precise disease-related proteins to send to the trash is obviously critical, because any drug like this could cause serious side effects if it sent healthy proteins involved in normal cell processes to the trash. C4 Therapeutics is developing a new class of targeted protein degradation (TPD) therapeutics for the treatment of a broad range of diseases. Our Degronimid™ platform incorporates highly selective small molecule binders to target disease-causing proteins and facilitate their rapid destruction and clearance from the cell through the natural ubiquitin/proteasome system (UPS). Because of this distinctive mechanism, Degronimids are capable of hitting many more targets, including those previously thought to be undruggable, while reducing the potential for drug resistance. The broad applicability of Degronimids, and our chemical biology platform designed for accelerated validation, have the potential to make an unprecedented impact across many diseases through multiple industry collaborations as well as proprietary programs. The Company has received an exclusive worldwide license to the Degronimid platform and related IP from Dana-Farber.

TP Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2018
Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage structure-based drug design company for the discovery and development of precision medicines for cancer and other diseases. We are focusing on the design of novel chemical identities for established oncogene drivers with secondary resistant mutations, newly identified disease-driven targets, and potential targets regulating tumor microenvironment and tumor immunity.

Kinnate Biopharma

Series B in 2019
Kinnate Biopharma develops precision oncology therapeutics to treat patients with genomically-defined cancers. Its mission is to expand the reach of targeted therapeutics by developing products for underserved populations. The company utilizes its deep expertise in structure-based drug discovery, translational research, and patient-driven precision medicine. Its programs include candidates in preclinical development for cancers that are driven by specific oncogenic alterations in either the BRAF kinase gene or in the FGFR2 and FGFR3 kinase genes.

Silverback Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
Silverback Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that develops ImmunoTAC therapies targeting previously inaccessible disease pathways. They developing a new generation of systemically delivered, locally active therapies that potently modulate fundamental disease pathways once deemed inaccessible. Silverback Therapeutics is building a platform technology capable of unlocking potent immuno-modulatory pathways using an established antibody-guided approach for targeting disease sites. The company's proprietary ImmunoTAC technology and integrated R&D approach enables the design of product candidates that can be administered systemically, but that act only at the sites of disease.

TRACON Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2014
TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops, licenses, and commercializes targeted therapies for cancer and age-related macular degeneration. Its products include TRC093, a recombinant humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody that inhibits angiogenesis, tumor cell growth, and cancer metastasis by binding cleaved collagen in the extracellular matrix of solid tumors; TRC105, a human chimeric monoclonal antibody that binds endoglin for angiogenesis; TRC102, a molecule that reverses resistance to chemotherapeutics; and TRC101, a nanoliposome embedded with ceramide used to improve the activity and delivery of chemotherapeutics. TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was formerly known as Lexington Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in April 2005. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in San Diego, California.

IconOVir Bio

Series A in 2021
IconOVir Bio is a preclinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the next generation of oncolytic virus therapy to improve the treatment of patients with cancer.

Circle Pharma

Series B in 2020
Circle Pharma is an early stage biotechnology company applying proprietary computational design algorithms and innovative chemistry to develop cell permeable macrocycle peptide therapeutics against important clinical targets. It does this through an iterative, rational design process that deploys large virtual libraries of conformationally diverse macrocycle scaffolds selected for inherent permeability. The company was founded by Prof. Matt Jacobson, Ph.D. (U.C. San Francisco) and Prof. Scott Lokey, Ph.D. (U.C. Santa Cruz) and is headed by David J. Earp, J.D., Ph.D.

IDEAYA Biosciences, Inc.

Series B in 2018
IDEAYA Biosciences (IDEAYA) is an oncology-focused biotechnology company committed to the discovery of breakthrough synthetic lethality medicines targeting DNA damage and repair for genetically defined patient populations and for enhancing immunotherapy response, and immuno-oncology therapies targeting the tumor micro-environment. IDEAYA, located in South San Francisco and La Jolla, California, has assembled leading scientists and advisors with extensive knowledge and expertise in cancer biology and small molecule drug discovery.

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.

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.

Kronos Bio, Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2020
Kronos Bio focuses on the research and development of first-in-class therapies that modulate historically recalcitrant cancer targets. It develops therapies that modulate historically undruggable targets. The company leverages deep capabilities in high-throughput small-molecule microarrays (SMM), targeted protein degradation, and cancer biology in order to identify potent and selective compounds against transcription factors and other central drivers of oncogenic signaling.
Scorpion Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops next-generation precision oncology technologies for the treatment of cancer. The company develops precision oncology drugs in three areas, including therapies against known oncogenes; agents for known but currently undruggable cancer targets; and drugs for new targets. Scorpion Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

A2 Biotherapeutics

Series A in 2019
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.

Kura Oncology, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Kura Oncology, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops medicines for the treatment of cancer. Its pipeline consists of small molecule product candidates that target cancer. The company’s lead product candidate is Tipifarnib, an orally bioavailable inhibitor of farnesyl transferase that is in Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of solid tumors, peripheral T-cell lymphomas, and other hematologic malignancies. It is also developing KO-947, a small molecule inhibitor of extracellular signal related kinase used for the treatment of patients with tumors that have dysregulated activity due to mutations or other mechanisms in the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway; and KO-539, a small molecule inhibitor of the menin-mixed lineage leukemia protein-protein interaction. Kura Oncology, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Arvinas

Series C in 2018
Arvinas is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing novel therapeutics to treat a variety of diseases including cancer, pro-inflammatory, autoimmune and rare diseases. Its proprietary approach is the targeting of disease-causing proteins for degradation thus eliminating them from the body. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Connecticut, United States.

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.

Vividion Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
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.

Cullinan Management, Inc.

Series C in 2020
Cullinan Oncology is a developer of an externally sourced cancer therapeutics intended to end a drug program quickly if the early research suggests it won't work. The company's therapeutics are developed via assets sourced internally through dry lab or externally through business, academic and pharma collaborations, enabling researchers to get a highly diversified portfolio of oncology therapeutics with a unique, cost-efficient business model.

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.

Arrakis Therapeutics

Series B in 2019
Arrakis Therapeutics is a developer of a drug discovery platform intended to target RNA. The company's platform integrates leading-edge RNA bioinformatic and structural tools to produce a pipeline of rSMs to treat a range of disease including neurology, oncology and rare genetic diseases, enabling physicians to offer enhanced care.