Foresite Capital

Foresite Capital is a multi-stage investment firm focused on healthcare and life sciences, managing $2 billion in assets. The firm employs a rigorous, data-driven approach to investment analysis and collaborates closely with portfolio companies by providing a multidisciplinary team that includes scientists, engineers, analysts, and clinicians. This team brings a deep understanding of the unique business models within the healthcare sector. Foresite Capital aims to address significant unmet clinical needs by investing in promising healthcare and life sciences companies at various stages of their development. Additionally, the firm places a strong emphasis on companies that leverage data science and machine intelligence to innovate in healthcare. Headquartered in San Francisco, Foresite Capital also maintains an office in New York.

Vikram Bajaj

Managing Director

Matt Buten

Managing Director and Partner

Shoman Kasbekar

Principal

Rhonda Kaufman

Director

Richard Lau

Partner

Alisa Mall

MD

Dorothy Margolskee

Managing Director

Stephen Peterson

Managing Director

Hemaka Rajapakse

Managing Director

Michael Rome Ph.D

Managing Director

Dennis D. Ryan

CFO and Managing Director

Damien Soghoian

Director

Jim Tananbaum

Founder and CEO

Cindy Xiong

Investor

198 past transactions

Akari Therapeutics

Post in 2015
Akari Therapeutics, Plc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development and commercialization of treatments for a range of rare and orphan autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Its lead product candidate is Coversin, a second-generation complement inhibitor that is in Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, including paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, guillain barré syndrome, and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome. Akari Therapeutics, Plc is based in London, the United Kingdom.

evonetix

Series B in 2023
evonetix is a new spin-out company that is currently incubating in the centre of the world-renowned Cambridge cluster of high-tech and life science organisations. We are seeking to develop and commercialise a new approach to the synthesis of DNA to facilitate the fast-emerging and exciting field of synthetic biology. By employing novel techniques we are able to advance DNA synthesis to levels never before seen. Our engineering team has decades of experience developing high integrity automated systems. Our high calibre team brings together expertise from across the scientific and engineering disciplines.

XinThera

Series B in 2021
XinThera is a drug discovery company focused on building small molecule oncology and immunology pipeline.
Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in designing and developing novel small molecule targeted oncology therapies. It develops a pipeline of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) that targets genetic drivers of cancer in TKI-naïve and TKI-pretreated patients. The company’s lead drug candidate repotrectinib is being evaluated in an ongoing Phase I/II trial called TRIDENT-1 for the treatment of patients with ROS1+ advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and patients with ROS1+, NTRK+, or ALK+ advanced solid tumors. Its pipeline also includes multi-targeted drug candidates TPX-0046, a RET/SRC inhibitor; TPX-0022, a MET/CSF1R/SRC inhibitor; and TPX-0131, a preclinical ALK inhibitor. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Pardes Biosciences

Post in 2021
Pardes Biosciences is a biotechnology company that develops and commercializes direct-acting antivirals for the treatment of coronavirus. The Carlsbad, California-based company was established by Uri Lopatin in 2020.

Mythic Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Mythic Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on a new generation of groundbreaking cancer therapeutics. The company is pioneering a powerful protein engineering-focused approach to improving the effectiveness of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and other antibody-based therapeutics. Their technology dramatically increases therapeutic potency without compromising safety, thereby unlocking the full potential of targeted therapies against a broad array of tumor targets. Mythic Therapeutics was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA, USA.

Mindstrong Inc.

Series A in 2017
Mindstrong Health develops comprehensive care pathways based on passively-collected, continuous and objective measures of cognitive function and mood. Solutions include a patient-facing app, a provider-facing product, and clinical services that leverage its telehealth enabled measurement science and engagement platform. Mindstrong is partnered with leading organizations committed to advancing medical innovation and improving healthcare delivery for patients, including pharmaceutical companies, large payers and providers, large employers, and state and county governments, in addition to top-tier academic institutions for clinical research.

Mirvie

Series B in 2022
Mirvie is a biotech company that creates precise, actionable, and non-invasive tests for maternal-fetal health. The company delivers insights to moms and families to make pregnancy safe. It was founded in 2018 by Maneesh Jain and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States.

Kriya Therapeutics

Series C in 2022
Kriya Therapeutics, Inc., a gene therapy company, focuses on designing and developing treatments for chronic diseases. It also offers vector design, manufacturing, and clinical development solutions. Kriya Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Durham, North Carolina.

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.

Arcus Biosciences

Series B in 2016
Arcus Biosciences is biotech company founded on a vision of creating new cancer therapeutics through the utilization of emerging insights in immunology. Arcus was formed in 2015 by a group of seasoned researchers from the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries and is located in the San Francisco bay area, in the heart of the world’s largest biotechnology research hub.

Pharvaris

Series B in 2019
Pharvaris is a clinical-stage company focused on bringing an oral bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist to patients. By targeting this clinically proven therapeutic target with novel small molecules, we are progressing new alternatives to injected therapies for all sub-types of hereditary angioedema (HAE) and other B2 receptor-mediated indications. PHA121, Pharvaris’ lead drug candidate, is a novel and potent small-molecule bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist currently under Phase 1 clinical study. The co-founders of Pharvaris include an inventor of icatibant and the leadership from Jerini AG that developed icatibant for the treatment of HAE, now sold by Takeda under the brand name Firazyr®.

Generation Bio

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.

Ivantis

Series B in 2014
Ivantis, Inc. is a company focused on developing an innovative treatment for Glaucoma. It is their goal to develop a less invasive, more effective option for the 60+ million people worldwide suffering from Primary Open Angle Glaucoma. As they successfully address this initial goal, it is then there intention to focus on innovative development for the treatment of other debilitating diseases within ophthalmology.

Odyssey Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Odyssey Therapeutics is a biotechnology company pioneering the efficient development of next-generation immunomodulators and oncology medicines. Odyssey is making a transformational impact on the field of drug discovery and is accelerating the path to clinical development to drive the creation of more effective precision medicines.

Tasso

Private Placement in 2020
Tasso Inc., a healthcare company, develops a clinical-grade, at-home, and self-sampling blood collection devices. It offers on demand devices that allow people to collect blood with the push of a button from the comfort and privacy of their home, and then mail the samples back to a qualified laboratory for analysis. Tasso Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

HealthVerity

Series D in 2021
HealthVerity is a provider of technologies and software tools that enable healthcare providers, such as Pharmaceutical manufacturers, Hospitals and Payers, to discover, license and integrate patient data from a wide range of traditional and emerging data sources to build the optimal patient data set. It serves as the foundation for the rapid creation, exchange, and management of healthcare and consumer data in a fully-interoperable, privacy-protecting manner. Advantaged by highly sophisticated identity resolution and matching capabilities, HealthVerity aims to increase transparency and activate deeper insights across the healthcare industry. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

TenSixteen Bio

Series A in 2022
TenSixteen Bio is a biotechnology company focused on developing novel therapeutics for a variety of diseases. The company uses somatic mosaicism and clonal hematopoiesis (CHIP) to find and develop new treatments for age-related disorders. Foresite Labs co-founded TenSixteen Bio, which is based in San Francisco.

Invivyd

Series C in 2021
Adagio Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, and potentially emergent coronaviruses. Its portfolio includes multiple, non-competing antibodies with distinct binding targets, enabling a strategy that can avoid viral escape. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Eikon Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Eikon Therapeutics is a new biopharmaceutical company employing revolutionary technology at the interface of biology, engineering and chemistry to discover novel treatments for life-threatening diseases. Eikon’s discovery platform is built on groundbreaking innovations from its founders (Nobel Prize, 2014), culminating in the creation of microscopes which enable real time, molecular-resolution measurements of protein movement in living cells.

Interline Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2021
Interline Therapeutics is a drug discovery platform that enables the company to map and correct dysfunctional protein communities. It uses genomics, proteomics, structural biology, and computational chemistry to map and modulate protein communities. Interline leverages recent advancements in these technologies, as well as collaborations with leading academic groups, to develop a precision medicine platform focused on three essential areas, genomics, communities, and modulators. The South San Francisco, California-located company was founded by Zach Sweeney in 2020.

Inscripta

Series E in 2021
Inscripta, Inc. operates as a gene editing technology company. The company engages in developing CRISPR enzymes (MADzymes) for precision gene editing. Inscripta, Inc. was formerly known as Muse Biotechnology, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Boulder, Colorado. It has additional offices in Pleasanton and San Diego, California.

Kinnate Biopharma

Private Placement 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.

Nurix Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2020
Nurix develops small molecule inhibitors for the treatment of proliferative and degenerative diseases. The company’s product engine leverages a deep mechanistic understanding of the UPS to deliver effective small molecule drug candidates with the potential to make a dramatic difference for patients. Nurix drugs control ubiquitin E3 ligases, the key enzymes responsible for protein breakdown in human cells, as a unique therapeutic approach to treat a broad range of diseases. The company discovers drugs that harness the body's natural process to control protein levels. Their focus is on developing drugs to treat cancer including the novel, small molecule immuno-oncology agents. Nurix was founded in 2009 by internationally recognized experts in the ubiquitin-proteasome field and is funded by leading life science investors, Third Rock Ventures, and The Column Group. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

LifeMine Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
LifeMine Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the genomic discovery of new drug modalities from eukaryotic microbes. It utilizes an integrated genomically-enabled drug discovery platform to discover and develop a pipeline of new drugs from fungi. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with an additional office in New York, New York.

Delfi Diagnostics

Series A in 2021
Delfi Diagnostics detect cancer early, when it is most curable, using high precision non-invasive blood tests. It uses artificial intelligence and genome sequencing to detect unique patterns of DNA fragmentation in the blood of patients. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Mindstrong Inc.

Series C in 2020
Mindstrong Health develops comprehensive care pathways based on passively-collected, continuous and objective measures of cognitive function and mood. Solutions include a patient-facing app, a provider-facing product, and clinical services that leverage its telehealth enabled measurement science and engagement platform. Mindstrong is partnered with leading organizations committed to advancing medical innovation and improving healthcare delivery for patients, including pharmaceutical companies, large payers and providers, large employers, and state and county governments, in addition to top-tier academic institutions for clinical research.

Theseus Pharmaceuticals

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

Jounce Therapeutics

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.

Keros Therapeutics

Series C in 2020
Keros Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel treatments for patients suffering from hematological and musculoskeletal disorders with high unmet medical need. The company’s lead protein therapeutic product candidate is KER-050, which is being developed for the treatment of low blood cell counts, or cytopenias, including anemia and thrombocytopenia in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes, or MDS, and in patients with myelofibrosis. It is also developing small molecule product candidate KER-047 that is being developed for the treatment of anemia, as well as for the treatment of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, or FOP, and is currently in a Phase 1 clinical trial; and KER-012 being developed for the treatment of disorders associated with bone loss, such as osteoporosis and osteogenesis imperfecta, and for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts.

DNAnexus

Private Placement in 2020
DNAnexus combines expertise in cloud computing and bioinformatics to create the global network for genomic medicine. DNAnexus provides security, scalability and collaboration for enterprises and organizations that are pursuing genomic-based approaches to health in order to accelerate medical discovery. DNAnexus is supporting customers around the world that are tackling some of the most challenging and exciting opportunities in human health. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Kinnate Biopharma

Private Placement 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.

Aduro BioTech

Series D in 2015
Aduro Biotech is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies that are designed to harness the body's natural immune system for the treatment of patients with challenging diseases. It was founded in 2000 and headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Insitro

Private Placement in 2018
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.

Genomics

Series B in 2018
Genomics PLC develops algorithms and software solutions that focus on cancer, microbes, and rare diseases. Its solutions allow governments and healthcare providers to transform healthcare provisions for their citizens and members; pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients to de-risk the drug development process; clinicians and doctors to improve diagnoses and treatment options; and research laboratories and genome analysts to process results accurately. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

DNAnexus

Series E in 2018
DNAnexus combines expertise in cloud computing and bioinformatics to create the global network for genomic medicine. DNAnexus provides security, scalability and collaboration for enterprises and organizations that are pursuing genomic-based approaches to health in order to accelerate medical discovery. DNAnexus is supporting customers around the world that are tackling some of the most challenging and exciting opportunities in human health. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California.

LifeMine Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2017
LifeMine Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the genomic discovery of new drug modalities from eukaryotic microbes. It utilizes an integrated genomically-enabled drug discovery platform to discover and develop a pipeline of new drugs from fungi. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with an additional office in New York, New York.

10X Genomics

Series B in 2014
10x Genomics is creating revolutionary DNA sequencing technology to help researchers better identify subtle variations that are overlooked by technologies that shred biological samples into tiny fragments before sequencing the short stretches and using computers to assembling them into a genome.

Genapsys

Series C in 2019
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.

Tasso

Series A in 2020
Tasso Inc., a healthcare company, develops a clinical-grade, at-home, and self-sampling blood collection devices. It offers on demand devices that allow people to collect blood with the push of a button from the comfort and privacy of their home, and then mail the samples back to a qualified laboratory for analysis. Tasso Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Peloton Therapeutics

Series D in 2016
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.

Pharvaris

Series C in 2020
Pharvaris is a clinical-stage company focused on bringing an oral bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist to patients. By targeting this clinically proven therapeutic target with novel small molecules, we are progressing new alternatives to injected therapies for all sub-types of hereditary angioedema (HAE) and other B2 receptor-mediated indications. PHA121, Pharvaris’ lead drug candidate, is a novel and potent small-molecule bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist currently under Phase 1 clinical study. The co-founders of Pharvaris include an inventor of icatibant and the leadership from Jerini AG that developed icatibant for the treatment of HAE, now sold by Takeda under the brand name Firazyr®.

Inscripta

Private Placement in 2018
Inscripta, Inc. operates as a gene editing technology company. The company engages in developing CRISPR enzymes (MADzymes) for precision gene editing. Inscripta, Inc. was formerly known as Muse Biotechnology, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Boulder, Colorado. It has additional offices in Pleasanton and San Diego, California.

AveXis

Series D in 2015
Based in Dallas, Texas, AveXis is a clinic-ready, synthetic biology platform company. AveXis has, at its core, a desire to establish unique industry and research alliances which will bring innovative treatments to people with unmet medical needs. Our work in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare/orphan disease, is our first focus.

Venatorx Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2017
VenatoRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, discovers and develops anti-infective agents. The company provides various antibacterial agents. It focuses on addressing resistant hospital and community bacterial infections, including difficult-to-treat infections caused by MRSA, Pseudomonas spp, and Salmonella spp. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

Maze Therapeutics

Private Placement 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.

DNAnexus

Series F in 2019
DNAnexus combines expertise in cloud computing and bioinformatics to create the global network for genomic medicine. DNAnexus provides security, scalability and collaboration for enterprises and organizations that are pursuing genomic-based approaches to health in order to accelerate medical discovery. DNAnexus is supporting customers around the world that are tackling some of the most challenging and exciting opportunities in human health. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, 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.

Element Biosciences

Private Placement in 2019
Element Biosciences, Inc. develops genetic analysis tools for the research and diagnostic markets. The company provides a disruptive DNA sequencing technology and a sequencing platform, such as surface chemistry, sequencing chemistry, detection, and data analysis. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Diego, California.

Turning Point 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.

Genomics

Private Placement in 2018
Genomics PLC develops algorithms and software solutions that focus on cancer, microbes, and rare diseases. Its solutions allow governments and healthcare providers to transform healthcare provisions for their citizens and members; pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients to de-risk the drug development process; clinicians and doctors to improve diagnoses and treatment options; and research laboratories and genome analysts to process results accurately. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

LifeMine Therapeutics

Series A in 2017
LifeMine Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the genomic discovery of new drug modalities from eukaryotic microbes. It utilizes an integrated genomically-enabled drug discovery platform to discover and develop a pipeline of new drugs from fungi. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with an additional office in New York, New York.

Olema Oncology

Private Placement in 2020
Olema Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies for women’s cancers. Its lead program is OP-1250, an estrogen receptor (ER) antagonist and a selective ER degrader, which is in Phase 1/2 clinical trial for the treatment of metastatic or locally advanced, ER-positive, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative breast cancer. The company was formerly known as CombiThera, Inc. and changed its name to Olema Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in March 2009. Olema Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Generation Bio

Private Placement 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.

HealthVerity

Private Placement in 2019
HealthVerity is a provider of technologies and software tools that enable healthcare providers, such as Pharmaceutical manufacturers, Hospitals and Payers, to discover, license and integrate patient data from a wide range of traditional and emerging data sources to build the optimal patient data set. It serves as the foundation for the rapid creation, exchange, and management of healthcare and consumer data in a fully-interoperable, privacy-protecting manner. Advantaged by highly sophisticated identity resolution and matching capabilities, HealthVerity aims to increase transparency and activate deeper insights across the healthcare industry. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Alector

Private Placement in 2018
Alector, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, develops therapies for the treatment of neurodegeneration diseases. Its products include AL001, a humanized recombinant monoclonal antibody, which is in phase II clinical trial for the treatment of frontotemporal dementia disease; and AL101 that is in Phase I clinical trial for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. The company also offers AL002 and AL003, which are in phase 1b clinical trial for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. In addition, it has 10 programs under research and development stage. The company has a collaboration agreement with Adimab, LLC for the research and development of antibodies. Alector, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

EverlyWell

Series D in 2020
EverlyWell develops do-it-yourself kits for a vast range of at-home regulatory-compliant diagnostic tests including food sensitivity, fertility, hormones, STDs, thyroid, and metabolism among the others, allowing users to perform tests at home and receive physician-reviewed results and insights on their mobile devices. EverlyWell also provides at-home covid testing.

Protagonist Pty Ltd

Series C in 2015
Protagonist Pty Ltd. develops novel therapeutics for inflammatory and metabolic conditions. The company also involves in the discovery of peptide and small molecule compounds that mimic or inhibit therapeutically-relevant protein-protein interactions. In addition, it focuses on the discovery of drug candidates for targets previously resistant to small molecule discovery (protein-protein interactions), and on designing and constructing arrays of molecules that sample biologically-relevant regions of chemical diversity. Protagonist Pty Ltd was formerly known as Cytokine Mimetics Pty Ltd. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Brisbane, Australia. Protagonist Pty Ltd operates as a subsidiary of Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc.

Remix Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2020
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.

Inscripta

Series C in 2018
Inscripta, Inc. operates as a gene editing technology company. The company engages in developing CRISPR enzymes (MADzymes) for precision gene editing. Inscripta, Inc. was formerly known as Muse Biotechnology, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Boulder, Colorado. It has additional offices in Pleasanton and San Diego, California.

Tarsa Therapeutics

Series B in 2012
Tarsa Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis and related bone diseases in women. It develops TBRIA, an oral formulation of salmon calcitonin used in the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. The company offers clinical programs, such as osteoporosis treatment and osteoporosis prevention programs. Tarsa Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Boneco, Inc. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mindstrong Inc.

Series B in 2018
Mindstrong Health develops comprehensive care pathways based on passively-collected, continuous and objective measures of cognitive function and mood. Solutions include a patient-facing app, a provider-facing product, and clinical services that leverage its telehealth enabled measurement science and engagement platform. Mindstrong is partnered with leading organizations committed to advancing medical innovation and improving healthcare delivery for patients, including pharmaceutical companies, large payers and providers, large employers, and state and county governments, in addition to top-tier academic institutions for clinical research.

10X Genomics

Series C in 2016
10x Genomics is creating revolutionary DNA sequencing technology to help researchers better identify subtle variations that are overlooked by technologies that shred biological samples into tiny fragments before sequencing the short stretches and using computers to assembling them into a genome.

Mindstrong Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Mindstrong Health develops comprehensive care pathways based on passively-collected, continuous and objective measures of cognitive function and mood. Solutions include a patient-facing app, a provider-facing product, and clinical services that leverage its telehealth enabled measurement science and engagement platform. Mindstrong is partnered with leading organizations committed to advancing medical innovation and improving healthcare delivery for patients, including pharmaceutical companies, large payers and providers, large employers, and state and county governments, in addition to top-tier academic institutions for clinical research.

Element Biosciences

Private Placement in 2020
Element Biosciences, Inc. develops genetic analysis tools for the research and diagnostic markets. The company provides a disruptive DNA sequencing technology and a sequencing platform, such as surface chemistry, sequencing chemistry, detection, and data analysis. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Diego, California.

Mindstrong Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Mindstrong Health develops comprehensive care pathways based on passively-collected, continuous and objective measures of cognitive function and mood. Solutions include a patient-facing app, a provider-facing product, and clinical services that leverage its telehealth enabled measurement science and engagement platform. Mindstrong is partnered with leading organizations committed to advancing medical innovation and improving healthcare delivery for patients, including pharmaceutical companies, large payers and providers, large employers, and state and county governments, in addition to top-tier academic institutions for clinical research.

Decibel Therapeutics

Series D in 2020
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.

ALX Oncology

Series C in 2020
ALX Oncology is a preclinical stage biotechnology company developing innovative immuno-oncology therapies for cancer. It is an independent, private biotechnology company. The founding of Alexo Therapeutics was based upon technology invented by Aaron Ring, K. Christopher Garcia, Kipp Weiskopf, Aron Levin, and Irving Weissman at Stanford University. This discovery involves soluble versions of signal regulatory protein-α (SIRPα) that have been engineered to bind CD47 with significantly greater affinity than natural SIRPα.1.

WaveTec Vision

Series D in 2013
WaveTec Vision is a small company with a big idea – and the ability and the team to achieve it. Their proprietary intraoperative aberrometer system ORange will transform and advance the emerging convergence of refractive and cataract surgery. It was founded in 1997 and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California.

Intellia Therapeutics

Series B in 2015
Intellia Therapeutics was formed in 2014 to lead the industry in one of the most promising new areas of therapeutic development: gene editing and repair using CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Intellia holds exclusive access to one of the most comprehensive intellectual property platforms available for the therapeutic use of CRISPR-Cas9. The company is advancing a broad pipeline toward clinical development, including ex vivo and in vivo approaches. Intellia closed a Series A round in 2014 led by Atlas Venture and Novartis.

Arcus Biosciences

Series C in 2017
Arcus Biosciences is biotech company founded on a vision of creating new cancer therapeutics through the utilization of emerging insights in immunology. Arcus was formed in 2015 by a group of seasoned researchers from the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries and is located in the San Francisco bay area, in the heart of the world’s largest biotechnology research hub.

Juvenescence

Seed Round in 2018
Juvenescence Limited is a British Virgin Islands-based holding company that invests in human aging and longevity. Juvenescence has raised USD $111M to build an ecosystem and pipeline of assets targeting aging, age-related disease, and regeneration. Juvenescence believes that recent scientific and medical advances will enable the development of therapeutics that meaningfully extend human healthspan and eventually lifespan. A meaningful increase in lifespan in the already aging world will have profound implications on all sectors of society, and in particular healthcare, education, insurance, and leisure. The company creates and partners with new companies with longevity-related therapeutics, by in-licensing compounds from academia and industry, or forming joint ventures with the foremost longevity scientists and leading research institutions. Their work is based on a novel scientific understanding of the underlying biological causes of aging, to create evidence-based therapeutics that can treat diseases of aging. Juvenescence's goal is to extend both lifespan and healthspan, by developing therapeutics that slow aging and promote juvenescence.

ORIC Pharmaceuticals

Series D in 2019
ORIC Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, discovers and develops therapies for treatment of cancers. Its lead product candidate is ORIC-101, a small molecule antagonist of the glucocorticoid receptor, which has been linked to resistance to multiple classes of cancer therapeutics across various solid tumors. The company’s second product candidate is ORIC-533, an orally bioavailable small molecule inhibitor of CD73 being developed for resistance to chemotherapy- and immunotherapy-based treatment regimens. It is also developing multiple precision medicines targeting other cancer resistance mechanisms. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

Cullinan Pearl

Post in 2024
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.

Remix Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2024
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.

Folx Health

Series B in 2022
Folx Health is a digital health services platform that builds a medical service marketplace tailored towards the queer community. It combines access to a specialized network of queer and trans clinicians with a tailored focus on clinical offerings that are typically marginalized in traditional health settings. The startup focuses on providing patients gender-affirming hormone therapy, sexual health, and family creation services. Other services include erectile dysfunction treatment, PrEP, and STI testing. The company was founded by Agneta Breitenstein in 2019 in Boston, Massachusets.

Thyme Care

Series B in 2023
Thyme Care is a Nashville TN-based provider of oncology care management solutions.
At CASI, we focus on building a pipeline through mutually beneficial business development transactions. Our strategy leverages our resources and expertise in China to develop and commercialize innovative products in China and other markets.

Element Biosciences

Series D in 2024
Element Biosciences, Inc. develops genetic analysis tools for the research and diagnostic markets. The company provides a disruptive DNA sequencing technology and a sequencing platform, such as surface chemistry, sequencing chemistry, detection, and data analysis. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Diego, California.

Insitro

Series A in 2019
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.

DNAnexus

Series H in 2022
DNAnexus combines expertise in cloud computing and bioinformatics to create the global network for genomic medicine. DNAnexus provides security, scalability and collaboration for enterprises and organizations that are pursuing genomic-based approaches to health in order to accelerate medical discovery. DNAnexus is supporting customers around the world that are tackling some of the most challenging and exciting opportunities in human health. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Sestina Bio

Seed Round in 2020
At Sestina Bio, LLC their mission is to create a technology centric, R&D platform that will tackle some of the largest challenges of the 21st century and provide cutting edge solutions to sustainably feed, clothe, and keep healthy the growing world population. their approach is to integrate, and where needed create, the most innovative and novel advances in synthetic biology, data sciences, and bio-analytical systems.

Fulcrum Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2020
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.

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.

Myome

Series B in 2022
Myome helps identify genes that cause disease and act based on leading science. The data is secure, portable, and reusable throughout life.

Kriya Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Kriya Therapeutics, Inc., a gene therapy company, focuses on designing and developing treatments for chronic diseases. It also offers vector design, manufacturing, and clinical development solutions. Kriya Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Durham, North Carolina.

Cerevance

Private Placement 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.

Decibel Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2018
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.

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.

Gemini Therapeutics

Post in 2021
Gemini Therapeutics is a precision medicine company focused on genetically-defined dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and associated rare genetic diseases.Their therapeutic candidates are matched to molecular abnormalities found in patients with high clinical need and our broad multimodal pipeline includes monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins and gene therapies. Launched with funding from leading life science investors and powered by academic partnerships around the world,they are developing a series of potentially first-in-class therapeutics.

Aetion

Series C in 2021
Aetion, Inc. develops a science and analytics platform to assess real-world evidence (RWE) from a range of sources. The company offers Aetion Evidence Platform, a platform that generates RWE needed by healthcare decision makers to engage in value-based care. Its solution allows payers, providers, medical device makers, biopharma customers, and academic institutions to analyze data from various clinical and financial interactions in healthcare, including claims, electronic health records, registries, and clinical trials. The company’s platform is also used in database analytics and comparative effectiveness courses taken by epidemiologists, outcomes researchers, health economists, and biostatisticians. It serves customers worldwide. Aetion, Inc. has a strategic collaboration with McKesson. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Interline Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Interline Therapeutics is a drug discovery platform that enables the company to map and correct dysfunctional protein communities. It uses genomics, proteomics, structural biology, and computational chemistry to map and modulate protein communities. Interline leverages recent advancements in these technologies, as well as collaborations with leading academic groups, to develop a precision medicine platform focused on three essential areas, genomics, communities, and modulators. The South San Francisco, California-located company was founded by Zach Sweeney in 2020.

SAGE Therapeutics

Series C in 2014
SAGE Therapeutics is dedicated to the health and well being of patients with central nervous system (CNS) disorders. Their mission is to discover, develop and deliver novel medicines for many of today's most debilitating and disabling CNS disorders by leveraging compelling science, a robust clinical foundation, strong partnerships, and a world-class team of founders, advisors, investors, scientists and managers.

Genomics

Venture Round in 2021
Genomics PLC develops algorithms and software solutions that focus on cancer, microbes, and rare diseases. Its solutions allow governments and healthcare providers to transform healthcare provisions for their citizens and members; pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients to de-risk the drug development process; clinicians and doctors to improve diagnoses and treatment options; and research laboratories and genome analysts to process results accurately. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Alumis

Series A in 2021
Esker is a precision medicines company looking to eliminate the “all-comers” approach that is seen with today’s treatments for people with autoimmune disease. Even with the innovation of the last decade, many patients continue to cycle through the approved therapies while continuing to look for the right therapy to alleviate the impact of their disease without life-impacting side effects. Esker leverages a precision analytics platform, powered by Foresite Labs, coupled with a team of experts with deep experience in precision medicine drug development and immunology, in order to create medicines that change the lives of people with autoimmune disease.

Crossover Health

Series D in 2021
Crossover Health, Inc. provides workplace healthcare services for employers and employees in companies. It offers primary, ancillary, and advanced services, including urgent care, preventive care, chronic disease management, health risk assessment, health education, health coaching, biometrics, physical therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture, specialist preferred network, care coordination, health analytics, and remote care. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California with health centers in Silicon Valley, as well as in other locations in the United States.