Invus

Invus recognizes that every company is unique and that extraordinary business performance cannot be achieved by following a formulaic approach. Due to their unique structure, they have a great deal of flexibility in the types of companies and situations where they can get involved. Perhaps most importantly, they know that real transformation takes time and that it’s never a straight line. They fully align their incentives with their partners and have the wherewithal and long-term commitment to see through any bumps along the way. They have been successfully empowering owner-managers since 1985. They have been reinvesting the same pool of money from the same group of European families (through their Artal investment vehicle) since their founding. Today they manage over $4 billion in an evergreen fund and work out of offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.

Philippe J. Amouyal

MD, Private Equity

Justin Barstein

MD, Private Equity

Evren Bilimer

MD, Private Equity

Francis Cukierman

MD, Private Equity

Raymond Debbane

President and CEO

Jonas M. Fajgenbaum

MD, Private Equity

Benjamin Felt

MD, Private Equity

Aflalo Guimarães

MD, Private Equity

Chris Jiang

Director, Private Equity

Matthew Maslow

Director of Public Equity for New York

Christopher Sobecki

MD, Private Equity

Luc Ta-Ngoc

MD, Private Equity

232 past transactions

Hookipa Pharma

Private Placement in 2019
HOOKIPA Pharma Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, develops immune-therapeutics targeting infectious diseases and cancers based on its proprietary arenavirus platform. The company’s lead infectious disease product candidate is HB-101, which is in a randomized double-blinded Phase II clinical trial in patients awaiting kidney transplantation from cytomegalovirus-positive donors. Its lead oncology product candidates are HB-201 and HB-202 that are in preclinical studies for the treatment of human papillomavirus-positive cancers. The company has a collaboration with Gilead Sciences, Inc. to develop infectious disease product candidates intended to support functional cures for chronic Hepatitis B virus and human immunodeficiency virus infections. HOOKIPA Pharma Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Health Data Analytics Institute

Venture Round in 2020
Health Data Analytics Institute is created a predictive platform that transcends the understanding of healthcare data and connects it to quantifiable, actionable information that benefits patients, providers, and society. But we don’t just translate data, we transform it into a continuum of insights — applicable across all touch points in an individual’s dynamic health journey. It’s deep knowledge that quantifies longevity, health status, health risks, and health costs. But that’s just the start.

Achilles Therapeutics

Series B in 2019
Achilles Therapeutics is a developer of immunotherapies intended to offer next-generation, patient-specific therapies to treat cancer. The company's immunotherapies harness the immune system to destroy cancer cells that target truncal tumor neo-antigens and flags to the immune system present on the surface of every cancer cell, enabling scientists to target and destroy tumors without harming healthy tissues.

Foghorn Therapeutics

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

Descomplica

Private Placement in 2018
Descomplica offers an educational platform that provides students with subject and course materials. It provides students with pre-recorded classes, live classes, online monitoring for math and science subjects. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

ImCheck Therapeutics

Series C in 2022
ImCheck Therapeutics SAS develops immunotherapeutics for patients with severe unmet medical needs. The company primarily focuses on immuno-oncology. It develops immunotherapy antibodies, which include immunomodulators and butyrophilins to treat a range of autoimmune diseases. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Marseille, France.

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.

Engine Biosciences

Series A in 2021
Engine Biosciences Pte. Ltd. develops a validated platform for drug discovering, developing combination therapeutics, and cellular reprogramming. The company's artificial intelligence and genetic perturbation platform allows researchers and drug developers to uncover the gene interactions and biological networks. It provides test therapies that specifically target genetic interactions, and make analyses and predictions for precision medicine applications. The platform provides drug discovery, such as target discovery, drug repositioning, repurposing, pathway, and massive online analysis (MoA) analysis. It caters to the American fortune 500 companies and research institutions. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Singapore.

Seer

Private Placement in 2020
Seer is a developer of a life sciences and health data platform intended to facilitate early, pre-symptomatic detection of chronic life-threatening diseases. The company's platform captures and translates molecular insights from the proteome with improved accuracy and speed, enabling healthcare professionals to detect cancer and neurological diseases, drive earlier treatment and improve patient outcomes.

Black Diamond Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2019
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.

Snag

Series D in 2016
Snagajob is the platform for hourly work with 100 million registered hourly workers and 470,000 employer locations nationwide. With Snagajob, hourly workers find work more easily and employers staff up faster, hire smarter and keep shifts filled. Snagajob's platform for jobs and shifts allows people to land the right work while ensuring employers find the right workers when and where they need them. Snagajob was founded in 1999 and is based in Glen Allen, Virginia, United States.

Abound Solar

Venture Round in 2008
Abound Solar produces next-generation, thin film photovoltaic modules intended to deliver the lowest levelized cost of electricity.

ElevateBio

Series C in 2021
ElevateBio is a operator of a portfolio of cell and gene therapy companies intended to develop, manufacture and commercialize life-transforming medicines. The company creates a portfolio through partnerships with the world's most innovative scientists and inventors as well as it created a centralized facility that integrates all the elements that translate cell and gene therapy R&D into commercially viable therapies quickly and efficiently, enabling patients to get medical products to treat severe diseases.
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical therapies to treat ocular surface diseases in the United States. The company’s lead product candidate is OC-01, a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist that is in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. It is also developing OC-01 for neurotrophic keratitis. Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.

Kronos Bio

Private Placement 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.

Taysha Gene Therapies

Series B in 2020
Taysha Gene Therapies is a developer of treatments to eradicate severe & life-threatening monogenic diseases of the central nervous system. Taysha Gene Therapies is on a mission to eradicate monogenic CNS disease. With a singular focus on developing curative medicines, we are able to rapidly translate our treatments from bench to bedside. We have combined our team’s proven experience in gene therapy drug development and commercialization with the world-class UT Southwestern Gene Therapy Program to quickly and efficiently build an extensive, AAV gene therapy pipeline focused on both rare and large-market indications.

Neumora Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Neumora Therapeutics operates as a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering precision medicines for brain diseases through the integration of data science and neuroscience.

KSQ Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2018
KSQ Therapeutics is pioneering High-Confidence Drug Development: a fundamentally new approach to R&D where the majority of the de-risking work is done prior to the generation of therapeutic drug candidates. Powered by our proprietary CRISPRomics™ drug discovery engine, their team has elucidated the function that each human gene plays in multiple diseases, providing a unique and more comprehensive understanding of disease biology. The quality of these insights enables their scientists to rapidly identify and validate high-confidence, patient-tailored, novel drug targets and then focus their collective efforts on the development of medicines with the greatest potential to impact the lives of patients. KSQ has initiated a pipeline of preclinical discovery programs and was founded in 2015.

Netcontinuum

Venture Round in 2005
NetContinuum, Inc. provides application controllers to deploy, secure, and manage enterprise Web applications. Its products include Web application firewalls that enable data center teams to secure existing enterprise applications; and Web application gateways, which provide application security, load balancing, content switching, connection pooling, caching, and GZIP compression to enable deployment of new enterprise applications. The company's controllers are used for managing business risk, DMZ consolidation, application deployment, instant PCI compliance, failed audit recovery, lowering DMZ TCO, and securing FTP. It also offers on-site installation, training, support, and other on-site custom engagements. NetContinuum serves the financial services, government, e-business, media and communications, ASP/software, healthcare, and education sectors. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. As of July 2007, NetContinuum, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Barracuda Networks, Inc.

Elixir Medical

Series A in 2005
Elixir Medical Corporation, a privately held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, specializes in developing products that combine state-of-the-art medical devices with advanced pharmaceuticals. The company's next-generation drug-eluting stent systems are designed to optimize localized drug delivery to provide a safe and effective treatment for cardiovascular patients.

Achilles Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2020
Achilles Therapeutics is a developer of immunotherapies intended to offer next-generation, patient-specific therapies to treat cancer. The company's immunotherapies harness the immune system to destroy cancer cells that target truncal tumor neo-antigens and flags to the immune system present on the surface of every cancer cell, enabling scientists to target and destroy tumors without harming healthy tissues.

Future Finance

Series C in 2018
Future Finance is a non-government lender that offers student loans. Its mission is to provide loans for students that are simple, straightforward, and based on where they're heading, not where they've been. Future Finance helps students focus on what matters. Therefore, it aims to ensure everyone has the freedom to focus on their studies or kickstart their career whatever their financial background may be. It was founded in 2014 by Brian Norton and Vishal Garg and is headquartered in Dublin.

Imvax

Series C in 2020
Imvax is a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel patient-specific vaccines and immunotherapy strategies for the treatment of malignant gliomas and other cancers with unmet medical needs. Its product, IGV-001, is an autologous tumor cell vaccine that delivers a multi-pronged response against tumor cells by leveraging the patient’s immune system as a defense mechanism. The company was incorporated in 2015 by David W. Andrews, Craig Hooper, Arthur W. Howe, and Peter B. Corr in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Amount

Series C in 2020
Amount, Inc. designs and develops mobile banking solutions for financial institutions. The company offers Amount 360, a cloud-based solution that provides full-stack solutions, omnichannel integration, mitigation strategies, integration hubs, and a proprietary fraud model. The company also offers solutions for personal loans, credit cards, deposit accounts, and point-of-sale. Amount, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Morphic Therapeutic

Private Placement in 2018
Morphic Therapeutic is a biotechnology company developing a new generation of oral integrin therapies. Drawing on discoveries made in the lab of Scientific Founder Tim Springer, Morphic was created in 2015 with co-founders Polaris Partners, T.A. Springer and Schrödinger, Inc., along with ShangPharma Investment Group.

Jumbotail

Series C in 2021
Jumbotail Technologies Pvt. Ltd. owns and operates an online marketplace for wholesalers to sell their products and services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

FlatFrog Laboratories

Venture Round in 2010
FlatFrog's mission is to bring to life the exciting new world of multi-touch computing and applications. Designed from inception for volume production, our patented technologies enable unmatched in-glass multi-touch performance for large and flat displays. FlatFrog was founded by Ola Wassvik and serial entrepreneur Christer FÃ¥hraeus. The company is privately held with headquarters in Lund, Sweden, near the bridge to Copenhagen, Denmark.

Noema Pharma

Private Placement in 2020
Noema Pharma AG operates as a biotechnology company. The company develops therapeutic products and therapies for orphan neurological disorders characterized by imbalanced neuronal networks. It develops and commercializes therapies for conditions affecting the nervous system, including Tuberculosis Sclerosis Complex, Trigeminal Neuralgia, and Tourette syndrome. Noema Pharma AG was founded in 2019 and is based in Basel, Switzerland.

Talaris Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
Talaris Therapeutics is a operator of a biotechnology company engaged in the development of innovative cellular therapies. The company's proprietary allogeneic cell therapy product has shown to induce tolerance in recipients of solid organ transplants from unmatched and unrelated donors, enabling living donor kidney transplant recipients to wean completely off immunosuppression one year after transplant.

ITeos Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
Iteos Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery and development of immuno-oncology therapeutics for cancer patients. Its product pipeline includes EOS-850, a small molecule antagonist of the adenosine A2a receptor that is an open-label Phase 1/2a clinical trial in adult patients; and EOS-448, an antagonist of TIGIT or T-cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains, which is in Phase 1/2a clinical trial. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Inotrem

Private Placement in 2019
Inotrem S.A discovers and develops novel treatments in the field of inflammatory pathologies with a focus on critical care. Its technology includes a TREM-1 inhibitor, nangibotide (LR12), that aims to control excessive inflammation in severe sepsis patients. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Paris, France.

Schrodinger

Series E in 2019
Schrödinger’s industry-leading computational platform facilitates the research efforts of biopharmaceutical and industrial companies, academic institutions and government laboratories worldwide. Schrödinger also has wholly-owned and collaborative drug discovery programs in a broad range of therapeutic areas. Schrödinger is deeply committed to investing in the science and talent that drive its computational platform. Schrödinger was founded in 1990, has over 400 employees and is engaged with customers and collaborators in more than 70 countries. To learn more visit www.schrodinger.com.

Achilles Therapeutics

Series C in 2020
Achilles Therapeutics is a developer of immunotherapies intended to offer next-generation, patient-specific therapies to treat cancer. The company's immunotherapies harness the immune system to destroy cancer cells that target truncal tumor neo-antigens and flags to the immune system present on the surface of every cancer cell, enabling scientists to target and destroy tumors without harming healthy tissues.

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.

Noema Pharma

Series A in 2020
Noema Pharma AG operates as a biotechnology company. The company develops therapeutic products and therapies for orphan neurological disorders characterized by imbalanced neuronal networks. It develops and commercializes therapies for conditions affecting the nervous system, including Tuberculosis Sclerosis Complex, Trigeminal Neuralgia, and Tourette syndrome. Noema Pharma AG was founded in 2019 and is based in Basel, Switzerland.

Seer

Private Placement in 2018
Seer is a developer of a life sciences and health data platform intended to facilitate early, pre-symptomatic detection of chronic life-threatening diseases. The company's platform captures and translates molecular insights from the proteome with improved accuracy and speed, enabling healthcare professionals to detect cancer and neurological diseases, drive earlier treatment and improve patient outcomes.
PrimeraDx, Inc. offers multiplexed infectious disease assays. It provides Scalable Target Amplification Routine technology, which is a method for simultaneous quantitative measurement of multiple target nucleic acids. The company also offers ViraQuant, a multiplexed assay providing quantitative and simultaneous measurement of viruses; and FungiQuant Yeast and FungiQuant Mold, which are fungal panels for mycology testing. Its products are used in miRNA, DNA methylation, quantitative genotyping, gene expression, and viral load measurement applications. PrimeraDx, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Mansfield, Massachusetts.

Escale

Series C in 2019
Escale is a technology marketing and sales company. It is displacing the traditional outsourced agency & outsourced sales model, which has misaligned incentives, fails at leveraging data across online-to-offline conversion funnels and creates sub-par customer experiences. Via Escale's platform, it acquires customers for major B2C brands, managing the entire marketing and sales funnel from demand generation online through closing the final sales with our in-house performance sales center. It is paid 100% in a commission model for each customer it acquires and all marketing spend comes from its own investment to ensure they are truly aligned for performance and have full control over their own decisions. Escale was founded by Matthew Kligerman and Ken Diamond in 2013; and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Sensorion

Private Placement in 2019
Sensorion SA, a biopharmaceutical company, develops therapies for the treatment of inner ear disorders. The company develops SENS-111, which is in phase II clinical trials to treat acute unilateral vestibulopathy; and SENS-401 that is in phase I clinical trials to treat sudden sensorineural hearing loss. It also develops SENS-300, which is under the pre-clinical stage for use in inner ear toxicity treatment. The company has a strategic collaboration with Cochlear Limited to study combination therapies for cochlear implant patients. Sensorion SA was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Montpellier, France.

Thrive Earlier Detection

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

Zero Motorcycles

Venture Round in 2011
Zero Motorcycles, Inc. manufactures and supplies electric motorcycles. It offers street, dirt, and dual sport motorcycles; and accessories, apparel, fairings and bodywork, parts, tires and wheels, and upgrades. The company sells its products through dealers and online. The company has a strategic partnership with Polaris Inc. Zero Motorcycles, Inc. was formerly known as Electricross, Inc. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Scotts Valley, California with an additional office in Noord-Scharwoude, the Netherlands.

Sensorion

Private Placement in 2019
Sensorion SA, a biopharmaceutical company, develops therapies for the treatment of inner ear disorders. The company develops SENS-111, which is in phase II clinical trials to treat acute unilateral vestibulopathy; and SENS-401 that is in phase I clinical trials to treat sudden sensorineural hearing loss. It also develops SENS-300, which is under the pre-clinical stage for use in inner ear toxicity treatment. The company has a strategic collaboration with Cochlear Limited to study combination therapies for cochlear implant patients. Sensorion SA was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Montpellier, France.

Gossamer Bio

Post in 2022
Gossamer Bio is a San Diego-based company focused on the discovery and development of novel and differentiated therapeutic products, to address high unmet needs amongst various targeted patient populations. Founded by the former Receptos executive team, Gossamer Bio’s strategy will be to leverage an asset-rich in-licensing environment, with a focus on areas of high unmet need, utilizing a team with a strong track record of execution in immunology, inflammation, fibrosis and oncology.

AlloVir

Series B in 2019
AlloVir focuses on the development of cell therapies and focuses on restoring natural immunity against the virus-associated diseases. It provides an ideal environment for ViraCyte to develop and advance its product pipeline from discovery through late-stage clinical trials. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Scorpion Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
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.

BioNTech

Series A in 2018
BioNTech is a next generation immunotherapy company pioneering novel therapies for cancer and other serious diseases. The company exploits a wide array of computational discovery and therapeutic drug platforms for the rapid development of novel biopharmaceuticals. Based on its deep expertise in mRNA vaccine development and in-house manufacturing capabilities, BioNTech and its collaborators are developing multiple mRNA vaccine candidates for a range of infectious diseases alongside its diverse oncology pipeline.

Airties

Series B in 2012
Founded in 2004, AirTies is the most widely deployed provider of Wi-Fi Mesh solutions to operators around the globe. AirTies designs and develops software and hardware that wirelessly streams Internet connections and high definition video to multiple rooms and screens. The comprehensive product portfolio includes broadband Internet devices and Internet-based television set-top boxes. Its award winning technology enables seamless wireless integration at the touch of a button, increased wireless speeds, and coverage throughout subscribers’ entire homes. AirTies has an installed base of over 15 million devices worldwide. AirTies’ customers include: Sky (including Sky Q in the UK, Germany, Austria, and Italy), Vodafone, Singtel, Swisscom, Frontier, Waoo, and many others operators. More information is available at www.AirTies.com.

UNITY Biotechnology

Series B in 2017
Unity Biotechnology designs therapeutics that prevent, halt, and reverse various diseases of aging. The company focuses on clearing senescent cells; and designs senolytic medicines. Its medicines target vulnerabilities unique to senescent cells to clear those cells from the human body while leaving normal cells unaffected.

FlatFrog Laboratories

Venture Round in 2012
FlatFrog's mission is to bring to life the exciting new world of multi-touch computing and applications. Designed from inception for volume production, our patented technologies enable unmatched in-glass multi-touch performance for large and flat displays. FlatFrog was founded by Ola Wassvik and serial entrepreneur Christer FÃ¥hraeus. The company is privately held with headquarters in Lund, Sweden, near the bridge to Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kronos Bio

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.

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.

LendUp

Private Placement in 2019
LendUp Loans, LLC provides online lending services. It offers single-payment loans and installment loans. It also provides credit cards and online education courses. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Oakland, California.

Kaleido BioSciences

Series C in 2018
Kaleido Biosciences is a clinical-stage healthcare company with a differentiated, chemistry-driven approach to leveraging the potential of the microbiome organ to treat disease and improve human health. The Company has built a human-centric proprietary product platform to enable the rapid and cost-efficient discovery and development of novel Microbiome Metabolic Therapies (MMT™). MMTs are designed to modulate the metabolic output and profile of the microbiome by driving the function and distribution of the organ’s existing microbes. Kaleido is advancing a broad pipeline of MMT candidates with the potential to address a variety of diseases and conditions with significant unmet patient needs.

Hookipa Pharma

Series D in 2019
HOOKIPA Pharma Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, develops immune-therapeutics targeting infectious diseases and cancers based on its proprietary arenavirus platform. The company’s lead infectious disease product candidate is HB-101, which is in a randomized double-blinded Phase II clinical trial in patients awaiting kidney transplantation from cytomegalovirus-positive donors. Its lead oncology product candidates are HB-201 and HB-202 that are in preclinical studies for the treatment of human papillomavirus-positive cancers. The company has a collaboration with Gilead Sciences, Inc. to develop infectious disease product candidates intended to support functional cures for chronic Hepatitis B virus and human immunodeficiency virus infections. HOOKIPA Pharma Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Seer

Series B in 2018
Seer is a developer of a life sciences and health data platform intended to facilitate early, pre-symptomatic detection of chronic life-threatening diseases. The company's platform captures and translates molecular insights from the proteome with improved accuracy and speed, enabling healthcare professionals to detect cancer and neurological diseases, drive earlier treatment and improve patient outcomes.
KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., formerly known as AESTHERx, Inc., was founded in August 2005 and is a privately held biopharmaceutical company located north of Los Angeles in southern California. KYTHERA is focused on science and innovation in aesthetic medicine. This market is expanding rapidly driven by an aging population, increasing discretionary income, and an evolution of patient preference toward restorative and preventative care. The company uses the tools of biotechnology to develop prescription therapeutics for this emerging market.

Leyden Labs

Series B in 2022
Leyden Labs aims to help people live their lives to the fullest. Its platform targets commonalities of viral families to protect humanity from known and future viruses. Its portfolio of accessible intranasal product candidates may provide people with the freedom to immediately protect themselves from and prevent the spread of many strains of respiratory viruses, including ones in the influenza and coronavirus families. The Company’s energetic team of world-renown biotechnology veterans and fresh talent is dedicated to thinking differently to free humanity from the burden of respiratory viruses.

Vigil Neuroscience

Series B in 2021
Vigil will use the Series A funds to progress its lead pipeline candidate, a monoclonal antibody TREM2 agonist, through Phase 1 studies, advance their small molecule TREM2 agonist to IND, as well as pursue additional assets to grow the pipeline and increase the body of data supporting microglia biology as an important therapeutic pathway.

Faze Medicines

Series A in 2020
Faze Medicines, a pharmaceutical company, develops interventions against driver of disease pathology. It develops small molecule drugs for initial therapeutic focus areas, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and myotonic dystrophy type 1. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SQZ Biotech

Private Placement in 2019
SQZ Biotech is a developer of a cell engineering technology designed to deliver a diverse set of materials into patient cells. It is a privately held company that develops cellular therapies for multiple indications using the proprietary CellSqueeze technology. Through internal research programs and external partnerships, SQZ’s unique cell engineering capabilities are being used to develop a new generation of cell therapies by engineering the immune system both through immune activation and immune suppression for a wide range of clinical challenges.

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.

E-Color

Venture Round in 2000
E-Color develops software solutions for color consistency and optimization on the Web. It delivers enhanced images while shopping online, printing digital photos, playing video games, and watching DVD movies. E-Color, Inc. was formerly known as Sonnetech, Ltd.

Locanabio

Series B in 2020
Locanabio, Inc., is an RNA-targeting gene therapy company focused on developing therapies for patients with severe neurodegenerative, neuromuscular, and retinal diseases.

Black Diamond Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2019
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.

Talaris Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2020
Talaris Therapeutics is a operator of a biotechnology company engaged in the development of innovative cellular therapies. The company's proprietary allogeneic cell therapy product has shown to induce tolerance in recipients of solid organ transplants from unmatched and unrelated donors, enabling living donor kidney transplant recipients to wean completely off immunosuppression one year after transplant.

Bright Peak Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Bright Peak Therapeutics is a biotechnology company with a platform capable of chemically synthesizing and optimizing natural proteins such as cytokines.

SQZ Biotech

Private Placement in 2018
SQZ Biotech is a developer of a cell engineering technology designed to deliver a diverse set of materials into patient cells. It is a privately held company that develops cellular therapies for multiple indications using the proprietary CellSqueeze technology. Through internal research programs and external partnerships, SQZ’s unique cell engineering capabilities are being used to develop a new generation of cell therapies by engineering the immune system both through immune activation and immune suppression for a wide range of clinical challenges.

GenSight Biologics

Post in 2020
GenSight Biologics develops gene therapy-based treatments for retinal degenerative diseases. GenSight Biologics is a privately owned biopharmaceutical company, dedicated to the development and commercialization of gene therapy-based treatments of retinal degenerative diseases. Based on recent results obtained by the teams of its scientific founders, the company develops innovative approaches to prevent retinal degeneration in selected pathological conditions and to restore vision in patients suffering from very low vision or blindness.

Viseon

Private Placement in 2020
Viseon, Inc. operates as a medical device company. It has developed the Voyant technology for use in both posterior and lateral access MIS spine procedures. The company’s technology offers a single-use disposable alternative to surgical microscopes, endoscopes and loupes, projecting the operative field onto a high definition flat panel display within the OR and to remote locations. Viseon, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Irvine, California.

MarkaVIP

Series B in 2012
Markavıp is an exclusive, invitation-only online shopping community focused on the Middle Eastern market. The website specializes in offering flash sales to its customers. Markavıp was founded by Ahmed Alkhatib, who previously spent 12 years in Silicon Valley working in the e-commerce industry. The website enjoys memberships from over 3 million exclusive members across eight Arabic speaking countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Oman.
Cerevel (www.cerevel.com) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing drug candidates to treat disorders of the central nervous system (CNS). The company has a portfolio of pre-commercial neuroscience assets, which include three clinical-stage compounds and several pre-clinical compounds designed to target a broad range of CNS disorders including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, schizophrenia and addiction. Headquartered in the Greater Boston area, Cerevel was formed in 2018 through a partnership between Bain Capital and Pfizer.

Ashley Stewart

Acquisition in 2016
Ashley Stewart is a global fashion brand that stands for uncompromising style, fashion, fit & empowerment for the woman who flaunts her curves.

Rebound Therapeutics

Series B in 2017
Rebound has progressed rapidly over the past 18 months, having developed a unique array of devices to improve the procedural and clinical outcomes of many minimally invasive surgical procedures. In addition to rapid product development of its initial products, Rebound has assembled a world-class Scientific Advisory Board of leading MIS physicians, filed 14 patents to solidify its intellectual property platform and completed a series of pre-clinical studies supporting initial human-use, scheduled to begin soon.

ZenRobotics

Series A in 2012
ZenRobotics, founded in 2007, is a Finnish high-tech company specializing in robotic recycling technology. The company’s main product is ZenRobotics Recycler, a waste sorting system which separates raw materials from waste. ZenRobotics Recycler is the world’s first robotic waste sorting system. The robots accurately separate chosen waste fractions from solid waste streams. Designed to increase the efficiency and lower the cost of waste separation, ZRR is the next generation of recycling.

FlatFrog Laboratories

Venture Round in 2014
FlatFrog's mission is to bring to life the exciting new world of multi-touch computing and applications. Designed from inception for volume production, our patented technologies enable unmatched in-glass multi-touch performance for large and flat displays. FlatFrog was founded by Ola Wassvik and serial entrepreneur Christer FÃ¥hraeus. The company is privately held with headquarters in Lund, Sweden, near the bridge to Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sagimet Biosciences

Venture Round in 2021
Sagimet Biosciences is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing novel therapeutics to treat important diseases such as liver disease NASH and specific cancers, with a focus on targeting dysfunctional metabolic pathways. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.

ezCater

Series D in 2021
ezCater, Inc. provides online catering ordering solutions for small start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Its solutions enable users to order food online for meetings. The company offers ezManage, a catering management platform; and ezOrdering that provides restaurants with means to accept online catering orders on their own website. ezCater, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. It has an additional office in Denver, Colorado.

Lycia Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Lycia Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing technology that utilizes lysosome-targeting chimeras. The company was founded by Carolyn R. Bertozzi in 2019 and is based in San Diego, California, USA.

KSQ Therapeutics

Series C in 2018
KSQ Therapeutics is pioneering High-Confidence Drug Development: a fundamentally new approach to R&D where the majority of the de-risking work is done prior to the generation of therapeutic drug candidates. Powered by our proprietary CRISPRomics™ drug discovery engine, their team has elucidated the function that each human gene plays in multiple diseases, providing a unique and more comprehensive understanding of disease biology. The quality of these insights enables their scientists to rapidly identify and validate high-confidence, patient-tailored, novel drug targets and then focus their collective efforts on the development of medicines with the greatest potential to impact the lives of patients. KSQ has initiated a pipeline of preclinical discovery programs and was founded in 2015.

Booster

Private Placement in 2019
Booster Fuels, Inc. provides on-demand fuel delivery services. It offers a mobile application that enables users to order fuel. The company also provides corporate programs for employees. It delivers fuel in Austin, Fort Worth, the Los Angeles Area, Nashville, Orange County, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle. Booster Fuels, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Mateo, California.

PatientsLikeMe

Venture Round in 2017
PatientsLikeMe is a personalized health network of an integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform. It helps people find new options for treatments, connect with others, and take action to improve their outcomes. The company has worked with every major pharmaceutical company and a range of government organizations to bring the patient voice to research, development, and public policy. With more than 600,000 members, PatientsLikeMe is a trusted source for real-world disease information and a clinically robust resource that has published more than 100 research studies. The Boston, Massachusetts-located company was founded by Ben Heywood, James Heywood, and Jeff Cole in 2004

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.

Zero Motorcycles

Venture Round in 2012
Zero Motorcycles, Inc. manufactures and supplies electric motorcycles. It offers street, dirt, and dual sport motorcycles; and accessories, apparel, fairings and bodywork, parts, tires and wheels, and upgrades. The company sells its products through dealers and online. The company has a strategic partnership with Polaris Inc. Zero Motorcycles, Inc. was formerly known as Electricross, Inc. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Scotts Valley, California with an additional office in Noord-Scharwoude, the Netherlands.

Scholar Rock

Series C in 2018
Scholar Rock, Inc., a biotechnology company, discovers and develops a class of biologic therapies that selectively target dysregulated growth factors in the disease microenvironment by modulating supracellular activation. The company’s drug discovery programs target growth factors which are present in the microenvironments of significant diseases, including fibrosis, musculoskeletal diseases, immuno-oncology, and autoimmune diseases. Its lead products include SRK-015, a selective and local inhibitor of latent myostatin activation for the treatment of primary myopathies. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Morphic Therapeutic

Series B in 2018
Morphic Therapeutic is a biotechnology company developing a new generation of oral integrin therapies. Drawing on discoveries made in the lab of Scientific Founder Tim Springer, Morphic was created in 2015 with co-founders Polaris Partners, T.A. Springer and Schrödinger, Inc., along with ShangPharma Investment Group.

Asher Bio

Series A in 2021
Asher Bio is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of CFO Office transformation, profitability, and cost management. It focuses on building and developing better immunotherapy for cancer. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

AlloVir

Post in 2022
AlloVir focuses on the development of cell therapies and focuses on restoring natural immunity against the virus-associated diseases. It provides an ideal environment for ViraCyte to develop and advance its product pipeline from discovery through late-stage clinical trials. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Gossamer Bio

Private Placement in 2018
Gossamer Bio is a San Diego-based company focused on the discovery and development of novel and differentiated therapeutic products, to address high unmet needs amongst various targeted patient populations. Founded by the former Receptos executive team, Gossamer Bio’s strategy will be to leverage an asset-rich in-licensing environment, with a focus on areas of high unmet need, utilizing a team with a strong track record of execution in immunology, inflammation, fibrosis and oncology.

Asher Bio

Series B in 2021
Asher Bio is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of CFO Office transformation, profitability, and cost management. It focuses on building and developing better immunotherapy for cancer. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.
PrimeraDx, Inc. offers multiplexed infectious disease assays. It provides Scalable Target Amplification Routine technology, which is a method for simultaneous quantitative measurement of multiple target nucleic acids. The company also offers ViraQuant, a multiplexed assay providing quantitative and simultaneous measurement of viruses; and FungiQuant Yeast and FungiQuant Mold, which are fungal panels for mycology testing. Its products are used in miRNA, DNA methylation, quantitative genotyping, gene expression, and viral load measurement applications. PrimeraDx, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Mansfield, Massachusetts.

UNITY Biotechnology

Private Placement in 2018
Unity Biotechnology designs therapeutics that prevent, halt, and reverse various diseases of aging. The company focuses on clearing senescent cells; and designs senolytic medicines. Its medicines target vulnerabilities unique to senescent cells to clear those cells from the human body while leaving normal cells unaffected.

Booster

Series C in 2019
Booster Fuels, Inc. provides on-demand fuel delivery services. It offers a mobile application that enables users to order fuel. The company also provides corporate programs for employees. It delivers fuel in Austin, Fort Worth, the Los Angeles Area, Nashville, Orange County, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle. Booster Fuels, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Kaleido BioSciences

Private Placement in 2018
Kaleido Biosciences is a clinical-stage healthcare company with a differentiated, chemistry-driven approach to leveraging the potential of the microbiome organ to treat disease and improve human health. The Company has built a human-centric proprietary product platform to enable the rapid and cost-efficient discovery and development of novel Microbiome Metabolic Therapies (MMT™). MMTs are designed to modulate the metabolic output and profile of the microbiome by driving the function and distribution of the organ’s existing microbes. Kaleido is advancing a broad pipeline of MMT candidates with the potential to address a variety of diseases and conditions with significant unmet patient needs.

Senti Biosciences

Post in 2022
Senti Biosciences is a team of bioengineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs on a mission to treat the most complex and challenging diseases. Led by pioneers in synthetic biology and computation, Senti is using the latest techniques in the fields to build the future of gene and cell-based therapies. Senti’s proprietary synthetic biology platform provides fundamental advantages for therapeutics development. Senti Biosciences is a resident company of Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS at South San Francisco (JLABS @ SSF).

ElevateBio

Series B in 2020
ElevateBio is a operator of a portfolio of cell and gene therapy companies intended to develop, manufacture and commercialize life-transforming medicines. The company creates a portfolio through partnerships with the world's most innovative scientists and inventors as well as it created a centralized facility that integrates all the elements that translate cell and gene therapy R&D into commercially viable therapies quickly and efficiently, enabling patients to get medical products to treat severe diseases.