K2 HealthVentures

K2 HealthVentures is an alternative investment firm focused on providing flexible, long-term financing solutions to innovative private and public companies in the life sciences and healthcare industries. The investment team is comprised of collaborative, experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds in finance and operations, as well as deep domain knowledge across various healthcare sectors. A uniquely flexible, permanent capital structure enables the firm to provide creative, adaptive financing solutions and meet the evolving capital needs of its portfolio companies as they grow. K2HV is driven by dual goals of Profit and Purpose – aiming to fuel the growth of innovative companies that will ultimately improve the lives of patients and giving a percentage of investment profits back to underserved areas in healthcare.

Derek Abel

Vice President

Anup Arora

Founder, Managing Director and CIO

Parag Shah

Founder, Managing Director and CEO

Austin Sherwindt

Managing Director

16 past transactions

TScan Therapeutics

Debt Financing in 2022
TScan is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of T-cell receptor (TCR) engineered T cell therapies (TCR-T) for the treatment of patients with cancer. The company’s lead liquid tumor TCR-T therapy candidates, TSC-100 and TSC-101, are in development for the treatment of patients with hematologic malignancies to eliminate residual leukemia and prevent relapse after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The company is also developing multiplexed TCR-T therapy candidates for the treatment of various solid tumors.

Oncorus

Post in 2022
Oncorus, Inc. is a lean early-stage biotechnology company developing a next-generation immunotherapy platform to treat cancer. Oncorus was founded MPM Managing Director Mitch Finer, a well-known biotechnology entrepreneur. Oncorus is a leader in corporate philanthropy, and has taken a pledge to donate a portion of product sales to fund promising cancer research and to support cancer care in the developing world.

OncXerna Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2022
OncXerna Therapeutics offers precision medicine using an innovative RNA-based biomarker platform. OncXerna Therapeutics is aiming to deliver next-generation precision medicine for a larger group of cancer patients by leveraging the company’s deep understanding of how to prospectively identify patients based on the dominant biology of their tumor microenvironments. This allows OncXerna to pair those patients with OncXerna’s clinical-stage therapies with known mechanisms of action that directly address these biologies, to dramatically improve patient outcomes. The company was founded in 2018 and was formerly known as Oncologie.

Platelet BioGenesis

Series B in 2021
Platelet BioGenesis specializes in the fields of biotechnology, platelets, and drug discovery. They discover a new category in therapeutics. The company is developing technology to produce donor-independent human platelets from human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Click Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Click Therapeutics develops and commercializes software as medical treatments for people with unmet medical needs. Through cognitive and neurobehavioral mechanisms, Click’s Digital Therapeutics™ enable change within individuals, and are designed to be used independently or in conjunction with biomedical treatments. The Clickometrics® adaptive data science platform continuously personalizes user experience to optimize engagement and outcomes. Following a groundbreaking clinical trial, Click’s industry-leading smoking cessation program is available nationwide through a wide variety of payers, providers, and employers. Click’s lead prescription program is entering into a multi-center, randomized, controlled, parallel-group, phase III FDA registration trial for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in adults.

Invaio Sciences

Debt Financing in 2021
Invaio Sciences is a technology company that is dedicated to unlocking the potential of our planet’s interdependent natural systems to solve pressing agriculture, nutrition, and environmental challenges. Invaio Sciences is a flagship pioneering company startup in Cambridge. They are at the forefront of developing novel technologies based on groundbreaking science with an intent to positively impact their planet by enabling the application of breakthrough solutions in agriculture, human health, animal nutrition and animal health.

Aptinyx

Post in 2021
Aptinyx Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing innovative therapies for challenging disorders of the brain and nervous system. Aptinyx has a proven platform for discovering proprietary compounds that work through a novel mechanism: modulation of the NMDA receptor to enhance pathways involved with nerve cell communication. This mechanism has applicability across a number of CNS disorders. Our goal is to rapidly advance our most promising drug candidates into clinical development for indications with high unmet medical need.

Cricket Health

Series B in 2021
Cricket Health is a specialty kidney care provider of integrated nephrology and dialysis care for people with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Cricket Health delivers world-class, technology-enabled multidisciplinary care both in-person and virtually to achieve the best outcomes possible for patients and the best value for partners, keeping patients healthy and out of the hospital, accelerating access to transplant, and increasing home dialysis adoption. We are committed to aligning the success of our company with those of our partners and the patients whom we serve. Learn more at www.crickethealth.com and follow us @crickethealth

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals

Debt Financing in 2021
ASLAN is a pharmaceutical company that develops novel medicines for global markets. It specializes in clinical-stage immunology and oncology-focused biopharmaceuticals.

Vesta Healthcare

Venture Round in 2021
Vesta Healthcare is an industry-leading technology and clinical services organization, dedicated to connecting caregiver insights to the rest of the care team. Vesta Healthcare proactively identifies the need for additional resources in the home and provides 24/7 telehealth support for caregivers and care recipients, with a focus on high-need, frail senior populations. Vesta partners with home care agencies, health plans and providers to create value-based population health programs that emphasize clinical quality, improved health outcomes and personalized engagement. Vesta Healthcare is headquartered in New York, NY.

Click Therapeutics

Debt Financing in 2020
Click Therapeutics develops and commercializes software as medical treatments for people with unmet medical needs. Through cognitive and neurobehavioral mechanisms, Click’s Digital Therapeutics™ enable change within individuals, and are designed to be used independently or in conjunction with biomedical treatments. The Clickometrics® adaptive data science platform continuously personalizes user experience to optimize engagement and outcomes. Following a groundbreaking clinical trial, Click’s industry-leading smoking cessation program is available nationwide through a wide variety of payers, providers, and employers. Click’s lead prescription program is entering into a multi-center, randomized, controlled, parallel-group, phase III FDA registration trial for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in adults.

Colorescience

Debt Financing in 2020
Colorescience is a luxury aesthetic makeup line in the medical and resort spa channel, differentiating their products from other makeup lines through high quality, efficacious ingredients, luxury colores and formulations, and convenience and simplicity of use. With every product the company strives to make a difference in the diminution of skin cancer and skin conditions.

Inari

Debt Financing in 2020
Inari Agriculture, Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in developing customized seeds through CRISPR gene editing technology, aimed at optimizing crop growth in diverse environmental conditions. Founded in 2016 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Inari focuses on crops such as wheat, soybean, and corn, addressing significant agricultural challenges like climate change. The company employs advanced multiplex gene editing and predictive design to create efficient and sustainable plant breeding solutions, thereby reducing the time and cost associated with traditional breeding methods. Inari's approach aims to enhance agricultural productivity while respecting environmental sustainability, and it collaborates with a diverse team of scientists and partners globally to drive innovation in the agricultural sector.

Molecular Templates

Post in 2020
Molecular Templates is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutic compounds for cancer and other serious diseases. It primarily develops a pipeline of therapies through its proprietary biologic-engineered toxin body (ETB) drug platform with unique mechanisms of action which are highly differentiated from antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs).

Companion Medical

Debt Financing in 2020
Companion Medical develops products to improve healthcare with easy-to-use medical devices that utilize state-of-the-art technologies. It has experience in medical devices and critical systems development, and its team is positioned to introduce exciting new medical products that improve and facilitate patient care. The company’s initial products focus on providing improved care to insulin using Diabetics.

Metacrine

Debt Financing in 2019
Metacrine is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on building an innovative pipeline of best-in-class drugs to treat liver and gastrointestinal (GI) diseases. The most advanced program is focused on the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) an important drug target in multiple liver and GI diseases. Beyond the FXR program, a pipeline of novel drug candidates against other drug targets is being explored by taking advantage of internal drug discovery and development capabilities.
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