Portal Innovations

Portal Innovations is a venture capital firm that helps exceptional life sciences innovators build their companies where they live. We surround these entrepreneurs with the resources and community they need: seed capital, fully equipped lab space, and expertise and introductions to other investors and partners.

John L. Flavin

Founder and CEO

Shahila Christie Ph.D

Managing Director of Strategic Growth

2 past transactions

Rhaeos

Seed Round in 2021
Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality of care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeos represents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.

Grove Biopharma

Seed Round in 2021
Grove Biopharma is a biotechnology company offering a materials science solution to peptide therapeutic challenges, focused on the discovery and development of a novel class of “protein-like polymers” to treat significant unmet medical needs in chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases.
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