RA Capital

RA Capital Management is an investment advisor based in Boston specializing in the life-sciences and drug development sectors. Their team has been investing since 2002 and is comprised of professionals with training in biology, chemistry, and medicine and also has industry and business development experience at the executive and board levels. They invest in companies with promising technologies and products. Their approach is to achieve a superior understanding of data, experimental/trial design, regulatory process, and commercial potential. When appropriate, they can offer their portfolio companies leads on in-licensing opportunities and strategic partnerships, as well as insight into the demands of the public markets.

Ryan Berry

Analyst

Michael Calore

Director of Investor Relations

Tess Cameron

Principal

Parker Cassidy

Principal

Amanda Daniels

COO

Derek DiRocco

Partner

Amy Donner

Director of Communications

Matthew Hammond

Principal

Nathaniel B. Horwitz

Principal

Peter Kolchinsky

Managing Partner

Andrew Levin

MD

Dan Marks

Venture Senior Associate

Joshua Resnick

MD and Co-Head of Ventures

Josh Resnick

MD

Zach Scheiner

Principal

Rajeev Shah

Managing Partner

Jake Simson

Partner

Laura Stoppel

Principal

Laura Tadvalkar

Principal

Jack Vailas

Senior Associate

385 past transactions

Phathom Pharmaceuticals

Private Placement in 2019
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing and commercializing treatments for gastrointestinal diseases. The company has the rights in the United States, Europe, and Canada to vonoprazan, a potassium-competitive acid blocker (P-CAB) that blocks acid secretion in the stomach. It is also developing vonoprazan, which is in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of erosive gastroesophageal reflux disease; and in combination with antibiotics for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

Xenikos

Private Placement in 2018
Xenikos aims to develop a new medicine, based on the action of antibodies that enables patients suffering serious immune diseases, or rejection after transplantation, to reset their immune system quickly and efficiently. Xenikos strives to develop new, innovative immunotherapy medicines to help restore patients’ health and save lives.

Legend Biotech

Private Placement in 2020
Legend Biotech is a biopharmaceutical company bringing impactful innovations in cell therapy, and accelerating the science. They are committed to improving the lives of patients worldwide. They are also steadfast in their goal to develop innovative cellular therapies that bring us closer to a cure. It develops cell therapies from discovery through commercialization.

GentiBio

Seed Round in 2020
GentiBio, Inc. develops engineered regulatory T cells (EngTregs) for the treatment of autoimmune, alloimmune, autoinflammatory, and allergic diseases. Its proprietary autologous and allogeneic EngTregs platform integrates key complementary technologies needed to restore immune tolerance and overcome major limitations in existing regulatory T-cell therapeutics. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. It has additional locations in Israel and Seattle, Washington.

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.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals

Investor Activism in 2018
BioCryst has over 80 employees spread across their two locations in Birmingham, Alabama and Durham, North Carolina. With expertise in drug discovery, clinical development and regulatory affairs, they continue to advance their compounds, peramivir, forodesine and BCX4208, and to generate new compounds from their own discovery engine—structure-based drug design.

Peloton Therapeutics

Series E in 2019
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.

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.

SeLux Diagnostics

Private Placement in 2018
SeLux Diagnostics, Inc. develops a next generation phenotyping platform for antibiotic susceptibility testing and diagnostics of infectious disease. It develops a synthetic amplifier technology equipment that breaks the speed versus complexity tradeoff in AST testing and dramatically improves patient care. SeLux Diagnostics, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Nimbus Apollo

Private Placement in 2020
Nimbus Discovery is now Nimbus Therapeutics to reflect our transition into a clinical stage company. Nimbus Therapeutics is a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., that is pioneering a new computational technology-driven paradigm to rapidly advance a diverse pipeline of novel small molecule product candidates into clinical development. We are designing highly selective and potent medicines to disrupt known drivers of serious diseases, including metabolic disease, cancer and immune-inflammatory disorders.

GentiBio

Private Placement in 2020
GentiBio, Inc. develops engineered regulatory T cells (EngTregs) for the treatment of autoimmune, alloimmune, autoinflammatory, and allergic diseases. Its proprietary autologous and allogeneic EngTregs platform integrates key complementary technologies needed to restore immune tolerance and overcome major limitations in existing regulatory T-cell therapeutics. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. It has additional locations in Israel and Seattle, Washington.

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.

Collegium Pharmaceutical

Venture Round in 2015
Collegium Pharmaceutical is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of proprietary, late-stage pharmaceutical products. These products address the growing problems associated with non-medical use and abuse of prescription drugs through formulation based improvements protected by intellectual property (IP). Collegium is focused on building a portfolio of products for the treatment of chronic pain that possess tamper-resistant features and provide extended-release delivery using its patent-protected DETERx formulation platform.

Freenome

Private Placement in 2020
Freenome, Inc., is an artificial intelligence (AI) genomics biotech company. The company develops and provides a medical arti?cial intelligence platform for early detection of cancer. It develops blood tests for early-cancer screening and treatment selection. The company also provides clinical research services. Freenome, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in South San Francisco, California.

Precision BioSciences

Series A in 2015
Precision BioSciences is a biotechnology company dedicated to improving lives through its next-generation gene editing technology, ARCUS. Precision BioSciences’ mission is to translate the world’s most powerful genome editing technology into greatly needed products throughout the life sciences. Precision’s proprietary ARCUS genome editing technology enables the production of highly specific nucleases that can insert, remove, and modify DNA at essentially any location in a complex genome.

Zafgen

Series E in 2013
Larimar Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for complex rare diseases. The company’s lead compound, CTI-1601, is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1 clinical program as a potential treatment for Friedreich’s ataxia, a rare and progressive genetic disease. Larimar also plans to use its intracellular delivery platform to design other fusion proteins to target additional rare diseases characterized by deficiencies in intracellular bioactive compounds.

Dice Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
DiCE Molecules Corp. develops a transformative platform for the discovery of novel small molecules directed against previously intractable targets in the pharmaceutical industry. Its technology allows the extension of directed evolution to provide organic compounds as the output. The company also develops a methodology for translating DNA encoded information directly into organic compounds in essence roboticizing the laborious processes of medicinal chemistry. Its technology is used in the fields of pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and materials sciences. DiCE Molecules Corp. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Biohaven Pharmaceutical

Venture Round in 2016
Biohaven is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It has a portfolio of late-stage product candidates targeting neurological diseases, including rare disorders. The company product candidates are based on multiple mechanisms-calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonists, glutamate modulators and myeloperoxidase inhibitor. Its pipeline products include BHV3000-301, BHV3000-302, BHV3000-303, and others.

Avilar Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2021
Avilar Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the discovery and development of extracellular protein degraders, a new frontier in targeted protein degradation.

Satsuma Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2017
Satsuma Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops a novel therapeutic product for the acute treatment of migraine. Its lead product candidate is STS101, a drug-device combination of a proprietary dry-powder formulation of dihydroergotamine mesylate, which is in Phase III clinical trials and can be self-administered with a proprietary pre-filled, single-use, and nasal delivery device. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

RxSight

Venture Round in 2015
RxSight is a medical device company that offers an intraocular lens and cataract surgery solutions. Using a proprietary light treatment that produces precise modifications in lens curvature, RxSight’s Light Adjustable Lens (RxLAL) enables doctors and patients to predictably optimize vision after cataract surgery through an office-based IOL enhancement. The company’s mission is to revolutionize the premium cataract surgery experience by allowing surgeons to partner with their patients to achieve optimized results for every unique eye. It was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, United States.

ViaCyte

Series D in 2018
ViaCyte is a preclinical therapeutic company specializing in regenerative medicine therapies for diabetes. Their therapy is based on the differentiation of stem cells into pancreatic beta-cell precursors, with subcutaneous implantation in an encapsulation device. Data in their publications demonstrate that these cells can produce therapeutically relevant levels of insulin in response to blood glucose, and sustain diabetic animals. Their goal is a product which can free both Type 1 and Type 2 patients with diabetes from insulin dependence on a long-term basis, while reducing or eliminating hypoglycemic, microvasculature, and weight-related cardiovascular complications.

Prevail Therapeutics

Series B in 2019
Prevail Therapeutics Inc., a gene therapy company, focuses on developing and commercializing disease-modifying AAV-based gene therapies for patients with neurodegenerative diseases. The company’s lead product candidate is PR001, which is in Phase I/II clinical trial for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease with GBA1 mutation and neuronopathic Gaucher disease. It is also developing PR006 for the treatment of frontotemporal dementia with GRN mutation; and PR004 for the treatment of synucleinopathies. Prevail Therapeutics Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Third Harmonic Bio

Series B in 2022
Third Harmonic Bio is a clinical-stage company developing a first-in-class, highly selective, oral KIT inhibitor for treatment of severe allergy and inflammation. KIT is a cell surface receptor that acts as the master survival and functional regulator of mast cells, which are immune cells concentrated at the body’s interfaces with the external environment and that act as the key mediator of the inflammation associated with allergic diseases.

AavantiBio

Series A in 2020
AavantiBio, Inc. engages in developing gene transfer therapy and gene editing technologies to improve the lives of people living with fatal diseases. It focuses on Friedreich’s Ataxia (FA), a rare inherited genetic disease that causes cardiac and central nervous system dysfunction. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Gainesville, Florida.

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.

SeLux Diagnostics

Series B in 2018
SeLux Diagnostics, Inc. develops a next generation phenotyping platform for antibiotic susceptibility testing and diagnostics of infectious disease. It develops a synthetic amplifier technology equipment that breaks the speed versus complexity tradeoff in AST testing and dramatically improves patient care. SeLux Diagnostics, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Vivace Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2020
Vivace Therapeutics is a venture-backed start-up dedicated to discovering and developing cancer therapeutics by targeting a novel pathway. At Vivace Therapeutics, they pursue their work with passion, driven by a conviction to help people fight cancer and live life to the fullest. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Vivace Therapeutics is an oncology-focused portfolio-based drug discovery and development company adopting a capital-efficient and modality-indifferent approach to bring novel therapies to patients in need. Their experienced management team and world-class scientists work to advance promising drugs and therapeutic technologies that they believe can help conquer cancer.

Farcast

Series B in 2016
Farcast is a clinical diagnostic company whose mission it is to illuminate personal treatment truth of a cancer patient. The Farcast technology core is a human tumor micro-environment that enables oncologists and drug developers to test individual tumors to determine treatment response profiles. The company has its headquarters in Boston in Massachusetts, and operates a lab in Bangalore in India.

Janux Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Janux Therapeutics develops immunotherapies that generate immune responses to prevent tumors and not affecting a patient’s healthy tissue. Janux technology targets all three stages of the anti-tumor immune response. Janux Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2017 by David Campbell and is based in La Jolla, California.

Lyra Therapeutics

Series C in 2020
Lyra Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage therapeutics company, focuses on the development and commercialization of novel integrated drug and delivery solutions for the localized treatment of patients with ear, nose, and throat diseases. The company’s XTreo technology platform is designed to deliver medicines directly to the affected tissue for sustained periods with a single administration. Its product candidates include LYR-210 and LYR-220, which are bioresorbable polymeric matrices for the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis. The company was formerly known as 480 Biomedical, Inc. and changed its name to Lyra Therapeutics, Inc. in July 2018. Lyra Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Agile Therapeutics

Post in 2015
Agile Therapeutics, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, engages in the development of women's healthcare products. It offers a low estrogen dose seven-day transdermal contraceptive patch system that delivers a combination of levonorgestrel and Ethinylestradiol. The company was founded in 1997 as Levotech, Inc. and changed its name to Agile Therapeutics, Inc. in April 2001. It is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Cerebral Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2020
Cerebral Therapeutics, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company that develops implanted drug-device combination therapies for the treatment of neurologic diseases. The company uses implanted, refillable catheter and pump system to deliver a continuous intracerebroventricular (ICV) dose for the formulation of anti-epileptic drug valproic acid, called CT-010, to treat refractory epilepsy. Cerebral Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Cerebral Therapeutics LLC. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Aurora, Colorado.

Atea Pharmaceuticals

Private Placement in 2020
Atea Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of next-generation therapeutics for severe human viral infections. It caters to the healthcare industry and engages in the discovery and development of antiviral therapeutics that enable patients to have treatment for infections caused by RNA and DNA viruses. Atea Pharmaceuticals was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Merus

Series C in 2015
Merus B.V., a biomedical company, engages in the discovery and development of antibody-based biopharmaceuticals. It develops Oligoclonics technology that offers a class of human antibodies, called Oligoclonics. Oligoclonics is a concept whereby a mixture of various human therapeutic antibodies, directed to a common antigen are produced from a single cell clone. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Driebergen, the Netherlands.

Arvinas

Series B in 2015
Arvinas is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing novel therapeutics to treat a variety of diseases including cancer, pro-inflammatory, autoimmune and rare diseases. Its proprietary approach is the targeting of disease-causing proteins for degradation thus eliminating them from the body. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Connecticut, United States.

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.

Icosavax

Series B in 2021
Icosavax is focused on developing safe and effective vaccines against infectious diseases that address important unmet medical needs and reduce healthcare costs. tHEY were founded on breakthrough computationally-designed virus-like particle technology, exclusively licensed for a variety of infectious disease indications from the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington.

Coherus Biosciences

Series C in 2014
Coherus Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company that engages in the development, manufacture, and commercialization of biologic therapeutics. The company develops biologic medicines primarily for the treatment of oncology and inflammatory diseases. It focuses on process science, analytical characterization, protein production, and clinical-regulatory development. Its pipeline includes Immunology, anti-tumor necrosis factor (Anti-TNF) biosimilar candidates; Ophthalmology biosimilar candidates; and Oncology Biosimilar candidates. Coherus Biosciences was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

TeraPore Technologies

Series A in 2018
Terapore Technologies, Inc. develops a membrane technology for research and development scale bioprocessing applications. Its technology facilitates the purification of biological fluids. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in South San Francisco, California.

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.

Quench Bio

Private Placement in 2020
Quench Bio is a developer of gasdermin biology drugs designed to treat severe inflammatory diseases.The company leverages insights into gasdermin biology and innate immunity to develop medicines with lead compounds that target and inhibit the pore-forming protein that mediates the release of inflammatory cytokines, alarmins, DNA and NETs, enabling patients to get relief from inflammatory diseases.

KalVista Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2015
KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and commercializes small molecule protease inhibitors for diseases with unmet needs. The company’s product portfolio comprises small molecule plasma kallikrein inhibitors targeting hereditary angioedema (HAE) and diabetic macular edema (DME); and oral plasma kallikrein inhibitors. Its products include KVD001, a plasma kallikrein inhibitor that completed a Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of DME; KVD900, which is in Phase II clinical trial for treating HAE attacks; and KVD824, an oral plasma kallikrein inhibitor that completed a Phase I clinical trial for treating DME or HAE. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

TScan Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
TScan Therapeutics is an experienced group of scientists, development specialists, and other leaders driving a cutting edge platform. TScan Therapeutics is an owner and operator of a biotechnology company intended to develop immunotherapy treatments for cancer. The company identifies T-cell targets in a genome-wide high-throughput manner, expanding the treatment of immuno-oncology to patients who have few therapeutic options. TScan Therapeutics is harnessing novel T cell systems to extend the promise of immunotherapy. The company is dedicated to changing lives by discovering new cancer targets and developing safe and effective T-cell therapies for patients.

T2 Biosystems

Series D in 2011
T2 Biosystems is a private company developing a next-generation medical diagnostic platform that will enable rapid and accurate diagnostic tests of all types on a single, easy to use instrument. The proprietary technology combines nanotechnology and miniaturized magnetic resonance (MR) technology and eliminates the need for costly and time consuming sample preparation.

Eliem Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Eliem Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapeutic drugs for the treatment of hyperexcitability disorders. The company focuses on the clinical development of analgesics for the treatment of hyperexcitability disorders, such as chronic pain using neuroscience and translational medicine. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Attune Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2019
Attune Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biotechnology research and development company. The company develops novel oral small molecule therapeutics for treatment of rare diseases. Attune Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

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.

Stoke Therapeutics

Series B in 2018
Stoke Therapeutics, Inc., an early-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops novel antisense oligonucleotide medicines to treat the underlying causes of severe genetic diseases. Its lead product candidate, STK-001 used to treat Dravet syndrome, a severe and progressive genetic epilepsy. Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. has a partnership with Invitae Corporation to offer genetic testing. The company was formerly known as ASOthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. in May 2016. Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

AmbAgon Therapeutics

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

TeraPore Technologies

Private Placement in 2018
Terapore Technologies, Inc. develops a membrane technology for research and development scale bioprocessing applications. Its technology facilitates the purification of biological fluids. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in South San Francisco, California.

Blueprint Medicines

Series C in 2014
Blueprint Medicines is driving the development of personalized, highly-selective cancer therapies that harness the growing understanding of the molecular blueprint of cancer. Using its powerful Insights-to-Validation Platform and proprietary chemical library, Blueprint Medicines is working to develop new therapeutic compounds and combination therapies that target the molecular aberrations that cause cancer and the emerging resistance mechanisms that make it increasingly difficult to treat. Founded in 2011 by a proven team of scientists and entrepreneurs with world-renowned expertise in the development of targeted cancer therapies, cancer genomics, and rational drug development, Blueprint Medicines is poised to realize the promise of the cancer data revolution: truly personalized therapies that improve outcomes and shift cancer to a manageable condition.

Affinia Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
Affinia Therapeutics is a developer of a platform for rationally designed adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors and gene therapies intended to develop medicines for devastating diseases. The company leverages synthetic and systems biology combined with high-throughput screening and tissue and single-cell resolution for people affected by muscle and central nervous system (CNS) diseases with significant unmet needs, thereby providing medical professionals with the rational design of novel vectors and gene therapies with remarkably improved properties.

PMV Pharmaceutcals

Series D in 2020
PMV Pharma is developing first-in-class p53 and p53 pathway modulators for the treatment of cancer. Bringing together leaders in the field to utilize over three decades of p53 biology, PMV Pharma combines unique biological understanding with pharmaceutical development focus.

Century Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
Century Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of induced pluripotent stem cell- (iPSC) based drugs for the treatment of hematologic and solid malignancies. The use of iPSC enables multiple rounds of cellular engineering to produce master cell banks of modified cells that can be expanded and differentiated into immune effector cells to supply allogeneic, homogeneous therapeutic products. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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.

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.

Realm Therapeutics

Post in 2017
Realm Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company passionately committed to leveraging its proprietary technologies to protect and improve the health of adults and children. The Company's drug development focus, utilizing its immunomodulatory formulations, is targeted initially on developing small molecule therapies in inflammatory diseases with potential application in dermatology and ophthalmology, and the potential for broad applicability across a number of other diseases.

Xilio Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
Xilio Therapeutics is a biotechnology company advancing next-generation cancer immunotherapies designed to improve patient outcomes by unleashing the power of the immune system selectively at the site of the tumor. The company’s tumor-selective immunotherapies are based on its proprietary technology, which maximizes the potency of proven immuno-oncology therapies and restricts their activity to the tumor to minimize peripheral side effects. The broad applicability of these therapies across cancer types means that all patients could benefit from these potentially curative medicines. These tumor-selective therapies are designed to overcome the significant toxicities associated with validated IO therapies, such as IL-2 and aCTLA4, which have historically limited the number of patients that can be treated and prevented patients from completing full courses of treatment Xilio Therapeutics proprietary technology enables the explosion of therapeutic activity specifically within the tumor while reducing toxicity throughout the body a nod to the company name, Xilio, derived from the Latin term, Ex Nihilo, meaning creation or big-bang. The company applying its technology to build a broad pipeline of engineered antibodies, cytokines and chemokines as potential new options for people living with cancer. Xilio Therapeutics was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States.

CANbridge Pharmaceuticals

Series D in 2020
CANbridge Life Sciences Ltd., a bio-pharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes healthcare products in China and North Asia. It offers products for oncology and rare diseases. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Beijing, China with additional offices in Shanghai, China; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong.

Clementia Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2015
Clementia is a clinical-stage company innovating treatments for people with ultra-rare bone disorders. The company develops disease-modifying treatments for patients suffering from debilitating bone and other diseases with a high unmet medical need. The company's lead product candidate, palovarotene, is an oral small molecule that has shown potent activity in preventing abnormal new bone formation as well as fibrosis in a variety of tissues. Clementia Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.

Tyra Biosciences

Private Placement in 2020
Tyra Biosciences, Inc. develops small molecule therapies for the treatment of cancer. It offers therapies to combat drug resistance in cancer treatments. Tyra Biosciences, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Carlsbad, California.

Cybin

Series B in 2020
Cybin Corp is a Mushroom Life Sciences company advancing psychedelic and medicinal mushroom research, product development and IP through a multi-tiered pharmaceutical and nutraceutical approach. The company is launching psilocybin-based products in jurisdiction’s where the substance is not banned alongside structuring and supporting clinical studies across North America and other regions through strategic academic and institutional partnerships.

NiKang Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
NiKang Therapeutics is an early-stage biotech company focused on discovering and developing innovative small molecule oncology medicines to help patients with unmet medical needs. Its discovery approach is informed by target structure biology and capitalizes on structure-based drug design enabling a rapid and efficient discovery and development of proprietary drug candidates with the most desirable pharmacological features into clinical studies.

Prevail Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2019
Prevail Therapeutics Inc., a gene therapy company, focuses on developing and commercializing disease-modifying AAV-based gene therapies for patients with neurodegenerative diseases. The company’s lead product candidate is PR001, which is in Phase I/II clinical trial for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease with GBA1 mutation and neuronopathic Gaucher disease. It is also developing PR006 for the treatment of frontotemporal dementia with GRN mutation; and PR004 for the treatment of synucleinopathies. Prevail Therapeutics Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Tenaya Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapeutics for heart failure. It offers cellular regeneration platform, that enables in vivo reprogramming of cardiac fibroblasts into cardio myocytes by delivering proprietary transcription factors; gene therapy platform, that enables the targeted delivery of a payload to cardiac fibroblasts ; and precision medicine platform, which provides personalized medicine approach to treat heart disease. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

Nimbus Apollo

Venture Round in 2022
Nimbus Discovery is now Nimbus Therapeutics to reflect our transition into a clinical stage company. Nimbus Therapeutics is a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., that is pioneering a new computational technology-driven paradigm to rapidly advance a diverse pipeline of novel small molecule product candidates into clinical development. We are designing highly selective and potent medicines to disrupt known drivers of serious diseases, including metabolic disease, cancer and immune-inflammatory disorders.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the discovery, development, licensing, manufacturing, marketing, distribution and sale of pharmaceuticals and nutritional products. The company operates in two segments, Pharmaceuticals and Nutritionals. - The Nutritionals segment is operated through the company's subsidiary Mead Johnson Nutrition Company (Mead Johnson). - The Pharmaceuticals segment is made up of the global pharmaceutical and international consumer medicines business.

Shockwave Medical

Series B in 2015
ShockWave Medical, Inc., a medical device company, develops and commercializes intravascular lithotripsy technology to treat calcified plaque in patients with peripheral vascular, coronary vascular, and heart valve diseases. The company offers M5 catheters for treating above-the-knee peripheral artery disease; C2 catheters for treating coronary artery disease; and S4 catheters for treating below-the-knee peripheral artery disease. It serves interventional cardiologists, vascular surgeons, and interventional radiologists through sales representatives and sales managers, and distributors. The company operates in the United States, Germany, rest of Europe, and internationally. ShockWave Medical, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that focuses on the development of medicine to treat diseases with a genetic origin, characterized by the overproduction of one or more proteins. Its medical solutions are aimed at the genes that trigger the diseases. Its portfolio includes drugs targeting hepatitis B, Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, thrombosis and angioedema, clear-cell and renal cell carcinoma, and cardiovascular disease.

Sydnexis

Venture Round in 2017
Sydnexis is engaged in the development of a proprietary treatment for pediatric progressive myopia, a major global unmet medical need. Sydnexis manufactures pharmaceutical product for ophthalmic disorder or condition.

Hemab

Series A in 2021
Hemab is focused on the development of bispecific antibodies for the treatment of rare bleeding disorders.

Mineralys Therapeutics

Series B in 2022
Mineralys Therapeutics, Inc., a private, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded by Catalys Pacific committed to developing best-in-class, novel therapy for the treatment of hypertension. The Company is driven to bring a targeted approach to the management of hypertension via the development of MLS-101. MLS-101, licensed from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, is a highly selective and potent aldosterone synthase inhibitor that is being investigated for the treatment of hypertension.

Interius BioTherapeutics

Series A in 2021
Interius BioTherapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that targets cancer. The company spun out the University of Pennsylvania and is targeting cancer.

Imbria Pharmaceuticals

Private Placement in 2019
Imbria Pharmaceuticals’ mission is to translate our understanding of cellular metabolism into innovative medicines that improve the lives of patients with limited or inadequate treatment options. The company was founded by doctors and launched by an all doctor executive team motivated by the promise of bringing new therapies to people in need. We are propelled by a deep scientific interest in cellular metabolism and the mitochondria, and are guided by both values and a code of business conduct built upon our commitment to always put the patients, families and communities we serve at the forefront of all that we do.

Sierra Oncology

Series D in 2014
Sierra Oncology, Inc. researches, develops, and commercializes therapies for the treatment of patients with hematology and oncology needs. Its lead drug candidate, momelotinib, is a selective and orally-bioavailable JAK1, JAK2, and ACVR1 inhibitor that has been investigated in two completed Phase 3 trials for the treatment of myelofibrosis. The company is also advancing SRA737, an orally bioavailable small molecule inhibitor Checkpoint kinase 1 is being investigated in two Phase 1/2 clinical trials; and SRA141, an orally bioavailable small molecule inhibitor of cell division cycle 7 kinase. The company was formerly known as ProNAi Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Sierra Oncology, Inc. in January 2017. Sierra Oncology, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Freenome

Series B in 2019
Freenome, Inc., is an artificial intelligence (AI) genomics biotech company. The company develops and provides a medical arti?cial intelligence platform for early detection of cancer. It develops blood tests for early-cancer screening and treatment selection. The company also provides clinical research services. Freenome, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in South San Francisco, California.

ADCendo

Series A in 2021
ADCendo ApS is a biotech company dedicated to developing new types of anti-cancer drugs. We focus on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) directed at novel targets, that have been found to be overexpressed by several cancer forms, that are all characterized by a significant unmet need for novel treatment.

Medeor Therapeutics

Series B in 2017
Medeor Therapeutics is a developer of cellular immunotherapies designed to improve outcomes in organ transplant recipients. The company's cellular immunotherapies consist of approaches to organ transplant immune tolerance and immuno-oncology, enabling healthcare providers to preserve or improve transplant kidney function and prevent graft rejection better than currently available immunosuppression (anti-rejection) drugs.

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.

FORMA Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2019
Forma Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics for treatment of rare hematologic diseases and cancers. Its core product candidates for development include FT-4202, which is Phase 1 trial for the treatment of sickle cell disease and other hemoglobinopathies; and FT-7051 for the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. The company is also developing FT-2102, an oral selective small molecule investigational agent that is designed to bind to and inhibit mutated IDH1 enzymes, which is being evaluated in a Phase 2 trial for relapsed/refractory AML, as well as an exploratory Phase 1 trial for glioma; and FT-4101 and FT-8225, which are selective fatty acid synthase inhibitors. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Lyra Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2018
Lyra Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage therapeutics company, focuses on the development and commercialization of novel integrated drug and delivery solutions for the localized treatment of patients with ear, nose, and throat diseases. The company’s XTreo technology platform is designed to deliver medicines directly to the affected tissue for sustained periods with a single administration. Its product candidates include LYR-210 and LYR-220, which are bioresorbable polymeric matrices for the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis. The company was formerly known as 480 Biomedical, Inc. and changed its name to Lyra Therapeutics, Inc. in July 2018. Lyra Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Imara

Series B in 2019
Imara, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes therapeutics for patients with rare genetic disorders of hemoglobin. It develops IMR-687, which is an oral, once-a-day therapeutic for the treatment of sickle cell disease and b-thalassemia. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Vor Biopharma

Private Placement in 2020
Vor Biopharma, Inc. develops engineered hematopoietic stem cell (eHSC) therapies for cancer patients. It offers VOR33, an eHSC product candidate that is in preclinical development to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The company’s VOR33 eHSCs lacks CD33, a protein that is expressed by AML cancer cells. Vor Biopharma, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Suzhou Connect Biopharmaceuticals, Ltd., a clinical-stage company, discovers and develops novel medicines for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and inflammation. Its products in pipeline includes CBP-307, an orally-active, second-generation S1P1 agonist for the treatment of a range of autoimmune diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, graft-versus-host disease, psoriasis, and multiple sclerosis; CBP-174 for allergic rhinitis and atopic dermatitis; and CBP-201, a novel monoclonal antibody for the treatment of atopic dermatitis, asthma, and other types of allergic inflammation. The company is headquartered in Taicang, China with operations in Melbourne and San Diego.

Versartis

Seed Round in 2010
Versartis is a biotechnology company developing therapeutic proteins for the treatment of endocrine disorders. It develops new therapeutic proteins utilizing the novel half-life extension technology, XTEN. Versartis owns and develops the novel drug candidates that it has licensed from Amunix. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Versartis' lead program, VRS-317, has recently completed enrollment in a multi-center Phase 1 study in adult patients with growth hormone deficiency. The company is staffed with drug development experts and utilizes external contract services to execute on its product development plans in a capital-efficient manner. The company was founded in December 2008 as a joint venture between Amunix Inc. and Index Ventures. The founders are Jeffrey Cleland, Mark de Boer, Willem Stemmer, Volker Schellenberger, and Joshua Silverman.

Satsuma Pharmaceuticals

Private Placement in 2016
Satsuma Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops a novel therapeutic product for the acute treatment of migraine. Its lead product candidate is STS101, a drug-device combination of a proprietary dry-powder formulation of dihydroergotamine mesylate, which is in Phase III clinical trials and can be self-administered with a proprietary pre-filled, single-use, and nasal delivery device. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

Celcuity

Post in 2022
Celcuity Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company, discovers cancer sub-types and therapeutic options for cancer patients in the United States. The company’s CELsignia diagnostic platform uses a patient’s living tumor cells to identify the specific abnormal cellular process driving a patient’s cancer and the targeted therapy that treats it. It develops CELsignia HSF test to diagnose two new sub-types of HER2-negative breast cancer. The company is also developing CELsignia MP test to diagnose 11 cancer sub-types in breast, lung, colon, ovarian, kidney, and bladder cancers. Celcuity Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

NanoMosaic

Series A in 2021
NanoMosaic provides solutions for early illness detection, prognostic monitoring, and biomarker identification. Its protein interrogation powered by nanoneedles enables early disease detection, prognostic monitoring, and biomarker discovery on a single chip. .

ZS Pharma

Series D in 2014
ZS Pharma is a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company based in Coppell, Texas, and Menlo Park, CA. Its core focus is the research and development of highly selective ion-trap therapies to treat serious medical conditions. The company'ss therapeutic candidate, ZS-9, is a novel treatment for hyperkalemia, a life-threatening condition that affects patients with chronic kidney disease, hypertension, diabetes, and/or chronic heart failure. Hyperkalemia is characterized by abnormally high concentrations of potassium in the blood. ZS-9 is currently being tested in late-stage clinical trials.

Lumena Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2014
Lumena Pharmaceuticals is developing oral therapeutics for rare liver diseases to improve liver function, relieve disease symptoms and dramatically impact patient health. The company’s clinical-stage product candidates carry a reduced risk of systemic toxicities by selectively targeting a transporter in the intestine and are designed to be minimally absorbed in the body. Lumena’s lead candidate, LUM001, has been extensively evaluated in other indications across 12 clinical studies in more than 1,400 subjects. Because of the extensive preclinical and clinical data package for a compound at this stage in development, LUM001 is positioned to rapidly progress through the clinic in pediatric and adult patients with several types of cholestatic liver disease. While Lumena’s primary focus is to develop novel treatments for patients with rare liver diseases, the company’s therapeutic approach also has promising potential in the treatment of metabolic diseases affecting the liver, a significant and growing health problem in children and adults.

Be Biopharma

Private Placement in 2020
Be Biopharma, Inc. develops therapeutics for diseases from engineered B-cells in the immune system. It can overcome the drawbacks of current cell and gene therapies, including the inability to provide multiple doses, unpredictable chemical reactions in some individuals, and the need for chemotherapy regimens prior to cell therapies that can be dangerous to patients. The company applies its technology to diseases, including cancer, autoimmune disorders, and infectious diseases. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

TARIS BioMedical, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
TARIS BioMedical, Inc., a therapeutically urology company, develops treatments for patients suffering from difficult-to-treat bladder diseases. It develops therapies for debilitating conditions, including bladder cancer and overactive bladder. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts. As of December 20, 2019, TARIS BioMedical, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Janssen Research & Development, LLC.

Alentis Therapeutics

Series C in 2023
Alentis Therapeutics AG develops and manufactures medications to treat advanced liver diseases. It develops medications for liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Basel, Switzerland.

Calimmune

Series B in 2015
Calimmune, Inc., a clinical-stage human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) gene medicines company, develops cell-based therapies for HIV. The company offers Cal-1, a gene-based stem cell therapy to protect individuals infected with HIV from progressing to AIDS. It also focuses on developing products to address the needs of various types of individuals at different states of HIV infection and with different levels of treatment experience. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Tuscon, Arizona. As of August 31, 2017, Calimmune, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CSL Behring LLC.

Zafgen

Post in 2021
Larimar Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for complex rare diseases. The company’s lead compound, CTI-1601, is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1 clinical program as a potential treatment for Friedreich’s ataxia, a rare and progressive genetic disease. Larimar also plans to use its intracellular delivery platform to design other fusion proteins to target additional rare diseases characterized by deficiencies in intracellular bioactive compounds.

Dice Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
DiCE Molecules Corp. develops a transformative platform for the discovery of novel small molecules directed against previously intractable targets in the pharmaceutical industry. Its technology allows the extension of directed evolution to provide organic compounds as the output. The company also develops a methodology for translating DNA encoded information directly into organic compounds in essence roboticizing the laborious processes of medicinal chemistry. Its technology is used in the fields of pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and materials sciences. DiCE Molecules Corp. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

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.