Takeda Ventures

Takeda Ventures, established in 2001, is the venture capital arm of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional offices in San Diego, California, and globally, the firm specializes in direct and fund-of-fund investments, focusing on seed to mid-stage biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Takeda Ventures invests in therapeutics, including cardiovascular, inflammatory, metabolic, and oncological diseases, as well as regenerative medicines and novel technologies like RNA and DNA modulation. It typically invests between $0.25 million to $5 million, preferring minority stakes and board observer roles, and co-invests with other venture capital firms. Additionally, Takeda Ventures facilitates preclinical therapeutic discovery alliances and invests in digital health companies that improve patient outcomes and care delivery.

Jiaping Gu

Partner

Robbie Woodman

Senior Partner

Suzie Yoon

Investment Principal

Past deals in Grant

Daily Table

Grant in 2025
Daily Table is a non-profit grocery food store.

Population Services International

Grant in 2024
PSI provides life-saving information, products, and services to tackle some of the world’s most pressing health problems so that people can lead healthier, happier, and more productive lives.

VillageReach

Grant in 2024
VillageReach is an international NGO headquartered in Seattle, WA with field offices located in Malawi and Mozambique, Africa. Through collaboration with public and private sector partners, VillageReach seeks to increase access to quality healthcare for the world most underserved communities, bringing life-saving innovations to scale and sustainability. VillageReach develops, tests and implements solutions that uniquely address barriers at the lower levels or last mile of healthcare delivery in low-resource communities including medicine availability, human resource constraints, data visibility and lack of infrastructure.

Seed Global Health

Grant in 2024
Seed Global Health focuses on enhancing health education and delivery in regions experiencing a critical shortage of healthcare professionals. The organization collaborates with partner countries to address their long-term healthcare workforce needs. It provides experienced health professionals alongside local medical and nursing faculty, contributing to capacity building in the health sector. The services include site selection, applicant recruitment, orientation, training, field support, monitoring, and evaluation. Additionally, Seed Global Health offers debt repayment stipends to help professionals thrive as leaders within their health systems, fostering a positive cycle of advocacy for improved health outcomes.

Reach Out Cameroon

Grant in 2024
Reach Out Cameroon is a non profit organisation aim is to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people using a community-centred approach.

Bulungula Incubator

Grant in 2024
Bulungula Incubator is an NPO that aims to sustainably end poverty in a generation while enhancing community life and cohesiveness.

Martha’s Table

Grant in 2023
Marthas Table is a provider of healthy food and education for children of all ages.

Project Scientist

Grant in 2023
The only focused effort of its kind, Project Scientist was developed to offer girls the essential support unique to each stage of a future scientists' life serving girls/women ages 4 to PhD age. Through extensive research on current trends and practices has built a robust & focused, three-phase, program pipeline to serve as a national model for advancing girls and women, of all ages, in their STEM interests and passions.

American Forests

Grant in 2023
American Forests offers services to restore threatened forest ecosystems and inspire people to value and protect urban and wildland forests. Their projects have restored hundreds of thousands of acres of wildlife habitat, protected vital watersheds, and sequestered millions of tons of greenhouse gases. They are advocates for expanding urban tree canopy and green space, and a key funder of urban forest initiatives that have transformed communities across the country.

Red Sox Foundation

Grant in 2023
Red Sox Foundation is a Red Sox Nation power that improves health, educational, and recreational opportunities for kids, families, veterans, and communities in need. As part of their commitment to creating a good influence in their communities, Boston Red Sox Owner John Henry, Chairman Tom Werner, President/CEO Emeritus Larry Lucchino, and the team's partners formed and supported the Red Sox Foundation immediately after assuming ownership.

Food For Free

Grant in 2023
Food For Free improves access to healthy food through establishing innovative programming and partnerships to overcome barriers and strengthen the community food system.

San Diego River Park Foundation

Grant in 2023
San Diego River Park Foundation is a nonprofit organization created in 2001 to improve the future of the historic San Diego River, as well as the residents of San Diego and its visitors.

Mamas Kitchen

Grant in 2023
Mama's Kitchen aims to offer nutritional assistance to San Diego individuals at risk of undernourishment because of serious conditions like HIV, cancer, congestive heart failure, type 2 diabetes, and chronic renal disease.

Acumen

Grant in 2023
Acumen is a nonprofit organization established in 2001 and based in New York City, with additional offices in Mumbai, Nairobi, Karachi, and Accra. The organization is dedicated to poverty eradication by raising charitable funds to invest in early-stage companies that provide essential services such as clean energy, healthcare, education, agricultural inputs, formal housing, and safe drinking water to low-income communities. Acumen has made significant investments totaling $128 million in 128 companies across 14 countries, impacting the lives of over 308 million individuals. The organization collaborates with notable partners, including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Google.org, to address critical challenges faced by underserved populations.

Urban Farming Institute of Boston

Grant in 2023
Urban Farming Institute is a learning facility offering integrative farming methods designed to improve indoor farming operations. It combines tested, patented technologies with expert support on a global scale, assisting urban farmers in the process of vertical farming and streamlining processes linked to indoor horticulture. To get people involved in growing food and creating a healthy community, it has as its aim to create and promote urban farming.

American Red Cross

Grant in 2023
The American Red Cross (ARC), established in 1881 by Clara Barton, is a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education across the United States. As the U.S. affiliate of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, it plays a crucial role in disaster response and public safety. The ARC is the largest supplier of blood products in the country, collecting and processing around 40 percent of the nation's blood supply for distribution to approximately 2,600 hospitals and transfusion centers. The organization ensures the safety of the blood supply through rigorous testing and research, having been a pioneer in developing testing methods for various infectious diseases. Additionally, the ARC operates a nationwide hemovigilance program that monitors donor and patient reactions to improve blood product quality. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the American Red Cross also collaborates with key committees and regulatory bodies, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to enhance safety standards in blood services.

Boston Community Pediatrics

Grant in 2023
Boston Community Pediatrics is the first nonprofit private pediatric practice bringing equity to pediatric healthcare in Boston. BCP is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses the social determinants of health within a relationship-driven framework.

Atlanta Community Food Bank

Grant in 2023
Atlanta Community Food Bank serves food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, night shelters, and senior centers. The donors are manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, brokers, restaurants, food drives, farmers, and individuals.

Common Threads

Grant in 2023
Common Threads offers psychotherapy, occupational therapy, and alternative school placement. Their purpose is to empower people with autism, mental health issues, and sensory challenges by providing them and their families with real assistance. They achieve this by providing a range of evidence-based, personalized therapeutic and educational programmes that are tailored to an individual's strengths, needs, and aspirations.

Greater Chicago Food Depository

Grant in 2023
Greater Chicago Food Depository they programs includes food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters,

Breakthrough Greater Boston

Grant in 2023
Breakthrough Greater Boston transforms urban education for students and teachers through its unique Students Teaching Students model. Through six years of intensive, tuition-free out-of-school-time programming for traditionally underserved middle and high school students.

Georgia Organics

Grant in 2023
Georgia Organics invests in organic farmers and community allies to cultivate a resilient, local food movement.

Out Teach

Grant in 2023
Out Teach provides professional development for elementary school teachers.

Crohn's and Colitis Canada

Grant in 2022
Crohn's and Colitis Canada is a charitable group run entirely by volunteers dedicated to curing Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis and enhancing the lives of children and adults who are affected by these conditions. Through research, patient programs, advocacy, and awareness, they are altering the lives of people with Crohn's or colitis. They lay the foundation for new and more effective treatments while also resulting in significant advances in the fields of genetics, gut microbes, inflammation, and cell repair.

HelpMum

Grant in 2017
HelpMum is a digital social enterprise that leverages mobile technology and low-cost innovation to tackle maternal and infant mortality in underprivileged and remote areas, primarily in Nigeria. The company provides clean birth kits to women in need and employs a vaccination tracker and AI-driven adviser to ensure babies receive timely immunizations. By using these tools, HelpMum aims to improve health outcomes for both mothers and infants.

EllieGrid

Grant in 2016
EllieGrid Inc. is a company that specializes in medication management solutions, offering a Bluetooth-enabled pill box designed for individuals and families. This innovative product helps users organize their medications and stay on schedule by providing reminders through a connected mobile application. The app not only allows users to program the device and receive notifications for medication times, but it also enables caregivers and healthcare providers to access real-time compliance data, facilitating timely interventions if necessary. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, EllieGrid sells its products online, focusing on enhancing medication adherence and improving health outcomes for users and their caregivers.
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