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This list aims to provide a list of those recently active investors in the Pharmaceutical space.
Purpose of this list: Finding and meeting VC’s and investors is no easy task for any founder no matter how well connected they might be. This list is aimed to provide a starting point highlighting some of the most recently active investors.
Great list… now what: If you’re a founder looking to pitch your startup you first need to create a short list of investors you want to pitch to. This list could provide part of that. Pick a few companies in this list, see their past investments, which countries they invest in and craft a personal email or Linkedin message to them if you think they would be interested.
I sent a load of emails, but didn’t get any responses: Welcome to the startup world… But in all seriousness some VC’s will get back to you with feedback if you’re lucky, but most are simply too busy to deal with all the messages they get.
Do not get discouraged, send a follow up email asking for feedback and work on your pitching. Rejection is not a reflection on your company, just how you pitched it. There is countless stories of people getting rejected 100 times before finally getting funding. See the Qwil story.
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New Enterprise Associates
New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
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Founders: Chuck Newhall, Frank A. Bonsal, Jr., Richard Kramlich
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Number of Employees: 51-100
Venrock
Venrock is a venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare companies.
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Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Number of Employees: 51-100
Menlo Ventures
Menlo Ventures provides capital for consumer, enterprise, and life science technologies from seed to growth stages.
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Founders: Henry DuBose Montgomery
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Atlas Venture
Atlas Venture creates and invests in biotech startup companies with seed and early stage venture investments.
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Founders: Michiel de Haan
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
ARCH Venture Partners
ARCH is an early-stage venture firm focused on life science discoveries to prevent, detect and cure disease.
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Founders: Clinton Bybee, Keith Crandell, Robert Nelsen, Steven Lazarus
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Domain Associates
Domain Associates is a venture capital firm with an exclusive focus on life sciences.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Advanced Technology Ventures
Advanced Technology Ventures focuses on investing in the ICT, infrastructure, consumer technology, bio-pharmaceuticals and medical industry.
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Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
F-Prime Capital
F-Prime Capital is a global venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology.
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Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Inovia Capital
Inovia Capital specializes in investments in early stage, seed, mid venture, late venture, growth capital and start-up stage companies.
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Founders: Chris Arsenault
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Number of Employees: 11-50
Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category ventures to transform human health and sustainability.
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Founders: Edwin Kania, Noubar Afeyan
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 101-250
Frazier Healthcare Partners
Frazier Healthcare Partners is a healthcare investment firm for pharmaceuticals, healthcare services, & medical products.
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Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Number of Employees: 101-250
Avalon Ventures
Avalon Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund focused on information technology and life sciences.
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Founders: Kevin Kinsella
Location: La Jolla, California, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
OUP (Osage University Partners)
OUP is a venture capital fund investing in start-ups that commercialize university research.
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Founders: Robert Adelson
Location: Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
Number of Employees: 51-100
Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation
Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, a venture capital subsidiary, finances technology companies focused on patient health.
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Founders: John L. Cassis
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
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Mumbai Angels
Mumbai Angels, an Indian angel investment network, connects startups with entrepreneurs and professionals who are willing to fund them.
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Founders: Prashant Choksey, Praveen Chakravarty
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Number of Employees: 101-250
Maverick Ventures
Maverick Ventures is a registered investment advisor managing private investment funds for qualified investors.
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Founders: Ambar Bhattacharyya, David Singer, Lee Ainslie, Matthew Kinsella
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Number of Employees: 101-250
Oriental Fortune Capital
Oriental Fortune Capital is venture capital investment firms in China.
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Founders: Wei Chen
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Number of Employees: 101-250
Vivo Capital
Vivo Capital is a global investment firm focused on healthcare.
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Founders: Edgar G. Engleman, Frank Kung
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Number of Employees: 51-100
Advantage Capital
Advantage Capital specializes in growth equity, lending, and mezzanine debt capital investment in companies at all stages of development.
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Founders: David Bergmann, Martin Bodenham, Steven T. Stull
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Number of Employees: 101-250
Rho Ventures
Rho Ventures is a private equity firm that invests in high growth companies across multiple sectors.
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Location: New York, New York, United States
Number of Employees: 101-250
Capstone Partners Co., Ltd.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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Location: Seoul, Seoul-t’ukpyolsi, South Korea
Number of Employees: 11-50
Lilly Asia Ventures
Lilly Asian Ventures makes venture capital investments in Asia for Eli Lilly and Company, a global innovation-driven pharmaceutical
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Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Number of Employees: 11-50
Boston Millennia Partners
Boston Millennia Partners provides private equity financing to high growth companies in the healthcare and business services industries.
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Founders: Dana Callow
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Catapult Ventures
Catapult Ventures specialises in providing Equity Capital for businesses requiring between £50k and £2m.
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Location: Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Number of Employees: 11-50
Sanderling Ventures
Sanderling Ventures is an investment firm that works on building and funding new biomedical companies.
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Founders: Robert McNeil
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Essex Woodlands Healthcare Partners
Essex Woodlands is a healthcare growth equity and venture capital firm.
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Founders: Jim Currie, Marty Sutter
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Delta Partners
Delta Partners is a venture capital firm focused on investments in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
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Founders: Frank Kenny
Location: Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland
Number of Employees: 11-50
Pontifax
Pontifax is a venture capital firm that finances pharmaceutical and life sciences companies.
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Founders: Ran Nussbaum, Tomer Kariv
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
Number of Employees: 44105
BioMedPartners
BioMedPartners is one of the leading European venture capital firms.
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Founders: Gerhard Ries
Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Number of Employees: 44105
Peregrine Ventures
Peregrine Ventures, Israel’s leading fund for cross stage investments, focused on investing in promising Life Science companies
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Founders: Boaz Lifschitz, Eyal Lifschitz
Location: Or Yehuda, Tel Aviv, Israel
Number of Employees: 44105
Lumira Ventures
Canada’s leading health care & life sciences venture capital firm with a 30-year reputation building companies across North America.
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Number of Employees: 11-50
China Merchants Capital
China Merchants Capital is engaged in alternative investment and asset management.
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Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Number of Employees: 251-500
M Ventures
M Ventures is the corporate venture arm of the EMD Group (Parent Company: Merck KGaA, Germany – dba. EMD Group in U.S. and Canada).
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Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Number of Employees: 11-50
New Science Ventures
New Science Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investments in life sciences and information technology companies.
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Founders: Somu Subramaniam
Location: New York, New York, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
TPG Biotech
TPG Biotech is a growth-stage equity and venture investment platform focused on the biotechnology industry.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Johnson & Johnson Innovation
Johnson & Johnson Innovation collaboratea with innovators to incorporate science into healthcare solutions.
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Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
BioGenerator
BioGenerator is a Missouri-based venture development organization providing startup bioscience companies with seed investment.
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Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Quaker BioVentures
Quaker BioVentures is a venture capital firm investing in life science companies. The firm leads investments across the spectrum of the
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Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Neomed Management
Neomed Management is an international venture capital investment firm focused on the healthcare industry.
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Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Number of Employees: 44105
Latterell Venture Partners
Latterell Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in startups and early stage healthcare companies.
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Founders: Larry Lasky, Pat Latterell
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Share Capital is China’s first limited partnership professional investment institution.
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Founders: Cui Xinxin
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Number of Employees: 11-50
Novartis
Novartis is a healthcare company that provides solutions to address the evolving needs of patients worldwide.
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Founders: Alexander Clavel, Joerg Reinhardt, Johann Rudolf
Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Number of Employees: 10001
Sunstone Life Science Ventures
Sunstone Life Science Ventures is a European, early-stage VC investing in novel pharmaceutical ingredients for human therapeutic use
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Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Number of Employees: 11-50
Lightstone Ventures
Lightstone Ventures is a leading global venture capital firm.
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Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Aperture Venture Partners
Aperture Venture Partners is a New York-based venture capital focused on medical device, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and diagnostic sectors.
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Founders: Eric H. Sillman
Location: New York, New York, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Apple Tree Partners
Apple Tree Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in pharmaceuticals, biotech, medtech, and healthcare services.
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Location: New York, New York, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Schooner Capital
Schooner Capital is a Boston-based private investment firm engaged in venture capital, growth equity, and public securities.
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Founders: Vin Ryan
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Inventages Venture Capital Investment Inc.
Inventages Venture Capital Investment Inc is an investment arm of Nestle SA specializing in PIPES, seed, early, mid, and late venture
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Founders: Gunnar Weikert
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Number of Employees: 11-50
Hony Capital
Hony Capitalis is an investment management firm.
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Founders: John Zhao
Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
Number of Employees: 101-250
Merieux Developpement
Merieux Developpement is an investment firm that specializes in healthcare and nutrition sectors.
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Founders: Francois Valencony
Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
Number of Employees: 11-50
Life Science Angels
Life Science Angels offers angel capital to early-stage biotech and medical device companies as a California-based company.
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Founders: Allan May
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Number of Employees: 101-250
Mandra Capital
Mandra Capital is an investment holding company that provides seed, early, and later stage venture and private equity investments.
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Founders: Song Yi Zhang
Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Number of Employees: 44105
CIBC Capital Partners
CIBC Capital Partners develop customized solutions that enable them to access capital, expand their operations and actively invest.
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
McKesson Ventures
McKesson Ventures is a California-based venture capital that focuses on the healthcare industry.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
AbbVie Biotech Ventures
AbbVie Biotech Ventures, an Illinois-based company, makes investments in emerging biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
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Location: North Chicago, Illinois, United States
Number of Employees: 10001
The Angels’ Forum
The Angels’ Forum is a hybrid venture/angel firm that invests in Software, Technology, and Life Sciences.
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Founders: Carol Sands
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Johann “Hansi” Hansmann
Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann is Austrian and studied economics in Vienna. Most of his career, he held senior positions in the international pharm…
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Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
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WuXi AppTec
WuXi AppTec provides a broad portfolio of R&D and manufacturing services that enable companies in the pharmaceutical.
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Founders: Ge Li, John J. Baldwin, Zhaohui Zhang
Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Number of Employees: 10001
Capital Cell
Capital Cell is a European equity crowdfunding platform for biotech & healthcare projects based in Barcelona and Cambridge/UK.
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Founders: Daniel Oliver
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Number of Employees: 11-50
BioVenture
BioVenture is a Chinese venture capital firm that offers early and growth stage investment services.
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Founders: Jacky Chen
Location: Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Number of Employees: 11-50
