Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Biotechnology startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
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Atlas Venture | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America | ||
MPM Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America | ||
Sanofi Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America | ||
MRL Ventures Fund | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America | ||
Rhapsody Venture Partners | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Biotechnology Seed investors in Cambridge. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Biotechnology Investors & Funds (Cambridge)
Atlas Venture
Atlas Venture is an early-stage venture capital firm that creates and invests in biotech startup companies led by promising entrepreneurs focusing on life sciences innovation. Its seed-led venture creation strategy rigorously selects and focuses investment on the most compelling opportunities to build scalable businesses and realize value.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Venture Capital
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MPM Capital
MPM Capital is a healthcare investment firm that invests in early-stage companies developing innovative therapeutic technologies in oncology. The firm is founding and investing in life sciences companies both public and private that seek to cure major diseases by translating scientific innovations into positive clinical outcomes. MPM Capita will focus on disruptive scientific developments across multiple therapeutic areas including oncology, immunology, and neuroscience as well as emerging modalities of the cell, gene, and nucleic acid therapies. With its experienced and dedicated team of investment professionals, executive partners, entrepreneurs, and scientific advisory board members, MPM is powering novel medical breakthroughs that transform patients’ lives. MPM Capital was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Sanofi Ventures
Sanofi Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Sanofi. We have the ability to seed and to lead financings in early-stage companies with innovative ideas and transformative new products and technologies that are of strategic interest to Sanofi. Among these areas are rare diseases, oncology, immunology and inflammation, vaccines, potential cures in other core areas of Sanofi’s business footprint, and digital health and data science solutions.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, Financial Services, Health Care
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MRL Ventures Fund
The MRL Venture Fund is the Cambridge, MA – based independent venture capital investment group within Merck Research Laboratories, the R&D division of Merck & Co., Inc. MRL Ventures creates and/or invests in seed and early-stage therapeutics companies, based on translatable breakthrough science, with the potential to deliver highly differentiated new medicines to improve human health.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care
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Rhapsody Venture Partners
Rhapsody Venture Partners specializes in bringing to market breakthrough science innovation in industrial sciences (non-life science). The firm was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Biotechnology, Electronics, Food and Beverage
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Accelerate@Babraham
The aim of Accelerate@Babraham is to support the development of science concepts and the creation of new companies by providing access to equipped communal laboratories on short-term agreements, as well as guidance from mentors and introductions to investors. The concept complements the Babraham Research Campus’ ongoing support of the Cambridge life science cluster through the provision of access to the campus community and infrastructure without the need to be an established occupier on site.
Stages: Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical
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Start Codon
Start Codon identifies the most disruptive and innovative life science start-ups worldwide, seed-funds them and leverages the exceptional resources of the Cambridge Cluster to de-risk and drive their success
Stages: Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Incubators, Life Science, Venture Capital
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