Redmile Group is a healthcare investment organization that makes venture, growth, and crossover investing across healthcare.

Redmile Group

Pontifax is a healthcare-dedicated venture capital firm.The fund focuses on innovative bio-pharma opportunities.

Pontifax

Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund GmbH (BIVF) invests in groundbreaking therapeutics-focused biotechnology companies to drive innovation in biomedical research. BIVF is searching for significant enhancements in patient care through pioneering science and its clinical translation by building long-term relationships with scientists and entrepreneurs. BIVF’s focus is to target unprecedented therapeutic concepts addressing high medical needs in immuno-oncology, regenerative medicine, infectious diseases and digital health. These may include novel platform technologies to address so far undruggable targets, new generation vaccines and/or new biological entities, such as oncolytic virotherapy.

Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund

Omnes VC is the Venture Capital arm of Omnes Capital, a leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation with €4.8 billion in assets under management and a 20 year + experience in: venture capital, buyout & growth capital, private debt, renewable energy, co-investment, secondary funds of funds. Omnes Capital is fully independent. With 65 business sales including 14 IPOs carried out in 16 years, Omnes VC is one of the key players in France in financing innovative SMEs with expertise in both Technology and Healthcare sectors. Omnes VC has supported 120 companies and has invested more than €500M in businesses such as Scality, Novaled, BioVex, arGEN-X, Pixium, Blablacar.

Omnes Capital

Cormorant Asset Management is an employee-owned hedge fund sponsor that provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. The firm also focuses on both public and private market innovative companies in the biotechnology and life sciences marketplace.

Cormorant Asset Management

Andera Partners, formerly known as Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (EdRIP) As heir to the traditions and values that have ensured the success of the Rothschild family for 250 years, the Edmond de Rothschild Group has established itself over time as a leading player in European finance. Its activities are grouped around two major areas: Private Banking and Asset Management.  The Group offers wealthy families, entrepreneurs, and large institutions a full range of solutions combining a culture of tailored solutions, stability, performance, and innovation. The Edmond de Rothschild Group’s offering is characterised by strong convictions, with the desire to guarantee to each of its customers: A unique, close relationship, underpinned by the know-how and the variety of expertise of a large international group; Autonomous, experienced teams, who anticipate economic trends and innovate to establish long-term performance; The recognised stability, strength, and independence of a family-owned financial group.  Founded by Baron Edmond de Rothschild in 1953, the Group has been chaired by his son, Baron Benjamin de Rothschild, since 1997.

Andera Partners

V-Bio Ventures is an independent venture capital firm specialized in building and financing young, innovative life science companies. The fund invests throughout Europe in start-up and early-stage companies with high growth potential focusing on technologies that provide transformational improvements in the biotech, pharmaceutical and agricultural sectors.

V-Bio Ventures

AdBio partners is a European Life Sciences Venture Capital firm dedicated to seeding healthcare’s step forward. We work with leading research institutions and well-established technology transfer offices, with a strong network of scientific and medical partners, exploring new territories to source breakthrough medical discoveries and drive inventive Life Sciences start-ups to success. We embrace European Life Sciences’ dynamic of innovation. Europe harbors a vibrant environment for medical and scientific investigation, with some of the most leading-edge academic and research centers. AdBio partners seizes the opportunity to highlight their undervalued research programs and assets and participate in structuring Europe’s biotechnology ecosystem.

AdBio partners

The Pfizer Breakthrough Growth Initiative will focus on making non-controlling equity investments in clinical-stage public companies, with a primary focus on companies with small- to medium-sized market capitalizations across a range of therapeutic categories that are consistent with Pfizer’s core areas of focus: Internal Medicine, Inflammation & Immunology, Oncology, Rare Disease, Vaccines and Hospital.

Pfizer Breakthrough Growth Initiative

Asabys Partners is a venture capital firm that invests across the board in human healthcare. The company is active in the health-tech and biopharma industries and aims to invest in Spain and abroad in innovative and transformative technologies. Asabys Partners are motivated by the idea of pushing the boundaries of science and medicine. This is done through the sourcing and financing of the most disruptive technologies, and through the collaboration with the best internal and external talents of our industry.

Asabys Partners

Walleye Capital provides tailored investment strategies, hedge funds, risk management, and wealth management advisory services. It aims to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns through a diversified portfolio of dozens of highly uncorrelated strategies. WOF participates in four core strategy groups, including Equity Long/Short, Tactical, Quantitative, and Volatility strategies.  It was founded in 2005 and is based in Plymouth, Minnesota.

Walleye Capital

Fidelity is a privately owned investment management firm that serves a wide range of clients. It offers services including IRAs, rollovers, annuities, discount brokerage, retirement planning, estate planning, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, and life insurance. They serve individual investors, businesses, financial advisors, and institutions. The firm manages equity, fixed-income, and balanced mutual funds and invests in public equity and fixed-income markets. It also conducts in-house research to inform its investment decisions.

Fidelity

Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health, and medtech.

Canaan Partners

Pfizer provides access to safe and effective and affordable medicines and health care services. They have a portfolio of products and medicines that support wellness and prevention, as well as treatment and cures for diseases across a broad range of therapeutic areas; and they have an industry-leading pipeline of promising new products that have the potential to challenge some of the most feared diseases of their time, like Alzheimer's disease and cancer.

Pfizer

EQT life science develops innovative medicines, devices, and tools to address the single important thing that matters to the preservation of health. The organization believes that such opportunities add value to all stakeholders.

EQT Life Sciences

Dawn Biopharma is a global investment firm of KKR.

Dawn Biopharma

Invus recognizes that every company is unique and that extraordinary business performance cannot be achieved by following a formulaic approach. Due to their unique structure, they have a great deal of flexibility in the types of companies and situations where they can get involved. They know that real transformation takes time and that it is never a straight line. They fully align their incentives with their partners and have the wherewithal and long-term commitment to see through any bumps along the way. They have been successfully empowering owner-managers since 1985. They have been reinvesting the same pool of money from the same group of European families (through their Artal investment vehicle) since their founding. Today they manage over $4 billion in an evergreen fund and work out of offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.

Invus

Sanofi offers research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of innovative therapeutic solutions. It covers areas such as diabetes solutions, human vaccines, innovative drugs, consumer healthcare, emerging markets, animal health, and the new G enzyme.

Sanofi

AgomAb Therapeutics

AgomAb is developing molecular therapies for the regeneration of damaged tissues. Their unique agonistic monoclonal antibody molecules (“agomAbs”) stimulate molecular and cellular repair mechanisms that can potentially restore organ function in patients with fibrotic, inflammatory, autoimmune, and degenerative diseases. The company is focusing on biologically validated pathways, such as Transforming Growth Factor β and Hepatocyte Growth Factor, and leveraging specialized capabilities in organ-specific small molecules and high-affinity antibodies. With a diversified clinical pipeline across multiple fibrotic conditions, end-to-end research and development expertise, a successful business development track record, and a robust investor base.

AgomAb Therapeutics is a Belgian biotech company pioneering and developing novel treatments that aim to resolve fibrosis, repair tissue structure, and restore organ function. The company's pipeline comprises growth factor-targeting antibodies and small molecule compounds, including its lead candidate AGMB-129, a gastrointestinal tract restricted ALK5 inhibitor. In February 2023, AgomAb announced positive Phase 1 results showing that single- and multiple-dose oral AGMB-129 was safe and well-tolerated for the treatment of Fibrostenosing Crohn's Disease (FSCD). It has recently initiated a Phase 2a clinical trial (STENOVA) evaluating AGMB-129 in patients with symptomatic FSCD and received US FDA Fast Track Designation for the drug candidate in October 2023.

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AgomAb Therapeutics is a Belgian biotech company pioneering and developing novel treatments that aim to resolve fibrosis, repair tissue structure, and restore organ function. The company's pipeline comprises growth factor-targeting antibodies and small molecule compounds, including its lead candidate AGMB-129, a gastrointestinal tract restricted ALK5 inhibitor. In February 2023, AgomAb announced positive Phase 1 results showing that single- and multiple-dose oral AGMB-129 was safe and well-tolerated for the treatment of Fibrostenosing Crohn's Disease (FSCD). It has recently initiated a Phase 2a clinical trial (STENOVA) evaluating AGMB-129 in patients with symptomatic FSCD and received US FDA Fast Track Designation for the drug candidate in October 2023.
AgomAb's second TGF-β targeting pipeline candidate is AGMB-447, a Phase 1-ready lung-restricted ALK5 inhibitor for the treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, which received Orphan Drug Designation from the FDA in June 2024. AGMB-101 is an HGF-mimetic cMET receptor agonist in IND-enabling development for treating fibrotic disorders. In October 2023, AgomAb closed a USD 100 million (EUR 94.9 million) Series C financing led by Fidelity Management & Research Company to advance its pipeline.

Innovent Biologics is a leading biopharmaceutical company founded in 2011 with the mission to develop and commercialize innovative and affordable medicines. The company focuses on oncology, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, autoimmune disorders, and ophthalmology. As of March 2024, Innovent has ten approved products in the Chinese market, including TYVYT (sintilimab injection), BYVASDA (bevacizumab injection), SULINNO (adalimumab injection), and others. The company's core product, TYVYT, is an anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody approved across seven indications, making it the most widely approved PD-1 inhibitor in China.
Innovent has a robust pipeline with three new drug applications under review, four assets in Phase III or pivotal trials, and 19 molecules in early clinical development. The company's innovative pipeline spans various modalities, including bispecific antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), and RNA therapeutics. In oncology, Innovent is advancing the next-generation immunotherapy combinations with ADCs, such as the CLDN18.2 ADC (IBI343) and the EGFR/B7H3 bispecific ADC (IBI3001). The company's metabolic pipeline includes mazdutide, a first-in-class GLP-1R/GCGR dual agonist in late-stage development for weight management.
Innovent has a strong emphasis on global innovation, with its Innovent Academy delivering eight novel molecules into IND-enabling stage in 2023. The company has established large-scale manufacturing facilities in Suzhou and Hangzhou to support global supply. Innovent collaborates with over 30 global healthcare leaders, reinforcing its commitment to advancing biopharmaceutical innovation worldwide.

Innovent Biologics

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 ADC Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing next-generation antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for treating cancer. The company's ADCs leverage highly potent and targeted pyrrolobenzodiazepine (PBD) dimer technology, which causes the ADCs' antibodies to bind to specific tumor cell surface antigens. Once internalized, the potent PBD dimer is released inside the cell, creating covalent cross-links between the DNA strands, disrupting cell division without triggering DNA repair mechanisms.
 
 
 
 
 ADC Therapeutics' lead product candidate, Zynlonta, received FDA approval in April 2021 for treating adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma after two or more lines of systemic therapy. The company is also advancing a deep pipeline of other PBD-based ADCs targeting hematologic malignancies and solid tumors. As of May 2021, ADC Therapeutics reported revenues of USD 38.2 million, reflecting initial sales of Zynlonta.
 
 
 
 
 In March 2022, ADC Therapeutics acquired US commercial rights to Overrkey Biological's anti-HER2 ADC Overena, broadening its cancer treatment portfolio. The acquisition aligned with the company's strategic focus on expanding globally with its PBD-based ADC technology.
 
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ADC Therapeutics

Sirnaomics is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of RNA therapeutics. The company focuses on innovative drugs for indications with unmet medical needs and large market opportunities. Sirnaomics utilizes two proprietary delivery platforms: the Polypeptide Nanoparticle Formulation (PNP) and the second generation of GalNAc conjugates called GalAhead.
Sirnaomics has established a robust pipeline of drug candidates, with several products in clinical and preclinical stages. The company's lead clinical product, STP705, has demonstrated positive results in Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma in situ (isSCC) and basal cell carcinoma (BCC). Additionally, STP705 is being explored for focal fat reduction in the medical aesthetics field. Another promising candidate, STP707, is a PNP formulation consisting of two siRNAs targeting TGF-β1 and COX-2 for intravenous treatment of solid tumors. STP707 has shown promising results in a Phase I basket clinical study, exhibiting stable disease response in 74% of evaluable patients.
Sirnaomics achieved a significant milestone by advancing STP122G, the first candidate utilizing the GalAhead technology, into clinical development. STP122G targets Factor XI for anticoagulation therapeutics and is currently undergoing Phase I clinical trials.
In March 2023, Sirnaomics' subsidiary, RNAimmune, received IND clearance from the FDA to initiate a Phase I clinical trial for RV-1770, an mRNA vaccine targeting respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Additionally, RNAimmune obtained FDA clearance for a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine booster candidate, RV-1730.
Sirnaomics has established its manufacturing facility in China, enabling the transition from a biotech company to a biopharmaceutical corporation. The facility has successfully produced a full GMP batch of STP707 for human injection and is expected to support the company's clinical pipeline.
In July 2024, Sirnaomics announced the completion of IND-enabling studies for STP125G, an siRNA therapeutic targeting Apolipoprotein C3 (ApoC3) for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The positive results from non-human primate studies support the filing of an IND with the FDA.

Sirnaomics

Sesen Bio is a late-stage clinical company that previously focused on developing targeted fusion protein therapeutics for cancer treatment. Its lead product candidate, Vicineum, is a locally administered targeted fusion protein composed of an anti-epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) antibody fragment tethered to a truncated form of Pseudomonas exotoxin A for the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).
In February 2021, the FDA accepted Sesen Bio's Biologics License Application (BLA) for Vicineum to treat BCG-unresponsive NMIBC, granting Priority Review. However, in August 2021, the company received a Complete Response Letter from the FDA, requiring an additional Phase 3 clinical trial for potential resubmission. Following discussions with the FDA in March 2022, Sesen Bio aligned on most elements for the trial design and planned to meet again in mid-2022 to finalize outstanding items.
On July 15, 2022, Sesen Bio made the strategic decision to voluntarily pause further development of Vicineum in the US due to the incremental timeline and costs associated with the additional Phase 3 trial. The company shifted its primary focus to consummating a strategic transaction to maximize shareholder value while seeking a partner for Vicineum's further development.
In September 2022, Sesen Bio announced a pending merger with Carisma Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing immunotherapies based on engineered macrophages. This merger was approved by Sesen Bio's stockholders in March 2023, with the combined company operating under the name Carisma Therapeutics Inc. and trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker "CARM".
Upon closing the merger in March 2023, Sesen Bio declared a special cash dividend of USD 75 million (around USD 0.36 per share) to its stockholders and issued them Contingent Value Rights (CVRs) entitling them to potential proceeds from the sale of Vicineum and other assets, as well as a USD 30 million milestone payment under the Roche Asset Purchase Agreement.

Sesen Bio

ACELYRIN, INC. is a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative medicines for immunology and inflammatory diseases. The company's lead product candidate is izokibep, a next-generation inhibitor of interleukin-17A (IL-17A) designed to overcome limitations of monoclonal antibodies. Izokibep is being evaluated in multiple late-stage trials for moderate-to-severe hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and noninfectious uveitis.
In March 2024, ACELYRIN reported positive top line data from a global Phase 2 billion/3 clinical trial of izokibep in PsA, meeting the primary endpoint of ACR50 at 16 weeks with high statistical significance. The trial also demonstrated robust clinical responses for higher hurdle endpoints like ACR70, PASI100, and composite measures, indicating izokibep's potential to provide clinically meaningful benefits. Additionally, ACELYRIN announced differentiated long-term 32-week data from a global Phase 2 billion trial of izokibep in HS, showing rapid, dose-ordered improvement across multiple disease manifestations, including HiSCR100 achieved earlier than reported by other IL-17 inhibitors.
ACELYRIN's other late-stage asset is lonigutamab, a subcutaneously delivered monoclonal antibody targeting IGF-1R being investigated for the treatment of thyroid eye disease (TED). In March 2024, ACELYRIN announced positive proof-of-concept data from a Phase 1/2 trial, demonstrating rapid improvements in proptosis and clinical activity score within three weeks after the first dose.
As of December 31, 2023, ACELYRIN had cash, cash equivalents, and short-term marketable securities totaling USD 721.3 million, providing a runway to support key late-stage data milestones and registrational studies across multiple indications. In January 2023, ACELYRIN acquired ValenzaBio, adding lonigutamab and other immunology assets to its pipeline.

ACELYRIN

Companies that develop engineered proteins that can target specific proteins or cells in the body

Companies that develop large molecules that can be used to target specific RNA molecules in the body, either to silence or replace them

Companies that develop large molecules that combine the targeting ability of monoclonal antibodies with the cytotoxic effects of chemotherapy drugs

Companies that develop large molecules that can be used to replace or supplement deficient or malfunctioning proteins in the body

Companies specializing in peptide-based treatments leverage short amino acid chains, known as peptides, to target and modulate various biological processes for therapeutic applications

AL/ML used to identify potential drug targets, and support protein engineering and optimization

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