| Website | venturefund.novar... |
| Phone | +41 61 324 32 67 |
| simone.forrer@nov... | |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Description | investment management |
Our primary focus is on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms. We balance the therapeutic focus with investments in medical devices, diagnostics or drug delivery systems. In our investments we look for unmet need and clinical impact, novel proprietary science and understanding of mechanism, management and board experience and capital efficiency in the program.
We prefer to have our initial investment at the early stage to build the company and follow with additional investment in pace with the company’s progress. We continue our approach of larger focused investments and anticipate total investments up to USD 15 – 20 mio per company over its life, but it can be as little as 100’000 USD to get started. We will increase our activities to lead or co-lead deals further and remain open to participate in larger syndicates.
Sectors
New therapeutics & platforms Medical devices/implants Diagnostics/biomarkers Drug delivery/biopolymers Geography
USA/Canada Europe Switzerland Asia/Pacific
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Effector Therapeutics | 5/13 | Series A | $45M | 7 |
| Tokai Pharmaceuticals | 5/13 | Series E | $35.5M | 2 |
| Opsona | 4/13 | Series C | €33M | 8 |
| Advanced Animal Diagnostics | 4/13 | Series B | $6M | 2 |
| GenSight Biologics | 4/13 | Series A | €32M | 4 |
| Galera Therapeutics | 12/12 | Series A | $11M | 3 |
| Bicycle Therapeutics | 12/12 | Venture Round | £3.75M | 5 |
| Tokai Pharmaceuticals | 9/11 | Series D | $23M | 2 |
| Pulmatrix | 8/11 | Series B | $14M | 4 |
| Atlas Genetics | 7/11 | Series B | £16.9M | 5 |
| MyoPowers Medical Technologies | 7/11 | Series B | $16M | 3 |
| Sorbent Therapeutics | 6/11 | Series B | $36M | 5 |
| Akebia Therapeutics | 4/11 | Series B | $22M | 7 |
| ProCertus BioPharm | 4/11 | Series A | $1.7M | 1 |
| Anchor Therapeutics | 8/10 | Series B | $10M | 3 |
| NanoPowers | 6/10 | Series A | $4.5M | 3 |
| Merus | 1/10 | Series B | €21.7M | 4 |
| Cellerix | 1/10 | Series C | $37.7M | 6 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics | 1/10 | Series B | $22M | 4 |
| MicroCHIPS | 1/10 | Venture Round | $16.5M | 9 |
| GlycoMimetics | 12/09 | Series C | $38M | 5 |
| Oxagen | 11/09 | Series C | $26.7M | 9 |
| Covagen | 10/09 | Seed | 2 | |
| PharmAbcine | 9/09 | Series A | $6M | 4 |
| Akebia Therapeutics | 9/09 | Series A | $16M | 5 |
| Opsona | 6/09 | Series B | $4.6M | 6 |
| Tokai Pharmaceuticals | 6/09 | Series D | $22M | 2 |
| NovImmune | 5/09 | Series D | $54.8M | 7 |
| Visiogen | 5/09 | Series D | $40M | 7 |
| Intradigm Corporation | 1/09 | Series B | $21.4M | 8 |
| Tepha | 6/07 | Series B | $10.7M | 4 |
| Omeros | 2/07 | Series E | $63M | 8 |
| Biofisica | 10/06 | Series A | $5M | 3 |
| ESBATech | 8/06 | Series B | $41M | 7 |
| Viron Therapeutics | 5/06 | Series A | $20M | 6 |
| Catalyst Biosciences | 2/06 | Series B | $30M | 6 |
| Covalys Biosciences | 2/05 | Series B | $2.59M | 3 |
| NovImmune | 5/00 | Series A | $14M | 2 |
