Funders in our ecosystem

Act One Ventures

LA-based venture firm invests in business enterprise software at the seed stage, and in commercially viable university research ready to transition out of the lab.

Investment Verticals Include: Digital health, biotech, healthcare IT

Investment Stage(s): Seed

Investment Check Size: $300K-$700K

Alexandria Venture Investments

Strategic venture capital arm of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE) that provides strategic long-term investments to innovative life science, technology, and agtech entities developing breakthrough technologies and therapies aimed at advancing human health by curing disease and improving nutrition.

Investment Verticals Include: Biopharma, diagnostics, research tools, agtech, technology

Investment Stage(s): Seed to late stage crossover rounds

Investment Check Size: $250K-$10M

Bonfire Ventures

Early-stage investors who lead Seed rounds for business software founders transforming the industries they target.

Investment Verticals Include: Business software

Investment Stage: Seed

Braid Theory Ventures

LA-based early-stage startup advisory and investment group, Braid Theory, weaves together entrepreneurs, industry influencers, and corporate partners to accelerate adoption of transformative technology, drive market growth and create profitable collaborations.

Investment Verticals Include: Digital health, genetics, biotech.

Investment Stage(s): Pre-seed, Seed, Series A

Digitalis Ventures

NY-based VC firm that invests in solutions to complex problems in human and animal health.

Investment Verticals Include: Therapeutics, biotech, health diagnostics, pharma, pet care, agtech, digital health, life science

Investment Stage(s): Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C

Investment Check Size: $100K-$5M

Embark Ventures

A newly formed LA-based venture capital fund focus on “deep tech” companies with breakthrough proprietary technology which provides a highly defensible competitive advantage in transforming multi-billion dollar industries.

Investment Verticals Include: Biotech, biopharma, med-tech/med devices

Investment Stage(s): Pre-seed, Seed

freeflow

Investing in breakthrough scientific technologies to solve global challenges. Focused 100% on supporting Caltech entrepreneurs who apply their scientific know-how to solve the massive problems facing mankind.

Investment Verticals Include: Scientific technologies, enabled by computer science that focus on human health or planetary health

Investment Stage(s): Pre-seed, Seed

Investment Check Size: Approximately $500k

Kairos Ventures

A venture capital fund investing in groundbreaking ideas, patents, intellectual property, and business opportunities in life sciences, physical sciences, and technology.

Investment Verticals Include: Biotech, therapeutics, healthcare IT

Investment Stage(s): Seed, Series A, Series B

Investment Check Size: $150K-$20M

kickflip bioventures

A southern California focused, biotech and health tech fund targeting investments between late seed to early venture.

Investment Verticals Include: Biotech, health tech.

Investment Stage(s): Late seed to early venture

LONG BEACH ACCELERATOR

From award-winning hospitals to medical labs, insurance providers to senior care, the healthcare ecosystem is a robust and important part of the industry and employment picture in Long Beach and at LBA startups can secure resources, runway, and potential commercial partnerships. Now accepting applications.

Investment Verticals Include: HealthTech

Investment Stage: Pre-seed, Seed

Life Science Angels

Bay Area-based angel investment group focused solely on early-stage healthcare investing.

Investment Verticals Include: Med devices, biotech.

Investment Stage(s): Angel, Seed

Investment Check Size: $250K-$750K

Lynchpin Capital

A newly formed venture capital fund led by Charles Huang focused investments in deep/frontier tech for better healthcare delivery and risk mitigation for payors.

Investment Verticals Include: Digital health

Investment Stage(s): Pre-seed, Seed

MarsBio

LA-based pre-seed and seed stage fund focused on biotech and frontier technologies.

Investment Verticals Include:  Healthcare, therapeutics, immunology, oncology, neuroscience. Synthetic biology and technology – using biology as a manufacturing tool. Future of food – sustainable, healthy food and supply chains. Bio-enabling technology, e.g. research tools., bioelectronics.

Investment Stage(s): Pre-seed, Seed

Investment Check Size: $250K-$500K

OCV Partners

LA-based venture capital firm investing broadly in companies with compelling market positions. In life sciences, OCV seeks to invest in scalable technologies with innovative product engines and novel non-incremental solutions leading to improvements in patient outcomes.

Investment Verticals Include: Therapeutics, med-tech/med devices, digital health.

Investment Stage(s): Opportunistic outside of seed

Investment Check Size: $3M-$20M

Pasadena Angels

An accredited investor group devoted to helping forward-thinking innovators, creators, and entrepreneurs with the mentorship and funding that fuels success.

Investment Verticals Include: Biotech, therapeutics.

Investment Stage(s): Seed, Series A

Investment Check Size: $300K-$1M

Pontifax

Israeli-based venture capital firm focusing on groundbreaking innovations in life sciences.

Investment Verticals Include: Pharma, biotech, med-tech/med devices, health diagnostics, genomics/traits, biologicals, animal/crop health, bio-informatics

Investment Stage(s): Series B, Series C, Series D

Investment Check Size: $10M-$15M

Tachyon Ventures

Invests in early-stage life sciences ventures at the forefront of medicine, biotech and bioengineering. Focus on funding fundamental science ventures.

Investment Verticals Include: Immunotherapy, gene therapy/genetic engineering, organ engineering, stem cell/regenerative medicine.

Investment Stage(s): Pre-seed, Seed, Series A

Tech Coast Angels

A catalyst in the growth of the thriving Southern California entrepreneurial ecosystem of innovation. Life sciences and biotech ventures with a niche dominance, protectable technologies and business models have high growth potential.

Investment Verticals Include: Biotech, drug development, med-tech/med devices, pharma, genomics, molecular and clinical diagnostics, digital health, healthcare IT, therapeutics

Investment Stage(s): Angel, Seed, Series A

Investment Check Size: $100K-$2M (average is $300K-$400K)

Torrent Ventures

Invests in early-stage southern California companies that fuse technology with life sciences, such as startups using data analytics or machine learning to improve clinical trials or other problems in healthcare.

Investment Verticals Include: Genomics, personalized medicine, drug delivery, medical diagnostics, digital health.

Upfront Ventures

A venture capital firm that focuses on investing in companies operating in healthcare and life sciences, as well as digital media, retail innovation, consumer goods and services, adtech, and consumer SaaS and software sectors.

Investment Stage(s): Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D

Vida Ventures

Boston-based life sciences investment firm investing in companies that bring science to life by advancing transformative biomedical innovations that have the potential to make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients.

Investment Verticals Include: Biotech, pharma, drug discovery

Investment Stage(s): Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D, Series E

Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health

LA-based venture fund investing in disruptive technologies in the healthcare field

Investment Verticals Include: Healthcare IT, digital health, wearables, healthcare service companies, med-tech/med devices, tele-health, consumer-facing healthcare businesses. No biotech.

Investment Stage(s): Seed, Series A

Investment Check Size: $100K-$500K; 4x reserve for follow-on rounds

Westlake Village BioPartners

A venture capital firm focused on incubating and building life sciences companies with entrepreneurs that have the potential to bring transformative therapies and technologies to patients.

Investment Verticals Include: Biotech, pharma, human therapeutics.

Investment Stage(s): Seed, Series A, Series B

Investment Check Size: ~$1M-$30M (amount varies depending on stage of technology platform and many other factors)