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Vertex Ventures HC
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Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
201 - 1000 employees

Bicycle Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a novel class of medicines which are referred to as Bicycles. The Bicycles are synthetic short peptides constrained to form two loops which stabilize their structural geometry. Its initial internal programs are focused on oncology indications with high unmet medical need. The company's product candidate, BT1718, is a Bicycle Toxin Conjugate, or BTC.

ElevateBio
ElevateBio
28 jobs
Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
201 - 1000 employees
Series C+

ElevateBio is a technology-driven company built to power the development of transformative cell and gene therapies today and for many decades to come. The company has assembled industry-leading talent, built state-of-the-art facilities, and integrated diverse technology platforms, including gene editing, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and protein, vector, and cellular engineering, necessary to drive innovation and commercialization of cellular and genetic medicines. In addition, ElevateBio BaseCamp is a purpose-built, technology-enabled manufacturing platform offering process innovation, process sciences, and current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) manufacturing capabilities for viral vectors, RNA, and cell therapy production. Through BaseCamp, its expanding footprint, and its next-generation enabling technologies, ElevateBio is rapidly growing its collaborations with industry partners while also selectively developing its own portfolio of cellular and genetic medicines. ElevateBio's team of scientists, drug developers, and company builders are redefining what it means to be a technology company in the world of drug development, blurring the line between technology and healthcare.

Moximed
Moximed
17 jobs
Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
11 - 50 employees
Series C+

Moximed Inc. is dedicated to improving the standard of care for patients with osteoarthritis, and is investigating therapies to treat a number of affected joints. The lead product, the KineSpring® Knee Implant System, is designed for patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Earlens
Earlens
3 jobs
Health
51 - 200 employees

Earlens Corporation is a privately held medical device company committed to providing hearing impaired patients with a state-of-art hearing solution that is designed to change the current standard of care for sound performance.

SonoThera
SonoThera
6 jobs
Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
11 - 50 employees
Series A

SonoThera is a biotechnology company that creates non-viral genetic therapies using ultrasound. Its mission is to develop genetic medicines that treat the root cause of human disease. SonoThera is expanding the possibilities of disease treatment with ultrasound-guided nonviral gene therapy for diseases with suboptimal or non-existent treatments. It aims to improve the lives and health of millions of people.

Septerna
Septerna
5 jobs
Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
Software
51 - 200 employees
Series B

Septerna is on a mission to make the promise of future GPCR medicines a reality for patients. Combining the latest advances in biochemical, structural and computational drug discovery approaches, we have built an industrialized platform to precisely control and modulate GPCR biology and pharmacology to discover and develop new high-impact medicines. With our Native Complex™ platform, we are opening a new frontier in GPCR small molecule discovery technologies to expand the druggable GPCR landscape. We are always looking for talented scientists, drug hunters, and business professionals to join our mission to launch a new era of GPCR medicines. If you’re passionate about innovation, energized by teamwork, and fueled by the desire to change patient lives, join us and become a part of the Septerna story!

Neumora
Neumora
3 jobs
Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
51 - 200 employees
Series B

Brain diseases collectively represent one of the largest areas of unmet medical need, affecting upwards of 1.5 billion patients globally. Neumora was founded to confront the global brain disease crisis by taking a fundamentally different approach to the way treatments for brain diseases are developed. Our goal is to redefine neuroscience drug development by bringing forward the next generation of novel therapies that offer improved treatment outcomes and quality of life for patients. We’ve built a pipeline comprised of programs for neuropsychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases, each targeting a novel mechanism of action where we can leverage our precision neuroscience approach. Our pipeline currently consists of seven clinical and preclinical neuroscience programs that target novel mechanisms of action for a broad range of underserved neuropsychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. Neumora is committed to addressing some of the most prevalent brain health disorders and transforming the standard of care for millions of patients living with brain diseases.

Administrative Services
Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
11 - 50 employees
Series C+

Spyglass Pharma focuses on the development of novel treatments for chronic ophthalmic diseases based on technology. The company designs to deliver multiple drugs to address additional ophthalmic indications.

Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
51 - 200 employees
Series C+

Obsidian Therapeutics is a developer of a next-generation cell and gene therapies created to extend adoptive immunotherapy to every patient with cancer.The company's next-generation cell and gene therapies with pharmacologic operating systems provide exquisite control of protein activity in cells and create adoptive cell therapies with new functions that are under control of the treating physician using simple, safe, orally-active, marketed drugs, enabling patients to improve on the current generation of cell therapies.

Indapta
Indapta
3 jobs
Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
11 - 50 employees

Indapta Therapeutics is a privately held biotechnology company developing an NK (natural killer) cell therapy platform for the treatment of blood and solid tumor cancers.

Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
51 - 200 employees
Series C+

Boundless Bio is a company that develops novel cancer therapeutics intended to understand and treat untraceable cancers. It aims to be the biopharma company interrogating extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) biology to deliver transformative therapies to patients with previously intractable cancers.

Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
11 - 50 employees
Series B

Palleon Pharmaceuticals is the leading biotechnology company focused on developing Glyco-Immune Checkpoint inhibitors to treat cancer. The company’s proprietary Convergence Platform integrates technologies and insights from world-renowned scientific leaders in the fields of glycoscience and human immunology to create a novel approach to treating cancer. By targeting multiple immune cell types, Glyco-Immune Checkpoint inhibitors will tackle resistance to first-generation immuno-oncology agents, and make possible a wider range of rational combination therapies to treat cancer. While Palleon is focused primarily on oncology, the Convergence Platform is applicable to other therapeutic areas including infectious diseases, neurodegeneration, inflammation, and fibrosis. The company is advancing its pipeline and development programs with a $47.6 million Series A financing from leading biotech venture investors SR One, Pfizer Ventures, Vertex Ventures HC, Takeda Ventures, and AbbVie Ventures.

Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
11 - 50 employees

Epirium is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that has developed unique insights related to the biology of mitochondrial biogenesis and tissue function, potentially resulting in novel therapeutic approaches to currently intractable neuromuscular diseases. The company has identified and established an IP-protected platform of small molecules that constitute a new class of therapeutics with the potential to stimulate mitochondrial biogenesis and tissue regeneration. Epirium is currently planning clinical trials with its initial drug candidate in Becker muscular dystrophy. To learn more, please visit http://www.epirium.com/. Headed by a seasoned team of industry veterans with decades of experience building and leading clinical and commercial stage companies, Epirium is committed to advancing and bringing to market life-saving therapies through novel and uncharted pharmacological approaches. We are looking for passionate and collaborative individuals to join our team in an exciting biopharmaceutical environment. If you are looking for a meaningful position that could transform the lives of patients, this is the opportunity you have been waiting for.

Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
11 - 50 employees

Redona Therapeutics specializes in the modulation of functional non-coding RNA to treat cancer and other human diseases. By targeting ncRNA modulating proteins (RMPs), they use small molecules to modulate expression levels of oncogenes and other proteins of significance in disease.

Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
51 - 200 employees

Sonoma Biotherapeutics is developing engineered regulatory T cell (Treg) therapies to treat serious autoimmune and inflammatory diseases driven by an imbalanced immune system. Founded by pioneers in Treg biology and cell therapy, the company is employing proprietary platform technologies and approaches to develop a new generation of targeted Treg cell therapies designed to induce durable immune tolerance to treat and prevent autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Sonoma Biotherapeutics is based in South San Francisco and Seattle.

Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
11 - 50 employees
Series C+

Neuspera Medical, Inc. is committed to developing implantable medical device technology that will improve the lives of patients battling chronic illness. With the first intended indication for use as Urinary Urgency Incontinence (UUI), the platform technology is ultimately designed to deliver targeted bioelectronic medicine for a variety of conditions. Neuspera’s minimally-invasive implants with external wearable transmitters offer the possibility for therapies to reach deeper, harder to access anatomical locations in the body.

Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
11 - 50 employees
Series A

EyeBio is a privately held ophthalmology biotechnology company dedicated to developing and delivering a new generation of therapies to protect, restore, and improve vision in patients with sight-threatening eye diseases.

Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
51 - 200 employees
Series C+

Allay Therapeutics is pioneering ultra-sustained analgesic products to transform post-surgical pain management and recuperation for patients and physicians. We believe an era of stalled innovation for pain management is over. From San Francisco to Singapore, our team has a passion for solving medical challenges that could benefit millions. We pursue our mission with the energy of a dynamic, global team of entrepreneurs, scientists, clinicians and innovators.

Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
11 - 50 employees
Series A

Matchpoint is a biotechnology company harnessing the power of covalency to discover precision covalent medicines to transform the treatment of immune diseases and other serious illnesses. The company's proprietary Advanced Covalent Exploration (ACE) platform integrates advanced chemoproteomics, machine learning and covalent chemistry library evolution. Matchpoint has an emerging pipeline of novel covalent medicines initially focused on immunology.

Biotechnology
DeepTech
Health
Manufacturing
11 - 50 employees

Nuvaira is a new alternative COPD treatment option that specializes in developing devices for treating lung diseases. Nuvaira is currently working on a novel catheter-based system that has the potential to improve lung function, exercise capacity, and quality of life for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.