"From our start to our reaching profitability, Atlas Venture has always supported Actelion's vision of pursuing excellence in medical innovation, clinical development, marketing and sales, even at times when that required significant faith in the outcome of our pipeline. Such attitude, balanced by sound financial judgment, is the best of what founders of biotech companies can expect from their venture-capital backers."
Dr. Jean-Paul Clozel, CEO and Founder
Actelion

Life Sciences Sector

Life Sciences Portfolio Life Sciences Team

Our life sciences team has been an early investor in over 95 biotechnology companies. We actively manage 32 of these companies today while making new investments in drug discovery and biotechnology.

More than 20 of our investments have gone public, with an aggregate market capitalization in excess of $8 billion, and include companies such as Actelion Pharmaceuticals (SWX: ATLN.ZUR); Alnylam (NASDAQ: ALNY); Anadys (NASDAQ: ANDS); Crucell (NASDAQ: CRXL); deCODE genetics (NASDAQ: DCGN); Exelixis (NASDAQ: EXEL); Momenta (NASDAQ: MNTA); Morphosys (Frankfurt: MOR); Nitromed (NASDAQ: NTMD); NxStage (NASDAQ: NXTM); Renovo (LSE: RNVO) and SGX Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SGXP).

We typically invest in:

  • Product companies with clinical candidates or molecules in the clinic;
  • Drug discovery companies with best in class technologies to accelerate and improve lead generation and optimization, make new targets accessible to drug intervention, shorten the path to the clinic or change the overall cost equation;
  • Select medical device, technology and tool companies.

 
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