Altitude Life Science Ventures


Altitude Life Science Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage life science companies. The firm focuses on markets with significant demand and growth potential, backing high-quality teams to build strong, defensible, and long-term businesses. Their investment scope includes therapeutics, diagnostics, gene editing, AI/machine learning therapeutics, medical devices, and more. Altitude leverages its expertise in intellectual property strategic planning to maximize and preserve the value of its portfolio companies.

Altitude Life Science Ventures

Altitude Life Science Ventures

1014 Market St. Suite 200, Kirkland, WA 98033


What We Do

Altitude provides IP strategic planning services, integrating fundamental activities of early-stage life science companies with the creation, development, and presentation of the company’s IP portfolio on a worldwide basis. This includes developing multiple levels of protection to complement the maturation of the company and development of the technology, confirm competitive advantages, preserve product opportunities, complement R&D activities, support business development, and maximize the value of the company’s technology.



Portfolio

Use of plant microbiome to improve yield in high stress environments

#Agriculture

Initial public offering October, 2019

#Biotechnology

Initial public offering February, 2019

#Biotechnology

Initial public offering September, 2018

#Biotechnology

Initial public offering August, 2021

#Biotechnology

Acquired by Pacific Biosciences (PACB) -- July, 2021

#Biotechnology

Acquired by Incyte -- May, 2024

#Pharmaceuticals

Harnessing the regulatory genome to create next-generation molecular therapies

#Genomics

Initial public offering September, 2021

#Biotechnology

Initial public offering November, 2021

#Medical Devices

Initial public offering May, 2018

#Biotechnology

Acquired by Neumora Therapeutics

#Biotechnology

Merged with Tempest Therapeutics (Nasdaq: TPST), June 2021

#Biotechnology

Reverse merger June, 2015

#Biotechnology

Initial public offering July, 2017

#Biopharmaceuticals

SPAC offering February, 2021

#Biotechnology

Initial public offering February, 2021

#Biotechnology

Initial public offering February, 2020

#Biotechnology

Initial public offering June, 2021

#Biotechnology

Acquired by Bayer -- August, 2021

#Biotechnology

Developing novel therapeutics using precision medicine approaches to neuroscience drug development

#Biotechnology

Bringing the combined power of high-technology engineering and advanced biosynthesis to RNA therapeutics

#Biotechnology

Developing defined complex microbial communities to provide a robust and lasting cure for high unmet need diseases

#Biotechnology

A cellular immunotherapy company creating a hybrid platform that integrates innate and adaptive programs to eliminate disease

#Biotechnology

Developing therapeutics for neurological diseases

#Biotechnology

Pioneering Gene Writing™—a new genome engineering technology that writes therapeutic messages into the genome to treat diseases at their source

#Biotechnology

Developing a machine learning-powered platform can rapidly invent new drugs across a wide range of protein modalities and previously undiscoverable protein therapeutics

#Biotechnology

Machine learning-powered autonomous AI science labs

#Biotechnology

RNAi platform derived from cityRNAs

#Biotechnology

Focused on cellular rejuvenation programming to restore cell health and resilience, with the goal of reversing disease to transform medicine

#Biotechnology

Creating a next-generation enzymatic DNA synthesis platform

#Biotechnology

Developing a small molecule therapeutics platform for addressing strongly validated yet historically undruggable targets in oncology, rare diseases, neurodegeneration and autoimmunity

#Biotechnology

Proprietary delivery platform, based on endogenous human proteins, offers the potential to enable genetic medicines across a broad range of modalities and therapeutic areas

#Biotechnology

Developing CD8 T cell immune modulators for the treatment of autoimmune diseases

#Biotechnology

Developing microscale robots to deliver biologics or small molecule therapies locally to targeted disease

#Biotechnology

Computational biotechnology company creating a novel class of medicines to precisely target disease biology

#Biotechnology

Generative design of protein editing chemistry

#Biotechnology

Creating endless RNA (eRNA™) —a new class of programmable medicines capable of expressing therapeutic proteins inside the body.

#Biotechnology

Developing first-in-class gene therapies, Anellovector™ therapies, using a novel viral vector platform based on its groundbreaking work on the human commensal virome

#Biotechnology

Developing drugs that reprogram cellular microenvironments to send signals intended to have curative effects.

#Biotechnology


Key People

Managing Partner

Venture Partner

Venture Partner (UK)

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