Northpond Ventures
Northpond Ventures is a science-driven venture capital firm dedicated to advancing science and technology for the benefit of humanity. The firm focuses on building and supporting breakthrough science and technology-driven businesses to create a marked impact on humanity. With a strong emphasis on collaboration with leading academic institutions, Northpond Ventures aims to translate scientific discoveries into viable businesses, particularly in the fields of biotechnology, diagnostics, digital health, and environmental solutions.
Northpond Ventures
What We Do
Northpond Labs provides capital to support early-stage science at leading academic institutions, enabling the translation of scientific discoveries from the lab to create companies ready for seed-stage funding.
Northpond Labs advises academic partners on the intricacies of the venture process, fostering an entrepreneurial culture to advance scientific discoveries.
Northpond Labs collaborates with scientists and entrepreneurs to translate scientific discoveries into commercial opportunities, providing strategic guidance and support.
Northpond Builds assists in negotiating intellectual property licenses from academic institutions to facilitate company formation.
Northpond Builds provides support in developing product and pipeline strategies for emerging companies.
Northpond Builds supports the formation of companies by providing direct support for critical early-stage activities.
Northpond Builds facilitates introductions to investor networks to support further investment in emerging companies.
Northpond Builds establishes preferred vendor relationships to support the operational needs of emerging companies.
Portfolio
Engineering cell lines to address critical challenges in gene therapy manufacturing.
#R&D Tools
Makes handheld and desktop mass spectrometry devices to enable lab analysis wherever and whenever it’s needed.
#R&D Tools
Combines advances in protein engineering, nucleic acid chemistry, and disease gene biology to achieve cell-specific oligonucleotide delivery.
#Biotechnology
Pioneering the field of upregulation to restore healthy gene expression in diseased cells by programmable modulation of a new class of RNA called regRNA.
#Biotechnology
Developing oncolytic viral immunotherapies for the treatment of high unmet need cancers such as prostate and glioblastoma.
#Biotechnology
Expands the number of samples a lab can process when using the same equipment and lab technicians, without sacrificing accuracy.
#Diagnostics
Helps founders launch successful therapeutics companies by serving as their drug discovery copilot and seed investor.
#Biotechnology
A secure cloud platform and global network for scientific collaboration to support accelerating discoveries in genomic, multiomic, and precision medicine.
#Digital Health
The first evidence-based, whole-person care model for individuals and populations with substance use disorders and mental health needs.
#Digital Health
A live tumor imaging company developing novel cancer diagnostic solutions to predict treatment outcomes and accelerate drug development.
#Diagnostics
Pioneering organ-on-a-chip technology and enabling laboratory simulation of the human response to medicines, chemicals, and foods.
#R&D Tools
Simplifies the design and authoring of complex clinical trials by harnessing the power of smart digital protocols.
#Digital Health
Creating off-the-shelf blood stem cell therapies to provide accessible, tailored alternatives for all patients in need.
#Biotechnology
Reimagining the tumor microenvironment by creating anti-cancer therapies that lead to more effective treatment.
#Biotechnology
Develops rapid tests to read a patient’s immune system to better characterize diseases, such as sepsis and fever of unknown origin.
#Diagnostics
Provides drug producers a rapid system to confirm their batches of drugs are meeting high-quality standards.
#R&D Tools
Enables access to the living microbiome at unprecedented scale, enabling scientists to uncover deeper insights.
#R&D Tools
Simplifying and streamlining the purification of biotherapeutics to improve global access to important drugs.
#R&D Tools
Enables non-viral manufacturing of cell therapies in a scalable process that preserves and minimally disrupts each cell.
#R&D Tools
Targeting activated fibroblast populations to influence the immune system and create impactful new medicines.
#Biotechnology
Characterizes exosomes – which are how cells communicate with each other – direct from sample and without purification.
#R&D Tools
Developing an integrated care management platform for multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases.
#Digital Health
Harnesses native mass spectrometry alongside proprietary biochemistry and custom chemistry to discover therapeutics for immunological and rare diseases.
#Biotechnology
A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel oncology therapeutics targeting multiple drivers of cancer.
#Biotechnology
Combines computational design, automation engineering, and material science to algorithmically design and digitally manufacture superior materials.
#Emerging Technologies
Developed an AI-powered platform to empower cancer patients to navigate their care and achieve better outcomes.
#Digital Health
Provides advanced cancer genome analysis to help clinicians and researchers provide more informed treatment selection, sooner.
#Diagnostics
Helping to digitize biopharma manufacturing with a cloud-based workspace that aims to consolidate workflow and knowledge management.
#Digital Health
A research tools company whose novel technology can find and characterize single molecules in only one minute, rapidly accelerating research for new drugs.
#R&D Tools
An AI clinical analytics platform company, enabling the life sciences industry to conduct faster and safer clinical development and regulatory programs.
#Digital Health
Built a diagnostic platform that analyzes a patient’s individual molecular data to ensure optimal therapy is prescribed.
#Diagnostics
Provides laboratory-specific, cloud-based software solutions to enable scientific labs with modern lab data connectivity infrastructure and tools.
#Digital Health
Developing a rapid solution for antibiotic susceptibility testing, which affects millions of patients who suffer from infection when resistant to available antibiotics.
#Diagnostics
Developing a molecular diagnostics platform that enables instrument-free, simple-to-operate tests that can be applied across multiple diseases and in both clinical and non-clinical settings.
#Diagnostics
Enables cancerous tumors to be visualized, helping predict a patient’s unique response to treatment.
#Digital Health
Develops synthetic cells for a range of applications in diagnostics and therapeutics.
#R&D Tools
Uses biochemistry and the natural power of plants to create a more agile and resilient food system.
#Environmental
Developed a diagnostics platform, principally for infectious diseases, that provides both identification and therapeutic guidance capabilities in the same simplified workflow.
#Diagnostics
Brings the specialty clinic to the home, bridging the gap between patients and providers with connected devices, virtual patient engagement, and AI-powered clinical decision support.
#Digital Health
Works with health systems, life sciences companies, and regulators to accelerate real-world evidence to improve the outcomes of cancer patients.
#Digital Health
Modernizing and simplifying clinical research to help make clinical trials more simple, accessible, and transparent.
#Digital Health
Bridges the digital and biological words to create specific genetic components that researchers need to better understand diseases and develop therapies.
#R&D Tools
Scalably invents covalent medicines with the potential for superior safety and efficacy.
#Biotechnology
A microfluidics- and machine learning-driven company working to harness the potential of biomolecular condensates in revolutionizing drug discovery.
#Biotechnology
A clinical stage oncology cell therapy company developing a pipeline of novel autologous and allogeneic therapies with enhanced safety and efficacy over current approaches.
#Biotechnology
Its immunohistochemistry platform is used in cancer research by leading biopharmaceutical companies to provide sensitive and comprehensive biomarker information that can advance promising cancer drugs to and through clinical trials.
#R&D Tools
Dedicated to improving the safety, efficacy, and sustainability of crop protection through its development of environmentally friendly peptide-based biopesticides.
#Environmental
An AI-powered platform that integrates data from oncology patients’ health records, including genomic sequencing, to generate real-time, patient-specific, actionable, and comprehensive treatment plans.
#Digital Health
The world’s first microglia-focused biotechnology company focused on treating rare and common neurodegenerative diseases by restoring the vigilance of microglia, the sentinel cells of the brain’s immune system.
#Biotechnology
Reimagining the status quo of lab testing through an ecosystem of diagnostic tools that enable patients to get real-time care that is accessible and empowering.
#Diagnostics
Its multiplexed FISH technology, “MERFISH” allows researchers to profile gene expression with sub-cellular spatial resolution.
#R&D Tools
Engineers B cells to stimulate the immune system and produce protein therapeutics for oncology, rare deficiency diseases, autoimmune diseases, and more.
#Biotechnology
Key People
Founder & CEO
Co-Founder, Partner
Partner
Chief Financial Officer, Partner
Operating Partner