MidCap Financial LLC
Josh Groman
Managing DirectorJames Taylor
DirectorMitoDys Therapeutics
MitoDys Therapeutics is a start-up drug discovery company that has developed a highly innovative platform to uncover polypharmacological drugs with existing safety profiles that can be repositioned to a new indcation. The company focuses on the discovery of disease-modifying drugs for neurodegenerative diseases; particularly Parkinson's disease, ALS and MSA.
Steven Zimmer
CEOMP Healthcare Venture Management, Inc.
MP Healthcare Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma founded in 2006 and based in Boston Massachusetts. The firm is looking to provide equity capital to seed and venture stage companies in the life science space. The firm is looking to provide companies with $5 million over the lifetime of the investment and plans on making 2-3 investments over the next year. The firm will invest in companies located anywhere around the world.
Tetsuro Iwata
Senior ManagerNeuroNetworks Fund
Brian Horsburgh
TrusteeNew Leaf Venture Partners
Mike Dybbs
PrincipalNYU Office of Therapeutics Alliances
The NYU Office of Industrial Liaison (OIL) promotes the commercial development of NYU technologies into products to benefit the public, while providing resources to the University to support its research, education, and patient care missions. NYU OIL also facilitates research collaborations between NYU researchers and industry on projects of mutual interest.
In 2013, NYU launched the Office of Therapeutics Alliances (OTA). OTA is a nimble, "virtual biotech" approach to advance novel therapeutic projects by playing on the strengths of NYU in dissecting disease pathways and those of external, professional capabilities in early stage R&D. OTA identifies NYU projects with potential for addressing unmet needs, delineates the path to therapeutic proof of concept and assembles internal and external resources tailored to each specific project’s needs to maximize the likelihood of successful partnerships with biopharma, new biotech startups or disease foundations.
Nadim Shohdy
Director, Drug Discovery PartnershipsO2h Ventures Limited
O2h has a track record of investing in emerging biotech, small molecule and frontier life science starts-ups
A passion for entrepreneurship and life sciences motivates o2h to participate in syndicated seed stage investments. O2h are ready to support the investments with active or passive support to further the objectives of the company.
Sunil Shah
PartnerPrashant Shah
PartnerPappas Ventures
Jayson Punwani
AssociatePBM Capital Group
Jayson Rieger
SVP of Business Development & Portfolio ManagementPfizer Venture Investments
Pfizer Venture Investments (PVI) is the corporate venture capital arm of Pfizer and was founded in 2004. PVI has an annual investments budget of $50 million and invests up to $10M per investing round. The firm focuses mainly on U.S. startups but has global reach. PVI attempts to allocate 80% of its funding to U.S. based companies and utilizes the remaining 20% for international ventures. PVI provides equity funding for private companies in need of seed, growth, or venture financing. Remaining opportunistic, PVI focuses entirely on high growth prospects in all sectors and all phases of development. The ideal candidate has a potential for high growth and returns. Additionally, PVI will seek to in-license products and buyout companies if the opportunity arises.