Funds Backing Academic Phd Spin Outs (16 funds)

ARCH Venture Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Chicago

Seed · Series A · Pre-Seed

ARCH Venture Partners invests at the concept stage, co-founding and building breakthrough life sciences and deep-science platforms directly with un...

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Alix Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Thesis-driven TechBio fund focused on engineering, computation, and biology, operating a BIOS community platform with podcasts, events, content, an...

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Alumni Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Manchester

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B · Growth

Alumni Ventures built a "network-powered" retail VC platform that aggregates thousands of accredited individuals into professionally managed funds,...

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Atlas Venture

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Cambridge

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Seed and early-stage investor that creates and invests in biotech startup companies, emphasizing company creation.

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Civilization Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Operator-led biotech fund run by ex-founders targeting young PhD/postdoc and emerging academic scientists, focusing on overlooked genomics, diagnos...

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Creative Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Oakland

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Targets companies addressing labor shortages in manufacturing, construction, logistics, and food production; cutting healthcare costs from aging an...

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Creator Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed

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Flybridge

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Boston

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Pre-seed AI-only investor anchored to 50+ founders/operators from Anthropic, NVIDIA and OpenAI who run pre-seed funds, delivering 5× deal flow, foc...

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Harpoon Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Diego

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Early-stage investor focused on national-security technologies, led by a former Navy SEAL, bridging startups to government buyers with ex-operators...

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Julian Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed

Julian Capital is a deeptech seed fund investing across most deeptech sectors including chips, chemicals, energy, robotics, sensors, and medtech.

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Khosla Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Menlo Park

Seed · Series A · Series B

An aggressive techno-optimist investor that tolerates ~70% failure to back capital-intensive, science-heavy climate, healthcare and deep-tech bets,...

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Lux Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

Early institutional backer that sources tech from academia and government labs, partnering with scientist- and engineer-led teams to deeply interro...

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Prime Movers Lab

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Jackson

Seed · Series A

Partners with serial entrepreneurs building breakthrough science (post–core-science de-risking), offering intensive hands-on support—weekly partner...

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SOSV

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Princeton

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Early-stage investor via accelerator programs and later rounds, offering in-house labs, fabrication and advanced equipment, Shenzhen/Pune engineeri...

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The E14 Fund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Cambridge

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Pre-seed investor exclusively backing MIT and Media Lab founders, commercializing complex research (computational fabrication, robotics), offering ...

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Third Rock Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Boston

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

Early-stage drug-discovery company creator that originates companies in-house, incubates single ultra-orphan and rare-disease bets for years and mi...

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