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Newpath Partners

Boston, Massachusetts · Invests in US; UK · Website

Thesis

Venture capital can do more than fund companies—it can create them from the ground up. Newpath Partners specializes in building biotechnology companies in partnership with leading academic scientists, focusing on breakthrough biology platforms in gene editing, regenerative medicine, and transformational therapeutics that address the greatest unmet medical needs.

Likely not a fit for

No: non-scientific business teams, service companies, consumer health without therapeutic modality, companies without breakthrough scientific foundation

How they invest

Lead or follow
Usually leads
Typical decision
~2 months
Warm intro
Preferred
Involvement
Takes a board seat
Fund status
Actively deploying
Assets under mgmt
$350M
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

5 contacts on file

TC

Thomas Cahill

General PartnerFounder and Managing Partner · Primary contact

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DY

Daniel Yadegar

General PartnerCo-Founder and Chief Medical Officer

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TT

Tom Thomas

InvestorInvestment Officer

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BL

Ben Lewis

PartnerPartner

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AF

AJ Ferraro

PrincipalPrincipal

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Portfolio

Prime MedicineBiotech Life Sciences

Prime Medicine is focused on transforming the lives of patients with debilitating diseases through its Prime Editing technology, a next-generation gene editing approach that aims to correct genetic mutations at their precise locations in the genome.

Chroma MedicineBiotech Life Sciences

Developing transformative treatments using targeted in vivo delivery of tailored and long-lasting genetic medicines designed to overcome the limitations of today’s therapies.

Autobahn TherapeuticsBiotech Life Sciences

Autobahn Therapeutics is focused on developing next-generation regenerative medicines for central nervous system (CNS) disorders, utilizing a brain-targeting chemistry platform to create small molecule prodrugs.

MetseraBiotech Life Sciences

Metsera is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on engineering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing a new generation of potent, ultra-long acting, scalable nutrient-stimulated hormone (NuSH) therapies for obesity and related diseases.

Orbital TherapeuticsBiotech Life Sciences

Orbital Therapeutics is pioneering RNA medicines designed to reset the immune system and restore health from within, focusing on autoimmune diseases, oncology, next-generation vaccines, and protein therapeutics.

Magnet BiomedicineBiotech Life Sciences

Magnet Biomedicine is advancing precision medicine with its modular TrueGlue™ technology, enabling the systematic discovery of molecular glues for treating human diseases, particularly in cancer and immune disorders.

Eledon PharmaceuticalsBiotech Life Sciences

Eledon Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing immune-modulating therapies to protect transplanted organs and reduce the risk of organ rejection, as well as to treat autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Exo TherapeuticsBiotech Life Sciences

Exo Therapeutics is focused on unlocking intractable drug targets with exosites, utilizing their ExoSight™ platform to develop innovative therapeutic candidates primarily in oncology and inflammation.

nChroma BioBiotech Life Sciences

nChroma Bio is a genetic medicines company committed to addressing the limitations of existing therapies through a disease-first approach. By combining programmable in vivo delivery and gene-regulating technologies, nChroma is designing optimal solutions to deliver precise, potent and durable treatments for patients with high unmet needs.

Neumorat TherapeuticsBiotech Life Sciences

Neumora Therapeutics focuses on developing precision medicines for brain diseases. They aim to address the unmet medical needs in neuroscience.

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AERA TherapeuticsBiotech Life Sciences

Aera Therapeutics is a biotechnology company leveraging its proprietary protein nanoparticle (PNP) delivery platform to unlock the full potential of genetic medicines. Aera’s platform, based on endogenous human proteins, is being developed to address the limitations of today’s delivery technologies and to expand the reach of genetic medicines to different tissues and applications, in order to benefit more patients across more disease areas.

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Newpath Partners Research Investment Thesis Founded in 2018 by physician-scientist Thomas Cahill, M.D., Ph.D., Newpath Partners operates on a distinctive thesis: venture capital can do more than fund companies—it can create them from the ground up. The firm specializes in building biotechnology companies in partnership with leading academic scientists, focusing on breakthrough biology platforms wi

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