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PsyMed Ventures

San Francisco, CA · Invests in US; North America; Europe; UK; MENA; Asia · Website

Thesis

Funds founders elevating brain and mental health through neuroscience, frontier technologies, psychedelic medicine, precision neuroscience, neurotechnology, AI-enabled diagnosis and treatment, novel CNS therapeutics, digital health, and related modalities.

Likely not a fit for

Avoids weakly evidenced consumer wellness, generic healthcare software without a brain or mental health wedge, unfocused biotech platforms, weak clinical validation, questionable psychedelic IP strategies, and teams lacking scientific or regulatory credibility.

How they invest

Lead or follow
Usually follows
Typical decision
~1 month
Involvement
Advisor
Fund status
Actively deploying
Assets under mgmt
$25M
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

13 contacts on file

DB

Dina Burkitbayeva

General PartnerCo-Founder · Primary contact

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JK

John Krystal MD

Platform & OpsAdvisor

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GP

Graham Pechenik JD

Platform & OpsAdvisor

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JR

Jacob Robinson PhD

Platform & OpsAdvisor

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GK

Greg Kubin

General PartnerGeneral Partner & Co-Founder

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DC

Danny Carbonero

AssociateInvestment Associate

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MG

Martina Galdos

Platform & OpsOperations Lead

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CM

Chrystal Mavros PhD

Platform & OpsAdvisor

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AA

Alex Amen PhD

Platform & OpsAdvisor

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MS

Matias Serebrinsky

General PartnerGeneral Partner & Co-Founder

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TS

Tucker Schwartz

AssociateAnalyst

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TG

Tim Gardner PhD

Venture PartnerVenture Partner

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NM

Negin Mokhtari

Venture PartnerVenture Partner

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Portfolio

Alton NeuroscienceBiotech Life Sciences

Alto Neuroscience is a company focused on precision psychiatry and developing personalized psychiatric treatments, leveraging the biology of individuals' brains to create effective medicines.

Ancilia BioBiotech Life Sciences

Ancilia Bio harnesses the natural power of CRISPR to create beneficial bacterial products with immunity against destructive viruses, focusing on the virome and its applications in therapeutics, agriculture, and industrial biotechnology.

ATAI Life SciencesBiotech Life Sciences

AtaiBeckley is a biotechnology company developing new mental health treatments to transform patient outcomes. Our research is focused on developing rapid-acting, robust and durable mental health treatments for large-scale patient impact.

Beckley Psytech

Drug development platform focused on neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Bexson BiomedicalBiotech Life Sciences

Bexson Biomedical is developing differentiated therapies using precision-driven, scalable delivery technologies for pain and mental health. Their lead candidate, BB106, is an IND-ready subcutaneous ketamine derivative in development for Moderate/Severe Acute Pain.

Bloom ScienceBiotech Life Sciences

Bloom Science is a biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing live biotherapeutics to treat unmet neurological and inflammatory diseases. The company utilizes its IrisRx™ discovery platform to develop novel microbiome-based therapies targeting the gut-immune-brain axis.

Bright Minds BiosciencesBiotech Life Sciences

Bright Minds Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on developing innovative treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders, including drug-resistant epilepsy and depression, using highly selective serotonergic agonists.

Delix TherapeuticsBiotech Life Sciences

Delix Therapeutics is focused on transforming brain health through the development of neuroplastogens, a novel class of compounds aimed at treating neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions.

Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals
Humans AnonymousHealthcare Digital

Humans Anonymous is an anonymous live audio platform that facilitates safe spaces for communities of people with similar life experiences to share their struggles, get advice, and support each other.

ImYooBiotech Life Sciences

ImYoo is building a patient-enabled biodiscovery platform that conducts patient-centric immune discovery studies by enabling patients to self-collect small volumes of blood at home for high-resolution single-cell genomics assays.

Iris MedicineBiotech Life Sciences

Iris Medicine is an early-stage life sciences company pioneering the future of RNA therapies, specifically through their innovative small binding RNA (sbRNA) technology that selectively modulates gene expression.

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PsyMed Ventures Research Investment Thesis PsyMed Ventures is a specialist venture firm focused on the future of brain and mental health. The URL supplied for this task, https://psymed.vc, currently resolves to a domain-sale page rather than an operating investor website, so the operating first-party site used for research is https://psymed.ventures. PsyMed states that it funds and supports founde

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