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Illumina Ventures

Venture Capital

Illumina Ventures is an independently managed, healthcare-focused venture firm in a strategic partnership with Illumina.

Portfolio

2

companies


Portfolio companies

Broken String Biosciences

Broken String Biosciences

Genomics company building a platform to drive the development of safer cell and gene therapies.

Lightcast Discovery

Lightcast Discovery

Lightcast Discovery builds a novel single-cell functional analysis platform for life science research.


Team

AA

Arnaud Autret

Principal


Recent investments

Series A
£12.0M

The financing was co-led by Illumina Ventures and Mérieux Equity Partners to support the development and commercialisation of the company gene editing safety technology.

"Our vision is a future where cell and gene therapies are safer, more efficient, and affordable for patients. Operating at the intersection of biology, bioinformatics and data science, our INDUCE-seq platform offers an unbiased, end-to-end solution that expedites the measurement and assessment of off-target gene editing during therapeutic development. This provides essential information required to progress therapeutic programs that leverage gene editing and mitigate potential risks that can result in later-stage clinical failures. By developing a deployable PaaS offering, we have the opportunity to provide the cell and gene therapy community with this much-needed solution and achieve rapid market growth."
— Felix Dobbs, Chief Executive Officer