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Northpond Ventures

Northpond Ventures

Venture Capital

Northpond Ventures is a global science, medical, and technology focused venture capital firm with over $1bn of committed capital.

Portfolio

2

companies


Portfolio companies

Ori Biotech

Ori Biotech

Ori Biotech builds manufacturing technology platforms for cell and gene therapies.

Current Health

Current Health

Enterprise remote care management platform for home-based patient monitoring.


Team

Michael Rubin

Michael Rubin

Founder and CEO

Michael is the founder and CEO of Northpond Ventures and a former co-founder and managing partner at Sands Capital Ventures. He also holds academic and research roles at Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University.

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Andrea Jackson

Andrea Jackson

Director

Andrea brings operating and investing experience across life sciences and technology. She is currently a director at Northpond Ventures, following corporate development, commercial, and marketing roles at PerkinElmer, Merck Millipore, and Mitra Biotech.

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Recent investments

Series B
£74.0M

Novalis LifeSciences led the Series B round, which will fund team expansion and platform commercialisation.

"Our mission as a company is to enable widespread patient access to life saving cell and gene therapies. One of the biggest obstacles to achieving this is cell and gene therapy manufacturing processes that are too expensive, too highly variable and too low throughput. Our team is focused on the urgent need to enhance the ability of cell and gene therapy developers, CDMOs and Academic Medical Centers to deliver these therapies to as many patients as possible as quickly as possible,"
— Jason Foster, CEO
Series A
£23.2M

The Series A round was led by Northpond Ventures and Octopus Ventures to help bring the company manufacturing platform to market.

"Closing a significant Series A round, during these uncertain times, further validates Ori’s disruptive approach to fully automating cell and gene therapy manufacturing to increase throughput, improve quality, and decrease costs,"
— Jason Foster, CEO