Casdin Capital

Casdin Capital is an investment firm that concentrates on the life sciences. It puts money into companies that use the growing ability to read and change molecular information, and it says it builds positions in partnership with those businesses.

What Casdin Capital does

• Healthcare investing: backs businesses in the healthcare sector.
• Biotechnology investing: covers companies developing new medicines and tools.
• Synthetic biology: invests in firms working with engineered biological systems.
• Technology investing: includes information platforms whose data analysis supports life-science products.

Clients

Companies working on molecular medicine, genomics and precision diagnostics or therapies. The firm describes its formula as aiming at large markets, choosing strong ideas and teams, staying focused and avoiding overconfidence.

Key facts

• Sector focus: healthcare, biotechnology, synthetic biology and technology
• Approach: long-term, multi-year decisions and close relationships with portfolio companies