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Dementia Discovery Fund

Specialist venture fund that invests in and creates biotech companies developing dementia therapies

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About Dementia Discovery Fund

The Dementia Discovery Fund, or DDF, is a specialist venture capital fund. It invests in and starts biotech companies working on treatments for age-related dementias.

What the Dementia Discovery Fund offers

  • Company investment: backs firms at any stage of development, aiming to move ideas into clinical trials.
  • Company creation: builds new companies itself where it sees gaps in the science.
  • Scientific guidance: draws on a Scientific Advisory Board and academic contacts.
  • Partner network: introduces portfolio companies to possible partners and buyers.

Clients

It looks for entrepreneur-led companies working on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease dementia, frontotemporal dementia, ALS and Huntington's disease.

Key facts

  • Founded: 2015, with final close in 2018
  • Adviser: SV Health Investors
  • Backers: several large pharmaceutical companies, plus insurers, health bodies and a charity

Profile written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Sep 2026.

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