Venture capital firm

Forward Ventures

San Diego life-science venture capital firm investing mainly in biopharmaceutical therapeutics

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Forward Ventures is a life-science venture capital firm based in San Diego. It was founded in 1990 and has invested in over sixty companies through five funds. Its main interest is biopharmaceutical therapeutics.

What Forward Ventures does

Venture funding: capital for life-science companies at all stages of development.
Therapeutics focus: backs companies developing and commercialising treatments for unmet medical needs.
Returns for investors: aims to earn financial returns for its limited partners through these investments.

Who it serves

Companies developing therapies for serious diseases, at any point from early development to commercialisation.

Key facts

Based in: San Diego
Founded: 1990
Portfolio: Over 60 companies across five funds
Focus: Biopharmaceutical therapeutics

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Medical
San Diego
Partners
Biotech

Rankings

Forward Ventures is ranked on 1 TrustList ranking at #4.

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Venture capital firm · 1 ranking

#4of 79
Biotech investors
It is one of 10 here listing medical and one of 12 here listing partners.
Of the top 65 here, 22 also cover healthtech and 17 also cover science; 14 also work in Boston and 13 also work in San Francisco.
Behind Summit Partners, ahead of TVM Capital.

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