KIZOO

KIZOO is a venture capital firm that works with young startup teams in rejuvenation biotechnology. It offers mentoring and financing, and it forms part of the Forever Healthy Group. Its partners describe a background as entrepreneurs, investors and mentors in both technology and biotech companies, with several exits behind them.

Services

• Mentoring: hands-on guidance for founders from people who have built and sold companies.
• Seed financing: first outside money for early teams in rejuvenation biotech.
• Follow-on financing: further funding for portfolio companies as they develop.

Clients

Founders turning research on the root causes of ageing into therapies and services. Its portfolio pages mention MoglingBio, which works on rejuvenating ageing blood-forming stem cells, Elastrin, which develops treatments that remove pathological calcification from tissue, and Cellvie, a Harvard spin-off working on mitochondria transfer. Founders looking for support are invited to send in their story.

Key facts

• Parent group: Forever Healthy Group
• Group activities: hosts an annual Rejuvenation Startup Summit, funds translational research on ageing and publishes evaluations of new rejuvenation therapies
• Focus: rejuvenation biotech