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Novartis Venture Fund

A life sciences venture fund investing in biotechnology and biopharma companies across multiple stages

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About Novartis Venture Fund

Novartis Venture Fund (NVF) is a venture capital fund that invests in life science companies, with a focus on biotechnology and biopharma. It invests at any stage, from seed to later-stage companies, and takes an active role on the boards of the companies it backs.

What Novartis Venture Fund does

  • Seed to late-stage investment: capital across the full range of company maturity, rather than one stage only.
  • Board involvement: the fund typically leads or co-leads investments and takes an active board role.
  • Focus on novel therapeutics: investment centred on new therapeutics and platforms addressing unmet clinical need.
  • Large per-company commitments: investments of up to USD 30 million per company over its life.

Customers and markets

NVF invests in biotechnology and biopharma companies across North America, Europe and Israel.

Key facts

  • Capital under management: more than USD 750 million
  • Portfolio: more than 40 companies
  • Based in: Basel, Switzerland and Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

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

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