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Ridgeback Capital

Private investment company funding life science and healthcare businesses

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About Ridgeback Capital

Ridgeback Capital is a private investment company focused on life science companies. Wayne Holman, MD, started it in 2006, and it makes long-term investments in both private and public businesses developing life-saving and life-changing therapies.

Services

  • Patient capital: long-term funding for innovators, based on the belief that healthcare advances take many years.
  • Public and private investments: backs biopharma companies of both kinds.
  • Founder-led approach: Dr Holman also co-founded Ridgeback Biotherapeutics.

Clients

Biopharma and healthcare companies developing new medicines for unmet needs. Its founder has funded over 100 such companies over more than 20 years.

Key facts

  • Founded: 2006
  • Based in: New York
  • Founder: Wayne Holman, MD
  • Notable link: Dr Holman co-chairs the Ridgeback-Merck Molnupiravir Joint Steering Committee

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

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