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Versant Ventures

Life-science venture capital firm building biotechnology companies with academic founders

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About Versant Ventures

Versant Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on life sciences. It has been investing since 1999 and describes its aim as harnessing the power of science on a global scale.

Alongside conventional investing, it runs in-house Discovery Engines. These are teams of scientists in laboratory facilities who help launch new biotechnology companies with academic founders.

What Versant Ventures offers

  • Venture investment: funding for biotechnology and life-science companies.
  • Discovery Engines: in-house scientific teams that turn academic research into new companies.
  • Experienced guidance: partners with backgrounds in venture capital, pharma and biotech.

Who it works with

Academic scientists and founders starting biotechnology ventures, and early companies in drug discovery.

Key facts

  • Active since: 1999
  • Team: partners with long experience in venture capital, pharma and biotech
  • Discovery Engines: based near where discoveries are made

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

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