Investment area
Venture Investments
Region
Europe
Date of investment
June 2019
Amolyt Pharma develops innovative therapeutic peptides for rare endocrine and metabolic diseases. Their ambition is to become a leading rare disease company with U.S. and European operations to support global development of our products.
Contact
Naveed Siddiqi
Senior Partner
Department: Venture Investments
Naveed joined Novo Holdings A/S in 2019 and works from London and Copenhagen as a Senior Partner in Venture Investments.
He brings more than 25 years of experience in life science investments and investment banking. Between 2013 and 2018, he was Partner at Andera Partners, a Paris based venture capital and growth equity firm with over 2 billion euros under management, focusing on life science investing. He has also worked for Nomura Phase4 Ventures, Nomura International, EFG Corporate Finance, KPMG and as a medical doctor in the UK’s National Health Service. During his career he has served on multiple European and US boards. At Novo Holdings he has served on the Boards of Amolyt (acquired by AstraZeneca), Reviral (acquired by Pfizer), Vectivbio (IPO on NASDAQ and acquired by Ironwood), Alentis Therapeutics, Asceneuron, F2G and Windward Bio. He also served as Board Observer at Numab (sale of Yellow Jersey Therapeutics to J&J).
Naveed obtained his medical degree from Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School (now King’s College London). Later, he also qualified as a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants England & Wales.
