Private and public venture investing

We are a life science venture capital investor, delivering knowledge, network, and capital to companies.

Our approach to Venture Investments

We strive to invest in companies that develop innovative drugs, medical devices and other technologies that improve patient care.

We focus on generating strong financial returns from our portfolio of venture companies. We invest in both private and public companies from an open evergreen fund. This funding structure enables us to take a long-term perspective.

With colleagues on the ground in Copenhagen, London, Singapore, San Francisco and Boston, we are well positioned in the major global life science hubs and can quickly respond to new and exciting investment opportunities wherever they emerge.

We invest in biotechnology, medical technology and digital health companies. Within biotech we primarily invest in companies with late preclinical or clinical stage compounds. In medtech and digital health, we prioritize commercial stage companies.

We work actively with the companies we invest in by serving on the Boards of Directors. Companies can also draw on our extensive network, as well as our commercial and scientific expertise within the life sciences.

During 2022, Venture Investments executed 38 investments. We deployed EUR 403 million during the year. Investment highlights include:

  • Nuvig Therapeutics, Inc. closed a EUR 43 million series A financing.
  • Rondo Therapeutics closed a EUR 62 million series A financing.
  • F2G Ltd entered into a collaboration with Shionogi & Co Ltd with an upfront payment of EUR 93 million and additional milestone payments of up to EUR 354 million. Later in the year F2G announced a EUR 65 million financing.
  • Disc Medicine and Gemini Therapeutics announced a merger agreement to create a NASDAQ-listed, clinical-stage biopharma company.
  • Verve Therapeutics closed a follow-on public offering, raising EUR 241 million.
All teams
  • 38

    Investments executed during 2022

  • 54

    Portfolio companies in 2022

  • 403 M

    Deployed during 2022

Meet our team

With professionals based out of Copenhagen, San Francisco, Boston and London and an international network of commercial and scientific specialists, our team is geared to invest in the major life science hubs.

Our locations

Novo Holdings A/S
Tuborg Havnevej 19
2900 Hellerup
Denmark
+45 3527 6500
[email protected]

Novo Ventures (US) Inc.*
One Market St.,
Steuart Tower 17th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
USA
+1 (415) 552-6686

Novo Ventures (US) Inc.*
200 Clarendon Street, Floor 45
Boston, MA 02116
USA

Novo Ventures (UK)
16 Berkeley Street
Mayfair, London W1J 8NR
UK

*Novo Ventures (US) Inc. is a separate legal entity that provides certain consultancy services to Novo Holdings A/S, mainly within the areas of identifying, analysing and negotiating various investment opportunities among life science and biotech companies in the US as well as certain follow-up activities related thereto, such as board memberships, financial control and reporting efforts.