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Astellas Venture Management

VC
Menlo Park, CAWebsite
How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Seed, Pre-Seed

Check Size

$1.5M – $10.0M

AUM

$68M

Portfolio

16+ companies

Team

5 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Astellas Venture Management invests in early-stage therapeutic innovation, focusing on biopharma and AI-based drug design.

Meet the Team

NS

Nagisa Sakurai, Ph.D., MBA

Investment Lead

Regenerative Medicine
Cardiovascular”, “Ophthalmology
Stem Cell Therapy
SM

Shinichi Miyake, Ph.D., MBA

Investment Lead

Small Molecules
Cell Therapy
Gene Therapy
Modality-based Drug Discovery
SK

Satoshi Konagai, MBA

Investment Lead

Oncology
Ophthalmology
Regenerative Medicine
WW

William Watt, Ph.D.

President

TH

Tadayoshi Hirata

Investment Lead

Early-stage partnering deals
Translational science
Clinical pharmacology

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Healthcare
AI / ML

Portfolio Companies (16)

Other

AT

Atomwise

AI Drug Discovery
VE

Vector BioPharma

Biotech
DE

DeepSeq.AI

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

SE

Serna Bio

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

SO

Solu Therapeutics

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Develops therapeutics targeting soluble targets in immunology and inflammation.

PH

PhoreMost

Oncology (immuno-oncology)·Series B - II

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

UK-based developer of small molecule neoantigen immuno-oncology therapies.

SO

Somite Therapeutics

Regenerative medicine (muscle)·Pre-Seed - II

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

Builds cellular therapies for muscle diseases using stem cell tech.

TU

Turn Biotechnologies

Health/Medical (regenerative)

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

Develops mRNA-based therapies for cellular rejuvenation in age-related diseases.

CO

CoMentis

Biotechnology (neuro)

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

Focuses on neurodegenerative disease therapies targeting protein misfolding.

AV

Avilar Therapeutics

Biotechnology (degradation)

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

Engineers protein degradation platforms for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

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