Astellas Venture Management
Astellas Venture Management is a Seed, Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA investing in Other, Healthcare, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $1.5M–$10.0M checks and has 16 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $1.5M–$10.0M
- Portfolio
- 16 companies on record
- Partners
- 5 listed
- AUM
- $68M
- Stage
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Healthcare, AI / ML
- HQ
- Menlo Park, CA
Last verified: 2026-05-04
Seed, Pre-Seed
$1.5M – $10.0M
$68M
16+ companies
5 partners
Investment Thesis
Astellas Venture Management invests in early-stage therapeutic innovation, focusing on biopharma and AI-based drug design.
How Astellas Venture Management invests
Astellas Venture Management is a vc firm based in Menlo Park, CA. The firm invests at the Seed, Pre-Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Healthcare, AI / ML.
Astellas Venture Management typically writes checks of $1.5M–$10.0M per investment, backed by approximately $68M in assets under management.
Astellas Venture Management has backed 16 companies in our records, including Atomwise, Vector BioPharma, DeepSeq.AI.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (16)
Other
Atomwise
Vector BioPharma
DeepSeq.AI
Serna Bio
Solu Therapeutics
Develops therapeutics targeting soluble targets in immunology and inflammation.
PhoreMost
UK-based developer of small molecule neoantigen immuno-oncology therapies.
Somite Therapeutics
Builds cellular therapies for muscle diseases using stem cell tech.
Turn Biotechnologies
Develops mRNA-based therapies for cellular rejuvenation in age-related diseases.
CoMentis
Focuses on neurodegenerative disease therapies targeting protein misfolding.
Avilar Therapeutics
Engineers protein degradation platforms for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
- •Raising at Seed, Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Healthcare, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $1.5M – $10.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Shinichi Miyake, Ph.D., MBA, Investment Lead.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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