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PharmaSeed Capital

VC
San Francisco, CAWebsite

PharmaSeed Capital is a Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in Other, Healthcare. The firm typically writes $250K–$1.0M checks and has 58 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Seed

Check Size

$250K – $1.0M

Portfolio

58+ companies

Team

11 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Dedicated to supporting innovative seed-stage pharmacy and healthcare technology startups that can disrupt traditional models.

How PharmaSeed Capital invests

PharmaSeed Capital is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on Other, Healthcare. It does not invest in Consumer.

PharmaSeed Capital typically writes checks of $250K–$1.0M per investment.

PharmaSeed Capital has backed 58 companies in our records, including kadimastem, brainq, teva.

Meet the Team

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Danielle Lamensdorf

Marketing Director

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Ronnie Levy

Chief Security Officer

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Michael Krakovsky

Study Director

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Perri Hasson

Head of Preclinical Research

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Efrat Kunik

Co-CEO

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Miriam O’Reilly

CEO & Founder

Cell Therapies

Read More "Working with the right scientific partners can make a meaningful difference during critical stages of development. It has been a pleasure collaborating with Pharmaseed on our pilot toxicology studies. Their team brought strong scientific expertise, professionalism, flexibility, and a collaborative mindset throughout the process. We especially appreciate the support and guidance of Dr. Ronit Mesilati Stahy, whose thoughtful approach ensured efficient execution at this important stage of development."

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Uri Herzberg

DVM, PhD

Toxicology
Auto-immune Disease

Read More "Pharmaseed provided us high quality execution of very complex animal models that were previously unestablished for auto-immune disease, that assessed the safety and activity of our preclinical candidate. The flow of materials, data and scientific communication were maintained even through the challenges of COVID-19 pandemic in 2021"

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Yona Gefen

Ph.D

Cell-based therapies

Read More “Heading Gamida Cell’s R&D I have been working with the Pharmaseed team for 12 years on more than 50 nonclinical, pharmacology, biodistribution and toxicology studies. Pharmaseed team are highly professional while being accommodating and very supportive. They have a very broad knowledge and experience with animal modeling for cell-based therapies. In the last 5 years, they successfully conducted multiple IND-enabling toxicology studies to support the development of our cellular immunotherapy products, including NK and CART cells.”

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Shawn He

EVP, research & early development

Cellular Immunotherapy

Read More “I have worked with the Pharmaseed team for 12 years on more than 50 nonclinical, pharmacology, biodistribution and toxicology studies. Pharmaseed team are highly professional while being accommodating and very supportive. They have a very broad knowledge and experience with animal modeling for cell-based therapies. In the last 5 years, they successfully conducted multiple IND-enabling toxicology studies to support the development of our cellular immunotherapy products, including NK and CART cells.”

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Ziv Lifshitz

Ph.D, R&D director

Cell-based therapies

Read More “Pharmaseed’s team accompanied us through all steps of the different projects, from study design to final reporting, and shared its valuable input and experience to address the challenges that surfaced during the work. The highly qualified and professional team was very involved, demonstrated deep understanding of our projects and showed a sincere desire to help and move our projects forward. As a multi-project, clinical stage company, which works with several preclinical CROs globally, we at Gamida Cell would like to underpin the overall quality, reliability and flexibility we experienced working with Pharmaseed. I therefore strongly recommend their services”

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Tom Nguyen

GP

Pharmacy
Telemedicine

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Healthcare

Does Not Invest In

Consumer

Portfolio Companies (58)

Other

KA

kadimastem

BR

brainq

TE

teva

PR

protalix

LO

lonza

JO

johnson & johnson

TH

the hebrew university of jerusalem

CE

celgene

CA

canfite

TE

technion

How to pitch PharmaSeed Capital
  • Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Other, Healthcare — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.0M check.
  • cold outreach ok
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Danielle Lamensdorf, Marketing Director.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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