Abingworth
abingworth.com Direct investor
Early-stage life science and biopharma venture capital firm with 50+ years of investing in biotechnology. Manages 15 life science funds focused on transformative healthcare solutions.
Abingworth is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 1973. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in life sciences, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Its stated cheque size is $15-$30m In total per company. 200 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Working with entrepreneurs to turn breakthrough science into breakthrough medicine”
— Abingworth, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- GB, US, EU
- Sectors
- life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals
- Cheque size
- $15-$30m In total per company
- Founded
- 1973
- Portfolio
- 200 companies
Team, as Abingworth publishes it
- Bali Muralidhar Global Head of Life Sciences & CIO
- Kurt von Emster Managing Partner
- Jayson Punwani Managing Director, Head of Venture
- Andrew Sinclair Managing Director, Head of Publics & Late Stage
- Robert DeBenedetto Managing Director, CCD
- Travis Wilson Managing Director, CCD
- Tim Haines Executive Partner
- Vincent Miles Executive Director
- Ron Hsu Principal
- Diya Malhotra Principal
- Graham Mills Principal
- Ankur Shah Vice President, CCD
Names and roles exactly as listed on abingworth.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 167 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- SV Health Investors 1 shared company: ethercreative.co.uk
- Abac Capital 1 shared company: goo.gl
- AC Ventures 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Acrewood Holdings 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Adara Ventures 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Adit Ventures Management, LLC 1 shared company: goo.gl
- AE Industrial Partners, LP 1 shared company: goo.gl
- AIF Capital 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Alchemy Special Opportunities LLP 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Alcuin Capital Partners LLP 1 shared company: goo.gl
and 157 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Abingworth publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- http://www.abingworth.com/thesis_quote, sectors, portfolio_count, stage_min, stage_max
- http://www.abingworth.com/portfolioportfolio_count
- https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q28457756founded, hq_city, hq_country
- https://www.abingworth.com/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, hq_city, description, founded, status, confidence
- https://www.abingworth.com/strategylayer, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://www.abingworth.com/aboutportfolio_count, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.abingworth.com/teampeople
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28457756founded, hq_country
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