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Pontifax

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Pontifax is a healthcare-dedicated venture capital firm founded in 2004 with $1.2 billion under management. It invests in life sciences technologies across all development stages and takes a hands-on approach to portfolio management.

Pontifax is a venture capital firm headquartered in Herzeliya, Israel, founded in 2004. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in life sciences and healthcare. $1.2 billion under management and 100 portfolio companies, as it reports.

“Pontifax invests in breakthrough innovation regardless of therapeutic area or development stage.”

— Pontifax, own website
Layer
Direct investor
Type
Venture capital
Stage
Seed – Growth
Headquarters
Herzeliya, Israel
Invests in
global
Sectors
life sciences, healthcare
Founded
2004
Assets under management
$1.2 billion
Portfolio
100 companies
How to reach it
Its contact page on its own site

Team, as Pontifax publishes it

  • Tomer Kariv CEO
  • Ran Nussbaum Managing Partner and Co-founder
  • Asaf Shinar Team member
  • Ohad Hammer Team member
  • Momi Karako Team member
  • Lina Kaminski, PhD Principal

Names and roles exactly as listed on pontifax.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. 46 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.

  • Kurma Partners 4 shared companies: step-ph.com, adcytherix.com, emergencetx.com, rycarma.com
  • RA Capital Management 4 shared companies: adcytherix.com, abcuro.com, adcendo.com, climbbio.com
  • OrbiMed 4 shared companies: adcendo.com, fore.bio, kerostx.com, vanquabio.com
  • V-Bio Ventures 3 shared companies: precirix.com, agomab.com, step-ph.com
  • Andera Partners 3 shared companies: agomab.com, adcytherix.com, logicbio.com
  • Triventures 3 shared companies: cath.works, eye-yon.com, vwavemedical.com
  • HealthCap 2 shared companies: precirix.com, adcendo.com
  • Novartis Venture Fund 2 shared companies: anaveon.com, fore.bio
  • aMoon Ventures YSH Ltd 2 shared companies: adcytherix.com, lutris-pharma.com
  • Vida Ventures 2 shared companies: adcendo.com, lbpharma.us

and 36 more — the graph.

Where this comes from

Every fact above was read from a page Pontifax publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.

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Record 8525 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high

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