Pontifax
pontifax.com Direct investor
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, 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
- Not stated
- Headquarters
- Herzeliya, Israel
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- life sciences, healthcare
- Founded
- 2004
- Assets under management
- $1.2 billion
- Portfolio
- 100 companies
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.
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.
- https://www.pontifax.com/name, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors
- https://www.pontifax.com/about-us/is_investor, layer, type, thesis_quote, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.pontifax.com/team/people
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Record 8525 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-09-29 · confidence high
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