RiverVest Venture Partners
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RiverVest Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in life science companies, focusing on biopharma and medical devices. It was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in St. Louis with offices in San Diego and Cleveland.
RiverVest Venture Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in St. Louis, United States, founded in 2000. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in biopharma and medical devices. 61 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“RiverVest is a leading venture capital firm building life science companies to address significant unmet medical needs.”
— RiverVest Venture Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- St. Louis, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- biopharma, medical devices
- Founded
- 2000
- Portfolio
- 61 companies
Team, as RiverVest Venture Partners publishes it
- Jay W. Schmelter Co-Founder & Managing Director
- Niall O'Donnell Managing Director
- Tom Melzer Co-Founder and Managing Director
- Karen Spilizewski Managing Director
- Isaac Zike Managing Director
- John McKearn Senior Advisor
- Pascal Krotee Principal
- Nafise Masoumi Principal
- Michael Berman Consultant and Venture Partner
- Sivan Weitzman Chief Financial Officer
- Courtney Harris Controller
- Andrew Kleiboeker Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on rivervest.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 207 co-investors found.
- Arcline Investment Management LP 2 shared companies: goo.gl, wpengine.com
- Fenway Partners, LLC 2 shared companies: goo.gl, wpengine.com
- Sophia Business Angels 2 shared companies: goo.gl, wpengine.com
- Abac Capital 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Abingworth 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
and 197 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page RiverVest Venture Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://rivervest.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://rivervest.com/about/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, founded
- https://rivervest.com/team/portfolio_count, people
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