Syncona
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Syncona is a Guernsey-registered, London-listed life science company whose investment manager, Syncona Investment Management Limited, builds and manages a portfolio of life science companies across clinical stages. It was founded by the Wellcome Trust in 2012 and funds its portfolio from its own balance sheet.
Syncona is an asset manager headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in life science, biotech and therapeutics. 15 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Our Investment Manager has created a portfolio of life science companies and is investing in and managing these companies to deliver key value inflection points”
— Syncona, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Asset manager
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- UK
- Sectors
- life science, biotech, therapeutics
- Founded
- 2012
- Portfolio
- 15 companies
Team, as Syncona publishes it
- Chris Hollowood Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
- Kenneth Galbraith Chair of SIML and Executive Partner
- Kate Butler Chief Financial Officer
- Edward Hodgkin Managing Partner
- Elisa Petris Managing Partner
- Gonzalo Garcia Partner
- Gwenaelle Pemberton Executive Partner
- Hitesh Thakrar Executive Partner
- Paul Sekhri Executive Partner
- Richard Wooster Executive Partner
- Roel Bulthuis Executive Partner
- Samantha Roberts Managing Director
Names and roles exactly as listed on synconaltd.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Syncona publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.synconaltd.com/name, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, sectors, thesis_quote, status
- https://www.synconaltd.com/about/who-we-are/is_investor, layer, type, description, founded
- https://www.synconaltd.com/about/invests_in_geographies, stage_max, portfolio_count
- https://www.synconaltd.com/our-people/people
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