Funding

A venture capital firm that manages a family of funds focused on early-stage investing; focus includes life sciences and health tech, software and IT, agriculture tech, and geospatial tech

A leading venture capital firm building life science companies to address significant unmet needs of patients and deliver consistently strong results to investors

A public-private partnership created to promote entrepreneurship and foster the growth of new and emerging high-tech companies

Located in St. Louis, Missouri’s Cortex Innovation District, assists WashU faculty in the transfer of technology from the lab to the global marketplace, manages a wide variety of intellectual properties arising from research programs, and acts as a resource for faculty in the areas of patent prosecution, material transfer agreements, market feedback and licensing

Seeks out and advances promising drug projects from the WashU community

Accelerating clinical and translational research to improve health outcomes and the well-being of our communities

Awards innovative, scalable, and job-creating startups with $75,000 non-dilutive grants (plus an additional $25,000 for companies relocating to St. Louis) and access to an ecosystem of resources in exchange for headquartering their business in St. Louis for at least one year

Creates, builds, and invests in companies that are solving important problems in healthcare and agriculture