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Bay City Capital
Venture capital · San Rafael, CA, United States · North America
Bay City Capital is a life sciences investment firm founded in 1997. It has raised five venture capital funds and invested in over 100 companies worldwide.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordslife scienceshealthcarebiotechpharmaceuticals
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Or find every investor that fitsBay City Capital lists 20 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (95%) and Food & Agriculture (5%). 43% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Omega Funds, Pivotal Life Sciences and ARCH Venture Partners.
No funding round on record names Bay City Capital yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Bay City Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 20. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 51th | 20 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 97th | 95% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1680%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company420%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 95% | 15% |
| Food & Agriculture | 5% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Bay City Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
20 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AquaBounty uses land-based farming technology and genetics to grow seafood more efficiently and sustainably. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| BioSeek provides a reasoning engine for biotechnology that connects public biology data into a structure for AI agents to reason over. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Gossamer Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of its investigational drug product, seralutinib, for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease (PH-ILD). | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Itamar Medical develops and sells products for sleep apnea testing, including the WatchPAT home sleep study device. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Iterum Therapeutics plc is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing anti-infectives to combat multi-drug resistant pathogens. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| KBP is a world-class biotechnology research and development organization dedicated to providing innovative therapies for unmet medical needs | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Madrigal is a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering novel therapeutics for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a serious liver disease with high unmet medical need. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides solutions for chronic pain relief | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| NextCure, Inc. develops pipeline products and technologies | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Oculis is a biopharmaceutical company that develops treatments for eye diseases and conditions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Panomics analyzes multi-omics data at scale with an interactive visual interface | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company is developing and delivering novel therapies for rare diseases to significantly improve the quality of life for patients and their families. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ThermoGenesis develops and commercializes novel cell processing systems and devices for cell-based therapeutics and bioprocessing | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| The company synthesizes DNA and provides related products and services for research and development. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Vivaldi Biosciences is developing vaccines for protection against epidemic and pandemic viral respiratory diseases. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Xilio Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company discovering and developing masked immuno-oncology therapies for cancer treatment | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- baycitycapital.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 20
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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