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Northpond Ventures
Venture capital · Bethesda, MD, United States · North America
Northpond Ventures is an investment firm that builds and supports breakthrough science and technology driven businesses. It focuses on finding the next breakthroughs and supporting innovators and visionaries.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordssciencetechnologyhealthcarelife sciences
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Or find every investor that fitsNorthpond Ventures lists 8 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 8 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest theme is Healthcare & Biotech (100%). 75% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside ARCH Venture Partners, Echo Health Ventures and Forbion.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Northpond Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundNorthpond Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 20% |
| Series B | 20% |
| Growth | 60% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 2 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 15th | 8 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 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 | 100th | 100% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| ARCH Venture Partners | 2 |
| Echo Health Ventures | 2 |
| Forbion | 2 |
| GV | 2 |
| S32 | 2 |
| SV Health Investors | 2 |
| Blue Venture Funds | 1 |
| British Business Bank | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers8100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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 | 100% | 15% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with ARCH Venture Partners
Compare Northpond Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Northpond Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 17 Mar 2026 | Round | |
| 12 Jan 2026 | Round | |
| 8 Jan 2026 | Round | |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Series C+ Led | |
| 6 Nov 2025 | Series B Led | |
| 4 Sept 2025 | Series C+ | |
| 7 Oct 2024 | Series A |
Round details for Northpond Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Northpond Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
8 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Culture Biosciences develops and provides bioreactors and software for cell culture experiments and bioprocess development | Healthcare & Biotech | Dec 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Eleanor Health provides online addiction treatment for drug and alcohol recovery | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2024Series A | Funding round | |
| Elephas develops and provides a platform for predicting tumor response to treatment and analyzing live human tissue | Healthcare & Biotech | Nov 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Mestag Therapeutics develops new therapies for cancer and inflammatory diseases by targeting fibroblast immunology | Healthcare & Biotech | Mar 2026Round | Funding round | |
| Octave Bioscience develops and provides a blood test to measure multiple sclerosis disease activity | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Omass Therapeutics harnesses proprietary biochemistry, native mass spectrometry and custom chemistry to interrogate targets and their interactions with their native ecosystem. | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Viecure provides a platform | Healthcare & Biotech | Jan 2026Round | Funding round | |
| Vizgen develops and provides spatial biology technology and services for mapping RNA and protein in tissue | Healthcare & Biotech | Jan 2026Round | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- npv.vc
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 7 Oct 2024
- Companies checked
- 8
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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