Investors / SciFounders
SciFounders
Venture capital
SciFounders backs technical leaders building research-heavy science companies. It also runs the SciFounder Fellowship, which provides up to $1MM and hands-on mentorship.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordssciencedeep techresearchfellowshiptechnical founders
Your fit with SciFounders
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Or find every investor that fitsSciFounders lists 9 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest theme is Healthcare & Biotech (100%). 50% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside 8VC, True Ventures and ARTIS.
Counts come from funding rounds that name SciFounders, 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 19th | 9 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 100th | 100% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| 8VC | 2 |
| True Ventures | 2 |
| ARTIS | 1 |
| Abstract | 1 |
| Aleph | 1 |
| Atlantic Bridge | 1 |
| Azure Capital Partners | 1 |
| Boost VC | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers9100%
- 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
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 100% | 15% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare SciFounders 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 SciFounders| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Jan 2026 | Series A |
Round details for SciFounders
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in SciFounders' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
9 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deliver Biosciences is building a nanoparticle-based delivery platform to genetically engineer cells inside patients to create scalable, affordable and potent cell and gene therapies. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Endura Therapeutics develops medicines that target RNA to treat diseases | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| HarborSite is building a programmable gene insertion platform to cure diseases and enhance human performance | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Luminate Medical provides cancer care at home through nurse-led at-home cancer treatment and infusion services | Healthcare & Biotech | Jan 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Moab Therapeutics is building minibinders with big therapeutic impact through a combination of novel scaffolds, ultra high throughput data generation, and advanced AI models. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| NewLimit is inventing medicines to add healthy years to people's lives. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Piezo Therapeutics is developing a regenerative therapy to help skin rebuild what aging, inflammation, and damage have taken away. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Sculpta improves human health through innovative biotechnologies, including ground truth transcriptomics for AI-drug discovery. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Xterna creates therapeutics that target specific cells in the body | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- scifounders.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 7 Jan 2026
- Companies checked
- 9
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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