What does Astellas Venture Management invest in?
Astellas Venture Management invests most often at Series B and Series A (69% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Therapeutics and Platform Technologies.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Apr 2026; 29 cheques on record.
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Series B and Series A: 69% of its rounds
Sole investor in 1 rounds, median undisclosed
3 exits from the portfolio
AVM is the wholly-owned venture capital organization within Astellas, dedicated to supporting pre-clinical, cutting-edge science that can bring VALUE to patients.From their own website
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Companies it backed that were later bought or listed3 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
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The latest companies Astellas Venture Management put money into.
Astellas Venture Management invests most often at Series B and Series A (69% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Therapeutics and Platform Technologies.
29 investments on record, 1 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Apr 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Sidewinder Therapeutics (Series B, Apr 2026), NeoPhore Limited (Series B, Mar 2021) and Heartseed (Series B, Nov 2019).
The median round it joins is $24M.
Rarely, if at all: none of its 29 investments on record names it as the lead.
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (62%) and the United Kingdom (31%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 1 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Novartis Venture Fund (8 rounds together), OrbiMed (4 rounds together) and Roche Venture Fund (4 rounds together).
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