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What does Essex Woodlands invest in?
Essex Woodlands invests most often at Series D (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Health Care.
Essex Woodlands highlights
- 01
3 rounds on record
- 02
Mostly Series D: 100% of its rounds
- 03
Sole investor in 3 rounds, median $15M
What they do
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Sectors
- Health Care
- Based in
- United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first3 appearances
- 2016
3 rounds
- Dec
- Aug
- Jun
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration5 named
MPMartin P. SutterExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
PTPetri T. Vainio, MD, PhDExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
RSRichard Scott BarryExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
RTRon T. EastmanExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
STSteve T. WigginsExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
We also hold 5 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Essex Woodlands's funds
- Committed
- $175M
- Funds
- 3
- Vintages
- 2004 to 2008
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Sept 2025.
Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund3 funds$175MFund Vintage Committed Essex Woodlands Health Ventures Fund VIII 2008 $100M Essex Woodlands Health Ventures Fund VII 2006 $50M Essex Woodlands Health Ventures Fund VI 2004 $25M