Roche Venture Fund Parent: Roche

A corporate venture fund of Roche, it makes investments in life science companies aiming to create value by fostering innovation, guiding successful businesses, and generating a financial return for Roche. Roche Venture Fund is looking for private companies with innovative medicines, diagnostics, and technologies. In select cases, it will invest in companies alongside research and development collaborations with Roche or Genentech. For therapeutics, the Fund prefers investing in preclinical companies, and for diagnostics - it prefers 12-18 months to launch. In most cases, the Fund will make and/or participate in Series A investments. In addition to its team in Switzerland, Roche Venture Fund also has an office in San Francisco.