Novalis Lifesciences Portfolio

Selected Current Investments

Airna

Airna is a privately held Biotech company in Tuebingen, Germany. It is developing a unique and proprietary approach to RNA editing, as an alternative to DNA editing, to develop safe gene therapies for a variety of common genetic diseases.

Allurion Technologies

Allurion Technologies (NASDAQ:ALUR) is a public company in Natick, MA. It is a commercial stage Medical Device company focused on obesity and weight loss. Its first product is a unique patented gastric balloon which placement and removal does not require surgery, endoscopy and sedation. Public since August 2023.

Animol Discovery

Animol Discovery is a privately held Animal Health company in Boston, MA. Its proprietary screening platform accelerates the identification of medicines for unmet needs in animals by using a highly advanced approach to small molecule discovery and development.

 

BlueWhale Bio

BlueWhale Bio is a privately held Life Science Tools company in Philadelphia, PA. It is developing a technology platform and product portfolio intended to bring the benefits of cell and gene therapy manufacturing to more patients faster and at lower costs.

Enko

Enko is a privately held Agricultural Biotechnology company in Mystic, CT. Its proprietary technology platform represents a revolutionary approach to rapidly discover novel, safe, and economical crop protection products that are needed to ensure sustainable food production.

Etherna

Etherna is a privately held company located in Niel, Belgium. It it is commercial stage Biotech company that has developed an integrated set of platform technologies that are overcoming challenges facing the development of next generation mRNA therapeutics.

 
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Flywheel

Flywheel is a privately held company in Minneapolis, MN. It is a pioneering Medical Imaging data and artificial intelligence platform powering healthcare innovation through streamlined medical imaging data management, curation and analysis.

Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE:DNA) is a public company in Boston, MA. It is a commercial stage Biotech company that specializes in using genetic engineering to design custom microbes for a wide variety of life sciences and industrial applications. Public since September 2021.

LevitasBio

LevitasBio is a privately held Life Science Tools company in Menlo Park, CA. It is commercializing a highly innovative cellular separation and analysis technology, based on magnetic levitation technology. In mixed cellular samples analyzed for research and diagnostics purposes, this technology allows for more accurate identification of the different cell types present.

 

Mercy Bioanalytics

Mercy Bioanalytics is a privately held company in Boston, MA. It is developing the first and only test for early-stage cancer detection based on the analysis of single extracellular vesicles in the blood.

Ori Biotech

Ori Biotech is a privately held Biotech company in London, UK, that has developed a flexible manufacturing platform that automates and standardizes Cell and Gene Therapy manufacturing. This allows therapeutic developers to bring their products to patients in a more scalable and efficient manner.

Sherlock Biosciences

Sherlock Biosciences is a privately held Molecular Diagnostics company based in Boston, MA. By applying break-through gene editing and synthetic biology techniques, it is developing highly accurate tests for in-home detection of infectious diseases and respiratory illnesses.

 
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SkylineDx

SkylineDx is a privately held Molecular Diagnostic company based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. It is commercial-stage, focused on the genomic profiling of a cancerous tumor and as such determine the type and status of the disease to predict an individual patient’s response to treatment.

Telesis Bio

Telesis Bio (NASDAQ:TBIO) is a public Life Science Tools company located San Diego, CA. It has commercialized a leading molecular biology automation solutions platform for DNA and mRNA synthesis. This platform allows scientists to accelerate their development of novel biopharma therapeutics.

Vigilant Biosciences 

Vigilant Biosciences is a privately held Molecular Diagnostics company located in Austin, TX. It is a leading innovator and developer of solutions that aid in the early detection and intervention of oral and oropharyngeal cancer.   

 
 

Vizgen

Vizgen is a privately held Life Science Tools company in Cambridge, MA. It has developed and commercialized the next generation of genomic profiling tools that enable researchers to gain new insight into biological systems with spatial context.

 
 

Selected Exits

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Celsee

Celsee is a Life Science Tools company in Ann Arbor, MI. It develops and sells unique gravity based single-cell analysis systems that allow for the analysis of molecular signatures of millions of individual cells. Acquired by Bio-Rad April 2020.

Cerevel Therapeutics 

Cerevel Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CERE) is a public Biopharmaceutical company in Cambridge, MA. It is developing pre-commercial neuroscience compounds to treat a variety of Central Nervous System disorders including Parkinson’s, epilepsy and schizophrenia. Acquired by Abbvie August 2024.

Decipher Biosciences

Decipher Biosciences is a Molecular Diagnostics company in San Diego, CA. It is a leader in the field of urological cancer genomics, which measures the biological activity of a patient’s entire tumor genome, and as such helps physicians to improve therapy selection. Acquired by Veracyte March 2021.

 
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Quanterix

Quanterix (NASDAQ:QTRX) is a public Life Science Tools company located in Billerica, MA. It develops and sells uniquely precise and sensitive instrumentation to analyze and detect biomolecules for a variety of life sciences research and diagnostic applications. IPO in December 2017.