
Civilization VC
@civilizationvc
Venture + mentor capital focused on essential innovations in health/bio. Founded by serial life sciences entrepreneur @ShahramSN. RTs/likes ≠ endorsements. 🩺🧬
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https://civilizationventures.com/ 14-06-2017 16:50:35
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Our Civilization VC team is on the ground in Boston/Cambridge, here visiting folks in Boston’s most beautiful modern building… that’s a giant pink bear hanging on to the glass behind us!


There’s a lot happening in Boston’s biotech hub - and Civilization VC co Nanite bio is at the 💙 of the action. Polymer based delivery solutions for cell and gene therapies.



I had the privilege of visiting one of our most important Civilization VC investments today - Foresight Diagnostics Inc.. We spun it out of Stanford University with the first check, and we’ve stayed by the founders’ sides ever since. Our Boulder HQ are a testament to advanced #biotech - one of the


Civilization VC is investing heavily to accelerate new medicines using #AI 👉 that's why we're excited about Tahoe Therapeutics (Formerly Vevo), co-founded by an all-star team Nima Alidoust John Lacsa Hani Goodarzi Kevan Shokat "Imagine accelerating the discovery of new therapeutics through the development of


Prime Medicine (public company) is now valued less than what we sold Rewrite for to Intellia ($200M). Rewrite had only raised $2M, with Civilization VC as sole VC - team was 5 people. Exited in under 2 years. Prime has raised >$500M... Timing is everything.

My simple post got >9K views -- because it hit a nerve about the importance of timing + luck, biotech market cycles and how mega funded companies can run into indigestion despite their big money and big names. The Rewrite story is also an exemplar of what makes Civilization VC


It was great to give a talk to the community about Tahoe-100M! Big thanks to our partners in science Parse Biosciences and Ultima Genomics for making projects like Tahoe the new gold standard in single cell. More to come stay tuned 😉🎙️#tahoe100m #singlecell

Still early days, but perhaps a thawing of the markets? Congrats to the founders and builders at Hinge Health on this big milestone! #digitalhealth endpts.com/hinge-health-p…

AI is the future for #biotech and #HealthcareInnovation. Keep up the great work Chris Gibson + team... visionary, early pioneers. Lots of leaders emerging in this new AI era, including our own Outpace Bio Tahoe Therapeutics (Formerly Vevo) Omada Health at Civilization VC!





Omada Health IPO - what a privilege to be along for the ride with these amazing founders, tackling some of the most important problems in healthcare today. Nasdaq knows how to put on a show - it’s like a Hollywood studio in here! Sean Duffy Civilization VC #OmadaIPO

