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Innovation.
Clarity.
Execution.
A Venture Capital Firm for Visionary Innovators.
Advent Life Sciences is one of the leading trans-Atlantic venture investors focused on building innovative Life Sciences businesses in the UK, Europe and the USA.
We are a highly experienced team with a long-standing track record of entrepreneurial and investment success. We do this by turning break-through science into approved medicines or medical products.
We start and invest in early and mid-stage companies with a first-in-class or best-in-class approach.
Our investments are focused on new drug discovery across all modalities, med tech, enabling technologies and vaccines.
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As entrepreneurs and experienced, pragmatic investors, we bring the intellectual capital of our well-connected team to support each investment.
We take a hands-on approach and work in close alignment and partnership with our management teams to realise their vision with the goal of achieving superior financial returns by bringing innovation to patients.
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Innovation.
We are backing exceptional innovation early.
Since the year 2006, Advent-backed companies have brought fifteen innovative medicines and products to approval with our initial investment often being as early as Seed stage or Series A.
As the mid- and late-stage clinical pipelines of our portfolio companies continue to grow, this number looks set to increase each year.
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