Founder and CEO of @foresitecapital, healthcare venture capital firm.
Joined November 2011
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12 Jun 2024
Thank you to @FierceBiotech for their coverage of our new fund, announced today. It's an exciting time to be a biotech investor, and we look forward to continuing our support of the entrepreneurs who are making a difference. fiercebiotech.com/biotech/fo…
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31 May 2023
A new cohort of #VCUniversity starts tomorrow through @VCForward, with this amazing group of scholarship recipients in the life sciences track who will be reshaping our industry in years to come. My firm @ForesiteCapital is proud to continue our support of this program.
31 May 2023
#VCUniversity Cohort 13 kicks off tomorrow! 🎉 We’re proud to have awarded full scholarships to the course for 40 new and aspiring VCs. Get to know them. 👉
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10 May 2023
Great news for the team at XinThera with their acquisition by @GileadSciences announced today. @ForesiteCapital was the founding investor. Read my colleague's thoughts here: foresitecapital.com/blog/xin…
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31 Mar 2023
I'm thrilled to have joined the @LACMA board to help foster appreciation for culture and creativity in Los Angeles and beyond. Read my thoughts here: medium.com/@Jim-Tananbaum/on…
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8 Feb 2023
Congratulations to the team at @evonetix on this new funding round! We were excited to lead this investment to accelerate the company's commercial strategy and make gene synthesis more accessible.
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24 Oct 2022
It was an honor to welcome attendees on Saturday at Yale's for Humanity Illuminated event at the Yerba Buena Center. So proud to partner with this team. The @Yale community is incredibly special, and it was an inspirational day.
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27 Sep 2022
Please join my firm @ForesiteCapital in supporting this valuable program by volunteering as a life sciences peer mentor. The deadline is Friday.
27 Sep 2022
VC Investors: Do you have 3-4 hours free to support a stronger, more diverse and inclusive ecosystem?
This is the last week to volunteer as a VC Mentor for Cohort 11 of the #VCUniversity Mentorship Program!
Learn more sign up by this Friday, Sept. 30: forms.gle/DWZWfnt73h8fA5xX8
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1 Sep 2022
Congratulations to the scholarship recipients of Cohort 11 for the @VCForward life sciences track of #VCUniversity! We are so proud of our work with this program. These people are the future of the life science VC industry, and I can't wait to see what they accomplish.
31 Aug 2022
Introducing #VCUniversity ONLINE’s Cohort 11 Scholarship Recipients!
Get to know these future leaders of the industry:
ventureforward.org/meet-the-…
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1 Jun 2022
I'm proud to work with this team. Read our latest blog post from managing director Michael Rome.
1 Jun 2022
Our managing director Michael Rome shares his thoughts on the @Affinivax acquisition by @GSK in our latest blog post: foresitecapital.com/blog/tho…
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1 Jun 2022
Our managing director Michael Rome shares his thoughts on the @Affinivax acquisition by @GSK in our latest blog post: foresitecapital.com/blog/tho…
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20 Apr 2022
I'm proud to be supporting healthcare visionaries like Aaron.
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10 Mar 2022
I'm excited to support the team at @ElemBio as they unveil their benchtop sequencer AVITI. I believe sequencing will touch all our lives. To enable it, we need high quality, inexpensive sequencing.
9 Mar 2022
Hear @JTananbaum Element board member & Founder/CEO of @ForesiteCapital describe how AVITI enables a major shift in the sequencing market.
Register for our 3/14 virtual launch event to learn more: bit.ly/3pd3Gkl
#AviditySequencing #AVITI #NGS #Biotech #venturecapital
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1 Feb 2022
This is a stellar group, and I'm proud that my firm is providing full scholarships to the life sciences track for these future leaders in our industry. Thank you to @VCForward and the @nvca.
31 Jan 2022
Introducing #VCUniversity ONLINE’s Cohort 9 Scholarship Recipients!
Get to know these future leaders of the industry: ventureforward.org/vcu-onlin…
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27 Jan 2022
Congratulations to the newest @ForesiteLabs incubated company, @tensixteenbio , for launching today! The company is the first to leverage CHIP to uncover the mysterious mutations in the blood and how they impact disease. Read more via @endpts here: tinyurl.com/4njyfcvu
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20 Jan 2022
Welcoming ImmPACT Bio to our portfolio! Early clinical data is very promising in our view. We believe the efficacy & safety profile of the lead program will help expand access of CAR-T cell therapy to patients who have exhausted other options. Excited to work with this team!
20 Jan 2022
ImmPACT Bio unveiled a $111 million Series B round early Thursday morning, along with a C-suite shakeup and a first glimpse at some Phase I data.
endpts.com/next-gen-car-t-pl…
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14 Jan 2022
I'm very excited to announce the Tananbaum Center for Theoretical and Analytical Human Biology at @Yale led by @RMedzhitov to uncover fundamental knowledge about disease. Read about our new center here: forhumanity.yale.edu/news/ne…
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7 Jan 2022
Great news out of @EikonTX yesterday, closing this round to help fuel their plans to analyze single molecule protein behavior in living cells. Their innovative tools and technologies for biological exploration will be used for drug discovery and beyond.
6 Jan 2022
"How can you understand life if you don't look at it live?" — Eikon Therapeutics rakes in $518M tcrn.ch/3JMeTRv by @emmakbetuel
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21 Dec 2021
Proud to be working with Pardes Biosciences -- with FSII we are working to combat COVID-19 via an oral medicine that, if approved by regulatory authorities, could be used to treat and prevent the disease.
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17 Dec 2021
Thank you @amyfeldman for this thoughtful coverage of our portfolio company @TassoInc, bringing blood testing into the home to improve access to care.
What if you could draw blood at home rather than having it done at the doctor’s office? That’s the premise of Seattle-based startup Tasso trib.al/wZyrXcp
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10 Dec 2021
Really excited about this new initiative. Please help us spread the word to qualified applicants.
10 Dec 2021
Thrilled to introduce our new program – Foresite Fellows! This is a twelve-week part-time paid internship program, 8-10 hours/wk remotely for those enrolled in PhD, MD, MD/MBA, MD/PhD, or postdoc programs. Learn more and apply here:
foresitecapital.com/blog/int…
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