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Forward Ventures, founded in 1990, has a team of investment professionals with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, venture capital, biological sciences, operations, and corporate management, with over $450 million under management. Forward Ventures invests in all stages of company development, and has invested in over 60 companies in five funds. The most recent fund focuses on biopharmaceutical products in early clinical development. On a number of occasions, Forward has seeded companies from scratch, building strong teams to pursue compelling opportunities.The firm is located in San Diego, an elite biomedical research and innovation community and one of the nation's top biotechnology centers for commercialization. Though headquartered in San Diego, the firm has sourced assets and technologies globally and invested throughout the United States. The firm is headquartered in a 40,000 square-foot research building that also serves as an incubator for its portfolio companies. Forward invests in companies of all stages of development in North America and will consider select European opportunities. Its typical investment size ranges from $1 to $6 million (initially), and $3 to $15 million over the total lifespan of the investment. The firm's Forward Pacific Ventures team focuses on China opportunities. Over nearly 30 years, the Forward Ventures partners have founded, financed, and developed more than 60 life science companies.
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