The California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) founded Mission Bay Capital in 2009 to provide venture capital to startups at the University of California. Mission Bay Capital is a venture capital firm making seed and early stage investments in startup technology companies typically operating within the industries of biotechnology and life science. The firms head office is located in San Francisco, California. Notable exits made by Mission Bay Capital include: Calithera Biosciences, iPierian, Redwood Bioscience, and Zephyrus Biosciences.
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Funded Companies
Wild Type (company)Wild Type is a San Francisco based company producing meat products like salmon using cellular agriculture lab techniques.
San Francisco
California
United States
Effector TherapeuticsA company dedicated on the discovery and development of small molecule therapeutics to treat cancer
San Diego
Principia BioPharmaA biopharmaceutical company developing oral small molecule therapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases
South San Francisco, California
Alector
GraphWear Technologies GraphWear Technologies is a San Francisco-based company.
ViewPoint TherapeuticsViewPoint Therapeutics is a San Francisco-based company.
SiteOne TherapeuticsSiteOne Therapeutics is a Bozeman, Montana-based company.
Bozeman, MontanaPionyr Immunotherapeutics is a San Francisco-based company.
Associated investment funds
People
Brian Atwood
Investment Committee
Brook Byers
Investment Committee
Chris Christoffersen
Investment Committee
Douglas Crawford
Managing Director
Fred Cohen
Investment Committee
Harold E. Selick
Venture Partner
John Wadsworth, Jr
Investment Committee
Jonathan Root
Investment Committee
Linda Eng
Office Manager
Luke Evnin
Investment Committee
Peter D. Parker
Managing General Partner
Regis Kelly
Senior Advisor
Robert Blazej
Partner
Vivian Dang
Controller
Wende Hutton
Investment Committee
Further reading
Mission Bay Capital Fund Launches - PE Hub
OEHub Administrator
Web
Mission Bay Capital Raising $85 Million for Life Science Startups
Heather Mack
Web
QB3's Mission Bay Capital Closes $25M Fund II
QB3
Web
Small but mighty VC doubles up with new biotech seed fund
Ron Leuty
Web
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