Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse is an incubator firm in Pittsburgh that supports life sciences start-ups, recruiting star university researchers and seasoned life science executives to the region. Founded 2002 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, it invests in early stage ventures, late stage ventures, seed, debt financing, series C, and series A ventures. Its portfolio companies include Cognition Therapeutics, Clinical Platform, ALung Technologies, and Carmell Therapeutics. As of February 2020, Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse has made 52 investments. Their most recent investment was on June 6, 2019, when Clinical Platform raised $20K. Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse has had three exits, the most notable exits include Applied Computational Technologies, Cellumen, and PeriOptimum. Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse has raised two funds, their latest being PLSG Accelerator Fund II. This fund was announced on May 1, 2017 and raised a total of $5.2M.
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Cognition Therapeutics is a biotechnology and pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders that is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2007 by Gilbert Rishton and Susan Catalano.
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A company developing personalaized treatment for oncology, neurology and psychiatry
A company developing lipid-based therapies for the treatment of bladder syndromes
A diagnostics company using tissue analysis for cancer diagnosis and prognosis
Celsense is a Pittsburgh-based biotechnology company developing magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents.
A company developing silico modeling technology to create predictive computer models of the biological response to disease and intervention
Complexa is a Berwyn, Pennsylvania-based company.
A company developing positioning systems to immobilize, stabilize and position patients for orthopedi surgery
A nanotechnology company dveloping alloy gradient quantum dots used in the optoelectronics industry
A company providing technology solutions for pharma and regulated industries
ParentPlus is a company in the pharmaceuticals industry.
People
Aishwarya Raghunathan
Employee
Alicia Varughese
Employee
David Palmer
Employee
James Jordan
Employee
Kat Dave
Investor
Matthew Granato
Employee
Nidha Khan
Employee
Nidhi Kaul
Employee
Nirupa Rao
Employee
Rajesh Bhattacharjee
Employee
Rula Abbud-Antaki
Investor
Sha Li
Employee
Xinmi Li
Employee
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Companies
Ariel Precision Medicine
Better Body Image LLC
Carmell Therapeutics
Cernostics
Clinical Platform
Cognition Therapeutics
Forest Devices, Inc.
Medrobotics
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Lax Mariappan
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Special Projects & Business Development at Golden, Founder - Seed-DB. - 5
Henry Ogolla
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Marie Gabrielle Laguna- Bedia
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Eternus Global. Physician of internal medicine, app developer and entrepreneur - 7
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Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME