About Us
Alignment Ventures, LLC
Alignment Ventures is a seed-stage venture firm with heavy operational emphasis focused on the life sciences. We spin companies out of University technology and serve as interim CEOs until sufficient risk reduction tasks are achieved to raise a Series A. We are life science seed artists with over 100 years of experience starting, building, financing and exiting from biotech, medical device, health care IT and life science tools companies, both as CEOs and as life science venture capitalists. In an era when many investors are going later stage and seemingly morphing into private equity firms, we stick to our knitting and focus on the earliest stages of biomedical company development. If it saves lives, if it is early stage and if it is revolutionary, not evolutionary, we're interested.
Comprehensive Approach
We start with a development in science or engineering that solves a critical unmet medical need. We form a newco, and serve as an interim management team, with one of us taking the lead as the interim CEO. We invest our own capital and raise non-dilutive funds while managing the many risk reducing tasks that need to be performed to get our seedlings to the point where they can raise a Series A financing. This involves technology licensing, IP strategy, recruitment of an industry-experienced VPR&D, design and execution of risk reducing experiments that establish commercial proof of concept, setting strategy, writing the business plan and financial models, market research, competitor analysis, financing strategy, recruiting the right long-term CEO with decades of operational experience in the appropriate niche. Then we raise the Series A, back out and do it again.
Not Our First Rodeo
We have done this before, over and over. At MIT, at Norwest Venture Partners, at Medical Innovation Partners and with other seed artists at major venture capital firms. This is hard stuff. And you rarely get it right the first time through. Don't go it alone.
