About

We are company co-founders, company builders and value-add investors

Longwood Fund is a venture capital firm dedicated to creating and investing in novel healthcare companies that develop important treatments to help patients. We leverage our own company creation and operating experience and partner with world-class entrepreneurs, scientists and academic innovators to identify groundbreaking discoveries and create companies that make a difference in the lives of patients while also creating significant value for investors. The Longwood partners have founded over 20 biotech companies, which have launched ~20 drugs, and created sustained market caps of over $100 billion.

Companies We've Co-Founded

Through Longwood, prior firms, or in operating capacity

Co-Founders

Josh Boger, Rich Aldrich (CBO)

Co-Founders

Phil Sharp, Christoph Westphal (CEO), Paul Schimmel

Co-Founders

Bob Langer, Ram Sasisekharan, Ganesh Venkataramah, Christoph Westphal (CEO)

Co-Founders

Tom Maniatis, Jas Seehra, Wylie Vale, Mark Ptashne, John Knopf, Christoph Westphal (CEO)

Co-Founders

Rich Aldrich, David Sinclair, Christoph Westphal (CEO)

Co-Founders

Rich Aldrich (Chair), Roger Tung, Christoph Westphal

Co-Founders

Christoph Westphal, Alex Margolin, Rich Aldrich

Co-Founders

Piyush Gupta, Michelle Dipp, Robert Weinberg, Satish Jindal, Rich Aldrich, Christoph Westphal (CEO), Eric Lander

Co-Founders

David Donabedian (CEO), Rich Aldrich, Michelle Dipp, Christoph Westphal

Co-Founders

Tomasz Kula, Christoph Westphal (CEO), Steve Elledge, Bob Crane, Lea Hachigian, Rich Aldrich

Pyxis Oncology

Co-Founders

John Flavin, Christoph Westphal, Thomas Gajewski, David Steinberg (CEO), Rich Aldrich, Shaan Gandhi

Co-Founders

Christoph Westphal (CEO), Kai Wucherpfennig, Lea Hachigian, Mario SuvĂ , Dane Wittrup

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Co-Founders

David Steinberg (CEO), Aleks Radovic-Moreno, Lea Hachigian, David Rawlings, Richard James

Co-Founders

Christoph Westphal, Aleks Radovic-Moreno, Omar Abudayyeh, Jonathan Gootenberg,

Photys

Co-Founders

Amit Choudhary, David Steinberg, Ed Holson, Lizzie Ngo

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Co-Founders

John Engelhardt, Rob Kotin, David Steinberg, Lucy Liu, Chen Schor, Rob Hadfield

DEMBio

Co-Founders

Michael Bassik, David Donabedian (Startup CEO), Rob Hadfield, John Pribis (VP), Annie Vemu, Kipp Weiskopf, Jonathan Weissman, Christoph Westphal (Exec Chair)

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Co-Founders

John Pribis, Brandon Turunen, Kipp Weiskopf, Rob Hadfield, David Donabedian, Christoph Westphal