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Websitewellcome.ac.uk
Blogblog.wellcome.ac.uk
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Founded1936

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HQ
Gibbs Building
215 Euston Road
London, NW1 2BE, GBR

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Wellcome Trust

Wellcome Trust is a UK-based medical research charity that funds research with the ultimate aim of protecting and improving human and animal health. They fund UK and international research.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Airstrip Technologies 10/12Venture Round$10M1
Cell Medica 7/12Venture Round£17M3
Castlight Health 5/12Series D$100M7
PTC Therapeutics 12/11Venture Round$5M1
Sapiens 11/11Venture Round€10M1
Biocartis 11/11Series C€71M3
Siluria Technologies 9/11Series B$20M7
Radius Health 7/11Series C$66M7
Beyond Oblivion 3/11Venture Round$77M2
Wonga 2/11Series C£73M3
Kymab 7/10Series A$30.4M1
Castlight Health 6/10Series C$60M7
Biota Holdings 4/10Venture Round$423k1
Achaogen 4/10Series C$56M7
Nabriva Therapeutics 1/10Series B$22M4
Oxagen 11/09Series C$26.7M9
Integrated Diagnostics 10/09Series A$30M2
Chroma Therapeutics 6/09Venture Round$24.5M6
VaxInnate 6/09Series D$30M7
ProteinSimple 4/09Series C$10M7
Qwell Pharmaceuticals 1/09Series A$7M2
Radius Health 11/08Series C$15M6
Lectus Therapeutics 9/07Venture Round£3M1
Radius Health 4/07Series B$57.5M6
Cell Medica 3/07Venture Round$3.74M2
Sequoia Pharmaceuticals 1/07Series C$35M5
Amplimmune 1/06Series A$20M2
ProteinSimple 1/06Series B$27M8
Sirtris Pharmaceuticals 3/05Series B$27M6
Sirtris Pharmaceuticals 12/04Series A$13M5

Videos

Sources

    The Wellcome Trust Launches £200M Business to Invest in Healthcare and Life Sciences Businesses (finsmes.com) [edit]
  1. AirStrip Technologies Secures More Than $10M From Wellcome Trust (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
  2. Cell Medica Receives £17M Investment (finsmes.com) [edit]
  3. Castlight Lands A Whopping $100M D Round To Bring Transparency To Healthcare Costs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. PTC Therapeutics Receives $5M Seeding Drug Discovery (SDD) Award from the Wellcome Trust (finsmes.com) [edit]
  5. Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation Raises €10M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  6. Biocartis Completes €71M Series C Equity Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  7. Siluria Technologies Raises $20M in Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  8. Radius Health, Inc.: Series C $66M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  9. Beyond Oblivion Secures $77 Million Extra Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  10. Wonga Raises £73m In Series C Funding To Double-Down On Massive UK Growth (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
  11. Kymab and Wellcome Trust sign £20 million financing to build a UK biopharmaceutical company based on human monoclonal antibody technology from The Sanger Institute (kymab.com) [edit]
  12. Castlight Health Raises $60 Million to Support Commercial Rollout (freshnews.com) [edit]
  13. EDGAR [edit]
  14. Achaogen Completes $56 Million Series C Financing (pr-inside.com) [edit]
  15. Nabriva Therapeutics, AG: Series B $22M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  16. Oxagen rounds up $26.7M in VC (fiercebiotech.com) [edit]
  17. Integrated Diagnostics, Inc.: Series A $30M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  18. Capital Report Index [edit]
  19. VaxInnate Corp., Series D $30M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  20. Cell Biosciences Raises $10 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
  21. Qwell Pharmaceuticals, Backed by Arch, Raises $7M for New Cancer, Inflammation Drugs (xconomy.com) [edit]
  22. Radius Raises Additional $15 Million, Increasing Second Private Equity Financing Round to $82.5 Million (radiuspharm.mwnewsroom.com) [edit]
  23. Lectus Therapeutics secures £3million investment from the Wellcome Trust (lectustherapeutics.com) [edit]
  24. Radius Raises $57.5 Million in Second Private Financing Round (radiuspharm.com) [edit]
  25. EDGAR [edit]
  26. Sequoia Pharmaceuticals Raises $35M In Series C Financing (fiercebiotech.com) [edit]
  27. EDGAR [edit]
  28. Bio-Medicine (bio-medicine.org) [edit]
  29. Sirtris Pharmaceuticals closes $27M second round (boston.bizjournals.com) [edit]
  30. Sirtris closes $13 million financing (boston.bizjournals.com) [edit]
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