Apr 09, 2025
AVM is the wholly-owned venture capital organization within Astellas, dedicated to supporting pre-clinical, cutting-edge science that can bring VALUE to patients. For over 20 years, AVM has provided equity investments to private, early-stage companies developing therapeutic programs and platform technologies, helping them to advance their innovations faster.
AVM is a strategic investor, making investments in science that will enhance the current Astellas R&D pipeline or that could catalyze new directions in discovery research.
Investment Targets
We will make an investment in privately owned early-stage biotechnology company focused on therapeutics programs and platform technologies for drug discovery and development. Program stage should be in preclinical to be considered equity investment.
Areas of Interest
Our areas of interest are innovative therapeutic approach which is close to R&D strategy of Astellas Pharma (see: https://www.astellas.com/en/science/research-and-development) and unprecedent treatment but that becomes realized in the near future. We prioritize companies with programs and technologies to fulfill unmet medical needs who have been wanting for.
What AVM Provides
The strength of AVM lies in our “Pharma View” based on our long-standing experiences in the pharmaceutical industry. By providing our portfolio companies with invaluable information leveraging pharma expertise, we are able to support their growth. Moreover, we can be liaison between our portfolio companies and Astellas Pharma by helping them to facilitate a dialogue for future collaborations.
Contact
Astellas Venture Management LLC
480 Forbes Blvd,
South San Francisco, CA 94080
AVM_web-sm@astellas.com