5AM Ventures

Venture Capital Est. 2002
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USD 700M
Estimated FUM
Type
Venture Capital
HQ
San Francisco, CA, United States
Founded
2002
Focus
Life Sciences · Healthcare & Life Sciences

About

5AM Ventures is a leading venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco and focused on investments into early-stage life science companies. We invest in the biopharmaceutical, drug delivery technology and research instrument sectors. We support companies that are working to solve important healthcare needs via cutting-edge breakthroughs in medicine and science. 5AM works closely with our portfolio companies. Going beyond passive board roles, ours is unusually hands-on when starting companies, assuming short-term operating roles and proactively providing guidance throughout a portfolio company's life. 5AM Ventures, through our 4:59 initiative, also discovers, incubates and funds breakthrough science. We partner alongside academics and entrepreneurs - often serving as an extension of the operating team to establish proof-of-concept data that will enable a Series A Financing.

Strategies

Venture Capital
Focused strategy
Public Equity
Focused strategy
Sources

Profile sources

  1. 5amventures.com — Life Sciences, Healthcare & Life Sciences

Locations & investment markets

Reported capital

  • USD 200M · Fund size

    5AM Ventures III, L.P. · reported 2009-12-07

Capital and location details checked 2026-10-13.

Investment Criteria

Investment size
USD 500K - USD 10M

Reported investment size. Actual commitments may vary by stage, ownership and follow-on participation.

Investment Stages
Stages
Seed Series A Series B Public
Investment Geographies
Primary Markets
United States
Coverage
Country-focused
Regions
North America

Coverage is a guide only.

Location

Headquarters
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Office Presence
1 country
United States
2 known offices
San Francisco, CA, United States (HQ)
Boston, MA, United States

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