5AM-Venture

5AM Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early-stage, startup investments, and spinouts. The firm prefers to invest in life science companies with a focus on drug development, product discovery platforms, and medical technologies. In drug development, it focuses on companies discovering and developing drugs focused on specific therapeutic areas such as anti-infectives, diabetes, metabolic diseases, and oncology. Within medical technologies, the firm focuses on areas such as drug delivery, diagnostics, imaging agents, materials science, and medical devices. It prefers to be the lead investor and make equity investments. It seeks to take a board seat of the majority of its portfolio companies. 5AM Ventures was founded in 2002 and is based in Menlo Park, California with an additional office in Waltham, Massachusetts