Healthcare
Healthcare startups in Pasadena. Health tech, medical devices, and healthcare services, backed by a decades-old biotech research base and a deep bench of clinical and diagnostics startups.
Series B$10.0MAvicena was founded in 2019 by Bardia Pezeshki and raised a $65M Series B led by Tiger Global with participation from SK Hynix and Prosperity7 Ventures.
Seed$6.8MTele911 integrates emergency medicine telehealth and patient navigation into 911 & EMS systems.
Seed$5.0MCo-founded by CEO Sam Alworth and Dr. Qing Liu; this ALS/FTD biotech was awarded $7.5M in grant funding from California's stem cell agency (CIRM) toward its first human trial, on top of earlier NIH and DOD funding.
Seed$4.3MCo-founded by Shane Shahrestani, incubated through Caltech's OTTCP startup program; the company closed an oversubscribed $5M Series Seed Prime round in 2024 backed by investors including Freeflow Ventures and DigiTx Partners.
Series B$3.5MLixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIXT) is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing a new class of oncology treatments and cancer therapies called PP2A inhibitors.
SeqOnce was co-founded in 2014 by Chris Angermayer and Joseph Dunham as a spinout from the University of Southern California, and has drawn investment from Wavemaker 360 Health and Mount Wilson Ventures.