Civilization
Ventures

Essential Innovations

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The future of healthcare is preventative, personalized, and regenerative. We back inspired founders solving essential problems.

Committed Partners

Starting with a $1M “pilot” seed fund in 2017, Civilization Ventures today manages over $200M in capital and has partnered with 70+ innovative companies.
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A Fellowship

We train today’s PhDs to become tomorrow’s entrepreneurs with our unique Fellowship program – 40+ strong and growing!
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Who We Are

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Builders

We help founders succeed through our vast network and team of experienced biopharma executives.

Operators

We have founded and sold companies, so we understand the unique challenges faced by entrepreneurs.

Mentors

“Shahram shared our vision and gave us the tools we needed to build a genome editing pioneer.” - Shakked Halperin, Founder/CEO of Rewrite (acq. by Intellia)

75 Investments, 17 Exits, 3 Unicorns in 7 Years

2017

1

CV Fund I

Civilization launches with a $1M pilot fund to back innovators in genomics + diagnostics, digital health and synthetic biology (including gene + cell therapies).

2018

2

Rocket Pharma listed (NASDAQ: RCKT)

Rocket Pharma lists on Nasdaq, and a unicorn is born. Rocket has multiple first-in-class gene therapies in clinical trials to cure devastating inherited diseases.

2019

3

Singular Bio acquired by Invitae

Singular Bio is acquired by Invitae to help increase access to accurate genetic screening in early pregnancy.

2020

4

CV Fund II ($35M)

Civilization raises $35M second fund to lead pre/seed investments just as the world deals with the COVID pandemic and vaccine efforts begin.

2021

5

Lemonaid Health acquired by 23andme

Lemonaid Health - a pioneer in telemedicine - joins forces with genetic testing leader 23andme in a landmark $400M acquisition.

2022

6

Rewrite acquired by Intellia

Gene editing pioneer Rewrite - with CV as its founding investor - is acquired by Intellia for $200M in a key move for the industry.

2023

7

CV Opportunity Fund

Civilization raises its Opportunity Fund to back founders as they scale, bringing our total capital under management to over $100M.

2024

8

Fluent Bio acquired by Illumina

Fluent BioSciences is acquired by Illumina in a pivotal move to strengthen its single-cell analysis platform.

2025

9

2025 Omada Health IPO (NASDAQ: OMDA)

Omada Health completes its public listing in seminal event for the health tech sector. Omada tackles chronic diseases impacting >150M Americans with its unique digital programs that have been adopted by thousands of organizations.

2025

10

2025 BilliontoOne IPO (NASDAQ: BLLN)

BilliontoOne completes its public listing at a $5 Billion valuation. BilliontoOne has developed an ultra-sensitive molecular diagnostics platform that is transforming prenatal and cancer care with over 1M tests processed.

CV Fund I

Rocket Pharma listed (NASDAQ: RCKT)

Singular Bio acquired by Invitae

CV Fund II ($35M)

Lemonaid Health acquired by 23andme

Rewrite acquired by Intellia

CV Opportunity Fund (>$100M total)

Fluent Bio acquired by Illumina

Omada Health IPO (NASDAQ: OMDA)

BilliontoOne IPO (NASDAQ: BLLN)

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Aspect Biosystems

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Replace Therapeutics

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Kernal Bio

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Foresight Diagnostics

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