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Washington Research Foundation
Washington Research Foundation is a seed to Series B stage investment firm. It has made 30 investments. 30% of their portfolio is in Biotech & Life Sciences. Deal activity decreased year-over-year (1 deal in the last 12 months vs 2 prior). Average disclosed round size is $57.8M (across 33 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
30
Fund Size
—
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
1
Team
RH
Ragan Hart
Senior Associate for Strategic Investments
FY
Frank Yin
Investment
JA
Joe Albe
Life Science Strategy & Innovation
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
37 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBrainChild Bio | Seed | — | Sep 2026 |
| BBrainChild Bio | Series A | $116M | Jan 2026 |
 Accipiter Biosciences | Seed | $12.7M | Nov 2025 |
 GROUP14 | Series D | $463M | Aug 2025 |
 Accipiter | Seed | $12.7M | Jan 2025 |
 Archon Biosciences | Seed | $20M | Oct 2024 |
 Abacus Bioscience | Seed | $4.4M | Feb 2023 |
| SSomalytics | Seed | — | Aug 2022 |
 Monod Bio | Seed | $25M | Aug 2022 |
 SEngine Precision Medicine | Series A | $10M | Jul 2022 |
 Arzeda | Series B | $33M | Mar 2022 |
| KKayoThera | Series A | $8M | Mar 2022 |
 Cyrus Biotechnology | Unknown | $18M | Dec 2021 |
| CCyrus | Seed | $3.1M | Jan 2021 |
 Umoja | Series A | $53M | Nov 2020 |
 Medcurity | Growth | — | Jul 2020 |
| Medcurity | Seed | $200K | May 2020 |
 Membrion | Series A | $6M | Mar 2020 |
 Umoja Biopharma | Series A | $53M | Jan 2020 |
| GROUP14 | Series C | $614M | Aug 2019 |
| Cyrus Biotechnology | Series A | $8M | Jul 2017 |
 Wibotic | Seed | $2.5M | Sep 2016 |
 Skytap | Series B | $35M | Dec 2014 |
 Flexminder | Series A | $1.2M | Mar 2014 |
 Juno Therapeutics | Ipo | $264M | Jan 2014 |
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Top Co-Investors
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Scale Venture Partners2 shared
AC Ventures2 shared
OS Fund2 shared
Novo Holdings A/S2 shared
Flying Fish2 shared
Takeda Ventures, Inc.2 shared
Columbus Venture Partners2 shared
Argonautic Ventures2 shared
Porsche AG2 shared
Decarbonization Partners2 shared
Trinity Ventures2 shared
Agent Capital2 shared
iSelect Fund2 shared
Last updated: 27 September 2026