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    WS Investment Company

    Palo Alto, California, United StatesFounded 1978
    www.wsgr.com
    Biotech & Life SciencesEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

    WS Investment Company is the corporate venture capital investment arm of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Founded in 1978 and based in Palo Alto, California, it invests partner capital across sectors including communications, internet, software, and life sciences.

    32% of their portfolio is in Biotech & Life Sciences. Their most common stage is seed (42% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $20.3M (across 18 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    19

    Fund Size

    —

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Team

    JT

    James Terranova

    Managing Director

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    19 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Portal Biotech logoPortal BiotechSeries A$35MJun 2025
    General Proximity logoGeneral ProximitySeed$16MJan 2025
    Bench IQ logoBench IQPre-Seed$2.1MFeb 2024
    AM Batteries logoAM BatteriesSeries B$30MDec 2023
    Cohart logoCohartSeed$4MAug 2023
    Tangibly logoTangiblySeed$6.5MJul 2023
    Smartlens logoSmartlensSeries A$6.1MJul 2023
    Cognito Therapeutics logoCognito TherapeuticsSeries B$73MMar 2023
    Insilico Medicine(3696.HK) logoInsilico Medicine(3696.HK)Series D$95MAug 2022
    Captain Experiences logoCaptain ExperiencesSeed$2MFeb 2022
    Playbook logoPlaybookSeed$4MAug 2021
    BioSkryb logoBioSkrybSeed$11.5MJan 2020
    DotLab logoDotLabSeries A$10MJul 2019
    Blast logoBlastSeed$5MMar 2018
    Cofactor Genomics logoCofactor GenomicsSeries A$18MSep 2017
    AAccuraGenSeries A—Jan 2015
    Movable Ink logoMovable InkSeries B$11MMay 2013
    AnaptysBio logoAnaptysBioSeries B$34MJan 2007
    CConKay MedicalSeed$1.8M—

    Top Co-Investors

    Y Combinator2 shared
    Inovia Capital2 shared
    Maple VC2 shared
    Alumni Ventures2 shared
    Anzu Partners2 shared
    8VC1 shared
    Earlybird Venture Capital1 shared
    We Venture Capital1 shared
    Innovation Nest1 shared
    SCVC1 shared
    Amino Collective1 shared
    British Business Bank1 shared
    Pillar VC1 shared
    XYZ Venture Capital1 shared
    BHR Partners1 shared
    Qiming Venture Partners USA1 shared
    Bold Capital Partners1 shared
    B Capital1 shared
    Warburg Pincus LLC1 shared
    Prosperity7 Ventures1 shared

    Last updated: 9 September 2026