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Wellcome Trust

1208 employees

Wellcome Trust is a medical research charity that funds research that aims to protect and improving human and animal health.

Investor insights

Sectors invested in

Biotechnology53
Health Care40
Therapeutics16
Pharmaceutical16
Health Diagnostics15
Medical14
Biopharma10
Medical Device9
Oncology8
Life Science7
Women's4
Drug Discovery4
Developer Platform3
Information Services3
Genetics3
Software3
Clean Energy3
Solar3
Healthcare3
Fully Human Monoclonal Antibodies3

Funding rounds participated in

$22M sweet spot round size

Most of their 108 investments are in rounds between $6M and $45M

Investor type

Government Office
Venture Capital

Basic info

Industry

non-profit organizations

Sectors

Biotechnology
COVID19
public_engagement
education
biomedical_research
mental health
investments
ethics
technology_transfer
humanities and social science
public engagement
climate change
innovation
Non Profit
public_health
global heating
Philanthropy
drug-resistant infections
genome
vaccine
Health Care
infectious disease
culture
diversity and inclusion
science
Medical

Date founded

1936

Investments made

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Undisclosed raised $3.4M on April 28, 2023

Investors: Wellcome Trust

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DataDotOrg raised undisclosed on September 14, 2021

Investors: The Rockefeller Foundation and Wellcome Trust

G

Generate raised $2B on July 20, 2021

Investors: QIC, Aware Super, CBRE Caledon Capital Management Inc. and Wellcome Trust

U

Undisclosed raised $6.8M on April 23, 2021

Investors: Wellcome Trust

T

TAE Technologies, Inc raised $280M on April 8, 2021

Investors: Kuwait Investment Authority, Venrock, Vulcan Capital and Wellcome Trust

T

ThinkSono raised $546K on January 1, 2021

Investors: Wellcome Trust

T

Transformative raised $1.7M on July 27, 2020

Investors: Tera Ventures and Wellcome Trust

U

Undisclosed raised $27M on June 3, 2020

Investors: Novator Partners Llp, General Catalyst and Wellcome Trust

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COVI-GO raised $1.3M on March 9, 2020

Investors: - and Wellcome Trust

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Prokarium raised $5.6M on October 8, 2019

Investors: Wellcome Trust

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