Innovation is the best medicine
Built on a foundation of deep research, RTW invests with innovative companies looking to bring important new products to patients.
OUR FOCUS ON INNOVATIVE MEDICINE
We have developed expertise through our comprehensive study of industry and academic efforts in targeted areas of significant innovation. By focusing our energies, we believe we can add more value to entrepreneurs and scientists. Our current focus areas include both technology platforms and disease areas.
Technologies
GENE THERAPY
RNA
ANTIBODIES
PROTEINS
DISEASE AREAS
CANCER
RARE DISEASE
NEUROLOGY
CVD
What's New At RTW
RTW Venture Fund spoke to the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) about the impact COVID-19 will have on our industry
RTW Venture Fund spoke to the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) about the impact COVID-19 will have on our industry
With vast swathes of the world in lockdown, the one question on everyone’s minds is how long will it take to develop a vaccine against COVID-19? The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has spoken to investment company and VCT managers about the prospects for a vaccine and how their portfolio companies are contributing to the fight against coronavirus.
RTW Venture Fund spoke to the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) about the impact COVID-19 will have on our industry
With vast swathes of the world in lockdown, the one question on everyone’s minds is how long will it take to develop a vaccine against COVID-19? The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has spoken to investment company and VCT managers about the prospects for a vaccine and how their portfolio companies are contributing to the fight against coronavirus.
This Disability Rights Activist Wants to Be the First Wheelchair User in Space
There can be irony in even the happiest of sentiments—a fact that is surely not lost on Eddie Ndopu. The son of a South African mother and a Namibian father, Ndopu was born in 1990, the year Namibia attained its independence from South Africa, and just four years before Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first black President.
RTW Venture Fund Limited lists on the London Stock Exchange
On Wednesday October 30th, the London Stock Exchange welcomed RTW Venture Fund Limited to its first day of trading on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market with a starting NAV and market capitalization of $168M.
Our Successful Partnerships
We support companies through the ups and downs of the often challenging journey to bring therapies to patients.
Rod dug in our company when many other investors disappeared. He did the work and realized BioCryst’s potential for treating rare diseases such as HAE long before others did.
“RTW does deeper diligence than nearly any other investor I know. RTW’s research and guidance in the early days of Rainbow and noninvasive hemoglobin was a valuable resource. They helped us understand the opportunity and have been a trusted partner since.”
JOE KIANI
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI)
The RTW Team spotted the argenx investment opportunity ahead of the curve and rapidly developed from an investor to a loyal partner. Their data based approach and desire to understand resonates very well with our company culture.
We view the team at RTW with highest regard. They believed in Alnylam’s potential when the rest of the world was skeptical.
RTW uses scientific and clinical acumen to decipher critical investments. Rod and Piratip were excellent strategic partners who had the foresight to invest in Avexis.
Rod has been with us from the very beginning when we restarted LJPC. His research, insights and support have been critical in making our journey a success.
RTW is a very insightful and strategic investment firm. They had the foresight to invest in PTC after our acquisition of Emflaza and have spent a significant amount of time and effort to understand the potential of our pipeline.
RTW is among the most thoughtful and diligent teams we have encountered. They saw the commercial potential of MACI early on, and have been a tremendous partner to Vericel during a period of rapid growth for the company.
RTW’s passion for science and rational approach toward therapeutics development have been essential to the RCKT story. Rod and team have an uncanny ability to identify opportunities that no one else has, well ahead of the curve, and the rigorous discipline to water them gently. We value them highly as top shareholders, as founders and integral members of the Board, and most importantly as friends.
The RTW team did deep commercial diligence into the potential for a prophylactic HAE medicine well before other investors. Combined with their deep understanding of science, RTW was a terrific long-term shareholder, as we advanced DX-2930 through the clinic and sought to bring this important therapy to patients.
Our Approach
Identify unmet needs
We try to ignore the crowd and prioritize where we think unmet needs can be solved by mature science.
Invest in relationships
We believe in developing longterm relationships with great entrepreneurs and scientists who are as passionate about medicine as we are.
Take the long view
The Future Looks Bright
4,000+
Genetic Diseases
Gene sequencing has identified causes for over 4,000 diseases, and is growing at a rate of 200 per year.
