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Venrock

Venrock is an American venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. It was founded in 1969 by Laurance Rockefeller. The name "Venrock" is a portmanteau of "venture" and "Rockefeller".

Organization

Venrock is a member of the Kauffman Fellows network.[1]

Personnel

Name Position Notes
Laurance Rockefeller Founder -
Ray Rothrock Partner Emeritus[2] Third Way

Portfolio

Companies currently and formerly in Venrock's portfolio include:[3]

  • 10x Genomics
  • 2Wire
  • 3Box
  • ABL Space Systems
  • Acceleron Pharma
  • Accompany Health
  • Adnexus
  • Alimera Sciences
  • Anacor Pharmaceuticals
  • Apple
  • Ariosa Diagnostics
  • Astranis
  • Athena Neurosciences
  • Athenahealth
  • AVEO Pharma
  • Burner
  • California Energy
  • Caliper Life Sciences
  • CardioThoracic
  • Castlight Health
  • Cavalry Biosciences
  • Centocor
  • CloudFlare
  • CodeRyte
  • Coherus Biosciences
  • Coley Pharma
  • Confluence Therapeutics
  • Constellation Pharmaceuticals
  • Corvidia Therapeutics
  • Crunchyroll
  • Cyteir Therapeutics
  • Dapper Labs
  • Devoted Health
  • Dollar Shave Club
  • Element Biosciences
  • EP Technologies
  • Fate Therapeutics
  • Flow
  • Genetics Institute
  • Geron Corporation
  • Gilead Sciences
  • HealthSouth
  • Hua Medicine
  • Icagen
  • IDEC Pharmaceuticals
  • IDEXX Laboratories
  • Idun Pharmaceuticals
  • Ikaria
  • Illumina
  • Included Health
  • Infinity Pharmaceuticals
  • Inscripta
  • Intel
  • Interdict Bio
  • Iris Medicine
  • Ironwood Pharmaceuticals
  • Kelonia
  • Klout
  • Kyruus Health
  • Ligand Pharmaceuticals
  • Liposome Company
  • Luma
  • Mahzi Therapeutics
  • MBrace Therapeutics
  • Med Partners
  • Media Metrix
  • Memory Pharmaceuticals
  • Millennium Pharmaceuticals
  • Mitek Products
  • Moonlight Bio
  • Mythic Therapeutics
  • Nanosys
  • Need
  • Neoforma
  • Nest
  • NovaCare Rehabilitation
  • Ocelot Bio
  • PEAK Surgical
  • PerSeptive BioSystems
  • PGP Corporation
  • Pharmacyclics
  • Public Health Company (PHC)
  • Quantenna
  • Rarible
  • Rebellion Defense
  • Receptos
  • RedSeal
  • RefleXion Medical
  • REGENXBIO
  • RelayHealth
  • Renovis
  • Sepracor
  • Shockwave Medical
  • Signal Pharmaceuticals
  • Sirna Therapeutics
  • SlideShare
  • SmithRx
  • Sonic Innovations
  • Spirox
  • Spyglass
  • Stride Health
  • SUGEN
  • Suki
  • Symyx
  • Syntonix Pharmaceuticals
  • Tisento Therapeutics
  • Triangle Pharmaceuticals
  • Trubion Pharmaceuticals
  • Tudou
  • Vical
  • Virta Health
  • Vitae Pharmaceuticals
  • Vocera
  • Zeltiq
  • ZoomInfo

  1. Firm directory. Kauffman Fellows. Retrieved September 30, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220930161909/https://www.kauffmanfellows.org/firmdirectory ↩︎

  2. Ray Rothrock. Third Way. Retrieved March 23, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.03.23-050453/https://www.thirdway.org/about/board-of-trustees/ray-rothrock ↩︎

  3. Companies. Venrock. Retrieved March 23, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.03.23-184028/https://www.venrock.com/companies/?show=all ↩︎