Eli Lilly and Company

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionSeries B

Eli Lilly and Company is a medicines developer that also finances external innovation and provides laboratory and development resources to early biotechnology companies.

Its Catalyze360 platform combines several ways to work with a startup. Lilly Ventures provides investment; Lilly Gateway Labs provides laboratory facilities and scientific engagement; Lilly ExploR&D provides research and development capabilities.

The platform engages biotechs at the earliest stages across therapeutic areas. Its investment remit extends into new scientific platforms and health technology, giving founders routes to strategic capital and development infrastructure through different parts of Lilly’s external innovation organisation.

Sources
Rounds participated in
7
Confirmed lead rounds
0
3 roles undisclosed
New companies
7
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$463.5M
7 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series B7

By primary sector

Biotech6
Healthtech1

By country

United States7

Rounds

7 in this selection
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Participant
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Participant
Superluminal Medicines

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Participant
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Participant
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$77MSeries B
Role not disclosed