Advancing healthcare with early investments in life sciences technologies

ABOUT

Our mission is bold: To strengthen Pennsylvania’s vibrant life sciences ecosystem and improve healthcare outcomes for patients around the world.  We succeed by providing early-stage capital and operational expertise to innovative technologies, fostering company growth, and creating jobs.

We’re helping create the future of patient care –
and Pennsylvania’s economy.

We’re an evergreen venture fund that bridges the chasm between pre-seed and Series B funding.

WE PROVIDE

  • Funding

    Our investments in early-stage life science companies help bridge critical gaps in early-stage funding. Our typical investments start at $250,000-$500,000.

  • A Clear Focus

    Are you a young Pennsylvania company working on drug discovery, diagnostics or devices? Are you tackling product-commercialization constraints or developing IT-driven solutions to large-scale healthcare challenges? If so, we want to hear from you.

  • Applied Expertise

    Our investments come with more than dollars. We also provide connections to a curated network of business and scientific advice and support.

Experienced scientists,
innovative business minds

Our deep experience in both science and business gives us a unique understanding
of early-stage life science companies and the challenges they face.

OUR IMPACT

  • $37 million invested

  • 72 companies and projects funded

  • $736 million in follow-on funding

  • 152 products marketed or in development

  • 8,500 direct and indirect jobs created and retained

  • “LSG offers so much more than just investment. They help entrepreneurs and scientists determine what they need to do to succeed. If you don’t know what to do with the check, the money has no value.”

    — Fred Marroni, President & CEO, Indigo Biosciences

  • “Pennsylvania has a unique and valuable asset in the Life Sciences Greenhouse, an organization that’s focused on helping young life sciences companies succeed.”

    – Christopher P. Molineaux, President & CEO, Life Sciences Pennsylvania

  • "LSG Investments provides the appropriate injection of investment at the right time and in the right area to help companies grow when they need it."

    – Kelly Wylam, Executive Director, Innovation Partnership (iPart)

  • "As an entrepreneur, you want to know that your investors are going to treat you like a partner. LSG’s investment has gone beyond dollars; their commitment to our partnership drives our mutual success."

    - Lance M. Westerhoff, Ph.D., President and General Manager, QuantumBio Inc.

  • "Our long and productive relationship with LSG Investments has helped many early-stage technology firms succeed. Like every good relationship, that has been because of the people there."

    - Wayne Barz, Chief Investment Officer, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeast PA

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