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USCAGBAI/MLBio/PharmaDeep TechDevtoolsEnterpriseHealthtech

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Investment thesis

Dimension is a multistage, research-oriented investment firm singularly focused at the intersection of technology and life sciences. The firm's core conviction is that "technology and biology are converging to create the next generation of transformative companies"—the digitization of life sciences, driven by exponential growth in biological data and advances in AI/ML, is enabling a new class of platform companies that will dominate the industry. Dimension invests across the full continuum of the tech-bio ecosystem: drug discovery platforms powered by AI/ML, lab automation and instrumentation, software and data infrastructure for biopharma, and clinical-stage therapeutics enabled by computational advances. The firm backs only companies where computational biologists, ML engineers, and AI practitioners are deeply intermingled with chemists and biologists—requiring that 25–40% of the founding team be computational scientists. With Fund I ($350M) and Fund II ($500M), Dimension targets roughly 20 portfolio companies per fund, writing checks from $1M to $30M+ across all stages from incubation through public markets.

Notable quotes

Every investor from fund one came back very quickly. One of the amazing things about this moment is the caliber of entrepreneurs—these extremely ambitious, technical, scientifically literate individuals are all entering this arena.

Zavain Dar · TechCrunch · 2024-12-09

They're machine learning practitioners, AI engineers, hardware roboticists that are intermingled and symbiotically working together with chemists and biologists to do the drug discovery.

Adam Goulburn · TechCrunch · 2024-12-09

Tomorrow's biotech will be built by teams of three: a biologist, a chemist, and a computer scientist.

Dimension (firm) · F4 Fund / Dimension firm profile

Team

Zavain Dar

Founder & Managing Partner

AI/MLBio/PharmaDeep Tech

Adam Goulburn

Founder & Managing Partner

Bio/PharmaDeep TechHealthtech

Nan Li

Founder & Managing Partner

AI/MLBio/PharmaEnterprise

Simon Barnett

Partner & Head of Research

Bio/PharmaAI/MLHealthtech

Reha Mathur

Investor

AI/MLBio/PharmaDeep Tech

Anna Bitton

VP Finance & Operations

Recent investments

CompanyRoundSizeDate
Chai DiscoverySeries B$130m2025-12-15
NewLimitSeries B$130m2025-10-20
Tamarind BioSeries A$14m2026-03-26
Enveda BiosciencesSeries C$130m2024-11-01
Modal LabsSeries B$87m2024-01-01
BioRenderSecondary2024-01-01
Odyssey TherapeuticsSeries D$213m2024-01-01
Aspect BiosystemsSeries C$115m2024-01-01
Monte Rosa TherapeuticsSeries B2023-01-01
Kimia TherapeuticsSeries A$55m2023-12-01

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