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Tachyon Ventures
Micro-fund
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Tachyon Ventures provides early-stage 'smart capital' to entrepreneurs pushing the boundaries at the forefront of medicine, biotech, and bioengineering. The firm's thesis is built on 'Scientific Risk-Arbitrage': knowing how to price scientific risk earlier than others, maximizing upside by investing early in disruptive platforms while mitigating risk by focusing on world-class research with protected IP. Tachyon backs scientist-founder teams with peer-reviewed, published research who are recognized leaders in their fields — particularly in immunotherapy, gene therapy/genetic engineering, organ engineering, and stem cell/regenerative medicine — and engages a network of deeply knowledgeable academic scientists to assess investments and support portfolio companies.
Notable quotes
“At Tachyon, we invest in emerging platforms that shift paradigms — and Stylus represents a major step toward scalable, programmable in vivo gene insertion therapies. We're proud to join a world-class syndicate of co-investors — including RA Capital, Khosla Ventures, and ARCH.”
“At Tachyon, we know how to price scientific risk earlier than others. We maximize upside potential by investing early in disruptive platforms. We mitigate risk by focusing on world-class research with protected IP.”
“Incredibly proud of our Managing Partner Ernest Turro and his team at Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Mount Sinai. This discovery — identifying the most prevalent known recessive neurodevelopmental disorder — will bring diagnostic clarity to tens of thousands of families and opens a clear path toward gene replacement therapies. The kind of science that changes lives.”
Team
Ernest Turro
Chief Scientific Partner
Josep Turro
Investment Committee Member
Neil Deramchi
Principal
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stylus Medicine | Series A | $85m | 2025-05-12 |
| Peptilogics | Series B | $78m | 2025-10-01 |
| Axonis Therapeutics | Series A | $115m | 2024-10-18 |
| Mammoth Biosciences | Series A | $23m | 2018-07-01 |
| Enclear Therapies | Series A | $10m | 2020-02-19 |
| TARA Biosystems | Series A | $10m | 2020-06-23 |
| DTx Pharma | Seed | — | — |
| Scipher Medicine | Series B | — | 2019-10-09 |
| Chameleon Biosciences | Seed | — | — |
| AI Proteins | Seed | — | — |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Mayfield | 3 |
| RA Capital Management | 2 |
| Khosla Ventures | 2 |
| Cormorant Asset Management | 2 |
| Founders Fund | 2 |
| Sofinnova Investments | 2 |
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