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
External links
Firm directory. Kauffman Fellows. Retrieved September 30, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220930161909/https://www.kauffmanfellows.org/firmdirectory ↩︎
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 ↩︎
Companies. Venrock. Retrieved March 23, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.03.23-184028/https://www.venrock.com/companies/?show=all ↩︎
