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# Venrock
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/venrock/
- Published: 1999-01-03T02:38:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-04T05:35:05.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

**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.[\[1\]](#fn1)

### Personnel

| Name                 | Position                      | Notes                                                        |
| -------------------- | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Laurance Rockefeller | Founder                       | \-                                                           |
| Ray Rothrock         | Partner Emeritus[\[2\]](#fn2) | [Third Way](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Third-Way) |

### Portfolio

Companies currently and formerly in Venrock's portfolio include:[\[3\]](#fn3)

- 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](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Vical)
- Virta Health
- Vitae Pharmaceuticals
- Vocera
- Zeltiq
- ZoomInfo

## External links

- [Website](https://www.venrock.com/)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venrock)
- [Wikispooks](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Venrock)

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1. *Firm directory.* Kauffman Fellows. Retrieved September 30, 2022, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20220930161909/https://www.kauffmanfellows.org/firmdirectory> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. *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> [↩︎](#fnref2)
3. *Companies.* Venrock. Retrieved March 23, 2024, from <http://archive.today/2024.03.23-184028/https://www.venrock.com/companies/?show=all> [↩︎](#fnref3)