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Vida Ventures

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Vida Ventures is a life sciences company that funds biomedical innovations to improve patients' lives.

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01.01.2017

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Founded in 2017, this venture capital firm invests in early-stage, seed-stage, and later-stage companies in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. Vida Ventures is a group of independent scientists, physicians, entrepreneurs, and investors who share a passion for advancing breakthroughs in biomedicine. With a bicoastal presence and $295 million under management, Vida Ventures is committed to bringing science to life and making a meaningful impact on patients' lives.
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People

Founders
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Arjun Goyal
Arjun Goyal

Arjun Goyal

Arjun Goyal is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Vida Ventures and a Co-founder at Affini-T Therapeutics. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and University of Cambridge, a bachelor's degree from University of Oxford and University of Melbourne.

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Leonard A. Potter
Leonard A. Potter

Leonard A. Potter

Mr. Potter has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2011. Mr. Potter is currently the President and Chief Investment Officer of Wildcat Capital Management, LLC, a registered investment advisor. From August 2009 through August 2011, Mr. Potter served as the Chief Investment Officer of Salt Creek Hospitality, a private acquirer and owner of hospitality related assets. From December 2002 through July 2009, Mr. Potter was a Managing Director — Soros Private Equity at Soros Fund Management LLC (“SFM”) where, from May 2005 through July 2009, Mr. Potter served as co-head of the Private Equity group and a member of the Private Equity Investment Committee. From September 1998 until joining SFM in 2002, Mr. Potter was a Managing Director of Alpine Consolidated LLC, a private merchant bank, and from April 1996 through September 1998, Mr. Potter founded and served as a Managing Director of Capstone Partners LLC, a private merchant bank. Prior to founding Capstone Partners, Mr. Potter was an attorney specializing in mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Mr. Potter is currently a member of the board of directors of Solar Senior Capital, Ltd., Solar Capital Ltd. and GSV Capital, each a business development company, and Crumbs Bake Shop, Inc. (“CRMB”), and has previously served as a board member of several other public companies.

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Infinity Q Capital Management, LLC

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Leonard A. Potter

Fred Cohen
Fred Cohen

Fred Cohen

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Vida Ventures

Fred Cohen

Stefan Vitorovic
Stefan Vitorovic

Stefan Vitorovic

Stefan Vitorovic is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Vida Ventures. From 2014 to 2017, Stefan was an investment professional at Third Rock Ventures, an early stage life sciences venture capital firm. At Third Rock, Stefan was part of the founding team of Decibel Therapeutics, a hearing-focused drug discovery and development platform company, where he led the seed and Series A investment and early company build.

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Vida Ventures
Vida Ventures

Stefan Vitorovic

Employee Profiles
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Mark Springel

Mark Springel

Associate

Alison Powers

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Arie Belldegrun

Arie Belldegrun

Founding Partner

Fred Cohen

Fred Cohen

Co-Founder & Sr. Managing Director

Arjun Goyal

Arjun Goyal

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Arie Belldegrun

Founding partner

Stefan Vitorovic

Stefan Vitorovic

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Leonard A. Potter

Leonard A. Potter

Co-Founder

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