Physic Ventures Portfolio
Physic Ventures is systematically assembling a portfolio of consumer-focused, science-based companies in the emergent health and sustainable living marketplace. Our portfolio represents the goals and focus of our fund with investments in three focus areas: enabling technologies, branded consumer products, and innovative distribution channels.
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Current Portfolio
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Alliance Health Networks is an innovative social networking company whose mission is to improve health outcomes, lower costs and facilitate a more consumer-centric healthcare industry. The company owns and operates a growing portfolio of distinct social networking sites that today serve 750,000 registered members across 37 health conditions.
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Chromatin is a biotech company developing innovative technologies that benefit the agricultural, energy, chemical, nutritional, and pharmaceutical sectors. Chromatin is commercializing solutions which proactively address key societal challenges such as improving agricultural productivity and increasing renewable energy resources.
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Elixir Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge, MA-based biopharmaceutical company focuses on developing and commercializing drugs to treat and prevent metabolic disease and age-related diseases, ultimately extending the quality and length of human life.
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EnergyHub is the consumer face of the Smart Grid, helping home owners reduce energy consumption and save money. EnergyHub produces smart, simple, and cost-effective energy management tools that strengthen the relationship between consumers and utilities and solve today's energy problems. -
Gazelle is the nation's largest reCommerce company, providing a practical, responsible, rewarding way for consumers to get value for used electronics. They accept products across a wide range of categories and have found a new home for more than 80,000 used electronics, while responsibly recycling thousands more. -
GoodGuide is a scientifically-based, consumer friendly guide to the health, environmental and social impacts of products and companies. The platform entails an integrated online and mobile IT solution providing consumers with the most comprehensive, credible, and actionable information available on the performance of products and companies.
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GreenGoose is a connected health company which develops low-cost sensors and a platform of mobile applications to measure and motivate positive personal behaviors and engage consumers in healthy lifestyles. GreenGoose’s mission is to make life more fun by turning everyday things into opportunities to play. Their platform links online and offline activities, making day-to-day tasks more social, connected, and playful.
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Impinj radio frequency identification(RFID) technology is a means of identifying objects via a wireless communication protocol, a capability that enables advantages and breakthroughs in applications ranging from supply chain management to asset tracking to authentication of frequently counterfeited pharmaceuticals.
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Merrimack Pharmaceuticals is an integrated, biopharmaceutical company committed to the innovation of life-enhancing medicines for the treatment of autoimmune disease and cancer.
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Novomer is a materials company pioneering the manufacture of novel materials from simple feedstocks. The company's catalyst technology enables the production of polymers and biodegradable plastics from renewable feedstocks, such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.
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On-Q-ity is a next generation diagnostics company focused on transforming cancer treatment and improving treatment outcomes for cancer patients. The company is developing innovative diagnostics to identify the unique characteristics of an individual's cancer, predicting the response to therapies, and monitoring the progress of treatment.
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Own is a science-based, natural skin care line, currently offering products in three categories: anti-aging, sun care, and acne. The technology is based on "bio-activating" skincare: natural ingredients that deliver clinically-proven results by working in concert with your own body, not against it.
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Pharmaca operates a chain of integrative pharmacies that combine traditional pharmacy services and OTC products alongside holistic remedies so customers can choose how they want to approach their health care. Their staff includes credentialed pharmacists, naturopathic doctors, nutritionists, herbalists, and more. Pharmaca owns and operates over 20 stores in California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington.
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Pionetics, purchased by Rayne Corporation in 2009, is an innovative water technology company that develops smart water treatment products that produce great tasting, safe drinking water with less wastewater than traditional water treatment systems. Rayne Corporation brings an extensive water purification and softening dealership in the southwestern US focused on California and Arizona, areas of high water stress.
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Recyclebank is an environmental social platform that realizes the collective impact of individual action. Through its digital offerings and partnerships with municipalities, haulers, small businesses and corporate brands, Recyclebank incentivizes green actions with points that can be redeemed for discounts and rewards.
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Revolution Foods delivers tasty and healthy meals and nutrition education to schools and programs across the country. Every child’s education should include healthy eating and learning about nutritious food. Revolution Foods provides healthy organic lunches and nutrition education advocacy in Northern and Southern California, Colorado, and the Washington DC Metropolitan area. -
T2 Biosystems is creating a universal platform to enable rapid, accurate, easy-to-use diagnostics in the decentralized setting. T2 Biosystems is developing a new generation of lab-quality diagnostic solutions that will be so small and affordable, they will be used in the ER, the ambulance, the physician's office, even the home and the field. T2 uses its proprietary technology, which combines nanotechnology and the miniaturization of proven magnetic resonance systems, to enable molecular and immunoassay diagnostic testing on a single portable instrument.
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WaterSmart Software develops tools for water utilities to help customers save water and money. Consumers can monitor how much water their household is using, how it compares to others and how they can cut costs. This translates into significant system-wide savings for utilities that deploy this least-cost conservation tool.
Prior Portfolio
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Today, 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water. HaloSource is addressing this health crisis with innovative technologies designed to give people drinking water that's safe, affordable, and ecologically-friendly. Halosource completed an initial public offering on London's AIM exchange in October 2010.
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Surface Logix Inc. is a biophysical chemistry firm working to create new small molecule drugs focused primarily on cardiovascular, metabolic, inflammatory and fibrotic diseases.
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Purchased in 2008 by Adidas Group, Textronics™ is a pioneer in the field of textile electronics. The convergence of high-tech fiber science with electronics and optics is at an early stage.
