Biotech Venture Capital Firms: Top Venture Capital Firms

Here is a list of the most active most active bio-tech, pharma and life science investors. It is typical for venture capital firms to identify and back companies in high technology industries and so venture capital is most active in the fast-growing technology and life sciences or biotechnology fields. The list is ordered starting with the companies who invested the most in biotechnology. This information is up to date through 2009 - an incredibly difficult year for bio-tech companies to raise venture capital funding, as the financial crisis caused investing firms to become more cautious with their money, but many companies manage to attract VC investments in even in the toughest economic conditions.