For an insightful and highly readable guide to seed-stage venture investment and start-up company development, we recommend Seed-Stage Venture Investing: The Ins and Outs for Entrepreneurs, Start-ups and Investors on Successful Starting a New Business, by Convergent Ventures co-founder and Managing Director, William L. Robbins. Available at www.amazon.com.

Convergent Ventures is a family of private companies focused on new venture development, start-up company management and equity investment in the life sciences, with emphasis on therapeutic pharmaceuticals and biotechnology products.


Convergent Ventures creates and participates in business opportunities that are driven by the innovative technologies of life-science start-up companies and that result from the application of these technologies to the drug discovery and development process.

The Convergent Ventures family of companies includes:

  • Convergent Ventures, LLC, a venture development company with interest in new therapeutics and enabling technologies for drug R&D
  • Convergent Management, Inc., a management company for life-science start-ups
  • Convergent BioEquities, LLC, a firm investing in publicly traded pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies

Convergent Ventures, LLC is also a founding managing member of Convergent Investors, LLC, a seed-stage life-science fund (now fully invested) and Calisra Biotech, LLC, which focuses on opportunities that bridge California and Israel.


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