Bob Nelsen at the Milken Institute Global Conference on April 29, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images)

ARCH chief Bob Nelsen has $1.5B to prove 2 sim­ple points: ‘We’re in the most in­no­v­a­tive time ever’ and in­vestors are stay­ing

ARCH co-founder and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Bob Nelsen has a well known yen for the home run swing, bet­ting big on po­ten­tial­ly trans­for­ma­tive meds and tech and the biotech teams he helps bring to­geth­er. He thrives and bleeds on the cut­ting edge. And now Nelsen and the ARCH group have de­buted 2 big funds to prove that this is the time for the best of biotech to shine — dead­ly pan­dem­ic be damned.

Two new funds, ARCH Ven­ture Fund X and ARCH Ven­ture Fund X Over­age, gath­ered a com­bined $1.46 bil­lion. And that’s a record. ARCH Ven­ture Fund IX and ARCH Ven­ture Fund IX Over­age closed in 2016 with a com­bined $1.1 bil­lion. ARCH Ven­ture Fund VI­II and ARCH Ven­ture Fund VI­II Over­age closed in 2014 with a com­bined $560 mil­lion.

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