Pfiz­er adds $600M to its ven­ture group, with a spe­cial fo­cus on the neu­ro­sciences field it just re­treat­ed from

Pfiz­er $PFE may have made an abrupt ex­it out of the neu­ro­sciences R&D are­na, but it’s still in­ter­est­ed in back­ing the biotechs will­ing to nav­i­gate the ul­tra-high risk field.

The phar­ma gi­ant to­day more than dou­bled its com­mit­ment to its ven­ture arm, adding $600 mil­lion in fire­pow­er and de­vot­ing $150 mil­lion of that for new rounds back­ing up­starts in the neu­ro­sciences world.

Pfiz­er Ven­tures has al­ready backed a small group of play­ers in the field: Aquin­nah, Au­ti­fony, Cor­texyme, MindIm­mune, MIS­SION, and Neu­ro­net­ics. The com­pa­ny al­so helped in the cre­ation, fund­ing and launch of the De­men­tia Dis­cov­ery Fund in 2015.

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