CFF Mission Ventures Industry Investment
Offers startup and industry teams with commercialization support for CFF Mission Ventures Industry Investment in biotechnology, medical technology, and synthetic biology.
CFF Mission Ventures is the venture-philanthropy investment arm of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, deploying capital to for-profit pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies developing treatments for cystic fibrosis. The program operates on a rolling basis with no formal RFA cycle; companies submit investment inquiries directly through missionventures.cff.org. Investments are structured as milesto…
Provides venture-philanthropy investments of $5 million to $25 million or more to for-profit companies advancing cystic fibrosis drug development, including CFTR modulators, genetic therapies, anti-infectives, and mucus-clearance agents.
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