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Horizon Discovery
Gene editing and modulation tools for research
At a glance
- Founded
- 2005
- Headquarters
- Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Listing
- IPO 2014
- Sector
- Biotech & Life Sciences
- Power Law
- Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A4 investors entered at this stage
- JMJonathan Milner
Threshold Ventures- DEDavid Evans
- RFRoche Venture Fund
Series B and later8 investors entered at this stage
- CCCalculus Capital
- PAParkwalk Advisors
- MPMVM Life Science Partners
- MVMolten Ventures
- UCUniversity of Cambridge
- WCWren Capital
- TNTech Nation
- UWUniversity of Washington
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Horizon Discovery employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Edward WeinsteinUnited States
Colin FcmiUnited Kingdom
PHPhoreMostEst. 2014
Chris TorranceUnited Kingdom
VTVerve TherapeuticsEst. 2018
Keith JoungUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
8 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Horizon Discovery was the backer or acquirer, 2010–2017. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
5 deals across Horizon Discovery's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Horizon Discovery deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Horizon Discovery's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Horizon Discovery on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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