Top investors by number of deals in 2019 and 2020:

•  Alexandria Venture Investments (California): 19 deals. Felice Shieh serves as the principal since April 2019.

•  Perceptive Advisors (New York): 18 deals. Sam Chawla is the portfolio manager and a member of the investment committee.
•  ARCH Venture Partners (Illinois): 15 deals. Ari Nowacek is the principal.
•  Google Ventures (California): 15 deals . Terri C. Burns is one of GV's principals.
•  Boxer Capital (California): 14 deals . Dominik Naczynski is the senior vice president at Boxer Capital.
•  OrbiMed (New York): 14 deals . Conrad Wang is the principal.
•  Redmile Group (California): 14 deals . Jeremy Green is the portfolio manager at Redmile.
•  Osage University Partners (Pennsylvania): 12 deals . Stephanie Stehman is the principal of life science. 
•  RA Capital Management (Massachusetts): 12 deals . Matthew Hammond is the principal at RA Capital.
•  Johnson & Johnson Innovation (California and Massachusetts): 11 deals . Vijay Murthy is the principal (venture investments) at Johnson & Johnson Innovation.

Covid-19

•  IndioBio is investing in startups that are focused on developing “diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccines, disinfection, and other solutions addressing the worldwide problem of emerging infectious diseases.” Each startup is receiving $250,000 from the life sciences startup incubator.
• Biotech startup Cue Health secured a $13 million contract from the US Department of Health to develop and test a “handheld molecular test that can detect the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.”