Merck Animal Health Ventures

We partner with and invest in companies that share our mission of improving the health, well-being, and performance of animals and the people who care for them. What We’re Looking For We are actively seeking early, medium- and late-stage investment opportunities. We focus on entering new or adjacent high-growth categories and markets, novel & cutting-edge science and technology platforms, and complementary technology and solutions that augment our existing portfolio and R&D resources and programs for companion animals and livestock, including pharmaceuticals and biologics, delivery systems, and vaccines. Our Animal Health Ventures team, as an extension of Business Development, partners and invests in promising early-stage companies to bring state-of-the-art animal health technologies to market. As innovators, our goal is to partner, test, and co-build new businesses (and business models) that address unmet customer needs, but play in adjacent but consequential markets that could transform our core existing markets.