Mount Pleasant Ventures

Mount Pleasant Ventures is a Washington, D.C.-based angel investment firm that provides patient capital to early-stage companies looking to establish themselves, with a focus on biotech and AI. It helps founders build mature, sustainable growth instead of the typical VC emphasis on quick moonshot growth, drawing on decades of combined entrepreneurial experience and an understanding of fundraising from both sides of the table. Its portfolio spans life sciences, healthcare, energy, and software, including Curebase, Opentrons, Sparkfund, Floreo, Phase Genomics, Ossium Health, One Codex, Sorcero, and Eigen Therapeutics, alongside Paintheory and Junglytics. It typically takes minority positions in revenue-generating early-stage companies. MPV invests in ideas, teams, and technology, favoring early-stage companies across AI, biotech, lab technology, robotics and automation, and data. It aims to be a long-term partner to founders, giving them the time to reach sustainable maturity.