Saturn Partners

Saturn Partners is a Boston-based venture capital firm founded in 1994 by Jeff McCormick. The firm focuses on seed and early-stage technology companies, working closely alongside entrepreneurs to forge strategic relationships, build management teams, and develop marketing and distribution strategies that support significant growth. The firm's investment team brings expertise across healthcare technology, advanced materials, financial technology, and enterprise software. Partner Bill Guttman, who joined in 2006, is also executive chairman of Carnegie Innovations and a former Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University, adding deep institutional and academic networks to the firm's value proposition. Saturn Partners invests in companies across a broad range of industries, with typical deal sizes in the $5–10 million range. Notable portfolio companies include Omaze, YieldStreet, Panopto, Third Pole Therapeutics, BiOWiSH Technologies, and Trunomi, with the firm also having backed Areteia Therapeutics across two rounds totaling over $425 million.