Karen Wagner, a General Partner at Ysios Capital, invests primarily in biotech and therapeutic companies across seed. See sector focus and contact routes.
Karen Wagner, a General Partner at Ysios Capital, invests primarily in biotech and therapeutic companies across seed to development stages, with Series A as the firm’s sweet spot and check sizes typically ranging from $1M to $7.5M for her personal sweet spot, though she has participated in larger rounds up to $64M. Her portfolio includes notable companies such as Minoryx Therapeutics, AELIX Therapeutics, Kala Pharmaceuticals, Cytoki Pharma, and Galecto, and she serves on or chairs their boards. Wagner’s distinctive thesis is modality-agnostic investment in both single assets and platforms with proprietary pipelines, targeting multiple therapeutic areas without bias toward a specific drug type.
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