About Greer Capital Advisors
Greer Capital Advisors is a venture capital firm founded in 2002. It is primarily based out of Birmingham, United States. As of Jul 2011, Greer Capital Advisors has invested in 21 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Life Sciences to High Tech and Consumer. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Soluble Therapeutics Overall, Greer Capital Advisors portfolio has seen 1 IPO and 11 acquisitions including key companies like Altimmune, Morphotek and Clarient. Targeted Technology co-invest with Greer Capital Advisors, sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Greer Capital Advisors has team of 4 people including 3 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series B
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Acquisitions
Greer Capital Advisors' List of Top Investments
Greer Capital Advisors has a portfolio of 21 companies. Their most notable investments are in BioDtech and BioDtech.Their portfolio spans across United States, Belgium and United Kingdom. They have invested in Life Sciences, High Tech, Consumer and 3 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series B stages. Here is the list of top investments by Greer Capital Advisors:1. Altimmune
Developer of vaccines for infectious diseases including influenza, hepatitis B, and solid tumors. The company has NasoVAX, an intranasally administered recombinant influenza vaccine, HepTcell, an immunotherapy for the chronic hepatitis B virus infection, ALT-801 for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, T-COVID intranasal therapeutic for covid, and nasoshield for anthrax.
Key facts about Altimmune
- Founded Year: 1997
- Location: Gaithersburg (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $20K as on Dec 31, 2024
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $58M
- Employee Count: 17 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: Gershon Capital, Medical Countermeasures and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Jun 29, 2020, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
2. Morphotek
Morphotek develops biological-based products to treat cancer, inflammation, and infectious diseases. Has several monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in clinical development for cancer and inflammatory disease. Its lead program, farletuzumab is for patients with platinum-sensitive, relapsed ovarian cancer (received orphan drug designation) and 1st line non-small cell lung cancer. Its other lead antibody monoclonal programs, amatuximab, and ontuxizumab. Amatuximab, ontuxizumab has received orphan drug designation for malignant pleural mesothelioma and for sarcoma respectively. Its other investigational mAbs programs are against inflammatory and infectious diseases.
Key facts about Morphotek
- Founded Year: 2000
- Location: Exton (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $79.5M
- Employee Count: 70 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: CDIB Capital Group, DSM and 21 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Apr 12, 2011, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Clarient
Diagnostics and digital pathology solutions for oncology. It provide assistance and insight into what therapies will work best for these patients, and continue with follow-up and case monitoring. The tests they offer include Breast, Colorectal, Leukemia, Lung, Melanoma Cancer testing. The diagnostic technologies used include Chromosome Analysis, Flow Cytometry, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization (FISH), Immunohistochemistry, In-Situ Hybridization, Nucleic Acid Microarrays, Multiplexed Immunofluorescence.
Key facts about Clarient
- Founded Year: 2003
- Location: Aliso Viejo (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $52.1M
- Employee Count: 124 as on Jan 31, 2026
- Investors: Oak Investment Partners, Greer Capital Advisors and 1 Other
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Dec 21, 2009, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company whose mission is to acquire currently marketed and late-stage development pharmaceutical products and grow them through marketing to targeted, underserved physician segments. Its markets Acetadote® (acetylcysteine) Injection for the treatment of acetaminophen poisoning; Caldolor® (ibuprofen) Injection, the first injectable treatment for pain and fever approved in the US; and Kristalose® (lactulose) for Oral Solution, a prescription laxative, Vaprisol® (conivaptan) Injection, for the treatment of hyponatremia and Omeclamox®-Pak for the treatment of H. pylori and duodenal ulcer disease. In early 2011, we acquired the rights to Hepatoren® (ifetroban) injection, and have initiated clinical development to treat patients suffering from hepatorenal syndrome (Phase 2/3), a life-threatening condition involving progressive kidney failure for which there is no FDA-approved pharmaceutical treatment.
Key facts about Cumberland Pharmaceuticals
- Founded Year: 1999
- Location: Nashville (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $37.9M as on Dec 31, 2024
- Stage: Public
- Employee Count: 83 as on Dec 31, 2021
- Investors: Greer Capital Advisors and HHS
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Sep 15, 2019, $*****
- Highlight: Public
DiscoveryBioMed (DBM) is a life science, and biotechnology company formed with the goal of integrating human cell physiology with the drug discovery critical path. It specialises in custom human cell engineering and human cell-based drug discovery. It also has high-throughput molecular screening (HTS) capability with all types of luminescence, fluorescence, and absorbance detection. These facilities provide the means to perform many different high-throughput bioassays on human and mammalian cell-based platforms.
Key facts about Discovery Biomed
- Founded Year: 2007
- Location: Birmingham (United Kingdom)
- Stage: Acquired
- Employee Count: 7 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: NIDDK, NIH and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Apr 29, 2020, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Greer Capital Advisors' Investments by Stage
Greer Capital Advisors has made 4 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1M and 1 investment in Series B stage with an average round size of $925K.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 4 |
Series B | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Greer Capital Advisors' Investments by Sector
Greer Capital Advisors has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Life Sciences, Enterprise Applications, Healthcare and High Tech. Notably, it has invested in 15 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 15 Tech companies, 6 Software companies and at least 3 companies focusing on Tech hardware.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Life Sciences | 4 |
Enterprise Applications | 1 |
Healthcare | 1 |
High Tech | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Greer Capital Advisors' Investments by Geography
Greer Capital Advisors has made most investments in United States (4), followed by United Kingdom where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 4 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Greer Capital Advisors' recent investments
Greer Capital Advisors has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Greer Capital Advisors:
Date | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 11, 2011 | United States | Seed | 4629 | ||
Aug 25, 2010 | United States | Seed | 3260 | - | |
Nov 2007 | United Kingdom | Seed | 6628 | - | |
Jul 01, 2007 | United States | Seed | 3068 | - | |
Jun 07, 2007 | United States | Series B | 5678 | - |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Greer Capital Advisors' Portfolio
1 of Greer Capital Advisors' portfolio company became public - Cumberland Pharmaceuticals. It got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Aug 2009 at marketcap of $291MHere are Greer Capital Advisors' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 11, 2009 | - | - | 4334 |
Acquired companies in Greer Capital Advisors' Portfolio
11 companies from Greer Capital Advisors' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Discovery Biomed in Jul 2022 by Eurofins Discovery.Here are Greer Capital Advisors' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 05, 2022 | Nov 2007 | Seed | 2453 | |
Jul 06, 2020 | Jul 01, 2007 | Seed | 1140 | |
Jan 19, 2017 | - | - | 5180 | |
Dec 20, 2016 | Jul 11, 2011 | Seed | 7991 | |
Nov 02, 2016 | - | - | 5525 |
Team profile of Greer Capital Advisors
Greer Capital Advisors has a team of 4 members including 3 Partners located in United States. Greer Capital Advisors' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of all team members in Greer Capital Advisors:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | Birmingham | - | - | |
Partner | Birmingham | - | - | |
Partner | Birmingham | - | - |
Co-investors of Greer Capital Advisors
Over the past 19 years, 7 investors have co-invested in Greer Capital Advisors's portfolio companies. This includes only funds.
- Top Co-investors of Greer Capital Advisors: Targeted Technology entered a company along with Greer Capital Advisors.
- Invested after Greer Capital Advisors: A total of 6 investors have invested in Greer Capital Advisors's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include NIH (2 companies), HHS (2 companies) and NCCIH (1 company).
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