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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
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series B
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:
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

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
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

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.
Here are Greer Capital Advisors' investments by stage:
Stage of entry
No. of Investments
Seed
4
Series B
1
Breakdown of Greer Capital Advisors' investments by stage of entrySeed (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.
Here are Greer Capital Advisors' investments by sector:
Sector
No. of Investments
Life Sciences
4
Enterprise Applications
1
Healthcare
1
High Tech
1
Breakdown of Greer Capital Advisors' investments by sectorsLife Sciences (4)Enterprise Applic... (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.
Here are Greer Capital Advisors' investments by geography:
Country
No. of Investments
United States
4
United Kingdom
1
Breakdown of Greer Capital Advisors' investments by countriesUnited 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 $291M
Here 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
-
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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 AdvisorsTargeted Technology entered a company along with Greer Capital Advisors.
  • Invested after Greer Capital AdvisorsA 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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