Flagship Pioneering (United States)

American venture creation firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2000 by Noubar Afeyan and known for conceiving and building life science companies rather than only investing in them. Runs its own exploratory research units that generate scientific hypotheses, then founds and funds companies around those that succeed, having created among others Moderna, Generate Biomedicines, Tessera Therapeutics, Indigo Agriculture and Cellarity, and provides capital, laboratories and management to its portfolio in therapeutics, health, agriculture and sustainability.