Our Mission
Ken Malone, one of our co-founders, describes the uniqueness of Early Charm Ventures:
We are the management team, the operators, and the entrepreneurs. We don’t just write checks and pop in for board meetings. We show up to our labs, our production facilities, and our offices every day to do all the heavy lifting for our portfolio companies.
Our scientists and engineers work across our entire portfolio, never just for one venture. This brings extraordinary expertise to the earliest stages of product development. The lack of silos fosters creativity and attracts the most collaborative people.
Our Ventures
Synergy with our existing ventures is important to us, so we look for opportunities that fit with our current capabilities in Drug Design, Blue Economy, Advanced Materials, and Engineered Products.
Because synergy between our companies is so strong, the individual companies are seldom as valuable alone than as a part of the whole. Thus, we aren’t focused on exit strategies and quick flips. We are focused on building sustainable businesses through revenue, and on expanding opportunities by retaining our team.
Our Ventures
Synergy with our existing ventures is important to us, so we look for opportunities that fit with our current capabilities in Drug Design, Blue Economy, Advanced Materials, and Engineered Products.
Because synergy between our companies is so strong, the individual companies are seldom as valuable alone than as a part of the whole. Thus, we aren’t focused on exit strategies and quick flips. We are focused on building sustainable businesses through revenue, and on expanding opportunities by retaining our team.
Latest News
Job Opening: Scientist – Computational Drug Design
We are hiring a Scientist – Computational Drug Design who will work with our ventures in the computer aided drug design space (CADD) to screen and model different drug like compounds and molecules against various biological macromolecules (DNA, RNA, proteins).
Job Opening: Scientist – Ceramics and Additive Manufacturing
We are hiring a Scientist - Ceramics and Additive Manufacturing to work closely with our team of experienced scientists, engineers and designers in our advanced materials group, Materic, taking a lead role in commercializing our net shape non-oxide ceramic 3D printing technology.
Alex MacKerell, PhD, SilcsBio Co-founder & CSO, Co-Leads Study on Use of SILCS Technology to Improve Lung Disease Treatments
Early Charm Venture's portfolio company, SilcsBio, a technology company that develops and markets software and services for structure-based drug design, today announced its Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Alexander D. MacKerell Jr., PhD, has co-led a study focusing on improving respiratory treatments via SilcsBio’s Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) technology.
Technical and Support Partners
Our collaborators include government, academic, and industrial organizations.
