Case Studies

Anatomy of a Biopharmaceutical Deal

It was RiverVest Managing Director J. Gordon Foulkes’ perspicacity in shepherding pharmaceuticals from gene discovery to clinical trials that attracted entrepreneur Nicholas Dean, Ph.D., to his future business partner. More >

VC Partner as Sounding Board

Experience, steady leadership, a willingness to drive change, and a deep understanding of the growing pains of a start-up” these are a few of the benefits CEO Joe Army cites when discussing the role of Salient’s Chairman of the Board Jay Schmelter, who is also a managing director of RiverVest. More >

RiverVest’s Founding Role Launches Device Company

What happens when a VC Fund’s managing director with interventional cardiology expertise is asked by a fellow entrepreneur with a track record of multibillion-dollar inventions to help build a company around a groundbreaking interventional cardiology device? More >