Denise Bevers

Founder & CEO, VETmAb BIO • Board Chair, La Jolla Playhouse • Philanthropist • Advisor

📍 San Diego, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2021
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Board Member
Oct 2019
TARGETED THERAPIES FOR EVERYDAY USE: Hilltop Bio products are room-temperature stable, practical, and ready-to-go purified therapies containing specific levels of selected regenerative components like extracellular vesicles, exosomes, growth factors, cytokines and microRNA that studies have shown to be effective at minimizing inflammation and promoting healing.
Board Member
Apr 2019
The Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse is internationally-renowned for creating some of the most exciting and adventurous work in American theatre, through its new play development initiatives, its innovative Without Walls series, artist commissions and residencies. Currently led by The Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse and 2017 Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley and Managing Director Debby Buchholz, the Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, and reborn in 1983 under the artistic leadership of Des McAnuff. La Jolla Playhouse has had 33 productions transfer to Broadway, garnering 38 Tony Awards, among them the currently-running, Tony Award-Winning COME FROM AWAY and SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, along with JERSEY BOYS, MEMPHIS, THE WHO'S TOMMY, BIG RIVER, as well as Billy Crystal’s 700 SUNDAYS and the Pulitzer Prize-winning I AM MY OWN WIFE, both fostered as part of the Playhouse’s Page To Stage Program. Visit LaJollaPlayhouse.org.
Board Member
Oct 2018
Kindred Biosciences is a veterinary biopharmaceutical company focused on saving and improving the lives of cats, dogs, and horses. Its mission is to bring to pets the same kinds of safe and effective medicines that human family members enjoy. The Company's strategy is to identify compounds and targets that have already demonstrated safety and efficacy in humans and to develop therapeutics based on these validated compounds and targets for animal companions. The Company has a deep pipeline of novel drugs and biologics in development across many therapeutic classes.
late stageBiotechnology
Board Member
Oct 2018
KindredBio develops innovative medicines for pets.
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2022
Founder & CEO
Apr 2022
VETmAb BIO is a veterinary biopharmaceutical company focused on developing monoclonal antibodies ("mAbs") to treat debilitating diseases in dogs and cats. While monoclonal antibodies have provided revolutionary treatments in humans, mAbs technology has been underdeveloped in veterinary medicine. At VETmAb BIO, we’re taking advantage of human-validated targets and designing them specifically for dogs and cats, thereby mitigating technical risk. By utilizing our proprietary technologies, we can explore potential treatments to address various unmet needs in veterinary medicine. Our team is comprised of experts who have decades of collective experience in mAb technology and animal health. Learn more: https://www.vetmab.bio/about/
2021
Board Member
Mar 2021
Building the best innovation ecosystem on the planet.
2019
Board Member
Oct 2019
TARGETED THERAPIES FOR EVERYDAY USE: Hilltop Bio products are room-temperature stable, practical, and ready-to-go purified therapies containing specific levels of selected regenerative components like extracellular vesicles, exosomes, growth factors, cytokines and microRNA that studies have shown to be effective at minimizing inflammation and promoting healing.
Board Member
Apr 2019
The Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse is internationally-renowned for creating some of the most exciting and adventurous work in American theatre, through its new play development initiatives, its innovative Without Walls series, artist commissions and residencies. Currently led by The Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse and 2017 Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley and Managing Director Debby Buchholz, the Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, and reborn in 1983 under the artistic leadership of Des McAnuff. La Jolla Playhouse has had 33 productions transfer to Broadway, garnering 38 Tony Awards, among them the currently-running, Tony Award-Winning COME FROM AWAY and SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, along with JERSEY BOYS, MEMPHIS, THE WHO'S TOMMY, BIG RIVER, as well as Billy Crystal’s 700 SUNDAYS and the Pulitzer Prize-winning I AM MY OWN WIFE, both fostered as part of the Playhouse’s Page To Stage Program. Visit LaJollaPlayhouse.org.
2018
Board Member
Oct 2018
Kindred Biosciences is a veterinary biopharmaceutical company focused on saving and improving the lives of cats, dogs, and horses. Its mission is to bring to pets the same kinds of safe and effective medicines that human family members enjoy. The Company's strategy is to identify compounds and targets that have already demonstrated safety and efficacy in humans and to develop therapeutics based on these validated compounds and targets for animal companions. The Company has a deep pipeline of novel drugs and biologics in development across many therapeutic classes.
late stageBiotechnology
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