MSD Animal Health Ventures
About Us
MSD Animal Health Ventures partners with companies and invests in bringing new solutions to address unmet customer needs, including advanced digital technologies. We are innovators, and we lead by bringing together capabilities across veterinarians, startups, inventors, entrepreneurs, customers and investment partners.
MSD Animal Health Ventures is based in Madison, New Jersey and is actively seeking partnerships and technology investment opportunities.
A History of Innovation
We are leveraging a long history of innovation at MSD Animal Health. We focus on harnessing the power of transformational solutions to meet our customers’ needs today… and anticipate their needs for tomorrow.
Our goal is to build new businesses that:
Address unmet customer needs
Align with MSD Animal Health core businesses
Provide entry into new markets or transform existing markets
Our Approach
We bring state-of-the-art animal health technologies to market. The process we use to generate ideas, make investment decisions and implement solutions is both repeatable and rigorous.
FROM IDEA TO IMPLEMENTATION
Our Portfolio & Partners
Individual chick vaccine delivery system that significantly increases vaccination rates
A tool specifically designed to evaluate lung disease severity for more accurate diagnosis of bovine respiratory disease (BRD)
A smart cattle ear tag that provides behavioral and biometric data
Real-time monitoring and predictive analytics to advance fish health and welfare
IoT environmental and growth performance monitoring solution for the poultry industry
Who We Are
Our team includes technology and finance experts, animal scientists, veterinarians and entrepreneurs who focus on identifying and investing in companies with early-stage technologies, devices and solutions. We offer value to our partners through our:
Scientific approach, understanding of biology, disease conditions, treatment and prevention
Deep end-to-end understanding of our customers’ businesses
Expertise in data analytics
Customer access and global scale
We work side-by-side with our partners to ensure success at each milestone.
Meet Our Team
Chris Beattie
Lead, Precision Aqua
Stephen Murray
Lead, Animal Health Ventures
Bob Scheller
Lead, Platform
Paul Koffman
Lead, Precision Cattle
Jose Herrera Seibt
Director, Animal Health Ventures
João Calado
Associate Director, Precision Poultry
Nick Nohling
Director, Animal Health Ventures
MSD ANIMAL HEALTH VENTURES INVESTMENT BOARD
Rick DeLuca
President, Animal HealthJim McIntyre
Chief Business Development OfficerFernando Riaza
Chief Marketing OfficerKyle Baker
Chief Financial OfficerKJ Varma, BVSc, MVSc, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Research & DevelopmentDave Williams
Chief Information OfficerContact Us
Interested in learning more? Do you have an investment idea? Are you a customer who would like to partner with us? Please reach out.