LaunchCyte creates, seeds, and harvests life sciences innovation. Probing the world's biotech research institutions, LaunchCyte acquires technologies that satisfy healthcare needs. The firm then licenses the best of these technologies, and drives them to market by creating new start-up companies. Since its founding in 2000, the firm has created six companies that offer unique technologies and products to improve healthcare and the human condition. The companies have platform technologies that solve problems relating to a particular disease state or method of improving diagnosis, drug development, or clinical trials.