JDRF, PureTech Try Nonprofit Ownership To Fill Funding Gap
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Call it venture philanthropy with a twist: if all goes to plan, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation will co-own a series of biotech companies dedicated to type 1 diabetes treatments without violating tax code, thanks to a structure created by Boston’s PureTech Ventures.
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