Lifespan Vision Ventures (LVV), an investment firm focused on therapeutics that improve human healthspan, announced that it has led Violet Therapeutics' $4.75 million seed extension financing, with participation from Dementia Discovery Fund, UTEC, Ono Venture Investment, and Mass General Brigham Ventures.

Violet Therapeutics is a preclinical-stage biotechnology company developing first-in-class therapies for neurodegenerative disease by mapping disease-relevant cell-to-cell signaling interactions in the brain. The company's proprietary CONNECT platform is designed to identify therapeutically actionable signaling pathways that drive neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and synaptic loss.