MapLight Therapeutics

BiotechnologySeries DBurlington, USmaplightrx.com

Latest round

Series D

Last raised

Jul 2025

Total raised

$238M

Investors

9

About MapLight Therapeutics

Founded in 2018 and based in Massachusetts, US, MapLight Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that offers drugs to treat neurological and psychiatric disorders. The company was founded by its CEO, Christopher Kroeger, and Robert Malenka. In July 2025, MapLight Therapeutics, Inc.Rowe Price Investment Management, and Avego. MapLight Therapeutics develops drugs for people with neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, including autism spectrum disorder, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, dyskinesias, and Alzheimer's disease psychosis. The firm offers a wide range of discovery platforms, including optogenetics, a laboratory technique that identifies cell types in the brain; transcriptomics, a platform that identifies the gene expression pattern of each cell type in the brain; and STARmap, a platform that identifies transcription patterns of each cell type in the brain. The company’s pipeline products include ML-004, a 5HT-1b agonist; ML-007C-MA, a muscarinic agonist; ML-007, a muscarinic receptor agonist; and ML-009.

Who invested in MapLight Therapeutics

9 investors across 2 rounds

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Funding rounds

  1. Series D

    Jul 18, 2025

    Amount

    $188M

    Investors

    Locked

  2. Series C

    Jul 5, 2023

    Amount

    $50M

    Investors

    Locked

Questions about MapLight Therapeutics

Who invested in MapLight Therapeutics?

MapLight Therapeutics has 9 investors on record across 2 venture rounds. Sign up free to see every VC on the cap table and the rounds they joined.

How much funding has MapLight Therapeutics raised?

MapLight Therapeutics has raised 2 venture rounds. Sign up free to see how much each round raised and the total.

When did MapLight Therapeutics last raise money?

MapLight Therapeutics's most recent round on record is a Series D, in Jul 2025.

What does MapLight Therapeutics do?

Founded in 2018 and based in Massachusetts, US, MapLight Therapeutics, Inc.

Where is MapLight Therapeutics headquartered?

MapLight Therapeutics is headquartered in Burlington, US.

Which VCs invest in companies like MapLight Therapeutics?

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