{"id":677601,"date":"2026-05-18T00:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677601\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:05:11","slug":"uk-healthcare-expansion-steve-jobs-son-reed-jobs-plans-to-invest-in-cancer-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677601\/","title":{"rendered":"UK healthcare expansion: Steve Jobs son Reed Jobs plans to invest in cancer startups"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UK Reed Jobs, the son of late Apple<\/a> co-founder Steve Jobs<\/a>, is looking to expand investments in British healthcare startups through his oncology-focused venture firm as he pushes efforts to improve cancer treatment and early detection.Jobs, 34, runs San Francisco-based venture firm Yosemite, which manages more than $1 billion in assets and backs companies developing cancer therapies, gene-editing technology, radiopharmaceuticals and artificial intelligence tools for healthcare.Speaking during the Translational Research Summit hosted in London by LifeArc, Jobs reflected on how his father\u2019s battle with cancer shaped his focus on oncology research and investment, The Guardian reported.\u201cI saw my dad have cancer when I was a kid, and unfortunately that happens far too often,\u201d Jobs said at the summit.\u201cAnd that really motivated me to try to transform outcomes for other people out there.\u201dSteve Jobs died in 2011 at the age of 56 after battling a rare form of pancreatic cancer.Jobs added that Yosemite is actively exploring opportunities in the UK and meeting pharmaceutical companies, academics and researchers as part of its international investment plans.\u201cAs a firm, we invest in companies internationally, and we would love to look at opportunities in the UK,\u201d he said.Yosemite has invested in around 20 healthcare startups, including companies working on cancer vaccines, gene therapy and AI-driven drug development. The firm has also backed some UK-based companies that have not yet been publicly announced.The venture was launched in 2023 after being spun out from Emerson Collective, the investment and philanthropic organisation founded by Jobs\u2019 mother Laurene Powell Jobs.Yosemite is backed by several major institutions and investors, including Amgen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.Jobs said he hopes future advances in medicine will transform cancer into a disease that can be detected earlier and treated more effectively.\u201cToday far too many cancers are either diagnosed incidentally, because there\u2019s no good early biomarker, or only diagnosed once they are metastatic and extremely advanced,\u201d he said.\u201cThat is unacceptable.\u201dHe also pointed to immunotherapy as one of the most promising areas in cancer treatment over the coming decades.\u201cIt\u2019s one of the areas I think is going to have the most promise for patients in the next couple of decades,\u201d Jobs said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reed Jobs, the son of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, is looking to expand investments in British healthcare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,326592,137,500,326593,326590,326591,326594],"class_list":["post-677601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cancer-investment","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-oncology-research","tag-reed-jobs","tag-uk-healthcare-startups","tag-yosemite-venture-firm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}