For almost 20 years, our management team has been delivering loans and leases to emerging-growth life science companies. We have arranged financing for many of the most innovative start-ups in this industry—such companies as Structural GenomiX, Metabasis, Altus Pharmaceuticals, Diversa and Optobionics. We have maintained our focus over the years, and have emerged as a leading lender to the life science community.

Prior to forming Oxford Finance Corporation in 2002, our executive group established Oxford Venture Finance, which originated and underwrote life science loans with outside institutional partners for over a decade. In 2004, Oxford was acquired by Sumitomo Corporation. With assets exceeding $40 billion, Sumitomo is one of Japan’s leading traders and distributors of commodities, industrial products and consumer goods.

Oxford is headquartered just south of Washington, D.C., in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. We occupy the historic Bank of Alexandria building, which was built in 1797, and much of the building remains in its original Federalist form. George Washington was a personal client of the bank, and our vault housed the first gold on deposit from the U.S. Government. Although the financial services industry has come a long way since the 1800s, Oxford continues to uphold the exemplary ethics practiced in our historic surroundings.