A USA-based firm makes early-stage investments in cloud computing, E-commerce, AI, aerospace engineering, and biotechnology. The firm typically engages in seed to series A investment rounds. The firm is open to companies based around Seattle, Oregon, and is recently looking into the Greater Boston areas. The firm tends to be a co-investor.
The firm is most interested in the cross sector of IT and life sciences, especially in AI-driven healthcare technologies. Interested areas in include oncology, precision medicine, AI-enabled drug discovery and healthcare SaaS.
There is no specific requirement for the company and management team. The firm is open to working with both experienced and new entrepreneurs on a case-by-case basis.
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Hot Investor Mandate: Europe-Based VC Invests Up to €12M in Therapeutics Companies, Also Working as a Company Builder in Promising Early-Stage Project
A firm with offices in Europe currently manages a fund that focuses on investments in Europe-based therapeutics and medical innovation. The firm invests in Europe, and typically allocates €5 to €12 million equity to each portfolio company, generally over several tranches.
The firm invests in therapeutics ventures. The firm is agnostic regarding technologies and indication areas and invests in companies with assets 12 months or less to the clinic, as well as assets in phase 1 or 2. (i.e Series A and Series B)
Moreover, the firm is a company builder, identifying academic projects with potential for company creation. The company has developed a specific model of collaboration between the academic, the firm and an industrial to create companies.
The firm prefers to invest in companies that can present an exit opportunity in 3-5 years, usually through a pharmaceutical industry partnership.
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Hot Investor Mandate: Corporate Venture Arm of Global Company Makes Strategic Investments in Companies Dedicated to Human Nutritional Health
The corporate venture capital arm of a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials makes equity investments into seed and venture stage companies generally taking less than 25% ownership. The firm makes allocations ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to $5 million initially with additional capital held for future financing rounds. The firm is looking to make approximately 5-10 investments over the next 6-9 months with +10 being made over the next 2 years. The firm invests in companies located around the globe with a focus on the U.S., Europe and Israel.
The firm is looking for materials science companies in orthopedics and soft tissue repair. The firm also actively invests in human nutritional health, with a specific focus on companies active in personalized nutrition, and companies developing nutritional products. While the firm has invested in companies all the way from seed to PIPE, they generally invest into companies that have products in development or early stage commercialization.
The firm highly values experience in a firms management team and generally looks to take a board seat and play an active role in its portfolio companies. The firm is looking for companies that are interested in cooperation/alignment with relevant businesses of the parent company.
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Hot Investor Mandate: Global Alternative Asset Manager Invests Up to $50M in Life Science Companies of All Stages of Development, Most Interested in Disruptive Therapeutics
A diversified, global, alternative asset manager with multiple offices across the globe has billions of dollars under management. The firm is invested equally in the private and public markets, and within the private markets, the firm seeks to invest across the entire private healthcare company lifecycle, from seed to cross-over. Initial check sizes can range from $5 – 50m and will largely depend on the stage of the company. With seed stage companies, the firm can invest $1-5m. In general, the firm ascribes to the approach of doubling the size of their prior round investment in each subsequent round (from Seed -> Series A -> Series B -> Series C -> IPO), subject to milestone achievement. The firm is currently focused on USA and Western European opportunities.
The firm’s primary investment focus is disruptive therapeutics-focused companies. The firm is most interested in genetic medicines (DNA, RNA, protein-targeted therapies including gene therapy, gene editing, oligonucleotides, and small molecule approaches), precision/targeted oncology (DNA damage repair/synthetic lethality, driver/resistance mechanisms), differentiated immunotherapies (gamma-delta T-cell-targeted, bispecific T-cell engagers, new efforts at drugging difficult checkpoints/targets), CNS disorders and autoimmune disorders (new targets of interest). The firm may consider therapeutics indications outside of CNS, oncology, and autoimmune disease on a much more selective basis. In terms of stage of development, the firm is open to pre-clinical opportunities from the lead optimization phase and beyond (discovery phase will be considered too early). The firm may consider opportunities outside of therapeutics including medical devices, diagnostics, tools and digital health, but will be much more selective.
The firm has no particular company or management team requirements. The firm is willing to lead rounds but can act as a follow-on – the firm may seek board representation when acting as the lead investor. The firm seeks to hold shares of their private company investments long after their successful IPO.
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The Faces of Digital RESI March
By Rory McCann, Marketing Manager & Conference Producer, LSN
Life Science Nation is pleased to announce the preliminary lineup of speakers and presenters at Digital RESI March. It’s a priority that RESI represents many voices in early-stage fundraising and deal-making and includes the perspectives most valuable to founders seeking capital. The panels and voices behind the topics provide insight and add value to the challenging process of fundraising. Check out the preliminary lineup and learn more about panel topics! Do you have a story to add or a perspective to share? Let us know!
Featured Digital RESI March Panelists
Managing Partner Analytics Ventures |
General Partner Maccabee Ventures |
Venture Partner Viva BioInnovator |
Innovation Lead Philips Health Technology Ventures |
President & CEO Coast BioVentures |
Director, New Ventures & Early Innovation Partnering Johnson & Johnson Innovation |
Managing Partner Cathay Capital |
Co-Chair, TiE Global Health TiE Angels |
Director BERNINA BioInvest |
General Partner Outsized Ventures |
Global Head, BD, Licensing and Strategy, Biopharmaceuticals R&D AstraZeneca |
Managing Partner Tau Ventures |
Managing Director Hikma Ventures |
Director, Venture Investments Fresenius Medical Care Ventures |
Senior Investment Manager Ontario Capital Growth Corporation (OCGC) |
CEO The Helper Bees |
Partner Lightspeed Venture Partners |
Managing Partner HealthXCapital |
Program Manager Plug and Play Ventures |
Director of Investments Sanofi Ventures |
Investment Director JDRF T1D Fund |
President and Chief Investment Officer Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) |
Managing Director Vickers Venture Partners |
Co-Founder, Managing Director Guoqian Venture Capital Investment |
Venture Partner Pathway Bioventures |
Co-Founder & Partner Forty51 Ventures |
Founder Vitality Society (Vitality Enterprises) |
Managing Director Bio 9 Ventures |
Trustee Future Care Capital |
Venture Fellow OCV Partners |
Senior Director Venture Capital – AI Fund Micron Ventures |
CEO Rendever |
Managing Director – Life Science First Republic Bank |
Principal (NFX Bio) NFX |
Co-Founder & CEO Genialis |
Founding Member Mid Atlantic Bio Angels |
Senior Associate TVM Capital Life Science |
Co-Founder & CEO Teiko.bio |
NALA Healthcare AI Startups Lead NVIDIA Inception Program |
Co-founder & CEO Sensoria Health |
Partner Amzak Health |
Director of Business Development Fortress Biotech |
Vice President 6 Dimensions Capital |
Hot Longevity Mandate: East Coast Based Family Office
The firm is a philanthropic venture firm established by the a family trust in 2009 to accelerate the development of promising technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and neurovascular disease through targeted investments. The firm makes 4-5 investments each year of approximately $1 million into privately-held companies worldwide at both the seed and early venture stages. The firm operates under an evergreen structure and has made 47 investments to date.
While the firm is focused on cardiovascular, neurovascular and metabolic diseases (e.g., diabetes, dyslipidemia and obesity), the firm invests across all technology sectors including biotech, medtech, diagnostics, and regenerative medicine. Broadview looks to invest in companies where its investment will help move the company to a value inflection point necessary for the next and larger financing round.
The firm invests in technologies that have the potential for a clear impact on patient therapy and/or standard of care, an adequate level of IP protection, well-defined use of proceeds with quantifiable and achievable milestones, and a clear understanding of the next round of fundraising needs including size and likely sources.
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Hot Longevity Mandate: Publicly Traded Pharma
The company is a publicly traded company focused on oncology therapeutics. The firm is seeking therapeutic opportunities in the oncology space. The firm is looking to partner and collaborate as well as in-license, but is primarily seeking partnerships. The firm seeks assets that have at the very least cellular proof of concept, but prefers companies to have some animal data or are approaching pre-IND studies. The firm is also willing to partner with unique and differentiated drug discovery platform companies. The firm will partner globally, but primarily partners with US and Europe-based companies.
The firm is interested only in oncology and immuno-oncology assets in high unmet tumor indications including RCC and HCC. For modality, the firm is interested only in small molecule and biologics. The firm is willing to consider therapeutics targeting both solid and liquid tumors. The firm will also partner with drug discovery companies, such as those using AI-based technologies to identify new therapeutic biology, as well as platform companies.
The firm will only partner with companies that have a strong IP position and a clear differentiating discovery and development strategy. The firm looks for startups with unique “First-in-Class” therapeutics and platforms.
If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email RESI@lifesciencenation.com.


