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Founded in 1973, a private equity firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The firm has additional offices in Palo Alto, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, and Seoul. The firm has about JPY 980 billion AUM (~USD 9.1 billion). The firm is currently making new investments from three main funds: SV6 Series (JPY 75 billion; 2019 vintage), Asia Technology Fund VII (USD 140 million; 2017), and Icon Ventures V (USD 260 million; 2012). The firm has a dedicated life science investment team and invests in venture stage companies. The firm invests in various stages, typically start-up and early stage. For life science companies, the firm generally allocates USD 3-5 million per round. The firm is currently focused on opportunities in the US, Israel, and Japan.

The firm invests opportunistically in the life sciences. The firm seeks to invest in innovative therapeutics, diagnostics, and medical devices. For therapeutics, the firm generally invests in novel platform technologies and considers both small molecules and biologics. The firm is indication agnostic and will consider orphan diseases. The firm is also agnostic to the stage of development, but typically invests in companies with a lead asset in clinical trials. For medical devices, the firm is also opportunistic and generally invests in devices that are in the clinic. The firm generally only invests in new IP/NCEs, and does not invest in repurposed or reformulated products.

The firm is currently focused on private companies in the US, Israel and Japan. The firm generally requires a seat on the board of directors or observers.

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The venture arm of a global advisory dedicated to healthcare with practices across regulatory and clinical affairs, market access and His EOR strategy consulting, and investment banking. The firm uses its experience in the industry to invest in promising early-stage companies developing medical devices, diagnostics or digital health technologies. The firm invests at the seed stage, and serves as a strategic investor as much as a financial investor, using industry knowledge and contacts to help companies grow. The firm will generally invest between $250K-1M in companies that have some proof of concept and IP. The firm will invest globally.

The firm invests in medical device, diagnostics and digital health companies. While the firm is generally agnostic to subsector and indication, it tends to avoid companies with a long time to exit. In addition, while the firm is willing to consider all types of medical devices, they are less likely to invest in PMA devices at this stage.

The firm is a very active investor, and thus takes a board seat, even if just an observer position, to lend their expertise. The firm can lead or coinvest, but tends to coinvest, and can help build a syndicate with their contacts.

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A listed pharmaceutical company with 5 Billion of assets under management. After over 2 decades of arduous efforts, the firm has become a high-tech pharmaceutical health industry cluster that covers manufacturing, R&D, and sales in the pharmaceutical area. The firm is open to global R&D partnerships and investment opportunities.

The firm has focused interest in Traditional Chinese Medicine granules, finished drugs, pharmaceutic adjuvants, active pharmaceutical ingredients, medical devices, medical and health management services. In addition, the firm pays special attention to novel therapeutic innovations in sepsis, anti-infection, and oncology area.

The firm has no specific company or management team requirements.

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The venture arm of a global advisory dedicated to healthcare with practices across regulatory and clinical affairs, market access and HEOR strategy consulting, and investment banking.  The firm uses its experience in the industry to invest in promising early stage companies developing medical devices, diagnostics or digital health technologies. The firm invests at the seed stage, and serves as a strategic investor as much as a financial investor, using industry knowledge and contacts to help companies grow. The firm will generally invest between $250K-1M in companies that have some proof of concept and IP. The firm will invest globally.

The firm invests in medical device, diagnostics and digital health companies. While the firm is generally agnostic to subsector and indication, it tends to avoid companies with a long time to exit. In addition, while the firm is willing to consider all types of medical devices, they are less likely to invest in PMA devices at this stage.

The firm is a very active investor, and thus takes a board seat, even if just an observer position, to lend their expertise. The firm can lead or coinvest, but tends to coinvest, and can help build a syndicate with their contacts.

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A company specializing in genetic screens, headquartered in the USA is interested in nearly all types of molecular diagnostics and the technologies that support them. The firm is willing to consider co-development or investment, and will generally invest in later stages (Series B or later), which may lead to an acquisition at a later stage of development. For strategic research collaboration, for example, the company may be willing to commit funds anywhere from US$5-30M, and will look at companies all across the globe, but has focused thus far on US, Europe, Asia and Israel.

While the firm thus far has focused solely on genomics, the company is interested in nearly all types of molecular diagnostics. Currently, their indications of interest include mental health, oncology, and women’s health, with screens in ob/gyn and breast and ovarian cancers, in addition to prostate cancer screens. For now, the firm prefers to stay within those indications of interest. In addition to new technologies in molecular diagnostics (e.g., next-generation sequencing, multi-omics), the company is also interested in sample preparation (such as sequencing technologies) and liquid-based tests.

The firm is looking to partner with or invest in early stage companies that either have some market traction, or have significant scientific data or an award or grant from the NIH or other similar institutions. The company also looks for companies that have a solid IP position for their technology.

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A main investment and operation vehicle of an angel group founded was formed on the basis of investing in passionate early-stage entrepreneurs developing novel technologies. The firm’s areas of interest include AI, big data, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, wearable devices, etc. The firm has invested in academic spin-offs from Harvard and MIT as well.

The firm has three sub-entities, including an offline incubator, in order to find valuable US high-tech startups, conduct rigorous screening, help them with accelerated growth and expand into the Chinese market, as well as providing exit strategy guidance.

The firm is interested in a wide range of life science areas. The firm will look at Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Digital Health, and Diagnostics. The firm seeks to invest in early-stage companies, within therapeutics, the firm will look at stages before phase I.

The firm has no specific company or team requirements.

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The firm is a NASDAQ-listed company that acquires, develops and commercializes promising drugs and technologies by forming and financing subsidiary companies.

All member companies have access to resources necessary for cultivating and maintaining their business such as scientific, clinical, regulatory, manufacturing, legal and financial expertise. Among these key resources are committed investment capital, experienced start-up management with in-house Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIRs), world-class scientific expertise, and shared facilities.

The company does not make equity only investments, but is open to a variety of deal structures to license, co-develop or acquire assets, including traditional milestone-based licensing deals, joint ventures, and option agreements with equity arrangements.

The company focuses primarily on therapeutic opportunities, but will also consider drug delivery devices/technologies. Our current areas of interest include:

– Late clinical stage or marketed dermatology programs/products

– IND ready, clinical or marketed rare disease, oncology, neurology, opthamology, GI or Hepatology

The company has no management team requirements and will work with entrepreneurs of all experience levels coming from academia or industry, and has no restriction on the geographic location of companies or technologies.

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