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A venture capital firm with offices in Canada was founded by a team with a successful track record of identifying, building, and growing life science companies. The firm recently launched a new fund through which the firm will invest around 80% in Canada-based life science companies and 20% in USA/global companies. The firm will generally participate in Series A financing rounds and beyond, including crossover and IPO; average check sizes will be around $5-10M CAD, with a total of $15-20M CAD will be reserved for follow-on investments. In addition, the firm is also dedicated to company incubation and creation for which the firm will work with earlier stage companies and deploy smaller amounts of capital (around $1M CAD).

The firm has a general theme of investing in precision medicine – technologies that can enhance the quality and accuracy of diagnoses, enable more precise and personalized treatments, targeted therapies such as cell & gene therapy, technologies that leverage AI to accelerate therapeutic development, etc. In terms of sector, the firm seeks to invest 50-60% in therapeutics, 20-30% in medical devices, and 10-15% in AI/digital health/diagnostics. For medical devices, the firm prefers later stage opportunities that are close to commercialization. The firm does not focus on any particular indication area.

The firm does not have specific company or management team requirements. While the firm likes to see management teams with a successful track record and wide range of experiences, this is not required and the firm is open to working on inexperienced management teams. The firm is capable of leading or co-leading investment rounds, and is also open to co-investing with likeminded investors. The firm is very hands-on and leverages their network to actively support the growth of their portfolio companies and provide needed resources.

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An early stage VC fund formed by alumni of a top tier university currently has $100M under management and focuses on Angel to Series B stage companies across various sectors, including pharmaceutical, medical device, services and tools, and digital health. The typical investment size is between $1M to $2M. The group also syndicates with other investors for larger investments. The firm looks to make investments across the globe.

The firm is currently looking for new opportunities in the life science space. The fund is opportunistic in terms of sectors, subsectors and indications. The fund typically invests in seed rounds and series A rounds. Historically, the fund has been active in life science companies developing innovative platform technologies and cross-disciplinary technologies.

The firm focuses on investments in private companies and typically invests in pre-clinical and early clinical stage companies with strong and experienced management teams. The firm will take a board seat or observer seat occasionally, depending on the investments.

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A USA-based private investment office makes direct investments into early stage healthcare and technology companies. The firm is active across sectors and geographies, favoring recurring revenue, capital efficiency, and durable competitive advantage. Its permanent capital base allows the team to respond to opportunities without mandate constraints or fundraising concerns.

The firm is open to sectors and subsectors in the life science space including healthcare IT, digital health, medical devices and diagnostics.

The firm is looking for companies with experienced management teams and generally looks to take a board seat following investment. Due to the firm’s capital base they can be more flexible in terms of investment timeframe and have a longer exit horizon than other investors.

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A firm is a single family office of Maryland and New Jersey-based family interests. While the firm is very flexible in terms of investment size they are generally looking to invest a minimum of $.5 million per round, depending upon size of round and estimated capital call. FoxHill prefers A round and later stage companies. Pre-A interest depends upon technology stage. Our preferred geography is North America and Europe.

The firm is looking for breakthrough technologies with a strong social ethos in the Therapeutics, Medical Devices, and Diagnostics Sectors that address underserved medical needs or provide innovative and disruptive approaches to common medical procedures and treatments. The firm invests on an opportunistic basis in areas of intersecting technologies, such as nucleic acid-based drugs and delivery, regenerative medicine and cell-based therapeutics and other immune-directed therapies. The firm generally will not consider single target small molecules, biosimilars or other technologies for which there is already multiple therapeutic options. The firm is looking for niche disease areas where disruptive therapeutics have the potential to be truly disease-modifying, not just provide symptomatic relief or palliative care. The firm typically is interested in preclinical stage assets that have well-developed animal model dossiers to Phase II or early Phase III stage assets. The firm’s investment mandate particularly focuses on “smart” clinical trial formats such as adaptive trials and Master Protocol trials for capital efficiency. For devices, the firm is looking for devices that address and perhaps substitute for a pharmacologic in a given therapeutic market, such as deep brain stimulation technologies and orthopedics. The firm is generally not interested in cardiovascular disease or diabetes.

The firm is currently reviewing co-investment opportunities in private companies and on an opportunistic basis, considering investment in micro-and small-cap public companies as a direct investor.

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A Venture Capital firm was founded in 2020 and is located in Plano, Texas. The firm is different from a traditional VC in that it focuses on investing, building and scaling life science start ups. The goal is to co-innovate and grow with the startups they invest in. The firm has a fund that is financed by 35 angels groups as well as a hedge fund. Investments are mainly in the form of equity and in-licensing, but the firm is flexible on a case-by-case basis with convertible notes. The firm has 7 life science companies in their portfolio to date. The firm’s main focus is biotech, medtech, and AI and machine learning technologies. The firm’s goal is to build innovations in hospitals that transform the lives of patients and make doctors jobs easier. The firm focuses on Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A financing rounds. The firm is open to global opportunities.

The firm focuses on AI, machine learning, and other biotech/medtech technologies, and within those domains, are open to all 4 main sectors. The firm looks for technologies in: consumer health, connected health practices, patient engagement related arenas, telehealth, distal therapeutics, and consumer health solutions and services. The firm doesn’t focus on traditional medical devices, but is looking to invest in “smart” medical devices that support connected health practices. The firm is open to most indications, especially oncology, women’s health, mental health, respiratory, cardiology, and pediatrics. The firm is not interested in drugs therapeutics or immunology with the exception of mRNA vaccines. The firm invests in pre-clinical companies.

The firm is looking for a team that they can work and co-innovate with and do channel partnering with to scale their businesses. For this firm, the concept or idea is the most important part and they are looking for more than what companies built today, they look for the future impact. Interested companies should have management teams that are in alignment with the firm’s values and that their end outcome is patient success. The firm can lead or co-invest on a case by case basis and will seek board seat representation on a case by case basis as well.

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A newly established venture capital firm based in the USA has just successfully closed the first round of their fund ($20M target), and made its first investment. The firm invests globally in medically related early-stage companies. Initial size of investment ranges from $250 – 500K. While the firm is focused on USA-based companies, the firm is open to considering companies across the globe.

The firm invests in medtech and digital health companies. While the founder has decades of experience as an oculofacial plastic surgeon, the firm is generally opportunistic and will consider any promising technologies that address unmet medical need. The firm has looked at AI companies, digital health/software companies implementable in medical practices, etc. In terms of stage of development, the firm is open to investing as early as pre-prototype, given that the company has properly researched the idea behind their technology.

The firm has no specific company or management team requirements, and is open to acting as either a lead or co-investor.

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The firm is a global chemical company founded in 1935. A subsidiary was initially established as the firm’s first U.S. representative office in NY in 1964 and has grown to become the corporation’s main sales, marketing, and business development center in North America. In addition to a variety of other markets, the firm serves the chemical, petrochemical and bioscience markets. The firm has recently started a corporate venture initiative with a $300M budget to make strategic investments into both pre and post-commercial companies. The group is flexible in terms of structuring investments and may employ equity investments, M&A and licensing agreements. The firm targets investment sizes from $100k – $5M for early stage companies and $10M-$50M for commercial-stage companies.

In terms of the healthcare and life science sectors, the firm is most interested in companies working in diagnostics and research tools. The firm is particularly interested in clinical diagnostics including IVDs and next generation platforms (NGS, liquid biopsy, LC-MS, point-of-care testing, digital PCR), separation media and connected devices and wearable medical sensors. The group is also interested in advanced materials including materials for secondary batteries, thin-film for electronic devices, separation (inorganic/organic/polymers) and composites. The firm is agnostic to indication area, but has a particular interest in cancer, metabolic (including diabetes) and kidney disorders as well as reproductive health.

The firm has no strict company or management team requirements and invest in both early and later stage opportunities. Board observer status is required along with an investment.

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