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A newly established venture capital firm founded in 2020 and is based in Palo Alto, CA. The firm’s first fund recently had its first close at $25M, and is actively seeking early-stage investment opportunities in life sciences and healthcare sectors. The firm is focused on emerging companies in pre-seed / seed rounds and will participate in Series A at the maximum. Currently, the firm is focused on USA-based companies, but can dedicate up to 20% of their fund to invest outside of the USA.

The firm invests in 4 main focus areas, ordered by priority: (1) biotech (40%), which includes biomarkers, liquid biopsies, cell therapy, smart packaging, drug delivery, next generation sequencing, omics; (2) digital health (30%), which includes wearables, diagnostics, services, AI-enabled approaches, management, fitness, digital therapy; (3) medtech (20%), which includes smart devices, smart lens, breath biopsy, 3D printing, in vitro diagnostics, surgical robotics, laser therapy; (4) health edtech (10%), which includes personalized learning, med. professional development, immersive learnings (e.g., VR), wellness. The firm plans to expand their investment capabilities in medtech, as they have recently made great investments in this space. The firm is indication agnostic, and is open to all opportunities including oncology, cardiovascular, infectious, metabolic, neurological, and rare/orphan diseases.

The firm seeks to work with companies backed by a management team with deep domain expertise and technologies that are backed by solid IP. The firm prefers to act as a follow-on, but will seek to lead more investment rounds in the future.

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An early-stage healthcare venture fund with teams based in USA and Asia looks to invest in visionary teams and cutting-edge technologies in both life science and digital health solutions.

The firm’s philosophy is not to take a one-size-fits-all approach to investing. The firm draws from their domain expertise and diversified experiences across the full healthcare spectrum to cover both Biopharma and Digital Health sectors. The firm’s aim is to support companies that can achieve differentiated therapeutic results through truly novel approaches. Combining scientific rigor and strategic connections within our network, the firm provides guidance and add value to our portfolio companies as they grow. The firm is seeking to work with companies from late Seed to Series B, and is open to global opportunities.

The firm is focused on two main investment themes:

(1) Life Sciences – the firm looks for sound scientific principles and seek innovative approaches, including breakthrough medicines and platform technologies. The firm’s key areas of interest include neurological diseases, metabolic diseases, and infectious diseases. The firm’s investment team engages with entrepreneurs and companies from early pre-clinical development where there is compelling science with cell and/or animal model proof of concept data and invests through pre-clinical and early clinical proof of concept stages;

(2) Digital Health / Bio IT

Digital health is a transformational area in healthcare. The firm looks for technology platforms that enable pertinent scientific insights into drug development and design or enhanced delivery of care from providers to patients. Key areas of interest include synthetic biology, machine learning for drug discovery (proteomics and metabolomics), and tools that help reduce healthcare costs.

The firm is looking for experienced management teams with strong scientific expertise and management skills.

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A publicly traded company focused on oncology therapeutics 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.

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A private investment firm based in USA and Asia with limited partners including institutional investors from US and China, typically invests $5-10M in businesses from Series A to pre-IPO and public traded companies. The firm is open to leading or following a syndicated round. The firm is now seeking opportunities in North America.

The firm invests across therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, platform technologies, and healthcare IT and is looking for companies that are top 3 in their niche sector. Within therapeutics, the firm prefer clinical stage projects. The firm is opportunistic in terms of disease areas including orphan indications. Within device and diagnostics, the firm prefers post-prototype products with clinical validation.

The firm may request board representation or board observer ship on a case-by-case basis.

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A healthcare-focused venture capital and growth equity firm provides $15-$40 million of equity capital per company over the life of the investment. With offices in USA and Europe, the firm is primarily looking for companies throughout North America and Europe.

The firm is currently interested in companies in areas of medical technology, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices, digital health, and veterinary medicine. Significant emphasis is placed on the clinical utility and health economics of potential investments. The firm focuses on later-stage opportunities that are already commercialized or are close to commercialization. The firm is generally open in terms of indications.

The firm looks for management teams that are very willing to work alongside them, and the firm most always looks to take a board seat. The firm is open to investing in both public and privately held companies, is open to a variety of deal structures, and can consider equity investments or buy-out opportunities.

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The firm is the venture arm of the world’s leading provider of products and services for people with chronic kidney failure. The Corporate VC has offices in USA, Germany, and Israel, and is actively seeking early-stage investment opportunities that align with the parent company’s core businesses. Typical size of investment is around $5M, and the firm focuses on Series A to B rounds. The fund is open to global opportunities.

The Corporate VC is interested in products and technologies across therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health that target the following therapeutic sectors: chronic kidney disease and dialysis, intensive care medicine, cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, and other kidney-related diseases. In terms of medical devices, the firm is open to 510k and PMA regulatory pathways.

The Corporate VC is open to working with all types of management teams. The firm can act as either lead or co-investor.

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The firm is a publicly NASDAQ-traded diagnostics company with operations in China and the United States. The company specializes in pre-cancer and cancer screening based on biophysical properties. The firm is looking to partner or acquire a majority share in early stage companies in the diagnostics space. While the firm is looking to be the majority stakeholder in these companies, the firm is most interested in continuing a partnership/joint venture with these startups, as opposed to a full acquisition. The firm is willing to partner globally.

The firm is interested in diagnostics companies only. Within diagnostics, the firm is interested in two types of partnerships. First, the firm is seeking oncology diagnostics that use genetic or biomarker identification of specific cancer types that can be paired with their technology, meshing the specific genetic/biomarker for these cancers with the biophysical anomalies they detect. Additionally, the firm is also looking to partner with companies in the oncology space that are seeking to expand to China and can take advantage of the firm’s existing infrastructure. For these partnerships, the firm is interested in all forms of diagnostics in all indications.

The firm is looking to acquire at least a 51% stake in the companies with which they are partnering, but is open to any structures that are advantageous for all parties. As a partner, the firm has facilities in place for any additional research or clinical tests needed to help companies reach commercialization in the United States, as well as the ability to help with distribution, especially in China.

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