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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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A Japanese Pharmaceutical company, with headquarters in Tokyo and offices in Japan and the US focuses on developing and marketing products in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical businesses. Currently, the Pharma is actively seeking novel and innovative therapeutic opportunities for in-licensing in CNS and nephrology. In addition, the Pharma manages an early-stage investment fund (currently $30M) that actively invests in global early-stage opportunities that fit the firm’s areas of interest.

The Pharma is interested in innovative therapeutics that address areas of significant unmet need in CNS and renal diseases. The firm is a global leader in CNS, both neurology and psychiatry, opportunistic to all types of indications, both symptomatic and disease-modifying. In nephrology, the firm is particularly interested in novel mechanism addressing both acute and chronic kidney diseases of tubular and glomerular origin, as well as associated inflammatory and fibrotic mechanisms. The firm will consider both clinical and pre-clinical compounds with compelling biological valid proof-of-concept.

The Pharma has no specific management team requirements and will work with all types of companies with an innovative product or pipeline. The firm aims to obtain global commercial rights as a preferential end-goal.

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A venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Silicon Valley makes around 1/3 of its investments in industry tech mainly focusing on digital transformation within traditional sectors, second 1/3 in enterprise tech including both SaaS and network technology, and the last 1/3 in healthcare , including AI in healthcare and medical devices. The firm manages 3 funds right now with over $200M AUM. The firm typically invests $1M-$2M initial check per company, and reserve 2/3 of the fund for pro rata. The firm prefers to lead the round and also open to co-investment. The firm typically makes 7-10 new investments per year, and only focuses on companies based in North America (USA & Canada). Furthermore, the firm has a considerable value-add in supporting companies leveraging their former entrepreneur and operator experience, and their CXO network which includes over 30 executives from Fortune 1000 companies.

The firm is open to all subsectors of AI in healthcare, diagnostics and all classes of medical devices. The firm is indication agnostic and looks primarily at early-stage companies, particularly at the seed pre-Series A stage.

The firm does not have a particular management team requirement, as it primarily assesses the technology itself. If leading the round, the firm will take a board seat after an investment.

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A large Indian conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata India has many subsidiary companies, several of which are involved within the life science space. Within the hospital subsidiary, the firm is particularly interested in technologies that can help reduce costs, increase access for patient populations, process data, and keep records. The firm also runs their own incubator and is currently interested in Seed and Series A opportunities where they can put in $1-2 million USD. The firm currently prefers co-investing over leading. The firm is interested in opportunities globally, but prefers if they have an interest in working in India.

The firm is particularly interested in the digital health space, specifically telemedicine and AI-based data processing. The firm is interested in these technologies as they believe that they can leverage digital health solutions in order to reduce costs within their hospital systems as well as increase the access to patients located in remote areas. The firm is also interested in AI-based record keeping and analytic technologies as currently, medical records in India are minimal. The firm is also interested in technology related to disaster management and response. The firm is also interested in technologies that can be used to establish clinics in pharmacies as they’ve seen a trend for patients to prefer clinic visits over hospital visit in India. The firm is also particularly interested in natural remedies, specifically the use of organic and natural ingredients in Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine). The firm also has a slight interest in genomics, but they would only be interested if a strong lead investor with genomics experience is already in place. The firm prefers investing in companies that already have proof of concept.

The firm prefers a strong management team that is dedicated and focused on seeing the project through to the end. The firm also prefers to invest alongside strong lead investors with significant experience in the field. The firm prefers to take a board seat when investing.

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A venture capital company founded in 2005 located in Mill Valley, California is managing just under $70 million in assets across 2 funds and making equity investments into companies ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to $2 million with additional capital reserved for follow on rounds. The firm is looking for companies located throughout the United States and plans to make 4 new investments over the next 6-9 months.

The firm is looking for companies developing Medical Devices and Diagnostics, Healthcare IT products and Life Science Research Tools with an emphasis on fast to market low capital intense products that reduce the cost of delivering quality healthcare. For Healthcare IT investments the firm is most interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) applications and is generally not interested in Telehealth and EMR solutions. The firm is open to all sub-sectors and indications in the Medical technology space except for those targeting diseases and disorders of the spine. The firm will invest in both seed and later stage companies.

The firm is looking for companies with skilled and experienced management teams. The firm generally looks to take a board seat into companies after investment and play and active role in the management. The firm is willing to invest in both public and privately held companies.

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