Hot Mandate: CA Based Newly Established VC Invests In Digital Health Technologies, Including AI-Powered Healthcare Solutions

A newly established venture capital firm founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, CA. The firm is expecting to close their first fund this year, targeting $100M, and is seeking to invest in Seed to Series A companies. The firm expects to make about 80% of their investments in North America, but has a global

Within life sciences, the firm is most interested in digital health technologies, including Digital Therapeutics, AI-powered healthcare solutions, smart devices, and tech-enabled services. The firm will be extremely selective about medical device companies without a digital component. The same applies for traditional therapeutics and diagnostics sectors as well. The firm likes to see early traction (i.e. paying customer engagement), but is open to pre-revenue companies.

The firm is open to working with all kinds of management teams. The firm is capable of leading seed rounds and can act as either lead or co-investor.

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Hot Mandate: NY Based Family Office Interested In AI-related Digital Health Technologies

A family office based in New York, NY is looking to invest in medical devices and diagnostics, but will also consider therapeutics and digital health. The firm prefers companies that have some proof of concept data, with some animal studies complete, and will invest through to clinical-stage companies. The firm generally co-invests in a syndicate, and will invest between $100-500K, depending on the stage of development of the company. The firm is currently interested in investing in companies located in North America.

The firm is focused primarily on medical devices and diagnostics, but will consider therapeutics, if they are first in class, and digital health, with a focus on AI-related technologies. The firm has focused on

The firm is interested in companies with strong management teams. As the firm will generally co-invest, board representation is not usually required after investing.

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Hot Mandate: VC Focuses On Early-Stage Personalized Diagnostics With Big Data Component

A recently formed venture capital firm that focuses on the big-data aspect of personalized diagnostics is seeking early-stage companies raising seed to Series B rounds. The firm has a $200M target fund and seeks to make 15 –20 new investments within the year. The firm seeks to make $2M – $4M initial investments per company, but will make smaller initial seed investments. The firm prefers to be actively involved in their portfolio companies, and therefore prefers companies based near the west coast, though is open to other U.S.-based companies.

The firm is focused on early-detection diagnostics, such as discovering cancer when it is still monogenetic versus heterogeneous and already invaded in other parts of the body or detecting Alzheimer’s 8-10 years before dementia symptoms are present. The firm is interested in point-of-care diagnostics (for influenza A/B/bacterial, etc.) that can diagnose specifically and efficiently. The firm is especially interested in technology with a big-data component, and involved in genomics and personalized medicine to provide the right treatment as early as possible. The firm seeks preclinical to clinical-stage technology, though will also look later-stage depending on the opportunity.

The firm requires a smart management team that is diverse in knowledge, and a company with good IP that may come from a leading institution. The firm will usually seek early-stage companies with less than half a dozen people.

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Hot Mandates: California-based Venture Capital

A Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco California. The firm is interested in making equity investments into early-stage companies with investments ranging from $1M to $15 million per company, depending on the companies needs and stage of development. The firm is currently seeking investment opportunities throughout the United States.

The firm is looking for companies operating in the HIT/ Digital Health space as well as diagnostics and devices with a software component. The firm is entirely opportunistic in terms of indication and will consider companies at all stages of development. Specific areas of interest include life science tools, mental health, digital therapeutics, synthetic biology and 3D printing.

The firm is looking for privately held companies with strong management teams. The firm is able to provide entrepreneurs with a 200-person advisory network and bring deep operational expertise.

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Hot Mandates: Texas-based Family Office

A Dallas, Texas based VC firm that was founded in 2011 and is focused on healthcare companies. The firm makes seed, venture, and growth stage investments. The firm typically provides seed and Series A equity financing in the range of $100K to $1M per portfolio company. The firm generally acts as the lead investor and is open to investing in syndicates. The firm primarily invests in companies that are based in Texas but is open to opportunities across North America. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.

The firm is currently seeking to invest in medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, and software. The firm is also interested in reformulated and repurposed drugs that have mitigated risk. For medical devices, the firm is opportunistic in terms of subsectors. Ideally, the product has a prototype and 510(k) regulatory pathway. The firm is open to investing in any indication, including orphan diseases; the dental field is of interest.

The firm seeks a strong and experienced management team. The firm may take a board seat where appropriate.

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Hot Mandates: Australia-Based Impact Investor

A newly founded investment firm based in Melbourne, Australia. The firm manages an open-ended, evergreen fund that focuses on life science investments. The firm invests in both early-stage and late-stage companies with a slight focus on the latter. In early-stage companies, the size of initial investment is between $1-5M. The firm is a provider of continuous capital and will continue to support portfolio companies through follow-on investments (provided milestones are met). The firm is open to global investments and does not require an Australia angle.

The firm invests broadly across the life sciences, including therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, and ag-bio, with 4 key investment themes that they closely navigate. The 4 themes are (1) personalized/precision medicine (i.e. NGS, big data), (2) infectious diseases and drug resistance (i.e. vaccines, anti-bacterials, rapid diagnostics), (3) “healthspan” (i.e. preventative and regenerative medicine, wellness, anything that slows the aging process, chronic diseases and age-related diseases), and (4) feeding the world (i.e. sustainable proteins, biological solutions for farmers, water and air purification technologies). The firm is stage agnostic and will consider technologies that are as early as pre-PoC.

The firm seeks to work with companies with innovative, highly disruptive technologies in the biotech/medical space. The firm is an active investor, meaning that the firm will work closely with portfolio companies to support their growth post-initial investment. The firm’s team has a broad range of experience in life sciences investments, funds management, international business development, etc., through which the firm provides strategic support. The firm prefers to lead and seek board representation, but this is not always the case.

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Hot Investor Mandate: Global Firm’s Strategic Investment/Partnering Arm Interested in IVD and AI Technologies Across All Indications

A global firm with offices worldwide invests in medical technology companies that are strategically relevant to its parent company. The firm invests in new technologies via venture investing, collaborations, incubation, or M&A. The firm invests worldwide.

The firm’s primary focuses within healthcare include in-vitro diagnostics (particularly immuno and molecular diagnostics), digital lab services (including capacity management, care coordination, technologies that help physicians make diagnoses and other key decisions) and AI technologies in healthcare. The firm will invest in any medical indication area, and prefers companies that have at least attained proof of concept data or with a product on market demonstrating traction and revenue.

The firm has no specific company or management team requirements.

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