A Canada-based venture capital firm focuses on investments in three main sectors: Biopharmaceutical, Healthcare Platform & Services, and Technology. The firm provides initial investments at USD 3-5 million, and it will also reserve a further amount for follow-on financing and supports the startups in strategic partnerships. The firm is interested in pre-clinical to clinical-stage biotech companies. The firm invests primarily in North America but also opens to invest in Europe or China.

The firm is looking for new opportunities in the life science space, including therapeutics, diagnostics, and healthcare platforms. The firm’s investments to date have included companies developing in cell therapy, oncology, neuroscience, and drug-discovery platform. The firm is opportunistic in terms of sector, subsectors, and indications. The firm will also consider orphan drugs. Within medical devices and digital health, the firm will only consider companies that already have a USD 10 million minimum revenue. The firm will only co-invest and will prefer to co-invest with well-known lead investors.

The firm does not have specific requirements on companies or management teams.

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A venture capital firm in Western Europe seeks to make 4-5 investments over the next 6 to 12 months. The firm could lead any investment up to €15M but will also look for syndicate participation in bigger rounds. Allocations are in the form of equity. Allocations are typically made at the venture stage of development but are open to consider Seed through IPO rounds. The firm focuses on companies based in Europe, but also considers companies in Israel and USA.

The firm will look at a broad spectrum of products and services within the life science space. While the firm has traditionally not considered therapeutics, the firm is now open to making investments in this space. The firm is most interested in medical devices and diagnostics including in-vitro diagnostics, and also looks into digital health. They will look at any stage of development within those categories and long as the product or service shows substantial market potential and have proof of concept.

The firm is willing to work with all types of management teams as long as entrepreneurs/founders have a solid knowledge in the industry. A board seat is required for all investments.

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An evergreen venture fund based in the USA is a flexible investor; the firm’s initial allocations vary depending on the company’s developmental stage, from $150,000 to several million dollars. The firm is open to being a lead investor, and will consider opportunities globally. The firm is open to investing in both privately held companies and publicly traded companies.

The firm invests in the therapeutics sector. The firm only invests in companies with assets that are at the clinical phase of development, and which are based on solidly vetted science. The firm is agnostic in therapeutic indications and will consider opportunities in any area of medicine.

The firm likes to invest as part of a syndicate in science at a US or OUS company that will create a value inflection from a well executed study. The firm has a flexible approach to management teams and may be a more hands-on investor if the management team has limited business experience. The firm prefers to invest in companies that already have an exit plan in mind.  The firm requires a high level of transparency from portfolio companies, and guides portfolio companies in planning studies that will create real value inflection points for the company.

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A global investment group invests through multiple vehicles and has over $1B targeted on healthcare and life science under management. The firm recently launched a new vehicle to invest in digital health technologies. The group will invest $0.5-1M, mainly in seed-series A companies developing software-based digital technologies.

The firm is interested in software-based digital health companies. The group will not invest in wearables or smart devices. The firm invests primarily in B2B or B2B2C companies, and looks for technologies that have clear cost saving or revenue generating aspect for clients. While the firm will invest globally, they are looking for companies targeting the US market.

The firm is a very active investor, leveraging their network and broad-cross sector activity to help their portfolio companies. The group is looking for companies that, at minimum, have a viable understanding of the US healthcare market.

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A firm with offices in the USA invests in seed and Series A rounds, and has a strong preference for being the first institutional investor in a company. The firm typically reserves a total of $25 million to invest over the life of a portfolio company. The firm invests in the USA and Canada, and typically makes about 5 allocations per year.

The firm is primarily focused on therapeutics, and generally will no longer invest in technologies with a medical device regulatory pathway. The firm prefers to invest in platform technologies that have attained significant preclinical proof of concept data, preferably with published data and evidence that shows reproduction of theory. The firm prefers that platform technologies have potential to bring therapeutics to market in the short-term. The firm will consider therapeutic opportunities in any indication space and is agnostic to modality (i.e. small molecule, large molecule, cell/gene therapy). Additionally, the firm invests in biotech research tools, such as sequencing technologies and discovery platforms.

The firm prefers to work with strong scientific teams. The firm invests only in the USA and Canada, and does not consider international opportunities unless the company has a significant US presence. The firm generally does not invest in companies that have previously received investments from an institutional investment firm.

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A venture firm based in China has a multi-billion dollar fund and is interested in companies raising seed/angel to Series A rounds and provides investments that can range up to $50M depending on the opportunity. Series B round will also be considered occasionally in terms of the potentiality. The firm seeks opportunities globally, though it has a preference for companies based in China.

The firm is interested in therapeutics, medical devices without drug components, in-vitro diagnostics, and healthcare IT. The firm is interested in preclinical to early-stage clinical (Ph I-II) technologies. The firm is indication agnostic, though highly prefers technology with a China market angle.

The firm does not have a management team requirement and will help support early-stage companies with filling management teams, if necessary.

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A seed fund based in the USA focuses on applied AI technologies, and invests in three verticals: Digital Health, Enterprise and Automation. Within Digital Health, the firm invests in companies developing AI/ML, software-based technologies in the sectors of digital health, diagnostics and R&D services. The firm will invest $250K-500K in seed-stage companies based in the US and Canada, and will consider all companies, as long as they have a good business model.

Within healthcare, the firm invests in companies that are primarily software-based. In addition to digital health companies, the firm will consider diagnostics and R&D services companies, such as smart lab monitoring, genomics-based diagnostics, or AI-driven drug discovery.

The firm will invest only in companies whose primary base of operations is in the US and Canada, and with those focused on the US/Canadian market. While the firm may take a board or observer seat after investing, they do not require it for all of their investments.

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