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A corporate venture arm of a company specializing in infection prevention technology, primarily in the hospital setting, is interested in strategic investments and acquisitions, spanning benchtop proof of concept to businesses selling products that are on the market. Within the area of infection prevention and control, The firm will consider digital health, diagnostics and medical device technologies that relate to infection, but will not invest in pharmaceutical therapeutics. Investments can range from less than $1M, up to enterprise scale acquisitions. The firm will invest globally.

The firm is only interested in digital health, diagnostics and medical device technologies that address infection prevention and control, with a focus on healthcare acquired infection. These technologies can include track and trace, contact tracing, prevention and predictive technologies, diagnosis, identification of best treatments and non-drug intervention, among others.

The firm will only make strategic investments that align with the firm. The firm is an active investor, and will typically take a board seat after investing.

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A venture capital / private equity firm headquartered in China manages both  US and RMB denominated funds. The firm invests in Series A rounds at $1-2M, though its sweet spot is investing $10-15M in Series B/C rounds. The firm works closely with local provincial Chinese governments, allowing them the ability to bring technology successfully into the Chinese market. The firm will generally not invest in the seed stage, and seeks opportunities globally.

The firm invests in pharmaceuticals and Class II medical devices, including an interest in 505(b)(2) repurposed compounds, as well as healthcare-related industries. The firm is interested in all therapeutic areas and in early to mid development stage companies. The firm focuses on unmet medical needs with a China market potential.

The firm does not have management team requirements. The firm will typically take a board seat post-investment, and has the capability to lead and co-invest.

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A venture capital firm based in the USA currently manages a $500M fund dedicated to life science investments. The firm can invest anywhere from $4-30M and invests in both seed and crossover rounds. While most of the current portfolio companies are USA-based, the firm has a global portfolio and is open to global investment opportunities.

The firm focuses on these 3 key areas: therapeutics, diagnostics, and R&D tools/services. The firm also considers digital health opportunities that tie in with their key areas, such as technologies enhancing R&D efficacy, drug development process, etc. The firm stirs away from medical devices (basically, all technologies that require FDA approval), including implantable devices. With regards to the firm’s main interest areas, The firm is most interested in seeing new approaches (i.e. cell & gene therapy, novel ways of manufacturing cell lines, etc). The firm will invest in both pre-clinical and clinical technologies.

The firm has no specific company or management team requirements and is open to working with management teams coming from varying levels of experience. The firm prefers to act as the lead investor, and has done so for almost all of their portfolio companies thus far. The firm is a very active, hands-on investor and will generally seek board representation.

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Based in Europe, a venture and growth capital firm provides expertise and funding to entrepreneurs and companies with global ambitions in life sciences and information technologies. The firm focuses on early to growth and expansion stage including spin-offs and restarts. The firm prefers to be the lead investor and possibly co-lead. The firm seeks to allocate €7-15 million (in equity) per company through subsequent rounds of investment. The firm seeks to invest in companies that are based in the US and Europe. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.

In the life sciences, the firm seeks to invest in medical devices and digital health. The firm is opportunistic in terms of subsectors and indications. Medical devices with a therapeutic focus are of high interest. The firm seeks growth stage companies with early sales or with products that, at minimum, have regulatory approval (CE mark) and compelling clinical data.

The firm requests a board seat in each portfolio company and generally holds a significant minority stake. The firm seeks a company with a strong management team or technical experts in the relevant technology.

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An investment firm headquartered in China with an additional office in the USA invests exclusively in the life science sector; the firm invests primarily in the USA and China, but will also invest in other regions such as Europe and Canada. Within China, the firm makes growth investments in companies that have existing revenues; in the USA and other regions, the firm makes both venture and growth-equity stage investments in both pre-revenue and revenue-stage companies. The firm’s allocations are highly varied. From the main fund, investments typically range from $15-50 million, though larger investments are of interest as well; the firm has another fund focused on earlier stage companies that actively makes investments of typically $2-5 million, generally in financing rounds of $10 million or less. The firm is open to syndication. The firm is also particularly interested in working with companies that are open to or actively interested in seeking partnerships or opportunities in China.

The firm invests in therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, healthcare services, and clinically-oriented healthcare IT, and will consider investing in any indication area or technology subsector; however, orphan indications, dermatology/aesthetics, oncology, and blood diseases are of particular interest in the biopharma space; general surgery, neurovascular, cardiovascular, minimally invasive technologies, women’s health, respiratory care, novel diagnostics and orthopedics are of particular interest in the device space. The fund for earlier stage companies focuses on early stage opportunities in biotech; from the main fund, the firm in most cases makes investments in products that have obtained market approval or are very close to commercialization, but earlier investments may be considered for highly innovative products or products that can demonstrate strong efficacy signals at an earlier stage (such as anti-infectives). For devices and diagnostics, the firm only invests in commercial-stage companies.  Generally, the firm does not invest in imaging.

The firm is flexible regarding management teams, and works with both serial entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who lack industry experience.  In addition to investing in private companies, the firm is able to invest in public companies by means of PIPEs or public market placements. The firm is interested in investing in companies with products that can demonstrate cost-effectiveness.

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A family office with USA offices has a focus on the social impact as an overall investment mandate. The firm aims to fund cutting-edge therapeutics companies, through their accelerator arm while also investing in later-stage assets. The firm will invest globally. For their accelerator arm, the firm is seeking companies with pre-clinical and clinical therapeutics with a minimum initial investment of $1M-$10M, with the possibility of follow-on investments. The firm generally invests in companies with lead assets in Phase I – III clinical trials, and the amount of the allocation is based on the raise and pre-money valuation of the company.

The firm is looking for therapeutics companies, with a particular interest in biologics assets such as antibody-based technologies, cell and gene therapies. The firm mandate focused on regenerative and personalized medicine in oncology, neurodegenerative, orphan, and rare disease applications.

The firm will only consider companies that have more than two assets in the pipeline and experienced management team.

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A biotech sector fund with headquarters in China is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments housed by modern laboratories in an artistically designed building. The firm works with top ten largest global pharmaceutical companies and small to medium sized US and Europe-based businesses in studies of gene-to-structure, in vitro and in vivo assays, target ID, ADME, animal models, and more.

The firm can allocate from $200,000 to $800,000 of equity capital in seed round companies and can make investments ranging from $1 to $10 million in series A companies. The firm looks to tailor its incubator and CRO services to the needs of its partners, helping them to reach key value-added milestones. The firm will consider opportunities based in China and North America, companies within a strong China angle involvement is their sweet spot. The firm is actively seeking in-licensing opportunities and plans to make 10-12 investments next year but is flexible.

The firm focuses mostly on therapeutics, while the firm is also open to Diagnostics. The firm can utilize its CRO services to advance portfolio company’s products into or through clinical trials. The firm is currently most interested in small molecule first-in-class drugs. The firm is opportunistic in terms of subsector and indication. For therapeutics, the firm is open to invest from super early-stage to pre-clinical stage. The firm will not invest in Medical Devices Healthcare IT companies.

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