A large conglomerate headquartered in China’s primary business is in single-use medical devices with a wide range of product lines in consumables, orthopedic materials, and blood purification. The group also have subsidiaries in biopharmaceutical, healthcare services, finance, and real estate. As a leading provider of healthcare system solutions, the firm is actively expanding its healthcare business in China. The group is seeking product-based collaboration opportunities with early stage medical device businesses overseas, primarily through joint venture or incubation. The firm’s newly opened incubator serves as a one-stop shop for early stage medical device companies by providing capital, R&D services, clinical trial services, CFDA registration, and distribution channels. Typical investments range from RMB 1-30 million (US$0.1 – 4.4 M), while there is no set upper limit. The firm would also consider in-licensing opportunities.

The firm is focusing on medical devices with an elevated interest in coronary stent, vascular ultrasound, endoscope, and surgical devices. The firm is also interested in medical technologies that are complimentary to its product line, which includes: i) consumables (infusion sets, syringes, medical needles, blood bags, pre-filled syringes, blood sampling products, and other consumables); ii) orthopedic materials and iii) blood purification consumables and equipment. The group prefers products that have received FDA clearance/approval or at early commercial stage, while it is also open to projects that are pending an FDA decision. The group would also consider biopharmaceutical assets in kidney diseases.

The firm is seeking strong management teams with mature products that have received or are close to receiving regulatory approval. The firm is interested in forming joint venture or attracting overseas companies to its incubator.

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The healthcare and life sciences branch of a large corporation  looks to invest primarily in Series A or later companies in digital health, medical devices, genomics and molecular diagnostics technologies, but can expand their focus conditionally. While some of their investments are strategic to the firm, the firm is willing to invest outside of corporate strategic areas. The firm is a global investor, and can act as both a strategic partner and a financial investor, depending on the company.

The firm can invest as a strategic manufacturing company, but is also interested in software-enabled technologies and connected devices. While the firm may consider PMA devices, most investments are in 510k-pathway products. For purely digital health products, such as IoT technology, the firm would like to see some revenue and market traction before investing. For both medical devices and digital health, the firm is agnostic to indication. The firm’s interest in genomics and molecular diagnostics primarily relate to the oncology space, and prefer to see technologies with some clinical data.

The firm may take a board seat after investing, if they are the lead or if they have strategic value to offer the portfolio company, but will generally not take a board seat if they are co-investing.

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A venture capital firm is focused on cross-border investments. When investing, the firm doesn’t only provide financial capital, they also provide their global consulting services focused specifically on helping companies work across borders and in China. Currently, the firm is partnered with the Chinese Government to bring good projects from North America to China and are focused on technologies that are at an advanced stage with patents that are willing to launch in Chinese markets or to set up factories and labs in China. The firm is however, willing to invest smaller amounts in good opportunities that have no interest/fit for the Chinese markets as well. The firm’s major focus within the life sciences is biotech and is focused on seed to series B rounds. The firm generally invests up to $10M USD for Series A deals, is flexible for series B rounds, and invests up to $1M USD for seed stage rounds.

Within the Life Sciences space, the firm is specifically focused on clinical tests, therapeutics, and other biotech technologies. The firm is also interested in medical devices focusing on large disease areas within China such as diabetes and cancer. Additionally, the firm is focused on technologies within these sectors that have a good fit with the Chinese Market or have a strong interest in working in China.

When investing, the firm looks to take a board seat. The firm provides consulting, localization services, and the ability to leverage resources in China to help the company grow alongside their direct equity investment and believe that these abilities can be best leveraged with a board seat.

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A corporate venture fund of a large healthcare company has allocated over $500 million to invest in and develop commercially successful innovative life science companies. This evergreen fund is financially driven and reporting into the finance organization, rather than being a strategic vehicle. The fund makes equity investment in early-stage biotech therapeutic and diagnostic companies. The fund prefers Series A. The typical initial investment size ranges from CHF 1-5M with capital reserved for follow-on financing. The fund invests in companies that are based in Europe, North America, and the Pacific Region.

The firm invests in companies with innovative new technologies, medicines or diagnostics, particularly in the areas of interest to the parent company. This includes: Oncology, Central Nervous System, Inflammation, Anti-Infectives, Virology, in-Vitro Diagnostics, Diabetes Care, and Molecular Diagnostics. For therapeutic biotech, the fund is willing to invest in companies that are still 18-24 months away from the clinic. The fund highly prefers companies with both a discovery engine and a product pipeline.

The firm invests in private and public companies. The fund requests board seats and typically prefers to be in an ownership range of 15% or more. In general, the fund prefers to co-invest with leading venture funds as well as other corporate venture funds.

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A Western Europe-based fund is interested in advanced therapeutics. The firm invests both publicly and privately throughout the US, and Europe. For private deals, the firm makes equity deals in early-stage biotech therapeutic companies. The firm typically looks to make 8-10 deals in the private sector through each yearly cycle and typically allocates between $1M – $5M in each deal. The firm typically follows on these investments, preferring not to lead.  The firm typically invests in seed and Series A rounds.

The firm is currently seeking biotech therapeutics that are considered advanced therapeutics. Examples of some therapies that the firm considers as advanced therapies are cell therapies and gene therapies. Currently, the firm is interested in immuno-oncology therapeutics, but is not interested in checkpoint inhibitors. For these therapeutics companies, they prefer that the asset is currently pre-clinical, in Phase I, or ready for phase II. The firm is agnostic in terms of specific indications.

The firm prefers investing in companies located in the European Union, but typically finds that a good amount of their deals are based in the United States. The firm is open to other geographies, but has yet to see a deal that is particularly interesting to them from other areas.

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A new venture capital firm located in the USA focuses on the life science industrials and invests in companies that develop tools, technologies, and services for discovery, development, and manufacturing of biologics and related therapies. The firm is focused on early stage venture and growth equity investments. Typical equity investments range from $500k-$5 million. The firm expects to make 4-8 investments in the coming 18 months and is open to either leading or co-leading in a financing round.

Within life sciences, the firm is specifically focused on life science industrials: the tools, technologies, and services that enable the discovery, development, and manufacturing of life-saving therapies. The firm do not invest in therapeutics or medical devices. The firm considers Seed to Series B stage opportunities.

The firm partners with entrepreneurs and their teams to overcome inflection points in growth. The firm takes a hands-on approach to working with its portfolio companies through focused operational and commercial guidance and an engaged approach to supporting entrepreneurial ventures.

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A corporate venture arm invests across multiple funds, with each fund focused on a sector of strategic interest to the parent organization. The firm typically leads or co-leads rounds as a member of a syndicate of investors. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities across all funds.

The firm’s healthcare fund is looking for early stage companies working primarily within therapeutics. The firm seeks to invest in areas of strategic interest to its parent company including Immunology (Autoimmune), Oncology, Immuno-oncology, and Fertility. The firm generally looks for companies with novel first-in-class preclinical stage assets as well as novel platform technologies.

The firm is looking for privately held companies with experienced management teams able to take innovative solutions into commercially viable products. The firm looks to take an active role following investing taking a board seat, and is able to invest globally.

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