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Founded in 2011, a venture capital firm based in Southeast Asia makes Seed to Series B investments across several key sectors including healthcare, fintech, consumer, AI, and life science services. The firm manages $200 million, and is investing from its second fund. While the firm focuses on their home country, the firm is looking for opportunities worldwide and has recently made an investment in the USA.

The firm will consider a wide variety of life science opportunities. The firm’s past investments have included pharma supply chain, AI, and healthcare services.

The firm seeks a strong and experienced management team, with a focus on entrepreneurs from elite educational institutions.  The firm focuses on India and has a strong connection with major academic institutions in their country of origin, but looks worldwide for novel technology breakthroughs to invest in.  The firm has also launched a Unified Innovation and Entrepreneurship Platform to incubate new startups.

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A venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in the USA also has a partner in China that can provide support to companies interested in China market entry, but companies do not need to have a China angle. The firm has great experience with working with regulatory agencies to gain product approval for both FDA and CFDA. Since its establishment, the firm has invested in over 30 companies and continues to actively seek life science investments, aiming to invest in 8-10 companies per year. The firm usually participates in seed to series B financing rounds with check sizes between $500K – 2M and will consider companies based in USA and China.

The firm is opportunistic and will consider all early-stage opportunities in therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health, as long as the technology is considered highly disruptive. The firm’s greatest focus lies in the medical device sector in which the firm has the strongest expertise. In therapeutics, the firm will consider pre-clinical and phase I assets. In medical devices and diagnostics, the firm is open to all classes of medical devices including 510k and PMA that are in development or clinical trials. The firm has reviewed companies of various stages in the past: those that have just developed a valid prototype, and those that were already profitable prior to investment.

The firm seeks to work with companies with an experienced management team, ideally led by a serial entrepreneur with a successful track record. The firm can both lead and co-invest but prefers to lead financing rounds for medical device companies and will most likely take a board seat.

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A healthcare-focused venture investment fund has investment team members that are all trained in biomedical fields, with healthcare industry experience and years of successful investment or entrepreneurship experience in China. The firm past investment portfolio companies cover areas such as drug, device, diagnostics, healthcare IT and medical services. These investments were over $10MM and were made in venture rounds from Series A-C. The VC firm currently manages both RMB and US Dollar funds, investing in early and growth-stage companies in China and overseas. The firm believes in the huge industry growth and significant investment opportunities in China healthcare space for the next 10 to 20 years.

The VC firm has invested in therapeutics in a wide range of indications, including cancer, infectious diseases and autoimmune disorders. These investments covered a wide range of modalities including small molecules, antibodies and gene therapies. The firm additionally invested in medical device and imaging technologies, such as ultrasound and cardiovascular devices. Therapeutic investments were made during pre-clinical trials, while device investments were made pre-market. The firm invested in bioinformatics, research tools and animal medicine as well. The firm has invested in companies in the US, China and Western Europe.

The VC firm has no specific management team requirements.

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An angel group based in CA makes early-stage equity investments in a wide range of life science companies. The group invests primarily in California, but is open to investing out of state provided a round is being syndicated with a local angel group. The group does not rule out investing outside the USA, but has yet to do so. The group invests as individuals and allocation sizes are therefore highly varied, but are usually of about $200,000-$600,000; The group usually invests in rounds seeking $3 million or less. The group is interested in syndicating rounds with other angel groups.

The group is interested in investing in therapeutics (including small molecules, biologics and cell and gene therapies), life science tools, genomics, diagnostics, medical devices, and healthcare IT. The group requires that companies have proof of concept data, such as preclinical test results or a completed prototype of their product; the group does not invest in discovery-stage or pre-prototype companies. The firm is open to investing in any indication or area of technology.

The group prefers to invest in opportunities where an exit is possible in 3-5 years. If outside California, the group requires that companies have built a relationship with an angel group in their local area. For healthcare IT companies, the group favors companies that have already attained revenue.

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The China-based PE firm manages multiple funds and is engaged in equity investment, asset management, merger and acquisition across several industries including healthcare. The size of investment varies depending on the deal, but the firm is investing from a 1 billion RMB fund for healthcare. The firm is currently seeking equity investment and licensing opportunities in China and the US. The firm is looking for companies with a China angle and has experience helping companies obtain CFDA approval.

Within healthcare, the firm is interested in medical devices, IVD, medical equipment, home-care products, and other healthcare-related technologies. The firm considers products that have at least completed prototype. The firm prefers products that have already obtained FDA clearance or approval, but it is happy to work with companies who are ~1 year away from FDA approval as well. In terms of indication areas, the firm is interested in diseases with large market potential in China, including oncology, reproductive health, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes and metabolic disorders.

The firm seeks to work with experienced teams with strong sector knowledge. The firm is looking for products with a China angle and may request distribution rights in China.

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The corporate VC is the strategic advisory and equity investment arm of a holding company and its CRO affiliate. The firm invests a portion of the normal cost of IND-enabling animal toxicology and pharmacology study services conducted by the CRO in companies and receives equity positions in exchange. The firm seeks to invest in companies located in the U.S. only.

The corporate VC is currently looking for companies developing therapeutics and considers both small molecules and biologics. The firm is open to most therapeutic indications, but generally is not interested in programs in the CNS or respiratory disease spaces. The firm is particularly interested in companies developing new therapies to treat ocular diseases where its CRO affiliate has highly specialized technology and significant expertise.

The firm does not lead investment rounds and acts only as a co-investor.

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A healthcare company in China looks for therapeutic assets in late clinical stages (after completion of Phase 2) for in-licensing rights for China market, and in preclinical stage for company formation, especially with cutting technology platforms.  Preclinical in vivo data for early stage assets are critical.

In the life sciences, the firm is currently looking for innovative therapeutics companies. The firm will focus on assets in five indication areas: oncology, CNS, cardiovascular, metabolic disease, and infectious diseases. For the type of modality, the firm is open to companies developing small molecule, gene therapy, biologics, and cell therapy.

The firm is interested in privately held life science companies with experienced management teams and innovative technologies.

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