Hot Investor Mandate: Europe VC Raises New Fund for Early Stage Drugs and Platforms

A venture capital firm based in the Netherlands is raising a new fund, with a target of over EUR 100 million. The firm invests all over Europe, and the new fund will have the capacity to invest in the US as well. The firm invests up to EUR 12 million, and may make larger investments from the new fund. The firm generally leads financing rounds.

The firm focuses on therapeutic modalities and platforms, including small molecules, antibodies, cell therapies, and screening platforms including genetic screening. The fund is indication agnostic and typically invests at an early stage.

The firm is a very active investor and typically leads rounds, but can also be a follow-on investor. The firm also sometimes takes part in company generation and new spin-outs from universities.

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Hot Investor Mandate: Asia Life Science Fund Looking Globally for New Investments

A venture capital firm based in Taipei makes venture stage investments solely in life sciences companies. The firm is currently investing from a US$35M private fund and a $50M government matching fund. Equity allocation size varies and can reach up to US$3M per deal. The firm is open to leading or co-investing. The firm focuses 30% on foreign deals and is currently seeking new opportunities.

The firm is focused on pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostic products, and medical instruments etc. The firm looks for companies with strong intellectual propositions that will develop unmet medical need products. The firm intends to explore joint venture opportunities with foreign companies that can integrate Taiwan’s competitive capabilities in manufacturing, clinical development, and regional sales/distribution.

The firm is looking for experienced management teams with strong sector expertise. For domestic deals, the firm seeks an active role in its portfolio companies and would require a board seat on a case-by-case basis. For foreign deals, the firm prefers to syndicate with a strong lead that can work with invested companies closely.

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Hot Investor Mandate: Global Insurance Giant Makes Strategic Plays in Innovative Healthtech

A major reinsurance firm based in Europe makes direct venture stage investments in strategically relevant healthcare startups through a corporate venture capital team, and also invests in life science funds and incubators around the world. The firm invests opportunistically, with a focus on early stage opportunities.

The firm invests strategically in startups that could potentially drive growth in its life and health insurance businesses. In life sciences, the firm is interested in the convergence of life science and insurance tech, and invests in areas such as genomics, digital health, and diagnostics (including diagnostic products focused on consumers as users). The firm is open to investing in any indication area.

The firm’s investments are strategic in nature, and the firm can potentially act as a strategic partner to a portfolio company by supporting product deployment among its network in the health insurance space.

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Hot Investor Mandate: Silicon Valley VC Invests in Data-Centric Healthcare

A venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley works closely with major incubators globally, through which they are able to identify high-potential, disruptive technologies. The firm is actively investing in early-stage companies and generally participates in Series A to B financing rounds. The initial size of investment depends largely on the company’s stage of development. The firm seeks investments globally.

The firm will consider opportunities in therapeutics, diagnostics, and digital health/healthcare IT. The firm is most interested in data-centric and enterprise technologies. The firm is agnostic to subsector and indication, but the firm will generally avoid medical device companies and early-stage therapeutics companies (i.e. those that take longer than 18 months to commercialize). That said, the firm may consider derisked assets or those that have an accelerated pathway to commercialization. Within healthcare IT technologies, the firm would like to see revenue-generating companies with good consumer traction.

The firm invests in both publicly traded and privately-owned companies. The firm is an active investor and will directly engage in the growth of their portfolio companies through a number of value-ons, including brand building, international expansion, talent recruiting, operation and technical guidance, etc. The firm need not have a fully established management team prior to investment.

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Hot Investor Mandate: China Investment Firm with Big Pharma Connections Invests in Global Life Science Companies from Angel to Series B Rounds

An investment firm headquartered in China manages three venture capital funds in RMB with a total of 1,400 MM RMB (~200MM USD); the firm is still raising a fund in U.S. dollars of 50MM~100MM USD, with the confirmed limited partners from well-known Chinese big pharma.

The firm has 24 portfolio companies, and is open to investing globally in the angel to series B round, with a focus on series A round. For therapeutics, the firm is interested in pre-clinical to phase III, mainly the pre-clinical stage. For each fund, the firm selects 10-15 companies to invest, and each investment ranges from 10MM RMB (1,420,000 USD) to 40MM RMB (5,700,000 USD); the rest of the fund will be used to invest the follow-on rounds of those selected companies to help them grow.

The firm has a general interest in the early-stage life science technology assets, including therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices, and digital health, especially MRA, gene diagnostics, AI in healthcare, cell/gene therapy. The firm prefers projects in novel developing areas, but has less interest in technologies that are already in the field of very fierce competition, with big players already in.

The firm has no specific requirements for the company or management team.

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Hot Investor Mandate: Life Science Venture Arm of Global VC/PE Group Invests in All Life Science Sectors With Strong Interest in IND-Ready Therapeutics

A group of globally acting venture capital and private equity firms with an operating track record of over 30 years manages multiple funds globally. The group’s Life Science Venture arm is looking to provide seed, venture and growth capital to companies in the life science space. The firm’s investment size is highly variable depending on the stage and financial needs of each company and the firm has no target number of investments it plans to make over the next 6-9 months. The firm is willing to consider investment located globally.

The firm is a dedicated provider of venture capital to the international pharmaceutical, medical technology and healthcare diagnostics industries, hence looking to invest in companies in sectors of Medical devices, Diagnostic Tools and Platforms, and Specialty Pharmaceuticals that are later stage with strong in human data (Phase IIb and III or on the market) and have very little regulatory risk. The firm’s most recent Life Science Venture Capital Fund is a venture capital fund registered in North America, which focuses on a new investment approach to developing pharmaceutical assets in a capital efficient fashion, to a human proof-of-concept in single asset companies  that are anywhere from 12-18 months to IND to proof of concept (Phase IIa). The fund is currently most interested in small molecule therapeutics or IND-ready biologics for indications of metabolic disease, diseases of the blood, inflammation, and oncology. The firm is also willing to invest in highly differentiated biological compounds if compelling opportunities arise. The firm is also less inclined to invest into orphan indications.

The firm’s requirements for management teams vary on a case by case basis and the firm is open to discussion in this area.

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Hot Investor Mandate: Large USA-Based VC Firm Seeks Investment Opportunities in Oncology & Orphan Disease Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Digital Health, and Healthcare Services

A global venture capital firm based in USA with additional offices throughout USA and Asia is investing from its newest fund (vintage 2017).  The firm invests broadly in the healthcare and technology sectors, in both venture and growth-stage financing rounds. Due to the firm’s large fund size, the firm generally only invests in rounds that raise $10 million or more. The firm makes investments globally.

Within healthcare, the firm focuses on biopharma, and also invests in medical devices, healthcare IT and healthcare service providers. The firm is generally not seeking opportunities in diagnostics.  In biopharma, The firm prefers to invest in companies that have obtained data from human clinical trials; however, the firm also invests in breakthrough therapeutic technologies at the preclinical stage.  In medical devices, the firm only invests in growth-stage companies with an approved product and initial revenues; the firm prefers to invest in breakthrough device technologies and avoids commodity markets.  The firm has a broad portfolio and is open to any indication area, but has a particular focus in oncology and orphan diseases, and typically does not invest in infectious diseases.

Within the service provision and IT sectors, the firm is focused on opportunities that provide cost savings to the healthcare system; in this sector, the firm’s expertise is primarily in companies that target healthcare providers as customers, but the firm is also open to considering other areas of the services/IT space.

The firm has no fixed requirements for companies or management teams.

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