A Life Science focused private equity and venture capital firm based in Asia manages an evergreen fund, and generally makes longer term investments than a typical VC.  The firm does not make seed investments, but is interested in both early stage venture capital investments and late stage companies seeking growth and expansion capital. Typically, the firm invests USD 5-15 million per opportunity. The firm can invest globally and is actively seeking new investment opportunities.

The firm seeks to invest in breakthrough healthcare biotech, medical devices, diagnostics, healthcare IT, and biorenewable and bioindustrial technologies. The firm is open to a wide range of technologies including novel techniques such as stem cells and genomics, and will consider investing in any area of medicine. The firm prefers to invest in technologies that have attained clinical validation.

The firm seeks a strong and experienced management team. The firm may take a board seat on a case by case basis.

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A venture capital firm with offices in USA and Canada is making investments out of its vintage 2017, fourth fund and is exclusively focused on supporting entrepreneurs commercializing advanced materials and advanced material process innovations within four verticals: energy, electronics, health, and sustainability. The firm typically makes initial investments in the $1M-$4M range and up to $8M over the life of the investment (more or less may be initially invested depending on the deal). The firm prefers to lead deals but will also participate in a syndicate as a co-investor. The firm has strategic LP relationships in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America and invests globally.

Within healthcare, the firm is interested in medical devices and diagnostics whose underlying technology is enabled by advanced materials or advanced material process innovations. The firm has a particular interest in 3D bioprinting, diagnostics and genomics/proteomics R&D applications. The firm does not make investments in pharmaceuticals/therapeutics. Past investments have included a manufacturer of semiconductor radiation detectors enabling a new generation of detection and imaging equipment, a company developing a disruptive 3D bioprinting platform, and a company developing functional surfaces with anti-microbial and anti-fouling properties.

The firm prefers to work with experienced management teams, but is open to working with less experienced entrepreneurs or incomplete management teams given the firm can add value through corporate strategy and operational experience to help accelerate development. The firm prefers to invest in revenue-generating companies but is open to evaluating pre-revenue companies as well. The firm typically seeks a board seat along with investment.

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A Venture Capital firm specializing in technologies, financials and healthcare industries has an investment management team that includes many experts and experienced professionals from hospitals and healthcare systems.  The firm has partnered with premier hospitals in the US, Taiwan and China to introduce new technologies.

The investment strategy of the firm has three main sectors: Greater China’s healthcare reform opportunities, disruptive medical technologies & business models, and synergies with their domestic and foreign hospital & medical network.

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The healthcare and life sciences branch of a global technology corporation and manufacturing company 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 parent company, 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. 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 private equity firm based in Japan makes venture stage investments, with  a typical investment size of USD 3-5 million per company. The firm’s geographical focus is Asia, centered on Japan and Taiwan. However, the firm may consider companies in the US and Europe. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.

In the life sciences, the firm will primarily focus on therapeutics, and is also interested in medical devices and digital medicine. The firm is interested in new technologies such as cell and gene therapies, but also considers investing in small molecules and biologics, as well as biosimilars and reformulated drugs. The firm will invest in any indication area. The firm invests in companies from the late preclinical stage through to Phase II.

The firm is usually a follow-on investor. For early stage opportunities, the firm prefers that the company has a clinical trial plan in place. While the firm is interested in international opportunities, they prefer that the company is interested in expanding into Japan or Taiwan.

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A biotech angel investment fund founded in 2016 and headquartered in Taiwan has a fund size of $50M and an average ticket size range from $250K to $1M. The fund mainly focuses on early-stage biotechnology and medical device companies and is looking to invest in seed to pre-A round.

The firm is looking for new investment opportunities across a wide spectrum of life science sectors. The current pipeline includes biotechnology platforms, medical devices, therapeutics and service platforms.

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A multi-family office founded in 2017 has offices in multiple countries throughout Asia. The firm is jointed by 12 families and each has a minimum personal or family asset of 30 million USD. Currently, the firm has total assets under management of 34 million USD. Typical Allocations Size of the firm is around 1.5 million USD. The firm invested in 2 companies in the year 2019 and they do not have a strict limit to the number of new investments.

The firm is open to investing in general Bio-medical industries, including medical devices, healthcare IT and therapeutics. The firm has a preference for reproductive medicine and eye-related topics. Any kind of technic, device or service are welcomed under these 2 topics. Besides the topics above, the firm is currently looking for pre-clinical and phase I opportunities in therapeutic companies as well as medical devices and healthcare IT companies that are in development. Apart from the bio-medical industry, the firm also focuses on investing in E-Vehicle related startups.

The firm is looking for companies with Asia Angle, preferably Asia-based or those plan to do R&D in Asia. The firm is typically a co-investor.

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