A venture capital firm with offices in USA and Asia is actively seeking investment opportunities across a wide range of industries. A significant allocation of the fund is dedicated to healthcare investments, while the rest of the fund will focus on investing in automation/robotics companies and relations to healthcare. On average, the size of investment is $2.5M. The firm seeks opportunities that provide some degree of investment loss protection through strong intellectual property. The firm can participate anywhere from Seed to Series B. The firm is willing to both lead and co-invest in companies located around the globe, with a preference in US, China, and Germany. The firm plans to make 6-8 investments per year but is flexible. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.

The firm is a flexible and opportunistic investor that is currently considering Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics, and Healthcare IT companies. The firm is open to all kinds of sectors and indications. The firm is open to novel medical devices of all FDA regulatory pathways, including 510k and PMA. The firm is strongly interested in medical devices and cardiovascular diseases. In terms of therapeutics, the firm will look at products of all stages from pre-clinical to phase III. Regarding medical devices and diagnostics, the firm will invest at any stage of development.

The firm will invest in privately held companies only. The firm has no specific requirements for the management team. The firm may take a board seat in applicable cases, but the firm prefers to have board observer rights in its portfolio company.

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A VC firm based in Massachusetts recently raised a fourth fund of $100 million and is structured to make investments ranging from $500,000 to $1 million into companies raising rounds sizes in the $3-5 million range, primarily in Series A and B rounds. The firm also has the ability to provide capital in follow on situations when appropriate through its own resources and its network of syndicates and LPs, all of whom are strategic investors such as healthcare systems, vendors and payers. The firm primarily invests in the Northeastern US although they have also invested in companies throughout the United States.

The firm focuses on healthcare IT, technology enabled services, medical devices and diagnostics companies. The firm is most actively interested in companies in the healthcare IT space and software enabled devices, and they look much more selectively at companies in the medical device and diagnostics spaces. The firm is open to all indications.

The firm looks for privately held companies with experienced management teams. The firm looks to work side by side with entrepreneurs helping them form strategic relationships, recruit management talent, and assemble vital resources necessary for growth.

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A PE firm with offices in California and China recently closed two funds, one of USD 750 million and one of $100 million. The firm 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 $10-30m, though larger investments are of interest as well; the second fund 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 second fund 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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The firm is the largest, privately-owned designer, developer and manufacturer of advanced drug delivery systems and is active in R&D, design and manufacturing in all areas of healthcare. The firm is capable of a variety of deal structures, but prefers to enter into joint ventures and strategic partnerships as the firm seeks to be a value-added investor providing their expertise and capabilities in design and manufacturing as well as the resources of a large company while allowing the entrepreneur to drive the development of the technology.

The firm’s expertise lies in drug delivery devices, but has capabilities and is highly interested in all areas of medical technology/devices, biosensors and wearables, B2B or B2C healthcare IT applications including data analytics and cloud computing as well as robotics and AI as it applies to surgery prosthetics, rehabilitation and drug discovery. The firm has a particular interest in the diabetes space and has done work in this area in the past.

The firm is open to working with all entrepreneurs and is open to companies on a global basis. The firm does look for a board seat along with an investment, but strives to not be restrictive in any way and let the management team run the company.

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The foundation operates a $25 million fund focused on capitalizing translational opportunities – that is, the commercialization of academic technologies / financing the first round of commercialization. The fund provides funding to early-stage translational companies via $1M – $5M recoverable grants which are essentially structured as convertible notes with 1) no expiration date and 2) no liquidity preference. Such grants do not reflect as debt on the investee’s balance sheet, and are converted to equity at very reasonable terms only in the event the valuation of the company increases about a pre-determined level.

The foundation has also helped to organize, and is a General Partner of, a $350 million fund focused on pre-clinical, Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III investments. The foundation issues grants primarily within the United States, and via its subsidiary, throughout Asia. The foundation’s funding vehicles invest primarily within the United States, but have a small allocation for foreign investments.

Sector interests include drugs, medical devices, and novel approaches. The firm is also open to funding technologies designed to accelerate cancer research and drug development, such as novel drug discovery tools or algorithms. By using its multiple funding vehicles, the foundation finances projects from the early discovery stage through to Phase III clinical trials. The foundation considers projects in any type of cancer.

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A private wealth investment vehicle based in Western Europe is looking to invest in therapeutics companies as well as companies developing digital therapeutics or therapeutic-enabling technologies. The firm is primarily interested in early stage, pre-clinical breakthrough technologies and, especially for digital-based companies, capital efficient business models. While the firm has invested primarily in the UK up until now, the firm is willing to consider companies based outside the UK if they find the technology compelling. For a first investment, The firm invests, on average, 2M, but can invest smaller or larger amounts, depending on the company and its needs.

The firm is looking for companies in the broader therapeutics space. The firm is interested not only in more traditional therapeutics technologies, but also in digital therapeutics and digital therapeutic-enabling technologies, drug development platforms, including digital and genomics-based drug development technologies, and in cell and gene therapy manufacturing technologies. The firm has historically invested primarily in technologies relating to oncology, but will consider any indication.

The firm takes an active role with the companies in which they invest. The firm frequently leads rounds, and supports and mentors the early stage companies, often either taking a board seat themselves or finding an expert to serve on the board.

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A venture capital firm founded with headquarters in Taipei City, Taiwan, with additional partners based in Silicon Valley, Korea, Singapore, and Japan, formed a fund with local and international investors. The firm has the capacity to invest in companies they identify as a strong fit, with initial investments typically in the $1-6 M range. The firm is looking for companies globally but would prefer companies that have Taiwan angle.

The firm is an opportunistic investor that currently considering Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics, Biotechnology R&D, and Healthcare IT companies. The firm is open to many sectors in therapeutics but prefers companies that are into phase I of clinical trials or later. The firm is open to medical devices with all FDA regulatory pathways, including 510k, PMA, and software-enabled device. The firm invest in any phases in medical devices and diagnostics with a preference for those with in human data. The firm looks into any indications except orphan disease.

The firm currently will invest in privately held companies only. The firm has no specific requirements for management team. The firm can participate as either lead or co-investor and generally requests a board seat or board observer rights in its portfolio company.

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