A new venture capital firm located in the USA East Coast focuses on life science companies that develop enabling 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 6-10 investments in the coming 18 months and is open to either leading or following in a financing round. The firm is currently seeking opportunities from the US, Canada, and Europe.

Within life sciences, the firm is specifically focused on tools, technologies and services that enable the discovery, development and production of life-saving therapies and deliver on the biopharmaceutical industry’s evolution towards lower costs, and increased access to medicines globally. Examples may include immunotherapy, bioinformatics, RNA therapy, synthetic biology. The firm considers Seed- to Series A/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 venture firm based in New York is currently raising its first investment fund, with a target of $40 million. The firm focuses on early stage healthcare startups, and may consider leading investment rounds in addition to making co-investments. The firm will consider investment opportunities worldwide, with a focus on North America.

The firm focuses on digital health, and will also consider medical device and diagnostic opportunities. The firm looks broadly at new technologies in these sectors and has high interest in technologies for senior living, wellness, and driving down the costs of healthcare. The firm prefers to invest in platform opportunities rather than companies with a single product or app.

The firm is interested in being a good partner for their portfolio companies, leveraging the firm’s expertise in healthcare and connections to major health providers and public corporations in the healthcare sector.

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A private investment firm that was founded in 2016 with offices throughout USA and Asia, consists of limited partners including institutional investors from US and China. Currently the firm is investing from its $180 million fund into the healthcare sector. Typical equity investments range from US $5-10 million in businesses from Series A to pre-IPO and public traded companies. The firm is open to leading or following a syndicated round. The firm is now seeking opportunities in North America.

The firm invests across therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, platform technologies, and healthcare IT and is looking for companies that are top 3 in their niche sector. Within therapeutics, the firm prefer clinical stage projects. The firm is opportunistic in terms of disease areas including orphan indications. Within device and diagnostics, the firm prefers post-prototype products with clinical validation.

The firm may request board representation or board observership on a case-by-case basis.

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A family office based in the USA has several decades of experience in investing in life science companies and taking them public. The firm participates in deals across all stages of development, from seed to mezzanine funding. In early-stage deals, the firm’s initial check size is usually between $250-500K, with potential for follow-on financing as the companies achieve key growth milestones. The firm is actively involved with a well-established angel investor group and makes investments through this group as well. The firm is open to opportunities all across the globe.

The firm seeks to invest broadly across different silos of the life sciences ecosystem, from therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and digital health. The firm’s strongest interest and expertise lies in biotech, and many of the firm’s investments have been in therapeutics companies. The firm is also open to companies of all stages of development and is indication agnostic, but has significantly higher standards for oversaturated, competitive spaces such as oncology.

The firm has no explicitly stated company or management team requirements. The firm likes to become actively involved in their portfolio companies and supports them with needed resources and advisory services to help them grow.

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A global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan with strong USA operations is actively seeking global collaboration and in-licensing opportunities within the early-stage ecosystem to strengthen their pipeline.

The company is seeking innovative therapies with highest focus on the following: CNS diseases, autoimmune diseases, and rare/orphan diseases. The company’s pipeline covers other indications as well and the company may review such opportunities on a case-by-case basis. The company is open to all stages of development, and those who have passed PoC are considered most ideal. The company has a strong interest in excellent technologies in biologics, including therapeutic antibodies, vaccines, and nucleic acid drugs, as well as cell-based phenotypic screening models of CNS or skeletal muscle diseases for new drug discovery.

The company seeks to work with management teams with strong scientific expertise.

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A healthcare focused investment and operation firm based in China, is responsible for making investments on behalf of the firm’s parent company that has a strong presence throughout multiple countries in Asia.

The firm is currently focusing on acquisition or investment first and then acquisition. The firm is making new investments in venture stage companies — depending on the stage of the company, the firm can invest from several hundred thousand to tens of millions in companies with valuation under 1 billion RMB. The firm considers companies based in the US, Europe, Israel, and Asia with a focus on China-based businesses. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.

In the Life Sciences, the firm is currently seeking to invest in medical devices that are novel and disruptive. The firm considers a broad range of medical devices with a focus on robotics, cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, neuro science, and ophthalmology. The firm typically invests in clinical stage projects but would consider devices at all stages.

Currently, the firm is only looking for privately held companies and typically requires board representation post-investment. The firm prefers to exit within 5 years, but can be flexible 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 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, with strategic LP relationships in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America invests globally and looks to make 3-4 new investments per year.

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 printing 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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