A corporate venture subsidiary of a Japanese pharmaceutical is looking to provide equity capital to seed and venture stage companies in the life science space, and invests across North America & Europe. The firm is looking to provide companies with $5 million over the lifetime of the investment and plans on making 2-3 investments over the next year.

The firm is currently looking for novel therapeutics, platform technologies, diagnostics, and vaccines. The firm is interested in novel drugs in broad disease areas including neuroscience (particularly neurodegeneration), immunology, inflammation, and rare disease, as well as diagnostics for neurodegenerative disorders. Current platform technology areas of interest include regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, microbiome, gene therapy, and nucleic acid medicine.

The firm strongly prefers that the company has a strong management team with experience in the industry. The firm historically has only invested as a co-investor although they are capable and looking to take a lead position if the correct opportunity arises. The firm is looking to allocate to companies that will eventually be able to partner long term with its parent company.

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A venture capital investment firm with offices in USA and China is investing from its US$200 million fund with a focus on high-tech enterprises in China and Western countries. The firm seeks to invest in innovative enterprises in sectors including: biomedicine, medical devices, healthcare and bio-tech. Typical equity investments range from $1-6 million in Angel, Series A and B rounds. The firm is looking for opportunities in China, the US and Canada.

Within healthcare, the firm considers biomedicine, medical devices, and digital health. The firm is most interested in personalized medicine products with an angle to the China market. Within digital health, the firm prefers home-care, consumer, or physician-patient interface products. The firm considers products from Angel Round to Series B.

The firm is looking for competent management teams. The firm may request distribution rights on a case-by-case basis.

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A Life Science focused private equity and venture capital firm involved with a sovereign wealth fund is actively making investments. The firm 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, digital health, 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 based out of Eastern USA is focused on companies in the healthcare field with a preference for innovative technology-based companies in Medtech, Diagnostics, and Digital Health. For medical devices, The firm will invest in both PMA and 510k devices and prefers to see some clinical validation. The firm is currently looking for 2-3 investments to close out their second fund in the coming year, and is in the process of raising a third fund with a first close to take place in 2019. The firm is stage agnostic but most often first invests $1-3M in Series A-B and reserves funds for follow-on investments. Most of the firm’s investments have been in the US and Israel, but the firm is open to investing globally.

The firm invests in companies with medical device, diagnostics and digital health technologies, focusing on innovative companies that can revolutionize their space. The firm favors technology-based products, such as genomics-based diagnostics or high-tech medical devices. Within digital health, the firm is fairly open, but has an interest in companies developing tools for clinical trials and other products developed for payer networks or Big Pharma. The firm is also interested in digital health technologies for hard-to-reach patient populations, such as those suffering from mental health disorders or substance abuse. While fairly opportunistic with regards to indication, the firm is particularly interested in technologies in the COPD, pulmonary hypertension, orthopedic and neurological space as well as products using ablation to treat pain.

The firm wants to see a strong CEO and Board when making investments. While often a not a lead investor, the firm is very active and will frequently take a Board seat after investing. The firm is looking to lead more investments when investing from their third fund.

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An investment group founded by Chinese medical device experts with headquarters in China seeks to allocate 5-20 Million RMB ($0.7 – 3 Million USD) in various early stage life science opportunities. The firm seeks to make several investments in the upcoming year and focusing on opportunities raising angel, pre-A, Series A, and B rounds. The firm seeks to make use of their founders’ expertise and successes in the medical device industry to help guide their investments towards growth and success.

The firm is primarily interested in medical devices and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) technologies and/or companies. More specifically, they’re interested in opportunities in areas related to cardiology, neuromodulation, in vitro diagnostics, and imaging as that is where they have the most expertise. However, they are willing to look at other areas as well so long as the opportunity is interesting and has the potential to be developed. The firm is also interested in investing in R&D services as well. The firm’s most recent investment was in a company that utilized AI to process images for better and faster diagnoses.

The firm heavily prefers that the company has a China angle to work with. They believe that they can contribute more to companies who wish to work in China through connections they have already made such as through helping acquire non-dilutive funds from the government of China and utilizing various connections in industrial parks across China. The firm also wishes to work with companies that are willing to work with the partners at the firm so that they can utilize their prior experiences to help the companies grow.

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A venture fund established by a large USA health insurer is seeking to develop a portfolio of investments that, as a whole, focus on improving the national health care market, enhance the core business of the company and generate revenue.

These strategic investments are expected to be integrated into the company as part of its overall long-term strategy. The firm prefers to syndicate with a strong lead investor in a financing round and expects to make 5 – 7 new investments of $0.5-2 million in the coming year. The firm considers opportunities across the US and around the world with preference given to companies in the middle of the country.

The firm is interested in digital health technologies and care delivery models that can improve healthcare. The firm prefers products with prototype and customer traction.

The firm would like to be a strategic partner, as a payer, for startups. The firm prefers early stage teams backed by experienced management, supported by reputable early stage VC and/or angel groups that have a history of follow-on investments in Series A and B.

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A venture capital firm based in the Bay area 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. The firm 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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