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A corporate venture arm of a leading global supplier is interested in investing in other areas including health, mobility, and energy and environment. The firm is a co-GP of a fund dedicated to investing in early-stage startups as well as larger growth investments for follow-ons. The firm also has an additional USD $1.5B dedicated to 2030 for both minority growth and majority investing. As the fund is stage-agnostic and is active in early-, mid-, and late-stage, check sizes are flexible and have ranged between USD $500k-60M. The firm has a global mandate but has strong interest in North American companies. 
 
The firm has a deep interest in the medical space. The fund looks at therapeutics, medtech, diagnostics, and digital health. Though the fund is somewhat agnostic to the therapeutic area, they tend to target aging populations. Indications of interest include respiratory diseases, wound care and chronic diseases with its downstream treatment and associated economics, as well other comorbidities that complicate patient treatment such as cancer care, neurology, dementia, and behavioral health conditions. 
 
The firm does not have strict requirements but prefers to lead or co-lead investments and take a board or observer seat at minimum. 

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A venture capital firm, with a single LP, has offices in the US. The group looks to make growth-stage investments in the form of preferred equity, ranging from $2M-$7M initially, with additional capital reserved for follow-on financings, typically up to $15M over the life of the investment. The firm usually leads rounds, but is also open to syndicating with other investors. The firm looks to do 3-4 deals a year, and invests in U.S. and Canadian companies. Prospective companies may have some business overseas as long as they are headquartered in the U.S. or Canada. 
 
The firm solely invests in healthcare companies, and is open to any healthcare companies that do not require FDA approval for their product/service. Some of the firm’s recent healthcare investments include a predictive and interventive artificial intelligence platform for health plans and risk bearing providers as well as a next generation drug spend savings platform for employers and health plans. 
 
The firm typically looks for growing companies with a run rate of at least $1M or a signed contract that would put them at a $1M run rate. The firm has no strict requirements in terms of management team, and oftentimes works with first-time entrepreneurs. The firm looks to take a board seat along with an investment. 

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A healthcare-focused Growth Equity firm currently manages $1 billion and provides $20-100 million of equity capital per company over the life of the investment. With offices in Boston and London, the firm is primarily looking for companies throughout North America and Europe. 
 
The firm is currently interested in companies in areas of medical technology, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices, life sciences tools, digital health, and veterinary medicine. Significant emphasis is placed on the clinical utility and health economics of potential investments. The firm focuses on later-stage opportunities that are already commercialized or are close to commercialization. The firm is open in terms of indications. 
 
The firm looks for management teams that are very willing to work alongside them, and the firm generally looks to take a board seat. The firm is open to investing in both public and privately held companies, is open to a variety of deal structures, and can consider equity investments or buy-out opportunities. 

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A newly formed subsidiary of a hedge fund is based in the US. The firm is interested in healthcare and data looking to build predictive disease risk models and has dedicated USD $20M to make investments to early-stage startups in Pre-Seed to Series A rounds. Initial check sizes can go up to USD $2M and the firm can lead or co-invest. The firm does not have geographical restrictions, however, prefers the U.S. and Europe. 
 
The firm is interested in diagnostics and health-tech companies. Specifically, the firm would like to see technologies that allow people to understand and quantify their health including, but not limited to, technologies that help analyze health data, applications and algorithms, mobile applications, and technologies that cater to the medical community to increase work efficiency. The firm would like to see a working prototype that is somewhat validated. 
 
The firm may take a board seat on a case-by-case basis. 

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A private investment firm currently manages approximately several billion in capital and looks to make controlling equity investments into companies anywhere from a few million dollars and up depending on the financial needs and stage of the company. The firm is interested in companies located around the globe. 
 
The firm is looking for companies in the life science space including Pharmaceuticals, Biologics, Medical Devices and Services/Technology though the firm’s primarily interest is in Therapeutics. The firm will consider investments into companies from Seed and Venture stage to those that already have a product on the market. The firm is agnostic in terms of subsector/indication and is also open to orphan indications. 
 
The firm will look at companies with scientific founding management teams as well as more developed companies with complete management teams in place. The firm looks to provide strategic support through its sector-specific expertise and flexible financing to build exceptional businesses. 
 
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A venture capital firm typically engages in pre-seed to seed round investments. The initial check size ranges from $500k to $1M, with follow-on investments possible. While the firm prefers to lead, it is open to syndicating deals. The firm invests in both Europe and the US. 
 
The team has strong backgrounding software, AI, and algorithm. Within life sciences and healthcare, the firm is looking into tech bio, synthetic biology, computational biology, chemistry, and materials. The firm is open to hardware (diagnostics or medical device) that enables new data modalities with software insights, digital health, and therapeutic platforms, but not traditional therapeutic assets. It is indication agnostic. In terms of development stages, the firm is willing to consider opportunities as early as the pre-prototype stage, provided there are plans for patent or IP protection. 
 
There are no specific requirements for the company or the management team. However, the firm prefers technical founders with a strong scientific background. The firm will consider taking a board seat or an observer seat on a case-by-case basis. 

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An early-stage investment and development firm located in the US operates under an evergreen structure. The firm is flexible in investment size and structure, but prefer initial investments in the $1-10M range and the firm reserves additional funds for the subsequent funding of successful companies. 

 
The firm invests in medical devices and research tools. For medical devices, the firm prefers those that can be approved under PMA guidelines. For research tools, the firm invests in technologies that enhance and enable the discovery and manufacture of therapeutics and diagnostics and have multi-million dollar yearly sales. 
 
The firm seeks to invest in small, early-stage companies with a lean but strong and qualified management/execution team. The firm prefers to invest in companies in the U.S., but will consider certain opportunities in Europe. 
 

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