A private/family investment vehicle based in the Western United States is seeking to invest in the life science space.  The fund is a structured organization for making angel investments in pre-seed or seed rounds.  Investments are in the form of equity; in the next 6 months the firm expects to make about 5-10 seed investments of $50,000-100,000 and an additional 40 pre-seed investments of $25,000, and is hoping to increase their allocations in the healthcare sector.  The firm also provides a three-month accelerator program.  The firm will consider investing in companies worldwide.

The firm is interested in investing in medical technology, and invests in subsectors in which the firm can apply expertise; typically this means products that have a significant software component.  Healthcare IT, biosensors, wearables and health monitoring devices are of interest.  While the firm is open to investing in any indication, the firm is particularly interested in diabetes & blood glucose monitoring, personal fitness, and mental/behavioral disorders.  In the healthcare IT sector, the firm is interested in both consumer applications and enterprise software, but is not interested in diagnostic software such as genomic, proteomic or molecular diagnostic algorithms; however, optimization and data analysis software for hospitals and diagnostic laboratories is of interest.

The firm prefers to invest in companies with at least two co-founders, one with technical expertise and one with business expertise; for the accelerator program in particular, the firm prefers to work with companies that have a technical expert co-founder.  In addition to due diligence on the management team and technology, the firm also considers a product’s potential market opportunity.

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Allocation Information

The corporate venture capital arm of a global pharmaceutical company based in Mumbai, India is actively seeking new investments. The firm has been established to invest in early stage ideas with breakthrough technologies addressing major unmet medical needs. The firm seeks to make equity investments in Seed and Series A/B rounds. The firm has a global mandate and is currently seeking new investment opportunities.

Sectors and Subsectors of Interest

The firm is currently seeking to invest in early to mid-stage repurposed drugs, repositioned drugs, combination therapies, and new delivery technologies and devices for old drugs. In terms of indications, the firm is focused on oncology, neurology, infectious diseases, and metabolic diseases, but will consider other indications on a case-by-case basis. The firm will prioritize 505(b)(2) opportunities.

Company and Management Team Requirements

The firm seeks companies with a strong and experienced management team. The firm may take a board seat/board observer rights.

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A global private equity firm is looking to make direct equity investments into life science companies ranging from $5-25m, primarily in the USA and Europe, with the potential to invest in other areas if the right syndication opportunities are available.  The firm typically makes 10 new direct investments per year across a diverse range of sectors, including healthcare IT, therapeutics and medical devices.  The firm leads or co-leads financing rounds in about 60% of cases and takes a board seat in these instances, but on other occasions may syndicate with other investors and not take a board seat.

The firm prefers to invest in medical devices and therapeutics with the potential to become the standard of care in a large clinical area with unmet needs.  Focus indications include oncology, immunology, cardiology, diabetes, neurology, infectious diseases, respiratory disorders, pain management and psychiatry.  The firm prefers to invest in the later clinical stages (Phase II + III), but will consider opportunistic investments in earlier stage opportunities if the firm sees the potential for outsized risk-adjusted returns due to a market dislocation.

The firm also invests in healthcare IT companies that have a product already on the market and have attained revenue and customer adoption.  These investments are in a variety of market segments, including enterprise software, clinical management software, connected devices/equipment and direct-to-consumer products.

In the therapeutic and medical device sectors, the firm seeks to invest in companies with unique intellectual property and with strong investor syndicates who can fund late-stage clinical trials to completion.  In the healthcare IT sector, the firm prefers to invest in companies with at least $5m in revenue and strong, experienced management teams.  The firm performs thorough due diligence, looking at factors such as historical performance, size of market opportunity, revenue per customer and customer stickiness in addition to vetting the product itself and the management team.

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A venture capital and hedge fund hybrid based in the Western United States. The firm is currently looking to make investments into biotech companies. The firm is looking to make investments ranging from $1-5 million generally in Seed and Series A rounds. The firm is open to reviewing opportunities from throughout the United States and Canada.

The firm is currently looking for companies working with therapeutics. The firm is open to reviewing both small molecules and biologics and in terms of indication is focused exclusively on oncology, in particular prostate cancer, and immunology. The firm is open to reviewing company’s at all therapeutic phases of development however they prefer smaller valuations.

The firm is open to working with public or privately held companies and looks for companies with experienced management teams. The firm looks to add significant value in addition to capital including the expertise and connections of the firm’s partners.

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A venture capital firm with offices throughout Europe currently has €180M AUM and has raised 6 funds to date with the most recent fund vintage in 2011. The firm typically allocates up to €10M in equity per company.  The firm’s investment focus is on fast growing high-tech companies in global technology markets such as telecommunications and IT, internet/media, nanotechnology, new materials, electronics, cleantech and life science. The firm invests in companies that are based in Europe. The firm is actively seeking new investments.

In the Life Sciences, the firm seeks to invest in early-stage therapeutic discovery/technology platform, R&D services, and medical device companies. For medical devices, the firm prefers products that are close to market commercialization. The firm is opportunistic in terms of subsectors and indications.  Historically, the firm invested in proteomics, CRO, cell-based expression systems, small molecule drug discovery, cell modeling/viral vector platforms, cancer diagnostics, and drug delivery. The firm does not invest in drug development.

The firm requests a board seat in each portfolio company. The firm seeks a company with a strong management team or technical experts in the relevant technology.

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The corporate Venture Capital Arm of a French Medical Gas company is currently seeking to make new investments in the life science space. The firm is open to leading or co-investing with other investors and typical allocations are made in equity ranging from €1-10 million. The firm is currently seeking new opportunities across a wide geography, including Western Europe, North and South America and Asia.

The firm focuses on medical devices and health IT products that present novel treatment, monitoring, or self-care strategies in either hospital or home settings. In general, the firm is interested in chronic diseases, particularly in COPD, sleep apnea, renal diseases, and Parkinson’s disease. The technology should complement its current portfolio and fit the firms long-term goals. The firm specializes in early stage projects from concept to clinical development.

The firm is looking for competent management teams with some previous experience in taking a company to an exit and understanding of the negotiations throughout the process. The firm typically takes a board seat in the companies it invests in.

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A venture capital and private equity firm based in California makes equity allocations in advanced biotechnologies such as synthetic biology. The firm is currently seeking opportunities globally.

The firm manages a fund that identifies compelling investment strategies in/around advanced biotechnologies. The fund focuses on scalable, portable and sustainable technologies within high human-imperative sectors such as agriculture-food, energy-resources, industrial chemicals-materials, water-environment, and defense-space. Medical and healthcare-related technology is not of interest at this point. When it comes to development phases, the fund is stage-agnostic and considers from seed and venture stage projects to on-market projects.

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