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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A venture capital firm headquartered in the US is currently investing from their 1st fund. The firm invests in Seed and Series A. The firm makes initial equity investments between $250K-$3M. The firm prefers to lead and requires a board seat; however, they can co-invest as well. The firm invests in the USA and will consider investments outside of the USA if a regulatory process has been completed. 
 
The firm invests in healthtech, medtech, and techbio. The firm has a particular consideration for IVD. For digital health (considered healthtech), the firm prefers software-based solutions, and has an overall investment focus on software-based solutions. For tech bio, the firm is interested in tech such as gene editing and cell therapies. For diagnostics and medical devices, the firm will only invest in class 1 and 510K and is not open to PMA. The firm requires companies to be revenue generating, indicating scale and likes to see annual repeat customers. 
 
The firm prefers to lead and requires a board seat. The firm is founder friendly and has no strict management team requirements. 

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A global leader in enabling pharma, biotech, and consumer health partners to optimize product development, launch, and full life-cycle supply for patients has broad expertise in development sciences, delivery technologies, and multi-modality manufacturing. The firm is a preferred partner for personalized medicines, blockbuster drugs and consumer health brand extensions. The firm has launched a joint venture investment fund to invest strategically in early-stage startups and platforms. By investing in new technologies, partnering with innovators through co-development and in-licensing, across the academic and industry, the firm helps to bring disruptive innovation to the market. The firm invests globally but has primarily partnered with companies in North America and Europe to date. 
 
The firm invests in technology-enabled platform life sciences companies that are relevant to its science and technology and corporate innovation initiatives. Illustrative potential investments include next-generation biomanufacturing platforms, drug delivery platforms, drug-device combinations, cell-line engineering, mAb discovery, development tools, and inputs. The firm will consider investing in companies advancing therapeutic assets if they are also developing platforms technologies. 
 
The firm can lead or co-invest, and while it considers a board seat a plus, it is not a requirement after investing. The firm values the experience of serial entrepreneurs when partnering and focuses on strategic and deeper relationships. 

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A corporate venture arm of a pharmaceutical based in the US 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 Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma. 

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A venture capital firm based in the US is seeking to invest in Pre-Seed to Series A companies, with typical check sizes between $100K and $1M. The firm expects to make about 80% of their investments in North America, but has a global outlook and has evaluated opportunities from outside of North America. 
 
Within life sciences, the firm is most interested in digital health technologies, including Digital Therapeutics, AI-powered healthcare solutions, smart devices, and tech enabled services. The firm will be extremely selective about medical device companies without a digital component. The same applies for traditional therapeutics and diagnostics sectors as well. The firm likes to see early traction (i.e. paying customer engagement), but is open to pre-revenue companies. 
 
The firm is open to working with all kinds of management teams. The firm is capable of leading seed rounds and can act as either lead or co-investor. 

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A group founded by medical device experts 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 investing out of a CNY fund and as a result, is currently focused on companies willing to start a joint venture in China. 
 
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 in order 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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