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Through a network of strategic limited partners that includes leading providers, payers, and vendors, a USA-based venture capital platform applies industry knowledge and operational experience to early-stage companies focused on innovation. The firm’s most recent fund actively pursues Seed, Series A, Series B, and Series C stage investments. The firm’s exclusive focus is helping to transform healthcare by forging partnerships among its network members and the entrepreneurs addressing the industry’s biggest challenges and opportunities.

The firm pursues venture-stage investments in technology-based businesses in the healthcare sector, including but not limited to software, software-as-a-service, digital health solutions, technology-enabled services, clinical services, diagnostic tools, and medical devices. As an experienced life-cycle investor, the firm actively pursues Seed, Series A, Series B, and Series C stage investments.

The firm looks for privately held companies with experienced management teams. The firm looks to work side by side with entrepreneurs helping them form strategic relationships, recruit management talent, and assemble vital resources necessary for growth.
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A venture capital firm with several offices throughout the US has raised five investment funds since inception. Its most recent fund closed in 2021. The firm typically makes equity investments in U.S.-based companies, with portfolio companies located on both coasts and throughout the central part of the country. The firm will consider investing at all stages, with a focus on seed and early-stage investments, including founding companies. Investment size is up to $20 million throughout a portfolio company’s path to liquidity.

The firm is currently looking for new investment opportunities in the life science space, with a specific focus on biopharmaceuticals and therapeutic medical devices. The firm has invested in biopharmaceutical companies focused on developing drugs to treat enteral feeding intolerance and disorders that are driven by CD47-mediated signaling pathways, including leukemia, lymphoma, solid tumors, and pulmonary hypertension. In addition, the firm has invested in a medical device developing a minimally-invasive, catheter-based device to re-create valves in deep leg veins. The firm does not look at diagnostics, though may be interested in technology with real-time feedback for procedures.

The firm focuses on identifying and shaping early-stage life science companies in the series A/B rounds to create significant shareholder value. Because of its extensive operating expertise, the firm is able to help entrepreneurs achieve near-term objectives that position their companies for exit.
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A Venture Capital firm based in the US typically invests between $3-5M initially and $6M to $10M over the lifetime of the investment. Investments are generally in the form of milestone based equity tranches, however the firm also has experience in working with convertible notes.

The firm is currently looking for early stage companies in the Therapeutics, Diagnostics, Medical Device and Healthcare IT spaces. In the Therapeutics space, the firm is opportunistic in terms of subsector but is most interested in indications of Ophthalmology, Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, Anti-Infectives, Metabolic Disorders, Renal Diseases, Oncology, Immunology, Dermatology, and Orphan Diseases. For companies developing therapeutics, the firm is looking for companies primarily with a lead product in preclinical trials, although they will consider companies with products having recently entered Phase I.

In the Medical Device space, the firm strongly prefers that the company at least has an early prototype of their product and the firm is opportunistic in terms of medical device subsector and is open to all classes of device.

In Healthcare IT, the firm is interested in three specific areas: (1) modernizing operations with innovative delivery models, insurance products and clinical trial automation, (2) technology that drive precision in care personalization/targeted therapy and enhanced disease and care management tools, (3) IT empowering patients and caregivers with health education, price/quality transparency, health surveillance and biometric monitoring for enhanced senior care.

For Healthcare IT investments, the firm looks only at post-revenue companies. For drug and device deals, however, the firm only invests in pre-revenue companies and often works with spinouts directly from universities, though this is not a requirement as the firm is open to all types of early stage companies.

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A venture capital firm based in Western Europe is currently investing out of their first fund and looks to invest in early-stage life science companies in the therapeutics space. The firm focuses on Seed investments in the form of equity. Typical allocation is up to $5M for the first ticket. Forty51 Ventures invests in European companies but is open to global opportunities.

The firm is interested in therapeutics, with a focus on oncology, immunology, rare diseases, fibrotic diseases and CNS. The firm will invest in pre-clinical therapeutic companies.

The firm has no specific company or management team requirements and is willing to work with all early-stage companies globally, with promising technologies. The firm prefers to lead investments and seeks board seat representation.

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A venture capital firm in the US is seeking opportunities in the medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health sectors of life sciences. The firm currently has >$200M AUM and is investing from their second fund. The firm is looking to engage in Seed to Series A financing rounds with initial check sizes between $4-8M. The firm will also make sub $1M investments in some cases, and will consider convertible notes for these checks. The firm will primarily invest in the US, but considers opportunities globally.

The firm is interested in early-stage opportunities in medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health sectors but does not invest in therapeutics. The firm is overall opportunistic and will consider various subsectors and indications. The firm is open to all 3 classes of medical devices.

The firm is open to all types of management teams, however clinical experience in the management team is a plus. The firm typically leads or co-leads investments and will seek a board seat.

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A USA-based growth equity fund is investing out of its latest fund which closed last year. The firm makes equity investments in commercial stage (post regulatory approval) healthcare companies with meaningful revenue and traction. The firm typically invests between $20-60m per company, and focuses on companies in USA and Canada.

The firm invests exclusively in healthcare and is open to all sub-sectors within the industry including products and services. That said, the firm does not invest in pre-revenue companies or those with regulatory risk; investments are made in revenue-generating companies with products that have already received regulatory approval or which do not require regulatory approval. The firm looks for companies with meaningful marketplace validation and growing revenues, where the firm’s investment could help to accelerate the adoption.

The firm prefers to invest in management teams with experience in leading and growing businesses of scale and relevant industry experience.
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A hybrid family office can make investments ranging from $500k-100M into companies, and due to its funding structure, has no requirements for holding period or capital structure. The firm makes investments in the forms of equity, controlling interest, in-licensing, MBO/LBO, growth capital and is also willing to co-invest. The firm is looking for companies located around the globe and makes opportunistic and strategic investments, and does not have a target minimum or maximum number of investments for any given year.

The firm is looking for companies in sectors of Biotech Therapeutics and Diagnostics, Medtech, Digital Health, R&D Services, and Biotech Other. The firm is willing to consider all indications including orphan diseases, though they have some additional interest/experience in areas of ophthalmology, dermatology, diabetes, oncology, and Personalized Medicine including Proteomics and Genomics. The firm is most interested in companies that are clinical stage, but also capable of supporting companies nearing commercialization where the firm is capable of utilizing its operating company to scale up the company’s sales, marketing and distribution. That being said the firm has made earlier stage investments in the past and is open to considering highly innovative and compelling early stage companies. The firm is also interested in companies developing consumables/reagents, service providers, food and nutraceuticals.

The firm looks to work with management teams with experience and grit and generally looks to take a board seat although it is not a requirement. The firm looks to leverage the use of its operating company to assist the company’s sales marketing and distribution efforts as well as providing assistance in operations management and product development.

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