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An investment group with multiple investment vehicles manages approx. $1.5B targeted on healthcare and life science under management. The firm launched a new vehicle in 2020 to invest in digital health technologies. The group will invest $1-2M, mainly in seed-series A companies developing software-based digital technologies. While the firm will invest globally, they are looking for companies targeting the US market.

The firm is interested in software-based digital health companies. The group will not invest in wearables or smart devices. The firm invests primarily in B2B or B2B2C companies, and looks for technologies that have clear cost saving or revenue generating aspect for clients.

The firm is a very active investor, leveraging their network and broad-cross sector activity to help their portfolio companies. The group is looking for companies that, at minimum, have a viable understanding of the US healthcare market.

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A venture capital and growth equity firm providing expertise and funding to companies with global ambitions in healthcare technologies. The firm is headquartered in Western Europe with teams in the US. The firm is currently making investments from a relatively new fund closed in 2021. The firm prefers to be the lead investor and possibly co-lead, seeking to allocate US$20-30 million (in equity) per company through subsequent rounds of investment. The firm invests in growth-stage companies that are based in the US and Europe and is actively seeking new investment opportunities.

The firm invests in medical devices, digital health, and diagnostic technologies. The firm focuses on companies that can address a specific unmet medical need or deliver considerable improvements to care delivery. Innovative healthcare technologies with a therapeutic focus are of high interest. The firm is opportunistic in terms of subsectors and indications and seeks companies that are in commercial ramp-up.

The firm requests a board seat in each portfolio company and generally holds a significant minority stake. Companies seeking investment should be led by a strong and experienced management team and have the support of technical experts in the relevant technology.

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An investment firm headquartered in Western Europe, with additional offices in USA and Asia, has a fund dedicated to investing in 25-28 companies in Seed to Series A financing rounds. The firm seeks to invest in innovations directly related to the prevention of age-associated diseases, extension of a healthy lifespan, and improving the performance of humans and animals. The firm’s initial check size can range from $500K – 1.5M, and the firm is open to global opportunities.

Within life sciences, the firm is most interested in therapeutics and diagnostics companies, and will also consider digital health. Medical devices with traditional regulatory pathways are generally out of scope for the firm. Within these sectors, interest areas can include gene therapy, telomere attrition, proteostasis, regenerative medicine, personalized diagnostics/biomarkers, preventative therapies, cognitive enhancement, and more. That said, the firm has no strong interest in particular technologies and is open to all modalities. The firm is also opportunistic in terms of stage of development.

The firm seeks companies with strong, protectable IP with clear origins and ownership, backed by a diverse team with a strong track record and technologies with validated proof of concept. The firm has a 3-step due diligence process which includes: (1) initial review, (2) additional review – where the firm looks more closely into main differentiating factors of the company (IP, business model, etc.), and (3) final review. The firm is open to leading, co-leading, or co-investing, and has a strong co-investment and syndication network of likeminded investors.

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A firm headquartered in Asia with offices in US and Europe invests specifically in companies that are raising funds to carry out clinical trials which can be performed, totally or in part, in an affiliated network of sites located in Europe and Asia. The firm typically invests alongside lead investors with a track record in biotech or medtech, and usually funds a large fraction of clinical trial costs. The firm can fund up to 10-15 trials per year. The size of investments is flexible, scaled to the clinical trial requirements, and will mostly range from 1 to 6 million USD/EUR. Investments made by the firm will fund work performed by a top-tier FDA-inspected network of sites offering clinical studies and CRO services to major pharma companies.

Although focused primarily on therapeutics, the firm also consider diagnostics, medical devices, and digital health companies. The firm is generally indication-agnostic but has a keen interest in fields such as diabetes, pulmonology, ophthalmology and some cancers. The firm is primarily interested in companies running Phase I / Phase II clinical trials or equivalent.

The firm looks to act as a co-investor and will typically not require a board seat. The firm will more often invest when there is a lead investor on board. The firm has no specific requirements for the management team.

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A global leader in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets provides services, equipment, and support solutions to laboratories worldwide. The firm has an early stage partnership program that works with, and potentially invests in, early proof-of-concept to revenue stage companies that are a strategic fit to Agilent’s core products and services. Apart from financial investing, the firm provides strategic support to the companies with whom they partner. While the firm will partner globally, it has primarily partnered with US and European companies to this point.

The firm partners with early stage companies that provide game-changing tools, technologies and applications to advance the Life Science Research, Clinical Research and Diagnostic markets. Within these markets, the firm is especially interested in the fields of Bioproduction Instrumentation, Cell & Gene Therapy Tools, Cellular Engineering and Analysis, Genomics, Lab Data Analytics & Informatics, Molecular Diagnostics and Sample Preparation. The firm is currently not considering therapeutics or medical devices. The firm has partnered with companies early in proof of concept and up to revenue-generating companies.

The firm’s Early Stage Partnership program will only invest in companies that are a strategic fit, but operates as a financial investor, separating any strategic partnerships from the financial investing.

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A newly established venture capital firm headquartered in Western Europe is tied with a dedicated life sciences consulting firm with multiple offices throughout USA, Europe, and Asia. With the capability to leverage the experienced resources from the consulting firm, the firm is able to invest in and support in early-stage technologies with a derisked strategy. The firm has a pan-European focus and is sourcing globally within industry, start-up communities, and business accelerators, for high potential opportunities.

The firm is interested in proprietary, differentiated therapeutic products addressing high-unmet medical need and platform technologies supporting next-generation patient diagnosis, treatment and disease prevention. The interest areas also include genomics, AI, diagnostics, medical devices, rare diseases, next generation personalized medicine, and more. The firm is interested in early-stage opportunities – pre-clinical assets with a valid proof of concept, devices with a working prototype are all good fits in terms of stage of development.

The firm will look at each opportunity carefully, and is most interested in those with business potential with a 3-5 year runway to strategic partnerships, acquisition by large life science companies or an IPO. The firm will prefer to lead investments and will take a very active role in their portfolio companies, often being involved in the operations of these companies to support their growth and enabling research that generates important, proof-of-concept data.

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An investment firm based in the US looks to invest in healthcare companies of strategic interest to a major healthcare insurance company that the firm has ties with, while seeking strong financial returns. With the fund, the firm is looking to make investments ranging from $1 – $20 million over the lifetime of the investment in stages ranging anywhere from seed to buyout. The firm is actively reviewing new opportunities and will consider companies located around the globe that are commercializing in the US or plan to in the near future. The firm also manages other funds that seek to invest in food and agriculture companies and insurtech companies, respectively.

Within the healthcare space, the firm looks to invest across Healthcare IT, Services, Diagnostics, and Devices, and agnostic towards types of technologies and indication areas the technologies address.

The firm is looking for companies with experienced management teams and prefers working with complete teams although they also have experience and are willing to work with incomplete management teams as well. The firm is looking for privately held companies and prefers to lead in rounds but can co-invest in certain circumstances. The firm generally looks to take a board seat following an investment.

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