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A Canada-based venture capital firm is investing out of a fund that invests in both companies and other funds with aligned interests. The firm focuses on investments in three main sectors: Biopharmaceutical, Healthcare Platform & Services, and Technology (i.e., SAAS, Fintech). The firm provides initial investments at USD 3-5 million, and it will also reserve a further amount for follow-on financing and supports the startups in strategic partnerships. The firm is interested in pre-clinical to clinical-stage biotech companies. The firm invests primarily in North America but also opens to invest in Europe or China.

The firm is looking for new opportunities in the life science space, including therapeutics, diagnostics, and healthcare platforms. The firm’s investments to date have included companies developing in cell therapy, oncology, neuroscience, and drug-discovery platform. The firm is opportunistic in terms of sector, subsectors, and indications. The firm will also consider orphan drugs. Within medical devices and digital health, the firm will only consider companies that already have a USD 10 million minimum revenue. The firm will only co-invest and will prefer to co-invest with well-known lead investors.

The firm does not have specific requirements on companies or management teams.

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A family office/venture capital firm based in the USA manages an evergreen fund that operates free from the constraints of traditional venture capital funds. The firm seeks to make seed, venture, and growth equity investments in early to mid-stage medical device companies, but will also consider secured debt to help revenue generating companies with short term cash flow issues. The firm will also consider pre-seed investments. The firm can allocate anywhere from $1M to $10M per company, but generally allocates around $8M. The firm typically does 3 rounds of financing with an initial investment of around $3M. The firm is geographically agnostic, but highly prefers to invest in companies that are based in the US. The firm seeks to make about 3-4 allocations in the next 6-9 months.

The firm is currently looking for medical device companies with a strong emphasis on products with a 510(k) regulatory pathway. In terms of subsectors, the firm is looking for products specifically in the areas of interventional radiology and cardiology, spine/orthopedics and minimally invasive surgery. The firm is generally opportunistic in terms of indication.

The firm is looking to invest in companies with a management team with a track record of success in the healthcare industry. However, the firm is generally flexible and does not require a full management team. The firm can assemble the management team over the course of the investment.

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Founded in 2006, a specialized healthcare and life sciences investment firm with over a half-billion dollars in capital under management invests in early-stage companies (Seed/Series A) developing innovative new medical technologies, biotechnologies, and digitally-enabled healthcare services. The firm generally invests $4-8 million of equity capital per round and up to $10-20 million over the investment life. The firm is actively investing and will make 3-5 investments in 2021. The firm nationally and has offices in Austin, TX, and Boston, MA.

The firm is currently looking for companies developing Medical Devices, Therapeutics, Diagnostics, and Healthcare IT products. For medical devices and therapeutics, the firm is open to the full spectrum of subsector and indication and will consider companies developing orphan indications. In HealthTech, the firm is interested in AI-enabled clinical/diagnostic/workflow platforms but will also consider other companies that fall into the broader Healthcare IT space as well, including mobile health companies developing consumer-facing apps. They will consider companies with proprietary platform technologies as well as single/multiple asset companies.

As an early-stage investor, the firm invests almost exclusively in pre-revenue companies, with significant ownership opportunities. They look for experienced management teams, help build the team, and require a seat on the company’s board.

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A venture firm was founded in 2015 with offices in California and Israel. The firm invests in multiple sectors, including the life sciences, and is currently investing out of their third fund, a $450M fund. The firm invests in pre-seed and seed-stage companies; within healthcare, therapeutics, diagnostics and R&D tools companies developing platform technologies. The firm invests early, often acting as the first institutional capital, investing just after the initial stages of product development. The firm generally leads rounds, investing between $.5-5M in rounds no larger than ~$7M. While the firm has to this point invested in US and Israeli companies, it will also consider European and Canadian companies as well.

Within healthcare, the firm is interested in platform technologies in therapeutics and diagnostics/R&D tools. The firm is agnostic to indication and modality, and is looking for companies that have multiple avenues of development to reach the market. Previous investments include companies building CRISPR technologies, post-treatment monitoring, -omics-based drug development, CAR-T and high-throughput screening. The firm does not invest in digital health or medical devices.

The firm acts as a lead investor. Even though they invest early, the firm prefers that the company have at least two full time co-founders before investing. The firm does take a board seat after investing, and is an active investor.

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A venture capital firm based in California that invests in early-stage, technology-driven companies. The firm has recently started exploring life sciences/healthcare investment opportunities and is considering companies in various sectors. The initial check size of the firm can range from $500K – $2M. The firm also runs a program for those who has already participated in accelerator/incubator programs and want to further initial proofs of concept and early market validation to demonstrate long term product/market fit, product roadmap, and business model. Companies that have already launched and want to expand go-to market and reach profitability is welcome to participate in this program as well.

The firm invests in impactful, early-stage technology companies. Within life sciences and healthcare sectors, the firm is interested in medical devices (both 510k and PMA) with a strong data or hardware component, digital health, technologies that leverage AI or big data analytics. The firm will not consider traditional therapeutics or diagnostics companies. In terms of disease area, the firm is opportunistic.

The firm can act as either lead or co-investor and is open to working with all kinds of management teams.

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The firm is a developer of gene therapy treatments founded in 2013 and is a headquartered in the US. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of a large pharma. The company has an integrated gene therapy platform for developing medicines in these core areas: ophthalmology, hematology, immunology, and CNS/neurodegenerative disease. Currently, the firm is actively seeking early-stage opportunities that fit their strategic interests for early-stage partnering, in-licensing, and more. The firm seeks opportunities globally.

The firm is interested in innovative therapeutics that can supplement their pipeline in the aforementioned therapeutic/disease areas. The firm’s strongest interests lie in gene therapies, but the firm is also interested in biologics they can utilize in adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors that have been engineered in-house through the firm’s proprietary platform to enable efficient therapeutic delivery. In terms of stage of development, the firm is interested in evaluating opportunities from the earliest stages, from lead optimization and beyond. The firm is not interested in technologies that fall in other life science sectors, including medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health.

The firm seeks to be a flexible partner with opportunities they engage in, and have no strict requirements for the company or management team.

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The firm is a venture capital firm based in the Midwest focused on early-stage health technology investments with a consumer-focus. The firm is looking for companies with solutions that drive consumer engagement and health accountability (these do not have to sell D2C, most of their companies do not). The firm’s newest fund is a $150M fund, through which the firm will focus on investing in early-stage, consumer-centric digital health technologies. The firm’s initial investments generally range from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000. The firm is primarily thesis-focused and invests from Seed to Series B, with a focus just at or before the A round.

The firm is seeking digital health companies focused on the empowering consumers to be better stewards of their health and their healthcare expenditures. Accordingly, the firm is not interested in technology that solve problems solely within payers and providers, such as billing, care coordination for hospitals, or EHR platforms. The firm is indication agnostic, though has interest in chronic illnesses, social determinants, behavioral health, and personalized care among others.

The firm does not have set management team requirements. The firm will play a very active role post-investment, traditionally by taking board seats, providing key sales introductions, assisting with scaling, hiring, and providing network support.

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