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A venture capital firm based in USA with additional offices in China invests in early-stage life science ventures, from Seed to Series B, with Series A and Series B being the firm’s sweet spot. Typical size of investment ranges from $1-2M in seed stage companies, and $3-5M in venture round companies.
The firm also has an advisory service that supports entrepreneurs to expand to the Chinese market, and the firm has multiple offices in China and needed expertise to support the entrepreneur’s vision.

Currently, the firm is most interested in companies based in USA, Israel, and Western Europe, particularly companies in the Nordic region.

The firm will consider therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and life science tools. The firm is most interested in medical devices, and their interests include medtech and biotech combination products, novel methods of drug delivery, in vitro diagnostics (novel instruments and reagents), etc. The firm is interested in both 510K and PMA devices. Within therapeutics, the firm is more interested in clinical assets and typically do not look at pre-clinical companies unless the opportunity is compelling. Current main indication areas of interest for the firm are cardiovascular disease, oncology, and women’s health.

The firm seeks to work with management teams who are passionate about their technology and dedicated to creating values for the larger community. Though the firm is able to support companies who are interested in entering the China market, having a China angle is not necessary for investment. The firm can act as either a lead or co-investor.

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A family office based in USA looks to invest in medical devices and diagnostics, but will also consider therapeutics and digital health. The firm prefers company that have some proof of concept data, with some animal studies complete, and will invest through to clinical-stage companies. The firm generally co-invests in a syndicate, and will invest between $100-500K, depending on the stage of development of the company. The firm is currently interested in investing in companies located in North America.

The firm is focused primarily on medical devices and diagnostics, but will consider therapeutics, if they are first in class, and digital health, with a focus on AI-related technologies. The firm has focused on technologies related to oncology, diabetes and kidney diseases, but will consider other indications as well.

The firm is interested in companies with strong management teams. As the firm will generally co-invest, board representation is not usually required after investing.

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A life sciences venture capital fund based in Hong Kong currently manages three funds and is actively seeking investment opportunities. On average, the size of investment is $5-25M in venture rounds. The firm prefers to act as the lead investor but is also open to co-investing. The firm looks for companies located around the globe, with a preference in the US and China. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.

The firm is focused on Therapeutics and Medical Devices opportunities. The firm’s core focused therapeutic areas include oncology, immunology, metabolic and CNS diseases, but is also focused on new modalities and platform technologies. The firm is also interested in interventional, novel medical devices in cardiovascular, neuro-vascular diseases.

The firm prefers management team with strong scientific background and expertise, successful track records would be a plus but is not required. The firm generally takes a board seat.

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The life science investment arm of a global private equity firm with multi-billion dollars in assets under management has offices across the USA. The fund may invest a total of up to $20 million per portfolio company across multiple financing rounds, and may be a lead investor or a co-investor. The firm is interested in life science opportunities worldwide. The PE firm also has a separate investment arm that invests in early growth companies in the medical device, healthcare IT and diagnostics sectors.

The firm invests in therapeutics, medical devices and diagnostics. For therapeutic investments, the fund generally looks for clinical proof of efficacy in Phase Ib or IIa trials. For PMA medical devices, the firm also requires clinical proof of efficacy data. For 510k devices and diagnostics, the firm makes growth equity investments in companies that have approved products and are in early commercialization. It is required that diagnostics have reimbursement codes. The firm will consider investments in any indication or technology area.

The growth-stage investment arm invests in digital health, medtech and diagnostics companies with revenue streams, and uses a variety of structures to provide credit or royalty financing to early growth stage companies.

The firm invests in both experienced management teams, as well as new entrepreneurs. The firm is open to investing in both privately-held and public companies. If a management team is incomplete or inexperienced, The firm is open to working to fill or change the team.

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A private investment firm based in West Coast USA invests across all stages, from company formation through IPO. As an evergreen fund, the firm has invested in big name biotech companies, and is capable of making large investments with no set limit.

The firm is primarily focused on 3 areas: (1) therapeutics, (2) diagnostics, and (3) synthetic biology, but open to other sectors with groundbreaking technology.

The firm has a flexible mandate and does not have any specific company or management team requirements.

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A newly established venture capital firm based in the USA is actively seeking early-stage investment opportunities in life sciences and healthcare sectors with its first fund. The firm is focused on emerging companies in pre-seed / seed rounds and will participate in Series A at the maximum. Currently, the firm is focused on USA-based companies, but can dedicate a portion of their fund to invest outside of the USA.

The firm invests in 4 main focus areas, ordered by priority: (1) biotech, which includes biomarkers, liquid biopsies, cell therapy, smart packaging, drug delivery, next generation sequencing, omics; (2) digital health, which includes wearables, diagnostics, services, AI-enabled approaches, management, fitness, digital therapy; (3) medtech, which includes smart devices, smart lens, breath biopsy, 3D printing, in vitro diagnostics, surgical robotics, laser therapy; (4) health edtech, which includes personalized learning, med. professional development, immersive learnings (e.g., VR), wellness. The firm plans to expand their investment capabilities in medtech, as they have recently made great investments in this space. The firm is indication agnostic, and is open to all opportunities including oncology, cardiovascular, infectious, metabolic, neurological, and rare/orphan diseases.

The firm seeks to work with companies backed by a management team with deep domain expertise and technologies that are backed by solid IP. The firm prefers to act as a follow-on, but will seek to lead more investment rounds in the future.

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A venture capital firm based in the USA makes around 1/3 of its investments in industry tech mainly focusing on digital transformation within traditional sectors, second 1/3 in enterprise tech including both SaaS and network technology, and the last 1/3 in healthcare, including AI in healthcare and medical devices. The firm typically invests $1-2M initial check per company,  and reserve 2/3 of the fund for pro rata. The firm prefers to lead the round and also open to co-investment. The firm typically makes 7-10 new investments per year, and only focuses on companies based in North America (USA & Canada). Furthermore, the firm has a considerable value-add in supporting companies leveraging their former entrepreneur and operator experience, and their extensive network which includes over 30 executives from Fortune 1000 companies.

The firm is open to all subsectors of AI in healthcare, diagnostics and all classes of medical devices. The firm is indication agnostic and looks primarily at early-stage companies, particularly at the seed pre-Series A stage.

The firm does not have a particular management team requirement, as it primarily assesses the technology itself. If leading the round, the firm will take a board seat after an investment.

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