Hot Investor Mandate: Multi-Billion AUM Investment Firm Seeks to Invest in All Areas of Life Sciences & Healthcare Across the Globe

9 Mar

A leading healthcare investment firm, with multi-billion in assets under management invests globally across the healthcare industry, from start-ups to large multinational corporations, through a range of private equity funds, public equity funds, and royalty/credit funds. The firm seeks to be a capital provider of choice, providing tailored financing solutions and extensive global team resources to help build world-class healthcare companies. The firm’s team of over 100 professionals is based in USA, Asia, the Middle East, and other key global markets.

The firm invests in all modalities and indications across therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and digital health, and have no specific preference for technology type.

The firm has no specific company or management team requirements.


If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email mandates@lifesciencenation.com.

Hot Investor Mandate: Funding Arm of USA-Based Health System Invests in Digital Health Solutions With Strong Strategic Alignment

9 Mar

A newly established investment funding arm of a USA-based health system, one of the largest non-profit health systems in the USA is actively seeking new partnering opportunities. The firm’s objectives include fostering the commercialization of internal ideas as well as external innovation. To date, the firm has been focusing in Series A to B rounds but expect to look into more early-stage opportunities in the future. Initial size of investment can range from $500K – 1M. The firm invests off balance sheet and has no dedicated fund. The firm is focused on partnering and investing in companies based in the USA.

The firm is interested in piloting and investing in technologies that strategically align with the interests of a large integrated delivery network. This includes both the organization’s existing priority areas, along trying to improve the firm’s strategic position in the future. Areas of interest include improving the ratings and member retention in our Medicaid and Medicare Advantage insurance plans, recruiting and retaining clinicians, process optimization, the coming consumerization of healthcare, back-office optimization, and more. The firm is primarily looking for digital health solutions, but will consider some 510k medical devices. The firm is not interested in therapeutics or diagnostics.

The firm has no specific company or management team requirements. The firm prefers to co-invest alongside syndicate partners.


If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email mandates@lifesciencenation.com.

Hot Investor Mandate: USA-Based VC Invests Up to $20M in Transformational Technologies in Therapeutics, Diagnostics, and Digital Health

9 Mar

A $1.2B AUM Seed through Series B venture firm based in the US typically invests between $500K to $20M. The firm focuses on two thematic areas – healthcare and enterprise SaaS. Within healthcare, the firm will invest in digital health, therapeutics, diagnostics and software-enabled medical devices. While somewhat flexible in stage, the firm prefers to have some POC for companies they invest in, such as some in vivo data, at least one hit for drug discovery, and a viable product/prototype for digital health and medical devices. The firm invests primarily in the US, but will invest in Canada as well.

Within healthcare, the firm invests in transformational technologies in all sectors. In therapeutics, the firm has an interest in cell & gene therapy and tissue engineering, but will invest in any modality if the technology is first-in-class. For small molecules or biologics, the firm does not invest in single assets. When investing in medical devices, the firm looks for those where software is a key component of the device. The firm invests in diagnostics and digital health as well, interested in technologies such as AI/ML technologies, drug discovery models, tech enabled services and data infrastructure, among others.

For later stage companies, the firm has no specific requirements. For seed stage companies, the firm is an active investor, and leads in most of their investments, taking a board seat. The firm is interested in companies with strong management teams, having strong expertise in the industry in which the startup is based.


If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email mandates@lifesciencenation.com.

Hot Investor Mandate: VC With US & Europe Offices Seeks Early-Stage Life Science Companies in All Sectors, With Strong Interest in Platform Technologies

9 Mar

A venture capital firm with USA and Europe offices is actively seeking investment opportunities within life sciences and healthcare sectors, with a focus on early stage. Initial investments can range from $100K – 3M, and largely varies by deal. The firm typically invests in the form of equity, and may take less equity in exchange for preemptive or pro-rata rights. The firm will consider global opportunities, but focuses on USA and Europe-based companies.

The firm is interested in various opportunities within therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and digital health. In therapeutics, the firm is excited about platform technologies (especially in oncology), DNA repair, and novel drug delivery mechanisms. Within devices, technologies that integrate or combine new technologies such as robotics, smart devices, IoT, and imaging are areas of interest. In diagnostics, point of care diagnostics technologies that can substantially transform the current standard of care are of interest. Lastly, within digital health, the firm is interested in telehealth, novel digital interventions, and any technology that successfully leverages AI to improve patient outcomes and clinical workflow. The firm is mostly stage and indication agnostic, but tend to stray away from cardiovascular and CNS indications.

The firm has no specific company or management team requirements. The firm seeks to be a very active, hands-on investor and can support their portfolio companies on their operations, scalability, regulatory strategy, and more. The firm has a growing advisory board that companies can seek to leverage. The firm can act as either a lead or co-investor.


If you are interested in more information about this investor and other investors tracked by LSN, please email mandates@lifesciencenation.com.

With 500+ Attendees, 34 Entrepreneurs Were Selected to Pitch in the Innovator’s Pitch Challenge

2 Mar

By Claire Jeong, Chief Conference Officer, Vice President of Investor Research, Asia BD, LSN

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Life Science Nation is excited to announce the list of finalist companies who will be participating in the Innovator’s Pitch Challenge (IPC) at our next conference, Digital RESI, March 14-16!

Over 30 companies representing therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, and R&D / life science tools will be delivering a short pitch followed by a Q&A session with a panel of investors and industry experts. In addition, the companies will have a dedicated landing page, including non-confidential materials of their company, that will be showcased to all RESI attendees as a way for participating companies to boost their exposure.

Below are the participating companies – if you will be attending RESI, please make sure to look out for these companies and be sure to review their pages which will be launched next week!

If you are interested in the upcoming event but are not yet registered, you can register here to join hundreds of early-stage life science companies and investors.

   

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Why Early Entrepreneurs Should Be at Digital RESI In March

2 Mar

By Erika Wu, Business Development Manager, Global Tech Hubs, LSN

A perk about an entirely virtual RESI conference is that any tech hub and early-stage startup from around the world can participate. In the case they miss any live sessions, such as investor-led panels, educational workshops, and the Innovator’s Pitch Challenge, they will be recorded and sent out to all registered attendees. Digital RESI takes place March 14-16, and all attendees who purchase a partnering ticket can reach out and book 1-1 meetings with investors and strategic partners.

If you’re not ready to partner with investors, or it’s your first time at a RESI conference, Life Science Nation (LSN) is offering a special “Seeing is Believing” Audience Access Pass program for only $295. This program is a first of its kind partnership between LSN and the tech hubs and includes a new Entrepreneurial Education Track. This pass is designed for startups who are not quite ready to pay for and attend partnering events but need to get a good idea about how to cater their materials for investors and how to partner effectively.

The tech hub network is always growing, which comprises of incubators, accelerators, non-profits, universities, and government organizations. Tech hubs are a crucial part of the LSN and RESI community as they provide capital, business development and technical support, lab space, and economic development for their cohort of aspiring scientist-entrepreneur and fundraising executives. With this immense support from tech hubs, their group of startups, who’ve raised less than $2M USD in capital, can accelerate their entrepreneurship journey by participating in RESI at a discounted rate.

Reach out to Erika Wu if you are eligible for tech hub rates.

Check out the current tech hubs attending Digital RESI in March:

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Put Your Best Foot Forward and Check Out the RESI Survival Guide

2 Mar

By Antoinette Lowre, Manager of Business Development, LSN

Partnering conferences are an important part of an early-stage company’s journey to raising capital and achieving your fundraising goals. Life Science Nation (LSN) hosts the RESI conference series to provide partnering opportunities with investors and strategic partners. Additionally, LSN provides support to Founders and CEOs to get prepared for meetings by putting their best foot forward and prepping them with the tools necessary to get there. A key tool for making the most of our next conference, Digital RESI, March 14-16 is the RESI Survival Guide.

The RESI Survival Guide covers the 5 major steps to finding success at RESI:

  1. Build a Comprehensive Partnering Profile
  2. Develop your Executive Summary
  3. Refine your Pitch Deck
  4. Craft your Meeting Request Message
  5. Outline a Follow-up Strategy

Read detailed explanations of each step along with examples of executive summaries and meeting requests in the RESI Survival Guide.

Partnering for Digital RESI March is live, and the first round of smart partnering will take place tomorrow, March 3. Make sure to set your schedules up and make time slots available and accept and send meeting requests to secure some meetings on your calendar.

If you did not get a chance to attend one of the Partnering Tutorials, you can review a recording here. The Partnering Tutorial is a terrific way to figure out how to navigate our new partnering system and some tips and tricks on outreach strategy to secure good investor and strategic partner meetings.

If you have any questions about getting into shape for Digital RESI March, or wish to have a consultation on your marketing materials reach out to RESI@lifesciencenation.com and the correct Business Development representative will schedule some time with you to review. Happy Partnering!

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