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The corporate venture capital arm of a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials makes equity investments into seed and venture stage companies generally taking less than 25% ownership. The firm makes allocations ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to $5 million initially with additional capital held for future financing rounds. The firm is looking to make approximately 5-10 investments over the next 6-9 months with +10 being made over the next 2 years. The firm invests in companies located around the globe with a focus on the U.S., Europe and Israel.

The firm is looking for materials science companies in orthopedics and soft tissue repair. The firm also actively invests in human nutritional health, with a specific focus on companies active in personalized nutrition, and companies developing nutritional products. While the firm has invested in companies all the way from seed to PIPE, they generally invest into companies that have products in development or early stage commercialization.

The firm highly values experience in a firms management team and generally looks to take a board seat and play an active role in its portfolio companies. The firm is looking for companies that are interested in cooperation/alignment with relevant businesses of the parent company.

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A diversified, global, alternative asset manager with multiple offices across the globe has billions of dollars under management. The firm is invested equally in the private and public markets, and within the private markets, the firm seeks to invest across the entire private healthcare company lifecycle, from seed to cross-over. Initial check sizes can range from $5 – 50m and will largely depend on the stage of the company. With seed stage companies, the firm can invest $1-5m. In general, the firm ascribes to the approach of doubling the size of their prior round investment in each subsequent round (from Seed -> Series A -> Series B -> Series C -> IPO), subject to milestone achievement. The firm is currently focused on USA and Western European opportunities.

The firm’s primary investment focus is disruptive therapeutics-focused companies. The firm is most interested in genetic medicines (DNA, RNA, protein-targeted therapies including gene therapy, gene editing, oligonucleotides, and small molecule approaches), precision/targeted oncology (DNA damage repair/synthetic lethality, driver/resistance mechanisms), differentiated immunotherapies (gamma-delta T-cell-targeted, bispecific T-cell engagers, new efforts at drugging difficult checkpoints/targets), CNS disorders and autoimmune disorders (new targets of interest). The firm may consider therapeutics indications outside of CNS, oncology, and autoimmune disease on a much more selective basis. In terms of stage of development, the firm is open to pre-clinical opportunities from the lead optimization phase and beyond (discovery phase will be considered too early). The firm may consider opportunities outside of therapeutics including medical devices, diagnostics, tools and digital health, but will be much more selective.

The firm has no particular company or management team requirements. The firm is willing to lead rounds but can act as a follow-on – the firm may seek board representation when acting as the lead investor. The firm seeks to hold shares of their private company investments long after their successful IPO.

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The firm is a philanthropic venture firm established by the a family trust in 2009 to accelerate the development of promising technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and neurovascular disease through targeted investments. The firm makes 4-5 investments each year of approximately $1 million into privately-held companies worldwide at both the seed and early venture stages. The firm operates under an evergreen structure and has made 47 investments to date. 

While the firm is focused on cardiovascular, neurovascular and metabolic diseases (e.g., diabetes, dyslipidemia and obesity), the firm invests across all technology sectors including biotech, medtech, diagnostics, and regenerative medicine. Broadview looks to invest in companies where its investment will help move the company to a value inflection point necessary for the next and larger financing round. 

The firm invests in technologies that have the potential for a clear impact on patient therapy and/or standard of care, an adequate level of IP protection, well-defined use of proceeds with quantifiable and achievable milestones, and a clear understanding of the next round of fundraising needs including size and likely sources. 

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The company is a publicly traded company focused on oncology therapeutics. The firm is seeking therapeutic opportunities in the oncology space. The firm is looking to partner and collaborate as well as in-license, but is primarily seeking partnerships. The firm seeks assets that have at the very least cellular proof of concept, but prefers companies to have some animal data or are approaching pre-IND studies. The firm is also willing to partner with unique and differentiated drug discovery platform companies. The firm will partner globally, but primarily partners with US and Europe-based companies. 

The firm is interested only in oncology and immuno-oncology assets in high unmet tumor indications including RCC and HCC. For modality, the firm is interested only in small molecule and biologics. The firm is willing to consider therapeutics targeting both solid and liquid tumors. The firm will also partner with drug discovery companies, such as those using AI-based technologies to identify new therapeutic biology, as well as platform companies. 

The firm will only partner with companies that have a strong IP position and a clear differentiating discovery and development strategy. The firm looks for startups with unique “First-in-Class” therapeutics and platforms. 

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The firm is a private investment firm with offices in the USA. The firm is actively investing in early-stage life science companies, primarily from Series A to beyond. Typical investment size ranges between $5-20M USD, and the firm works together with its network of other active investment firms and family offices to form investment syndicates. The firm is focused on companies based in USA and Canada, but is open to evaluating highly promising companies beyond North America. 

The firm invests in therapeutics and devices, and digital health to a much lesser extent. The firm will not consider wearables. With regards to therapeutics, the firm is most interested in clinical stage companies (pre-clinical will most likely be considered too early stage) in the anti-infective space. The firm does look at other modalities and indications given that they are fairly advanced clinical assets. In terms of medical devices, the firm will consider those that are very close to, or already gained FDA approval. The firm is agnostic in terms of subsectors and indications, but is most interested in technologies that address a large market and can be applied in a wide scale. The firm has reviewed technologies in ophthalmology, cardiovascular, and pulmonary indications with positive interest. 

The firm has no specific company or management team requirements, though strong intellectual property is considered a huge plus. The firm generally acts as a co-investor, but also engages fellow investors in their network to syndicate investment rounds.

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A venture capital firm was founded in 2012 and is based in San Diego, CA. The firm invests in a wide range of data-driven products that integrate AI, machine learning, and IoT. The firm is backed by a management team with a long, successful track record of building tech companies. The firm invests in the company’s early stages with an initial check size of $250 K with follow-on investments as the company matures, with equity and convertible loan as the preferred capital structures. The firm focuses on US-based companies, but may consider international companies with strongly innovative products that they can bring to the US market.

The firm will look at a range of verticals in the life sciences sector as long as there is a strong data-driven component in the company’s product. Sectors of interest include healthcare IT/digital health. The firm will not consider therapeutics or medical devices unless there is a heavy data component. The firm’s previous investments include an AI-driven image analysis platform for cancer detection, a computational DNA analysis platform for personalized cancer treatments, and a DNA amplification technology based on electric field-induced pH changes. The firm has their own AI Lab of top data scientists, so the company does not have to have the AI experts as long as they have the data, know how to get the data, and what information would be valuable to retrieve via machine learning applications.

The firm will work with companies backed by founders with deep domain expertise. The firm prefers deploying the venture studio model to help co-found companies, deploy their AI Lab experts, and will always take a board seat in their portfolio companies.

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