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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.

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A life science venture capital firm with offices in Western Europe and USA is investing from its third fund that typically makes equity investment into early-stage life science companies. The typical investment size ranges from €10 million-15 million. The third fund is looking to make 10 investments.

The firm is currently looking for new investment opportunities in the life science space. The firm focuses on Therapeutics and Medical Devices sectors. The firm is very opportunistic in terms of subsectors and indications and is most interested in product-focused companies at pre-clinical / clinical stages of development.

The firm primarily invests in private companies with experienced management teams, but has the ability to also consider public companies, depending on the opportunity. The firm seeks to take a board seat in its portfolio companies.

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

A newly established venture capital firm is seeking to invest in Seed to Series A companies. The firm expects to make most of their investments in North America, but has a global outlook and has evaluated opportunities from other geographies.

Within life sciences, the firm is most interested in digital health technologies, including Digital Therapeutics, AI-powered healthcare solutions, smart devices, and tech enabled services. The firm will be extremely selective about medical device companies without a digital component. The same applies for traditional therapeutics and diagnostics sectors as well. The firm likes to see early traction (i.e. paying customer engagement), but is open to pre-revenue companies.

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

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A philanthropic venture firm was established by a family trust to accelerate the development of promising technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and neurovascular disease through targeted investments. This US-based firm makes 4-5 investments each year of approximately $1-2 million into privately-held companies worldwide at both the seed and Series A stages. The firm operates under an evergreen structure and has made 49 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. The firm 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.

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