Hot Investor Mandate: Worldwide Asset Management Firm Invests in Life Sciences With a China Angle

19 Dec

The proprietary venture capital and private equity arm of a worldwide asset management organization has a fund focused on venture investments related to Greater China.  With an evergreen fund structure, the firm can be flexible in terms of investment sizes (up to $250 million per deal) and horizon. The firm typically makes equity investments. The fund invests in businesses based in China or with a China angle. The firm’s management team also collaborates closely with its parent company’s other funds on international deals.

Within life sciences, the fund works on a wide range of technology sectors including therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, biotech R&D services, healthcare IT, and healthcare services. The firm is very opportunistic in terms of subsectors and indications but historically has been active in biosimilars and biotech R&D. The firm evaluates technologies based on two main criteria: meaningful impact on human health; bold and innovative ideas. The firm has no specific preference in the investment stage. However, the firm generally invests in earlier stage for therapeutics and R&D and later stage for medical devices, but seeds have been done with exceptional founding teams.

The fund is seeking companies with a strong and experienced management team. The firm is flexible when it comes to post-investment board representation.

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

Hot Investor Mandate: European VC Invests in Medtech, Diagnostics and Digital Health

19 Dec

A European focused venture capital firm founded in 2015 with partners based in Europe and US is currently actively investing in Spain, Portugal, the UK, and Ireland. The firm is expanding into the Baltics and raising a new €100 million fund. The firm looks for companies mainly in Europe and works closely with the team to expand the business into new markets. The firm invests in series A & series B financings as a Lead or co-Lead with investments ranging from €3 million to €8 million over the life of the company. The firm is actively looking for investment opportunities and plans to make around 12 investments with the new fund over next 4 years. The firm will only invest in private companies.

The firm is an opportunistic investor and will consider medical devices, diagnostics, and healthcare IT companies. The firm is strongly interested in diagnostics and healthcare IT companies as well as data- analytics and IoT companies. Previous investments include a pharmacogenetic test company and a drug delivery technology platform, clinical trial analytics and others. The firm is very opportunistic in terms of subsectors and indications. For therapeutics, the firm will only consider products that are in phase 2 stage or later. In terms of digital health, the firm has interests in consumer-facing platform and analytics areas, such as big data-driven technologies on complex medical research.

The firm looks for management teams with highly relevant experience and strong industry knowledge is a must. The firm looks for management teams that are willing to work alongside a hands-on investor, and the firm always looks to take a board seat. The firm prefers companies to be backed by strong IP protection and must have already raised seed capital.

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

Hot Investor Mandate: NYC Family Office Invests Broadly in Early Stage Deals

19 Dec

A family office based in New York has several decades of experience in investing in life science companies and taking them public. The firm participates in deals across all stages of development, from seed to mezzanine funding. In early-stage deals, the firm’s initial check size is usually between $250-500K, with potential for follow-on financing as the companies achieve key growth milestones. The firm is actively involved with a well-established angel investor group and makes investments through this group as well. The firm is open to opportunities all across the globe.

The firm seeks to invest broadly across different silos of the life sciences ecosystem, from therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and digital health. The firm’s strongest interest and expertise lies in biotech, and many of the firm’s investments have been in therapeutics companies. The firm is also open to companies of all stages of development and is indication agnostic, but has significantly higher standards for oversaturated, competitive spaces such as oncology.

The firm has no explicitly stated company or management team requirements. The firm likes to become actively involved in their portfolio companies and supports them with needed resources and advisory services to help them grow.

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

All-Star Lineup: See These Industry Experts Speak at RESI San Francisco

12 Dec

By Claire Jeong, Director of Research, Asia BD, LSN

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LSN is busily preparing for our largest conference of the year, RESI San Francisco, during JPM week on Tuesday, January 14th, 2020. In our last RESI SF conference, we had over 1,200 attendees join, making it our largest conference to date.

This time, we are featuring 3 tracks of panels and workshops that encompass a wide variety of sectors within life science and healthcare, including more specialized topics relevant to current industry trends. For the very first time, we are also dedicating an entire track for Featured Company Pitch Sessions, which will be a valuable opportunity for companies to showcase their technologies.

The ultimate goal of our panels and workshops is to provide valuable insights to fundraising early-stage companies, especially on how groups can effectively seek to work with investors and strategic partners. RESI strives to feature industry players from large VCs to new funds, from large corporations to angel investors, to lend their expertise to the entrepreneurs attending RESI. With excellent returning speakers and many new contributors, the panel lineup at this RESI is sure to be one of the best we’ve had.

For those who are already registered for RESI, we highly encourage you to attend some panels that are relevant to your company’s interests. If you’re interested in hearing from and meeting active industry experts, but haven’t registered, it’s not too late!

Without further ado, here are some of the panelists who will be joining our panels and workshops at RESI San Francisco:

 


Chris Haskell
VP, Head Open Innovation Center – North America West
Bayer

Joyce Chan
Director of External R&D
Amgen

Anne Wellington
Managing Director
Cedars-Sinai Health Accelerator

Richard Proscia
Senior Associate
Providence Ventures

Brent Stackhouse
Managing Director
Mount Sinai Ventures

Wei Wu
Senior Associate
Illumina Ventures

Mike Ryan
Co-Founder & CEO
Bullet Point Network

Brent Ahrens
General Partner
Canaan Partners

Christina Takke
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
V-Bio Ventures

Roel Bulthuis
Managing Director
INKEF Capital

Claudia Karnbach
Head of Business Development & Licensing, Oncology
Bayer

David Cruikshank
Partner
ARCH Venture Partners

Dani Bach
Partner
+ND Capital

Bill Hyun
Venture Partner
Genoa Ventures

Chihiro Hosoya
BD/VC Head
Astellas Rx+ Business Accelerator

Ronald Dorenbos
Head, Innovation Management & Scouting
Takeda

Nicholas Mourlas
Senior Director, New Ventures
Johnson & Johnson

Gerry Brunk
Managing Director
Lumira Ventures

Neil Swami
Principal
Catalyst Health Ventures

Z Haroon
Chairman and General Partner
Julz Co LLC

Lauren Tyra
Principal Scientist
Green Park & Golf Ventures

Kwame Ulmer
Venture Partner
Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health

Diana Saraceni
Founder and Managing Partner
Panakes Partners

Ted Driscoll
Managing Partner
DigitalDx Ventures

Noel Jee
Senior Associate
Illumina Ventures

Sharon Chan
Head of JLABS @Shanghai
Johnson & Johnson

Weiyong Sun
Senior Director, Specialty Medicine Search & Evaluation, Global Business Development
Daiichi Sankyo

Lu Han
Director of Business Development, Asia Pacific
Lumira Ventures

Yao Li Ho
Senior Director of Business Development
LYFE Capital

Yanghuan Bao
Investment Partner
BOHE Angel Fund

Michelle Gon
Partner
McDermott Will & Emery Shanghai Offices

David Xu
Chief Business Officer
Viva Biotech

Frank Yan
Operating Partner
3E Bioventures

Elona Baum
Managing Director
DEFTA Partners

Tad Weems
Managing Director, Early Stage Partnerships
Agilent Technologies

Jiwon Huh
Director of Corporate Strategy
Boryung Holdings

Lu Zhang
Founder & Managing Partner
Fusion Fund

Xinhong Lim
Director
Vickers Venture Partners

Yizhen Dong
Principal
11.2 Capital

Miraj Sanghvi
Principal
DigiTx Partners

RESI Partnering Tips: How to Fill Your Day with Meetings on January 14th

12 Dec

By Bryanna Allison, Business Development Manager, LSN

If you’ve registered for RESI San Francisco, then it’s likely that your goal is to book a strong slate of meetings, followed by a full day of face-to-face meetings with investors at RESI.  Here is our advice for partnering success at RESI:

  • Fill out your profile! This will provide investors with information above and beyond what you can fit in your intro message. If you fill out the key fields in your profile, attendees can revert back there for more information.
  • Use the filters in the sidebar when searching for meeting partners! Whether you are a startup, investor or service provider, the filters are in place to make your lives easier. You can pick a category of attendees to search, then use the filters to narrow down to the most relevant fits for you, such as investors who are interested in your sector.
  • Send as many relevant meeting requests as possible. Always use the “book a meeting” option for initial contact.
  • Put effort into the message you are sending along with your meeting requests. Tell them what you’re doing, who you are, why you’d be a great fit to work together and what you’re looking to get out of the relationship. Keep it concise, but informative!
  • Follow up on your requests. You can use the “send a message” option in RESI Partnering to send follow-up notes, or if you have the investor’s contact info you could send an email directly.
  • Continue to check the platform regularly. New investors, startup and service provider attendees are added every day. If you want to focus on newly added profiles, you can change the order of search results from ‘Order alphabetically’ to ‘Order by date approved’ and look at who’s joined since your last visit.
  • Join our partnering tutorials so you can see it all firsthand! Please visit our website for the complete partnering tutorial schedule.
  • Bring your partnering schedule to RESI – either print it out or have it available on your phone.

Using the partnering platform effectively can help you make the most out of RESI! It’s there so you know exactly who is coming and exactly who you need to talk to. Don’t miss out on our largest event of the year and this excellent opportunity to network with over 500 life science investors.

Attend the Enmore Bio Conference to Connect with China’s Bio Industry – Suzhou, China February 20-22, 2020

12 Dec

By Candice He, Global Investment Strategist, LSN

As a co-organizer of RESI Shanghai, Enmore has become a valuable partner of Life Science Nation, utilizing their expertise in the local market and as conference organizers to make RESI a success, with more than 450 investors, startups and service providers in attendance. LSN and Enmore have a common goal of creating an international ecosystem for advancing life science technologies to market in a global economy, and will continue to partner to achieve this. For those interested in exploring the China market and establishing relationships with key players in the China life science ecosystem, we invite you to attend the Enmore Bio Conference, taking place at the Suzhou International Expo Center from February 20-22, 2020.

What is EBC?

Enmore Bio Conference (EBC) is the largest and most influential bio-industry conference in China, as well as the most open conference platform jointly created by Enmore Healthcare, the organizer, and many industry associations, institutions, companies and experts for the whole industry chain.

EBC consists of four parallel conferences: the 10th Antibody Drugs & Novel Biological Summit, the 8th Molecular Diagnostics Summit, the 6th Immunotherapy Industry Summit, and the 3rd 17TALK Healthcare Investment & Financing Leadership Forum. The four-in-one event covers topics concerning the whole industry chain of diagnosis, treatment and medication, and other topics like CDx, target development, clinical research and policy discussion will also be touched through a dozen of special forums. The Enmore Bio Exhibition, as part of this event, will attract more than 200 suppliers of instruments, consumables and services. The EBC, which combines conference and exhibition, has become a benchmark platform for high-level exchanges and cooperation in the bio-industry in China and abroad.

Conference website: http://ebc.enmorebiz.com/english.html

Why choose EBC?

EBC is committed to building China’s largest and most influential bio industry event through four parallel conferences, a dozen of co-organized forums, three invited-only meetings for CEOs and pre-event business visits. More than 150 enterprise leaders and experts will make presentations during this event.

Previous reports of EBC:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/h1YQvgaOpClaYRUmNFAmdg

http://ebc2019.enmorebiz.com

Co-organizations of EBC 2020

Guangzhou KingMed Diagnostics Group Co., Ltd.

PersonGene

Wuhan Tongji Hospital

Renmin Hospital Of Wuhan University

Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd.

Hengrui Medcine

Innoforce Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.

TOT Biopharm

SAPA-China

Everbright Medical & Healthcare Fund

EBC parallel conferences:

10th Antibody Drugs & Novel Biological Summit

The 10th Antibody Drugs & Novel Biological Summit is co-organized by Junshi Biosciences, Hengrui Medicine, Innoforce Pharmaceuticals, TOT BIOPHARM and SAPA-China. It covers the whole process of early research and development, process development, mass production, industrialization and commercialization. We will bring together CEOs and top leaders of functional departments of local listed companies, as well as heads of R&D, production, quality, process and business of antibody enterprises at home and abroad through a platform of exchanges and cooperation for thousands of people.

8th Molecular Diagnostics Summit

The 8th Molecular Diagnostics Summit is co-organized by Enmore and KingMed Diagnostics. This time we focus on “molecular diagnostics market structure and corporate strategy”, “multi-platform detection technology for clinical diagnosis” and “to create competitive molecular diagnostic products”. Authoritative experts in precision medicine and outstanding enterprises such as Jiangsu Center for Clinical Laboratories, Shanghai Center for Clinical Laboratory, Berry Genomics, Geneseeq, and KingMed Diagnostics Group will participate in this summit. An invited-only CEO meeting will happen during the summit, organized by Clinical Laboratories leaders.

6th Immunotherapy Industry Summit

The 6th Immunotherapy Industry Summit aims to provide businesses with the industrialization of cellular immunotherapy in the next two years. The forum is jointly developed by experts and scholars in the field of cellular immunotherapy study, quality control leaders of first-tier companies, and CEOs of domestic and foreign companies with extensive industrialization experience! Companies and institutions involved include Fosun Kite Biotechnology Co., Ltd, JW Therapeutics, Cellular Biomedicine Group, PersonGene, Tongji Hospital, etc.

3rd 17TALK Healthcare Investment & Financing Leadership Forum

The 3rd 17TALK Healthcare Investment & Financing Leadership Forum is co-hosted by Enmore Healthcare and Everbright Medical & Healthcare Fund. The forum features healthcare investment trends and corporate listing, inviting local and international top investors to participate in the discussions. Special financing roadshows will be held to provide a financing platform for enterprises.

Who will attend EBC?

EBC 2019 attracted 2,208 attendees, and EBC 2020 is expected to exceed 3,000 attendees. The participating groups include entrepreneurs, scientists, clinicians, investors and suppliers, mostly CEOs and heads of R&D, production, quality, process and commercialization.

Part of EBC 2019 attendees

Antibody Drugs BIO-THERA Immunotherapy Gracell
Antibody Drugs BeiGene Immunotherapy Lion TCR
Antibody Drugs JOINN Laboratories (Beijing) Immunotherapy HRYZ BIO TECH CO.
Antibody Drugs Boehringer-Ingelheim Immunotherapy GENE
Antibody Drugs KANGHONG PHARMACEUTICAL Immunotherapy CARsgen Therapeutics
Antibody Drugs TOT BIOPHARM Immunotherapy Nanjing Legend Pharmaceutical & Chemical Co., Ltd
Antibody Drugs HARBOUR Immunotherapy Genscript
Antibody Drugs Hutchison MediPharma Immunotherapy IASO BIO
Antibody Drugs HENGRUI MEDICINE Immunotherapy HRAIN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Antibody Drugs NCPC Immunotherapy Innovative Cellular Therapeutics Co.,Ltd.
Antibody Drugs CR PHARMA COMM Immunotherapy Shanghai Cell Therapy Group Co.LTD
Antibody Drugs Pfizer Immunotherapy JW Therapeutics
Antibody Drugs CStone Pharmaceuticals Immunotherapy SHANGHAI UNICAR-THERAPY BIOMED-PHAMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
Antibody Drugs Genor Biopharma Co. Ltd. Immunotherapy Cellular Biomedicine Group
Antibody Drugs Alphamab Co. Ltd Immunotherapy Eureka Therapeutics, Inc
Antibody Drugs Elpiscience Immunotherapy Vcanbio
Antibody Drugs Livzon International Limited Molecular Diagnostics Eppendorf
Antibody Drugs Lunan Pharmaceutical Group Molecular Diagnostics ACON Laboratories
Antibody Drugs Transcenta Molecular Diagnostics Genetron Health
Antibody Drugs Mabtech Limited Molecular Diagnostics Leadmanbio
Antibody Drugs GenScript Biotech Corporation Molecular Diagnostics DIAN DIAGNOSTICS GROUP CO LTD
Antibody Drugs Qilu Pharmaceutical Molecular Diagnostics Berryoncology
Antibody Drugs Johnson&Johnson Molecular Diagnostics Guangzhou KingMed Diagnostics Group Co., Ltd.
Antibody Drugs Humanwell Healthcare Molecular Diagnostics Sansure Biotech Inc.
Antibody Drugs RemeGen Molecular Diagnostics BGI
Antibody Drugs ChemPartner Molecular Diagnostics Getein Biotech, Inc.
Antibody Drugs 3SBIO INC. Molecular Diagnostics Singlera Genomics
Antibody Drugs Luye Pharma Group Molecular Diagnostics Luminex Corporation
Antibody Drugs EpimAb Biotherapeutics Molecular Diagnostics Roche diagnostics (shanghai) limited
Antibody Drugs Henlius Molecular Diagnostics Geneseeq Technology Inc.
Antibody Drugs JMT-BIO Molecular Diagnostics PerkinElmer
Antibody Drugs Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd. Molecular Diagnostics Hitachi
Antibody Drugs Etana Biotechnologies Hong Kong Limited Molecular Diagnostics Amoy Diagnostics
Antibody Drugs Roche Molecular Diagnostics Shanghai Kehua Bio-Engineering Co., Ltd.
Antibody Drugs Shanghai Miracogen Inc. Molecular Diagnostics 3dmedcare
Antibody Drugs NewBio Therapeutics, Inc. Molecular Diagnostics Liferiver Bio–Tech
Antibody Drugs Wuxi AppTec Molecular Diagnostics HaploX
Antibody Drugs Klus Pharma Inc. Molecular Diagnostics Shenzhen New Industries Biomedical Engineering Co., Ltd.
Antibody Drugs Suzhou Yabao Pharmaceutical R&D Co., Ltd. Molecular Diagnostics Wuhan YZY Medical Science&Technology Co.,Ltd
Antibody Drugs Tasly Group Molecular Diagnostics simceredx
Antibody Drugs Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Molecular Diagnostics Abbottmama
Antibody Drugs Innovent Molecular Diagnostics Autobio
Antibody Drugs YST Molecular Diagnostics Vcanbio
Antibody Drugs WuXi Biologics Investment Northern Light Venture Capital
Antibody Drugs Yichang Humanwell Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd Investment DeCheng Capital
Antibody Drugs Zai Lab Investment GTJA INVESTMENT GROUP
Antibody Drugs HISUN Investment GUOTAI JUNAN Securities
Antibody Drugs Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Investment China SDIC GaoXin Industrial Investment Corp., Ltd
Antibody Drugs Teruisi Investment China Resources (Holdings) Co., Ltd.
Antibody Drugs CTTQ Investment Jemincare
Antibody Drugs Akeso Biopharma Investment Legend Capital
Immunotherapy IQVIA Investment Warburg Pincus
Immunotherapy PersonGene Investment PING AN Ventures
Immunotherapy BoyaLife Investment PWC
Immunotherapy Fosun Kite Biotechnology Co., Ltd Investment SBCVC
Immunotherapy Fosun Pharma Investment Oriza Holdings

Conference Agenda of EBC 2020

Registration at EBC

Online registration:https://ienmore.com/enmoreweb/pc/index.html?language=1&activityId=1267

Consultation: healthcare@enmore.com

Hot Investor Mandate: Pharmaceutical Arm of Japanese Company Seeks First-In-Class Assets in High Unmet Need Indication Areas

12 Dec

A pharmaceutical arm of a large Japanese company with a full-fledged licensing and clinical development office in the USA, is seeking to form partnerships and in-licensing relationships regarding early stage assets in its key indication areas. These partnerships are highly flexible, and may involve the pharma company contributing personnel, sharing studies and research tools, or providing research expense funding.

The firm is interested in early-stage, first-in-class, orally active small molecule NCEs. The firm seeks assets in the following key areas: Metabolic / Cardiovascular Diseases (NASH, Heart failure (HFrEF, HFpEF, Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), Diabetic Retinopathy / Diabetic Macular Edema, Chronic Kidney Disease, Sarcopenia), Autoimmune Diseases (Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, IBD), CNS disorders (Alzheimer’s Disease, Schizophrenia). As well as drugs, The firm is interested in drug targets in these disease areas.

The firm is open to forming partnerships regarding very early stage assets, at or prior to the lead optimization phase. For in-licensing for the Japan market, the firm is focused on renal diseases, dermatology and allergic diseases. The firm also invests in drug discovery technologies and research tools such as: technologies related to translational research using cell culture, isolated cellular organelles and related mechanisms; HTS technologies; protein structure analysis; chemical biology, chemical synthesis, and chemical libraries; biophysical tools; in silico technologies; biomarkers and bioinformatics screening, biomarker research, and compound libraries.

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