An impact venture capital firmis dedicated to funding private, early-stage whose innovation(s) significantly help or cure patients suffering from psychiatric and/or neurological diseases. The firm will invest in Seed and Series A rounds, typically allocating $200k – 8 million USD for each deal. The firm looks for deals globally and plans to make several investments in the upcoming year immediately following the first close of the fund. The firm is willing to lead rounds or co-invest as long as the investment falls within their investment criteria.
The firm is interested in devices, digital health, therapeutics, and diagnostics companies that focus on improving the treatment or curing diseases of the central nervous system. The firm prefers technologies and therapeutics that are disease modifying and/or gain significant traction in disease symptom reduction. Technologies that improve quality of life or treatment delivery in neurological and psychiatric patient populations will also be considered.
The firm sometimes prefers to take a board seat in companies in which they invest.
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A venture capital firm based in California is interested in making equity investments into early stage companies with investments ranging from $1M to $15 million per company, depending on the company’s needs and stage of development. The firm is currently seeking investment opportunities throughout the United States.
The firm is looking for companies operating in the HIT/ Digital Health space as well as diagnostics and devices with a software component. The firm is entirely opportunistic in terms of indication and will consider companies at all stages of development. Specific areas of interest include life science tools, mental health, digital therapeutics, synthetic biology and 3D printing.
The firm is looking for privately held companies with strong management teams. The firm is able to provide entrepreneurs with a 200-person advisory network and bring deep operational expertise.
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RESI JPM 2019 was the biggest Redefining Early Stage Investments event yet. In a highly competitive RESI Innovation Challenge we saw novel technologies represented from the therapeutics, medtech, diagnostics, and digital health verticals – we know it was tough for RESI attendees to choose how to allocate their 5 RESI “investment” tokens! We wish all our finalists the best in bringing their products forward toward commercialization, but there could only be 3 top prize winners.
First Place: Novotalk
Novotalk provides an end-to-end digital therapy for people with speech disorders. It’s an online, on-demand (asynchronous), self-directed speech tele-therapy solution, which allows those with speech impairments to learn, practice, gain, and maintain comprehensible speech remotely, independently, and discretely. The user goes through therapy with a virtual clinician, together with algorithms that detect pre-defined speech patterns and provide feedback in real-time. The “real” clinician is a data-empowered supervisor to the process. We make therapy accessible, by removing the 2 main barriers to therapy; clinician availability and affordability. Novotalk’s first solution addresses stuttering, a condition which affects 370m people globally.
Jonathan Oron,VP R&D, Novotalk | Lilach Shvimer-Rothschild, Co-founder & COO, Novotalk | Dennis Ford, Founder & CEO, Life Science Nation | Zohar Beeri, CEO, Novotalk | Karen Deyo, Investor Research Analyst, Life Science Nation
Second Place: Heroic-Faith Medical Science
Established in June 2018, Heroic-Faith Medical Science Corp., LTD. is focused on the development of medical devices for the critical care medicine. The total annual spending on ICU care in North America in 2018 reaches $108 billion USD, being second only to cancer care which totals $158 billion USD, making it a key market that is marked by costly spending, as well as one that is open to new ideas. We hope to combine Taiwan’s advanced medical expertise with its cutting-edge electronics capabilities to develop break-through products, so that we can realize the ideal of our CEO, “Saving lives through innovation”, in the global market.
Fushun Hsu, CEO, Heroic-Faith Medical Science | Yuan-Ren Cheng, COO, Heroic-Faith Medical Science | Dennis Ford, Founder & CEO, Life Science Nation | Lucy Parkinson, VP of Investor Research, Life Science Nation
Third Place: MedTrace A/S
MedTrace is a development-stage company innovating PET diagnostic imaging with an end-to-end solution for a best-in-class blood flow tracer geared for better outcomes, attractive economics and high-patient throughput.
• PET scans are the most sensitive and precise diagnostic tools available in medical imaging.
• There is a significant unmet need in cardiology for improved diagnostic images to guide invasive and non-invasive treatment.
• One of the fundamental challenges in PET cardiology diagnostics is the global scarcity of tracers.
• MedTrace has developed a solution that enables the practical incorporation of the gold-standard radiotracer, 15O-water, for PET cardiology imaging.
• MedTrace’s beachhead will be in the inefficiently-served Myocardial Ischemia market.
Rune Wiik Kristensen, COO, MedTrace | Martin Stenfeldt, CEO, MedTrace | Dennis Ford, Founder & CEO, Life Science Nation | Lucy Parkinson, VP of Investor Research, Life Science Nation
A corporate venture arm of a leading electronic solutions provider looks at life sciences as one of their main focus areas. The firm focuses on strategic investments in which the corporate could bring significant value, and those that supplement the corporate’s business areas. The firm invests up to $10M over the lifetime of the company, usually between Series A to C rounds but looks even earlier for life science-related opportunities. The firm usually invests around $5M initially and reserves capital for follow-on investment. The corporate has a global footprint, with manufacturing plants throughout USA, China, and Thailand. The firm is open to global opportunities including those in rapidly growing markets like China and India. The firm is expecting to close 3 new investments in Q1 2019.
Within the early-stage life sciences ecosystem, the firm is most interested in novel drug delivery systems with target indications including oncology, cardiovascular, diabetes, and COPD. The firm also has a strong interest in technologies with a connected health component. The firm is open to all early-stage opportunities that are relevant to the firm’s focus areas, but those who do not yet have a working prototype would be considered too early for the firm. The firm is open to all classes of devices including 510k and PMA.
The firm can act as either the lead or co-investor. The firm would prefer to see companies that already have some sort of commercial engagement established. The firm aims to bring strategic value into their portfolio companies, such as working on product design and development. If the company already has such manufacturing partnership established, it is unlikely for the firm to invest in the company.
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A global investment firm founded in 2005 has about $300 AUM and invests in a wide variety of sectors, with healthcare being one of the major areas of interest. The firm can invest anywhere from $0.25 – 25M, depending on the company’s stage of development. Currently, the firm is primarily investing in USA-based opportunities.
The firm is opportunistic in terms of technology and indication and will consider all types of technologies with high growth potential, in therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health sectors. The firm is the largest stakeholder in a late-clinical-stage therapeutics company, but the firm is certainly open to pre-clinical therapeutics companies as well.
The firm no specific management team requirements. The firm often leads investment rounds, but is also open to co-investing.
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A venture capital firm based in Hangzhou, China makes early-growth stage investments, preferably in series A and B, but will consider series C. The firm typically invests USD 1-30 million per company. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in China, but is open to outstanding Chinese-led companies based in the US and Canada. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.
In the life sciences, the firm currently considers therapeutics and diagnostics in bone/joint diseases, renal diseases, autoimmune disease, cancer, and fibrosis. The firm is especially interested in immunotherapy, gene editing, and stem cell therapy that have preclinical data. Clinical data is desired, but not required.
The firm typically seeks Chinese-led teams with strong technical expertise and industry experience. The firm may request a board seat on a case-by-case basis.
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An investment firm with offices in the West and East Coasts invests in startups in highly regulated industries, including healthcare. The firm is interested in making investments at the seed and early venture stages; seed investments are typically $1-3 million. The firm invests globally.
The firm invests in digital health, and the firm is also interested in investing in early stage therapeutics. In the digital health space, the firm is primarily focused on technologies used by consumers/patients, and prefers to invest in companies that have revenues of at least $1 million or several customers and demonstrated product/market fit. In therapeutics, the firm is interested in preclinical technologies; the firm is open to investing in any therapeutic modality including cell and gene therapies. The firm is interested in oncology, immunology and diabetes, and will consider investing in other indication areas as well; however, antibiotics are not of interest. The firm may also consider investing in novel molecular diagnostics, provided there is a strong scientific component to the technology.
The firm is focused on investing in early stage companies, and typically invests in startups with under 15 staff. The firm focuses on finding the right team and the right science, and is interested in investing in early stage therapeutics in order to fund those companies through proof of concept studies.
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