Sanus Advisory Asia
Sanus Asia is a Singapore based advisory firm providing investment and transaction-related services across Asia with a focus on Healthcare and Life Sciences.
We work with investors and high potential companies to assist growth/development across Asia through capital raising and strategic/operational support.
We seek to identify high potential US/European Medtech and Digital Health companies with near-term commercialisation potential in Asia.
Will also consider earlier stage investments as a principal Angel investor if there is a strong Asian angle to the technology/business model.
Seroba Kernel Life Sciences
Seroba Kernel is a venture capital firm based in Dublin, Ireland, with representatives in the United Kingdom. The firm has approximately €100M AUM and focuses solely on the life sciences. The firm has 2 funds and plans to raise a third fund in the near future. The firm typically allocates between €5-7M of equity over the life of the investment. The firm primarily invests in companies that are based in Ireland and Europe. Exceptional opportunities in North America will also be considered. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.
Daniel O'Mahony
PartnerSofia Angel Fund
Sofia Angel Group is a group of angel investors based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The group solely focuses on investing in women-led businesses where women are the founders, or women are on the senior management team. Sofia Angel Group does not have a specific timeframe to make an investment, however would make an allocation by the end of 2013 if a compelling opportunity is identified. The group typically invests around $100,000 per company, however has the ability to invest up to $3 million through co-investments from the group’s members.
Barbara Nelsen
Sound Affects
Mona Jhaveri
Executive DirectorSTRATEC Biomedical AG
For more than 35 years STRATEC Biomedical AG is a business partner for the development and manufacture of fully automated analyzer systems. It's headquarter is located in Birkenfeld, Germany and it has nearly 500 employees in 5 locations worldwide. The public owned company has cooperations with 15 of the 20 IVD companies worldwide and has boosted its annual sales from USD 10.4 million in 1998 (IPO) to USD 122.4 million in 2014. STRATEC has strived to achieve market-leading expertise and to build a technology pool that is unique to its industry. The company invests in a variety of fields within the diagnostic and life science sector including medical devices.
Dr Claus Vielsack
Member Board of Management Product DevelopmentSubwave Sensing
Subwave Sensing is poised to be the future of fracture care by giving the traditional orthopaedic hardware market an infusion of intelligence that will improve patient outcomes, decrease treatment costs and fundamentally change how fracture care is treated in the United States.
Chad Ronholdt
President and CEOSymbient Product Development
Rapid Development of Injection Molded Medical Devices
From Concept Through Transfer-to-Manufacturing
Symbient specializes in engineering research and development, prototyping and design-for-manufacturing of innovative medical devices that use injection molded components. Our highly experienced team consists of mechanical and biomedical engineers, industrial designers, machinists and molding technicians. They leverage our in-house rapid prototyping, and prototype tooling fabrication and injection molding to create proven, manufacturable designs with unmatched speed, efficiency and precision. These designs make up our deep portfolio of over 300 successful devices that have collectively generated hundreds of millions of dollars. They include FDA Class I, II and III devices, developed under our ISO 13485 certified quality management system.
Our Services Include:
- Concept Development
- Development Engineering
- Design-for-Manufacturing
- Industrial Design
- Project Rescue
- Design Control per IOS 13485
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Design Verification Testing
- Test Method Development
- Transfer to Manufacturing
Our In-House Capabilities and Expertise Include:
- Stereolithography (SLA) Prototyping
- CNC Machining / Fabrication
- Prototype Mold Fabrication
- Prototype Injection Molding of Devices for Testing, Trials and Studies
- Liquid Injection Molded (LIM) Silicone Prototype Molding
- Product Reliability Testing
- Plastics Assembly Expertise: Ultrasonic and Laser Welding, Heat Sealing, Pressure Sensitive Adhesives, Swaging, Snap Fits, Press Fits, Interlocks.
- Speed: Prototype Molds in as little as 1 week and Modifications in as little as 1 Day
- Material Selection Expertise, Research and Testing to Ensure All Product Requirements Are Met.
Our Portfolio Includes:
- Diagnostics / Molecular Diagnostics
- Sample collection / preparation
- Life Sciences / Microfluidics
- OTC Consumer products
- Respiratory
- Surgical devices and clinical tools
- Drug Delivery
Lisa Coyne
Business Development ManagerLuke Helm
Director of Business DevelopmentSyncona Partners
Syncona Partners, founded in 2012, is an evergreen investment firm based in London, UK. The firm is an independent subsidiary of the Wellcome Trust who invested the initial £200m capitalization. The firm is mandated to invest in companies with the potential to make major breakthroughs in healthcare. The investment size will usually range from £1M – £20M per company. The firm seeks to create sustainable, profitable businesses, to support them with capital over the long term, for the benefit of patients, and to hold an ownership position to create value for the Wellcome Trust. The firm is actively screening new investment opportunities.
Chris Hollowood
PartnerTangen Biosciences
Tangen Biosciences is an early stage diagnostic instrument company that has developed a group of novel technologies that together enable rapid, portable, lab-free, and very low cost molecular diagnostics at the point of care.
The Tangen platform will amplify and detect specific nucleic acid sequences obtained from a variety of source samples, including clinical specimens such as blood, tissue and sputum, as well as environmental samples obtained from water, soil or food, for example. The first application of the Tangen platform is the detection and diagnosis of Tuberculosis using DNA extracted from sputum samples, using the Tangen Sputum Processing assay kit