Mesa Verde Venture Partners United States

Mesa Verde Venture Partners is a Venture Capital company founded in 2006. The firm is currently making investments out of its 2nd fund that had its first close in 2013. The firm makes primarily equity investment into seed and early stage rounds ranging from $500,000 to $1 million initially and up to $1.5 million over the lifetime of the investment. The firm is focused on companies located in the Southwestern United States although they are open to review companies from throughout the US. The firm could make as many as 3 new investments over the next 6-9 months.

Year Founded
2006
Investor Type
Biotech Phase of Development
Medtech Phase of Development
Capital Structure Preference
Investment Stage Preference
Carey Ng
Managing Director 
Randy Berholtz
Senior Advisor 

Mid Atlantic Bio Angels

Mid Atlantic Bio Angels (MABA) founded in 212 is an angel investor group based in the New York City area which focuses exclusively on new and emerging life science companies. The group places no geographical restrictions or requirements for presenting companies as long as meaningful and effective post-investment monitoring of these companies can be achieved, MABA has considered opportunities in Europe and Israel as well as across the USA and Canada. Since the members are investing their own capital the investment size is highly flexible and will depend on the financial needs of the company. The capital structure is typically in preferred stocks or convertible notes in qualified cases. The group prefers to invest in companies with valuations of less than $5M. As MABA prefers opportunities that can be entirely angel-financed MABA generally requires that companies can achieve exit with $15 million capital or under (generally after raising a Series B round but no further rounds).

Bernard Rudnick
Founder 

MidCap Financial LLC

MidCap Financial is a commercial finance firm that was founded in 28 with offices in Bethesda MD Chicago IL and Los Angeles CA. The firm focuses on providing debt financing solutions to healthcare companies. The firm generally provides loans of around $15 million and is involved in approximately 15 new deals each year. The firm considers companies located around globe.
Josh Groman
Managing Director 
James Taylor
Director 

New Leaf Venture Partners

New Leaf Venture Partners is a venture capital company formed in 25 with offices in New York and San Mateo California. The firm currently manages two funds with its most recent fund having closed at $45 million in 27. The firm is looking to make equity investments ranging from $1-$25 million over the lifetime of the investment. The firm looks for companies primarily in the United States and some select opportunities in Europe. The firm plans to make between 1-5 investments over the next year.
Mike Dybbs
Principal 
Sunil Shah
Partner 
Prashant Shah
Partner 

ORIGIMM Biotechnology Austria

ORIGIMM is a young, ambitious Austrian biotech company striving to become a market leader in the treatment of acute and chronic infectious diseases, and dermatological conditions associated with various pathogens.

ORIGIMM is developing the worldwide first therapeutic vaccine for treatment of acne vulgaris; the disease with enormous market potential, afflicting 85% of teenagers and more than 20% of adults below 40 years of age.

Using its proprietary ProVaDis® technology platform ORIGIMM overcomes the challenges in vaccine and immune therapy development by early focus on protective efficacy of antigens in the context of human disease. This translates into a rapid selection of best, most protective candidates with a significantly improved success in clinical trials. ProVaDis platform enables ORIGIMM to rapidly build its product portfolio in many other lucrative areas.

Website:
www.origimm.com
Year Founded
2014 (Seed phase/LLC), 2012 (pre-Seed,o.p.)
Biotech Subsector
Biotech Phase of Development
Technology Overview
Proprietary functional immunologic screening platform which enables rapid and reliable identification of best antigens and vaccine or mAb candidates.
Alliance & Collaborations
Clinicians and scientific KOLs. Initiation stage (pharmaceutical companies).
Supporting Metrics or Evidence
Proof of principle completed; priority patent application submitted and approved, high industrial interest
Current Financing Needs
$1.5 M
Current Timeline
Acne vaccine clinical phase start (2017). Vaccine candidate antigens against second indication selected (2017).
Current Investors
No private investors yet. Financed by the founders and public funds.
IP Status
Technology patent priority date 2014 (2015). Acne vaccine antigens patent pending (Q1/2015).
Recent Milestones
Technology POC completed. Acne vaccine candidates identified. Successful fund raising from several public research institutions supporting high technology development.
Management Team Highlights
Sanya SELAK, PhD – Founder, inventor and CEO. 20+ years of international scientific and industrial experience in antigen discovery, validation and immunology. Author of many publications, recipient of many scientific and funding awards and inventor on several patents. Tamás BERKE MD, MSc – Co-founder and COO. Physician, trained in pediatric infectious diseases, molecular virology, and a biotech professional with 20+ years of scientific and industry experience in project management during all stages of pre-clinical and clinical vaccine development. Thomas FISCHER MBA – CFO. Serial entrepreneur since his university degree 25 years ago. Thomas has dedicated know-how and experience in strategy building, fundraising, business and corporate development, finance and administrative affairs.
Dr Sanya Selak
Dr Sanya Selak
LinkedIn logo CEO 

Pappas Ventures

Pappas Ventures is a Venture Capital company based in Durham North Carolina founded in 1994. The firm manages 4 funds for a total of approximately $35 million in assets under management. The firms is currently investing out of its $1 million 4th fund focused exclusively on the life sciences. The firm looks to provide up to $5 million of preferred equity capital in the initial round and up to $1 million over the life of the investment. The firm is very flexible in terms of period to exit but generally looks to exit in around 5 years. The firm plans to make 2-3 investments over the next 6-9 months and will consider companies throughout North America.
Jayson Punwani
Associate 

PBM Capital Group

PBM Capital is a hybrid family office and operating company based in Charlottesville Virginia with an additional office in New York City. The firm is funded and led by the successful life science entrepreneur Paul Manning who started and sold several companies in his career. The firm can make investments ranging from approximately $5 to $1 million into companies and due to its funding structure has no requirements for holding period or capital structure. The firm makes investments in the forms of equity controlling interest in-licensing MBO/LBO growth capital and is also willing to co-invest. The firm is looking for companies located around the globe and makes around 5-15 investments in a given year.
Jayson Rieger
SVP of Business Development & Portfolio Management 

Pharmatek United States

Pharmatek is a contract development & manufacturing company providing dosage form development & cGMP manufacturing of oral, injectable & topical products. Founded in 1999, our services focus on the rapid advancement of small molecule & peptide drug candidates from the bench to the clinic & include:

·         Formulation & Analytical Development

·         cGMP Manufacturing

·         Clinical Packaging, Labeling & Worldwide Distribution

 

Our experience includes first-in-man strategies, solutions for poorly soluble compounds, controlled release formulations & separate facilities for the handling of cytotoxic & potent compounds.  Pharmatek’s drug delivery technologies include:

·         Solid Dispersions

·         Particle Size Reduction

·         Lipid Delivery

·         Complexation

·         Lyophilization

·         Suspensions & Emulsions

Pharmatek’s 68,000 sq. ft. facility includes 9 class 100,000 cGMP manufacturing suites, formulation & analytical laboratories, & ICH stability storage.  Pharmatek has over 150 clients globally, ranging from virtual to large pharmaceutical companies. Having manufactured product for clinical trials in the North America, Europe & Asia; Pharmatek has successfully completed several large pharma quality, EH&S & QP audits.

Mr Tim Scott
Mr Tim Scott
LinkedIn logo President 

Plug and Play Tech Center United States

Plug and Play Ventures (a successor fund to Amidzad Partners) is a private/family investment vehicle based in Silicon Valley, CA. The fund is a structured organization for making angel investments in pre-seed or seed rounds. Investments are in the form of equity; in the next 6 months Plug and Play Ventures expects to make about 5-10 seed investments of $50,000-100,000 and an additional 40 pre-seed investments of $25,000, and is hoping to increase their allocations in the healthcare sector. Plug and Play also provides a three-month accelerator program. The firm will consider investing in companies worldwide.

Plug and Play Ventures is interested in investing in medical technology, and invests in subsectors in which the firm can apply expertise; typically this means products that have a significant software component. Healthcare IT, biosensors, wearables and health monitoring devices are of interest. While the firm is open to investing in any indication, Plug and Play is particularly interested in diabetes & blood glucose monitoring, personal fitness, and mental/behavioral disorders. In the healthcare IT sector, Plug and Play Ventures is interested in both consumer applications and enterprise software, but is not interested in diagnostic software such as genomic, proteomic, or molecular diagnostic algorithms; however, optimization and data analysis software for hospitals and diagnostic laboratories is of interest.

Phillip Vincent
Corporate Partnerships Manager