Correlation Ventures United States

Correlation Ventures is a venture capital firm that founded in 2010 and is based in San Diego, California with an additional office in Palo Alto, California. The firm currently has approximately $165 million in total assets under management. The firm typically makes investments ranging from $0.25 million to $5 million over the life of the company, and the first investment will be not larger than $2.5 million. The firm’s preferred capital structure is convertible preferred equity or convertible loan. Correlation Ventures will consider invest in any industry segment at any stage, but there must be at least one other venture capital firm making their first investment in the company in this round. The firm only invests in US-based companies. 

Correlation is extremely opportunistic when it comes to investments in the life sciences space; with that being said the firm's specified sectors and sub sectors of interest may or may not be an area in which Correlation Ventures is currently looking to allocate capital to. The firm has made a number of investments in companies in the life sciences space, and has mainly invested in companies in the biotech therapeutics and diagnostics space. The firm's current portfolio includes biotech therapeutics and diagnostics firms developing products targeting endocrine, metabolic, and nutritional diseases, musculoskeletal system and connective tissue, neoplasms, cancer, and oncology, genitourinary system, and infectious and parasitic diseases.

Year Founded
2010
Investor Type
Medtech Phase of Development
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David Coats
Managing Director 

DavosPharma United States

DavosPharma’s corporate offering covers all the activities required to get a drug from conception to commercialization. DavosPharma has been filling this need since 1972, serving the pharmaceutical and life science market by providing discovery chemistry & biology, pre-clinical development, and all required CMC activities including custom synthesis of organic molecules, custom dosage formulation, and custom manufacturing of cGMP intermediates, APIs, and drug product. 

Gifford Marzoni
Vice-President Global Pharmaceutical Development 
Mike Shore
Director, Global Supply Chain & Technical Operations 

Delivering Scientific Innovation for Autism LLC United States

DELSIA is a "venture philanthropy" investment affilate of the research and advocacy foundation Autism Speaks. Our purpose is to transform lives by catalyzing the development and availability of innovative products.

DELSIA is a non-dilutive funding vehicle with the goal of improving outcomes for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). DELSIA aims to do this by enabling the translation of scientific breakthroughs and technological advances into products that improve health and quality of life for individuals with ASD and their families. 

Who and what do we invest in? DELSIA partners with for-profit companies to fund development activities necessary for delivering products that address the diverse unmet medical, behavioral health and quality of life needs of the autism community.

DELSIA accepts funding proposals from for-profit entities that include, but are not limited to:

• Entrepreneurs, start-up and small companies

• Life sciences, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies

• Software, computer and electronic technology companies

Dr Daniel Smith
Dr Daniel Smith
LinkedIn logo President 

Excel Venture Management United States

Excel Venture Management is a venture capital firm that was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm has managed one fund with committed capital of $125 million, and the firm is currently raising the second fund. Excel Venture Management seeks to make equity investments into life science companies from early to late stages. The typical investment size ranges from $3 million to $ 5million. The firm plans to invest in 4-5 companies over the next 6-9 months and prefers to invest in companies based in US.

Year Founded
2008
Investor Type
Medtech Phase of Development
Capital Structure Preference
Investment Stage Preference
Eric Zimmerman
Kevin Liang

Fusion Genomics Corporation Canada

Fusion Genomics Corp (FG) is a molecular diagnostic test  development company that is introducing diagnostic kits with companion analysis software that offer superior clinical information, faster turn-around-times and ease of use for hospitals and clinical laboratories. Fusion is the first of two companies in the world to bring a validated Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) diagnostic test complete with highly secure cloud based analytical service for childhood cancers (ChildSeq-RNA SRCT) into the clinic. This test was validated in the renowned medical testing facility at the Texas Children Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine.

FG is completing development of kits for facilitating absolute diagnosis of pediatric and adult blood cancers. In addition, FG has partnered with the Royal Tropical Institute (Dutch: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen; KIT) a World Health Organization reference diagnostic laboratory for infectious diseases to design the next generation of assays for the detection of infectious diseases including drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, influenza, hepatitis and hemorrhagic fevers including Ebola.

Year Founded
2013
Biotech Subsector
Medtech Subsector
Biotech Phase of Development
Medtech Phase of Development
Technology Overview

Fusion Genomics Corporation (FG) develops molecular diagnostic tests that utilize next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies. All of FG’s tests can be used with any of the widely adopted NGS instruments on the market. Data is analyzed using FGF’s secure FusionCloud, providing diagnosis –enabling DNA sequence information to the clinician.

Most NGS based diagnostic efforts can be divided into two categories: 1) whole genome sequencing (WGS), where the entire DNA of an individual (or a pathogen) is sequenced, and 2) target-capture sequencing (TCS), where only diseased portions of DNA are sequenced. TCS produces 1000 times less data than WGS. The expensive computational resources required for analysis of WGS data prevents it from being adopted for routine clinical use. Therefore, TCS is more suitable and appealing in frontline diagnostic environments.

TCS uses either PCR or “DNA baits” as the underlying technology to “capture” disease-specific regions of the genome. PCR-based methods suffer from limitations described earlier. FG uses proprietary Quantum ProbesTM, an enhanced form of DNA baits, in all its tests. Quantum ProbesTM allow for nearly limitless expansion of genetic targets and rapid development of new tests as well as patentable techniques that are beyond the capacity of PCR. The superior advantage of Quantum ProbeTM, coupled with FusionCloud analysis and reporting, will drive the successful adoption of the tests. 

Alliance & Collaborations
Texas Children Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, USA), British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (Vancouver, Canada), Royal Tropical Institute / Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Supporting Metrics or Evidence

The Fusion Genomics team published a very well received peer-reviewed publication which demonstrated that their technology was more sensitive, accurate, rapid and comprehensive than current industry standards such as PCR and FISH.  This study can be found at here.

Current Financing Needs

 $0.5-1M to complete seed round

Current Investors

Founders, board members, family and friends.

IP Status

Patent applications are pending.

Management Team Highlights

Fusion Genomics Corporation’s team has established expertise in next-generation sequencing, diagnostic test and software development, and information technology.

Mohammed Qadir, PhD., Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer has over 17 years of research experience; the last 10 were at the British Columbia Cancer Agency. As part of his early training, he worked with world-renowned experts in genomics and drug development and is the co-inventor of the ChildSeq assay and ChildDecode.

Greg Stazyk, Chief Technical Officer has over 20 years of experience in senior positions in the IT industry. Mr. Stazyk was the IT lead for one of Canada’s largest bioinformatics computing platform at the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre (GSC). Mr. Stazyk was the senior manager at PMC-Sierra Inc. responsible for its global computer systems operation.

Brian Kwok, VP of Product Development has close to 10 years of experience in molecular biology and genomic technologies including leading edge next-generation sequencing. Mr. Kwok has worked in combinatorial drug screening and led the development of the ChildSeq assay.

Dr. Poul Sorensen MD, PhD: Board member and clinical expert. Dr. Sorensen is a world-renowned pediatric pathologist and is the Johal Chair in Childhood Cancer Research at the University of British Columbia, as well as a professor in the Department of Pathology and a Senior Scientist at the BC Cancer Research Agency (Vancouver, Canada). Dr. Sorensen is also the Chair of the Translational Research committee of the Children’s Oncology Group.

Mohammed Qadir
Chief Scientific Officer 

Genrich

Genrich is a Multi-Family office founded and based in Long Beach California with additional offices in New York Toronto and London. The firm is looking to make equity and venture debt investments into companies in the life science space ranging from $2-$2 million over the lifetime of the investment often set up in tranches. Ideal candidates will be located 2 hours driving distance from one of the firm?s offices Boston and Chicago will also be considered. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.
John Nelson
Managing Director 

Green Park & Golf Ventures

Green Park & Golf Ventures (GPG) is a family office based in Dallas Texas. The firm was founded in 211 and is focused on healthcare companies. The firm makes seed venture and growth stage investments. The firm typically provides seed and Series A equity financing in the range of $1K to $1M per portfolio company. The firm generally acts as the lead investor and is open to invest in syndicates. The firm primarily invests in companies that are based in Texas but is open to opportunities across North America. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.
Clay Heighten
Founding Partner 
JR Garcia
Principal 
Carl Soderstrom
Founding Partner 

Hercules Technology Growth Capital Inc.

Hercules Technology Growth Capital is a Private Equity company founded in 23 Headquartered in Palo Alto California with additional offices in Boston Boulder New York and McLean. The firm manages an evergreen structure and primarily provides high-growth companies in the life science space with senior secured debt financing. The firm can allocate up to $5 million per investment. The firm is very flexible with deal structures that can be customized to help companies reach their key milestones. The firm primarily invests in companies headquartered in the US but has the ability to invest overseas as well.
Janice Borque
Managing Director Life Sciences 

Horizon Technology Finance United States

Horizon Technology Finance is a venture lending, investment and financial services management company that was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Farmington, Ct with additional offices in Walnut Creek, CA and Reston, VA. The firm controls approximately $200 million in assets under management and look to provide senior or subordinate loans to companies in the range of $2 to $20 million dollars, and often syndicates much larger deals. The firm prefers to lead or co-lead investments that they are involved in and looks to be involved in 15 deals in the next 6-9 months. The firm provides capital to companies located throughout the United States and Canada.

Year Founded
2003
Medtech Phase of Development
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Jerry Michaud

Life Science Equity Partners

Life Science Equity Partners is a private equity firm based in Palo Alto California. The firm is solely focused on life science investments. The firm will invest in companies at all stages including early-stage companies with products still in development and late-stage companies with revenue. The firm typically makes early stage investments with a 1 year exit strategy in mind. The investment size is highly variable depending on the stage of the company. The firm has the ability to invest globally with typical allocations made to companies in North America. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.
Michael Bianco
General Partner