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Tutela Industries is a Health IT startup developing patient-centric mHealth solutions to reduce readmissions and significantly enhance patient engagement. Tutela has developed a proprietary and breakthrough low cost, secure framework, TutelaConnect™, for hospital-based clinicians to communicate (voice, video, and data) securely to remote caregivers, both outside and inside the hospital environment. Even though a majority of hospitals have implemented electronic health records for identifiable patient data exchange within the hospital, the secure HIPAA compliant capture and exchange of unstructured patient information outside the hospital remains a challenge, impacting decision making, care coordination and informed consent.

In a recent benchmark data security report, over 90% report that their number one security risk is the unsecure exchange of patient information (phone, text. email) initiated from inside the hospital. 88% of hospitals attribute data breaches to employee negligence and the lack of mobile device security. The cost of these breaches exceeds $5.6 Billion per year, averaging $1M per year per hospital. Most hospitals are still struggling to create a unified communication strategy that meets stringent security, HIPAA compliance requirements while meeting clinical workflow and ease of use demands. Ubiquitous solutions are not cloud-based which makes the use case for patient engagement costly, complicated and difficult to scale. Ultimately, restricting the use to the few and not the many. The worldwide available market for interactive patient engagement solutions exceeds $2.3B and the initial target market, the high-risk Neonatal Intensive Care is estimated at $160 Million. The TutelaConnect™ Platform, can enter the market within current reimbursement and regulatory environments, and is ready to launch H2 2015 through sales to the first  pilot hospitals.

The competitive landscape includes large players in adjacent markets; Cisco/PolyCom for enterprise video solutions; Phillips, medical device manufacturer for remote monitoring, and electronic health record companies, Cerner and EPIC. Small niche players, Mommy’s Ear, Angels Eye and NICView offer limited pieces of a unified patient engagement communication tool.  None to date provide a cloud-based, platform agnostic, secure and HIPAA compliant method that eliminates costly licenses, expensive hardware and ongoing endpoint configuration and IT support requirements.

A strong competive position, highly differentiated use cases, a clear Freedom to Operate and patent potential, as well as, a highly experienced management team, early traction and favourable regulatory trends provide a great opportunity for success.

Twin Cities Angels is an angel group that was founded in 2006 that is based in Minnesota. The group has raised two funds that are The Twin Cities Angels Fund I and II. The second fund is currently looking to invest in emerging companies. The group typically provides seed and venture capital ranging from $ 25.000 to $2 million to life science companies. The group plans to invest in 4 to 6 companies per year. Twin Cities Angels seeks to invest in companies based in the Twin Cities Area of Minneapolis/St. Paul, the state of Minnesota and within a reasonable distance, such as Western Wisconsin, Northern Iowa, and Eastern Dakotas.

Ventac Partners is a dedicated life science investment and consulting firm with offices in Europe, USA and Asia. Ventac Partners has a strong track record in founding new innovative companies, fund raising and supporting M&A transactions.

All partners are experienced and hands-on life science entrepreneurs with proven track-record in successfully starting, funding, growing and expanding international life science companies.

VC fund focusing on investments in Switzerland and surounding areas

Vital Venture Capital, founded in 2007, is a venture capital firm with offices in: Simsbury, CT; Bethesda, MD; Philadelphia, PA; Naples, FL; and Lincolnshire, IL. The firm focuses on B2B, SaaS software, medical devices, and diagnostics. The firm seeks opportunities that provide some degree of investment loss protection through strong intellectual property. The firm’s target investment size is $1-3M for each portfolio company spread over 1-3 rounds. The firm invests in companies that are based in the US. The firm is actively seeking new investment opportunities.

Volcano Capital is a family office/venture capital firm based in New York. The firm manages an evergreen fund that operates free from the constraints of traditional venture capital funds. The firm seeks to make seed, venture, and growth equity investments in early to mid-stage medical device companies, but will also consider secured debt to help revenue generating companies with short term cash flow issues. The firm will also consider pre-seed investments. The firm can allocate anywhere from $1M to $10M per company, but generally allocates around $8M. The firm typically does 3 rounds of financing with an initial investment of around $3M. The firm is geographically agnostic, but highly prefers to invest in companies that are based in the US. The firm seeks to make about 3-4 allocations in the next 6-9 months.

Volcano Capital is currently looking for medical device companies with a strong emphasis on products with a 510(k) regulatory pathway. In terms of subsectors, the firm is looking for products specifically in the areas of interventional radiology and cardiology, spine/orthopedics and minimally invasive surgery. The firm is generally opportunistic in terms of indication.

Our clients are early-stage biotechnology, medical device, diagnostics and pharmaceutical service companies. When we begin working with a client they are frequently looking to complete proof-of-concept studies, secure intellectual property and other critical preliminary tasks. Typically we raise the first round ($1 - $5 million of capital) needed to accomplish these milestones, usually, but not always from angel investors. After key milestones have been achieved using that money, we generally follow by raising a second round of $5-20 million, usually institutional money, for development and growth

By working this way, we increase our clients' success rate raising capital and building their companies and the returns to the investors we bring into those companies. We have raised over $80 million in early stage funding for our clients (in Seed, Series A and Series B rounds) and delivered realized returns, so far, over $500 million—a realized return to date of over 6X—to the investors who provided that early stage capital, with a number of the companies still driving towards an exit that may increase that figure. Realized (cash-on-cash) internal rates of return for a hypothetical investor who participated in each round of financing offered by WG&A to date exceeds 65% annually.

WuXi Venture Fund is the corporate venture arm of WuXi AppTec, a multinational CRO based in Shanghai China with multiple offices across China and the United States. The fund makes equity investments into technology and life science companies to enhance or leverage WuXi AppTec's platform capabilities. The investment size will be varied based on a case-by-case basis. The firm invests in life science companies across the globe with an emphasis in China and the US.