River Cities Capital Funds United States

River Cities Capital Fund is a private equity firm founded in 1994 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The firm manages approximately $500 million under management and is currently investing out of its 2014 vintage $200 fund. The firm looks to make investments of $5-$15 million initially up to $20 million over the investments lifetime. The firm is willing to invest throughout the United States and is looking to make approximately 4-6 equity investments over the next 6 to 9 months.

Rik Vandevenne
Director 

RiverVest Venture Partners United States

RiverVest Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that was founded in 2000 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri with additional office in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm currently has managed over $208 million of total assets. RiverVest has raised two investment funds with total committed capital of $165 million since inception. The recent fund closed at $75 million. RiverVest typically makes equity investments into global companies, and has no specific geographic preferences. The firm will consider making investments at all the stages, and focuses on investments in seed, early-stage and select later-stage companies. The typical investment size is around $6 million, though the firm can invest more or less, depending on the opportunity. 

RiverVest is extremely opportunistic when it comes to investments in the life sciences space; with that being said RiverVests specified sectors and sub sectors of interest may or may not be an area in which RiverVest is currently looking to allocate capital to. The firm invests in companies in the biotech therapeutics and diagnostics, as well the medical technology space. 

Some of the firms investments have included companies developing biotech therapeutics and diagnostics targeting diseases of the blood and blood forming organs, neoplasms, cancer, and oncology, skin and subcutaneous tissue, cardiovascular diseases, diseases of the ear, and infectious diseases. The firm has also invested in companies developing anti-body based therapeutics. The firm has also invested in firms developing medical technologies such as therapeutic radiation devices, active implantable devices, non active implantable devices, hospital hardware, and imaging devices.

Year Founded
2000
Investor Type
Medtech Phase of Development
Capital Structure Preference
Investment Stage Preference
Karen Spilizewski
VP 

Safeguard Scientifics

Safeguard Scientifics is a publicly traded capital deployment firm founded in 1953 and is based in Wayne PA. The firm makes deployments from an evergreen fund and is actively seeking new investments in the healthcare sector. Initial equity placements are typically of $5-1m with the potential for a total allocation of $2-25m over the life of an investment. The firm focuses on North America with a concentration in the Mid-Atlantic and San Francisco Bay Area regions. Deployments are made at a range of stages from early-stage to growth expansion and recapitalization. Safeguard Scientifics prefers to be a sizable minority investor.
Gary Kurtzman
Managing Director 

Sanus Advisory Asia Singapore

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.

Dr Ronald Ling
LinkedIn logo Managing Director 

Teijin Pharma Ltd. United States

Teijin Pharma Ltd. has unique profiles managing pharmaceutical and home healthcare products and also strong value chaines from basic research to sales, maintenance and follow up to patients in both business divisions.

We are actively dedicating to look for opportunities to collaborate with the US companies including startups, instituites and investors to introduce products/technologies into JP market with some amounts of investments for the best collaborations.

We are focusing on areas of respiratory, cardiovascular, orthopedics, rehab and neurological diseases.

Mr Aki Maeda
Mr Aki Maeda
Manager of Business Development 

Texo Ventures United States

TEXO Ventures is a healthcare venture capital firm that was founded in 29 and is based in Austin Texas. The firm operates as a hybrid of angel and venture capital. The recent fund closed at $15.4 million in 212. The firm focuses on making equity investments in the Medical Technology and Healthcare IT spaces at near commercialization or early commercialization stage. The firm typically invests ranging from $3 million to $5 million into a company. The firm plans to make 2-3 investments over the next 6-9 month. TEXO Ventures is open to consider companies across the US. The firm primarily focuses on healthcare which includes Health IT Technology  enabled Health Services Chronic Disease Management Managed Care and Benefit Design. Although medical devices and functional diagnostics are considered for investment purposes Texo Ventures must see a clear regulatory pathway and obvious synergies with healthcare reform within a company. The firm's current investment portfolio includes companies in the area of medical technology. Within this field they are in areas such as diagnostic and therapeutic radiation devices electro mechanical medical devices re-usable instruments biomaterials and non-active implantable.

Philip Sanger
Managing Partner 

TYLT Lab

TYLT Lab was founded in 213 and has offices in Santa Monica CA and in Hong Kong. TYLT Lab invests across a variety of sectors including biotech and medical technology and will be raising a second fund in 215. TYLT Lab typically invests $5-$1 million and prefers to invest in seed or Series A rounds. The firm makes up to 12 allocations per year and is interested in opportunities globally, companies developing products that can impact healthcare delivery in emerging markets such as China or India are of particular interest.
Gerard Casale
Managing Director 
Jagannath Samavedam
Senior Principal 

VI Partners Switzerland

VC fund focusing on investments in Switzerland and surounding areas

Investor Type
Biotech Phase of Development
Medtech Phase of Development
Capital Structure Preference
Investment Stage Preference
Arnd Kaltofen
General Partner 
Diego Braguglia
General Partner 

VisionScope Technologies United States

VisionScope Technologies (VSI) is an early stage medical device company utilizing state of the art video hardware, micro-optics (1.4mm) and advanced computational software to bring arthroscopic imaging to the surgeon’s office. The company’s VisionScope Imaging (VSI) system brings gold standard accuracy into the clinic, providing surgeons with direct visualization of patients’ joint space – views that could previously only be achieved in the operating room – providing better outcomes at a lower cost to both MRI and OR based diagnostics.

 Benefits of VSI:    

·     High definition quality of a VSI diagnostic can eliminate the need for a MRI and rule out OR based diagnostic surgery

·     More detailed and accurate than a MRI for joint conditions

·     Significantly reduces the cost of care for individuals and overall healthcare systems

·     Patient centric exam – the patient participates in treatment discussion

Website:
www.myvsi.com
Year Founded
2007
Main Sector
Medtech Subsector
Medtech Phase of Development
Technology Overview
A needle endoscope (1.4mm diameter) houses a miniature fiberscope which allows complete inter-capsular diagnostics in a physician office setting. The endoscope is gently inserted into the joint space (capsule) with pictures and video projected onto a monitor for both the physician and patient to observe. The diagnostic takes place in an office exam room with only a local anesthesia (Lidocaine.) The exam takes less than 10 minutes and requires no stitches or recovery time.
Alliance & Collaborations
None
Supporting Metrics or Evidence
A multi-center, prospective, blinded clinical trial compared the accuracy and efficacy of VSI to MRI and surgical arthroscopy in the diagnosis of knee pathologies. The results: VSI is statistically equivalent to surgical diagnostic arthroscopy (the gold standard) and significantly more detailed and accurate than MRI.
Current Financing Needs
Seeking equity investments
IP Status
24 Issued patents on the core technology
Recent Milestones
Pivotal trial presentation at AOSSM (American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine)
Management Team Highlights
The leadership team has substantial orthopedics and med tech experience at Zimmer, Stryker, J&J DePuy (Hand Innovations), Intuitive Surgical and J&J Mitek (Innovasive Devices)
Hjalmar Pompe van Meerdervoort
CEO