3 American Healthcare Venture Capital Investors

The healthcare / medical sectors continue to be the main sectors attracting investment capital. The trend is expected to continue due to growing demand from the ageing population, international opportunities and development of new technologies. 

When comes to investment capital for healthcare related businesses – investors are categorized into: 

1. 1) Those invest exclusively in R&D opportunities in biotech & life-science, drug developments, 
2. 2) Those invest in healthcare & e-health related technologies, which often include technology venture capital investors and 
3. 3) General investors which have been investing in medical or healthcare services companies. 

Here are some companies based in North America that are active in these sectors. 

Vanguard Ventures

Vanguard Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs build pioneering technology and life science companies.

Since 1981, Vanguard Ventures has invested in over 120 companies, 30 of which have had notable success, including public companies such as Advanced Fibre Communications, Cobalt Networks, Ciena, Endotherapeutics, Network Appliance, and ZipRealty.

With each of these companies, Vanguard invested in the first round of venture financing. 

Lifescience is one of Vanguard’s major investment focus, its investments include life-science companies, medical devices and pharmaceutical related R&D opportunities.

Advanced Technology Ventures

Founded in 1979, Advanced Technology Ventures is a bi-coastal venture capital firm with more than $1.4 billion in capital under management.

In terms of its healthcare investments – its portfolio includes Life Science & Medical Devices - it is looking for opportunities in the following segments: Next-generation Biologics, Targeted Drug Delivery, Immunomodulation, Therapy Enabling Technologies and E-health.

Examples of companies it invests include: Hydra Biosciences, which is a company developing novel therapeutics based on two innovative discovery platforms: regenerative therapeutics that reprogram a patient's own cells to restore damaged or injured tissue without scarring; and proprietary ion channel modulators. 

GI Dynamics is an early stage medical device company based in Newton, Mass. that is developing novel approaches to treat obesity. It currently holds around 20 biotechnology companies in its investment portfolio.

Collinson Howe & Lennox (CHL Medical Partners)

CHL Medical Partners is a premier venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with entrepreneurs and inventors to create and finance innovative biotechnology, molecular diagnostic, healthcare service and medical device companies. 

It has invested in and grown more than 80 start-ups, it is currently investing from its sixth fund, the $120 million CHL Medical Partners III, L.P.

Recent investments include: Dicom Grid, which provides a system for storing, searching, retrieving and sharing radiologic images in a secure fashion over the internet; Valeritas, which develops a disposable insulin pump for Type 2 diabetics and many more. 

Its current investments include a diversified portfolio of companies in the medical devices and drug development. 

American & Global Biotechnology Capital Providers Guide

Please check out our American Medical Investors Guide and Global Biotechnology Capital Providers Guide – these databases contain over 1,000 venture capital & private equity firms active in the medical sectors. 

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