Som un fons de capital risc especialitzat en projectes early-stage del sector salut: biotecnologia, dispositius mèdics i salut digital.
Invivo Ventures està gestionat per Invivo Capital Partners, gestora fundada per Luis Pareras i Albert Ferrer, amb l'experiència adquirida a través del primer fons Healthequity. El fons va ser registrat a la Comissió Nacional del Mercat de Valors (CNMV) el març de 2019 i ha realitzat un tancament final de 60 milions d'euros.
Som un equip de professionals amb experiència complementària, amb el know-how cientificotècnic i financer necessari per analitzar i realitzar inversions aportant valor a l'empresa participada. A més, disposem d'una àmplia xarxa de contactes i de relacions estratègiques clau en l'ecosistema sanitari.
Comptem amb el finançament de l'European Investment Fund, l’Instituto de Crédito Oficial, l'Institut Català de Finances, l’Institut Valencià de Finances i l'Ajuntament de Barcelona, a més d'inversors privats.
Projectes
Busquem projectes que reuneixin els següents requisits:
Rang d'inversió
Situem les inversions inicials en el rang de mig milió a dos milions d'euros, i en complir els reptes preestablerts podem arribar fins als quatre milions d'euros.
Estat de desenvolupament
Apostem per companyies en etapes inicials, principalment en fase de transferència de tecnologia. En el cas de les empreses biotecnològiques, busquem que tinguin una sòlida prova de concepte en models animals; i en el de companyies de dispositius mèdics o salut digital, que disposin d'un prototip proper al mercat.
Focus geogràfic
Invertim a Espanya una quantitat significativa dels fons recaptats, i un percentatge menor en empreses d'altres països europeus.
Sector
Volem diversificar els riscos invertint en companyies en diferents etapes i subsectors dins de l'àrea biomèdica, com biotecnologia, dispositius mèdics i salut digital.
Healthequity és una societat de capital risc especialitzada en projectes early-stage del sector salut. És un fons promogut pel Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona i el grup financer Riva y Garcia. Healthequity va ser registrat a la CNMV i fundat l'any 2012.
Va acabar el seu període d'inversió a principis de 2019.
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY FUTURE DIRECTIONS / Synthetic Biology offers new ways for engineering new biological systems or re-designing existing ones for useful purposes. It is a disruptive technology at the heart of the so-called Bioeconomy, capable of delivering new solutions to global healthcare, but also in many other fields like agriculture, manufacturing, and environmental challenges. Not long ago, in May 2010, a team of scientists led by Craig Venter achieved a synthetic biology milestone by designing the genes for a new type of bacteria and implanting them in a bacterial shell that had its genome removed. The empty cell behaved like a factory programmed with human-designed genetic code. It was the first living being to escape the evolutionary tree, with a computer-programmed genome synthesized by chemical compounds, implanted in a cell, and subsequently multiplied under the control of that artificial genetic code. It opened the way to extraordinary developments in biology and medicine that are starting to blossom now. But we have a lot of work ahead. This quick_note tries to systematize the progressive steps in our quest to design “therapeutic life” #quick_notes_lp
Solving real problems requires commitment and focus. Here’s some advice for scientists willing to become entrepreneurs, six things you should think about before embarking on your journey:
(1) UNDERSTAND BIOTECH ECOSYSTEM/ Be aware of what creates and what destroys value, and understand why VCs prefer good problems to solve, big clinical needs, accelerated regulatory pathways and a big delta in what the drug will do for patients: USE IT TO IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONING
(2) UNDERSTAND YOUR COMPANY/ Ask yourself what open questions still remain unsolved in your field (they’ll lead you to clinical needs), and see the landscape of strategies to solve your particular clinical need: are you competitive enough? STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD
(3) FROM SOLOIST TO ORCHESTRA/ Find the right CEO (maybe yourself, but some other times someone else more experienced) and the right team that will make it possible… At first the team will be small but always bear in mind entrepreneurship is not an individual game
(4) CONTACT YOUR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OFFICE (research center, hospital…) or alternatively experts and consultants to think carefully about the whole process, the intellectual property, some initial understanding of the regulatory pathway, license negotiations to spin out, etc.
(5) FINE TUNE PoC/ Find your WOW slide, the experimental setting and results that will convince everyone that this is worth doing and that your way of solving the problem actually works… You’ll probably need to further improve it after visiting VCs, yes, but always aim for top quality experiments
(6) FUNDRAISE / Go find capital (non-dilutive from grants first, if possible), understand how VCs will analyze your project and try to capture their attention. The process iterates non-stop, go back to (1) to further understand your sector and start again to perfect your pitch
#quick_notes_lp
Retinal diseases remain a difficult problem to solve because (1) the retina is in a sense a biological computer that needs to be properly “rewired”, (2) animal models are poor because they have no fovea, (3) the internal limiting membrane (ILM) limits delivery, and (4) regeneration of mammalian retinal is absent. However, very promising strategies are emerging, here is a conceptual map of the most interesting approaches to solve the problem. #quick_notes_lp
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