Somos un fondo de capital riesgo especializado en proyectos early-stage del sector salud: biotecnología, dispositivos médicos y salud digital.
Invivo Ventures está gestionado por Invivo Capital Partners, gestora fundada por Luis Pareras y Albert Ferrer, con la experiencia adquirida a través del primer fondo Healthequity. El fondo fue registrado en la Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores en marzo de 2019 y ha realizado un cierre final de 60 millones de euros.
Somos un equipo de profesionales con experiencia complementaria, con el know-how científico-técnico y financiero necesario para analizar y realizar inversiones aportando valor a la empresa participada. Además, disponemos de una amplia red de contactos y de relaciones estratégicas claves en el ecosistema sanitario.
Contamos con la financiación del European Investment Fund, el Instituto de Crédito Oficial, el Institut Català de Finances, el Institut Valencià de Finances y el Ajuntament de Barcelona, además de inversores privados.
Proyectos
Buscamos proyectos que reúnan los siguientes requisitos:
Tamaño de inversión
Situamos las inversiones iniciales en el rango de medio millón a dos millones de euros, y al cumplir los retos preestablecidos podemos alcanzar hasta los cuatro millones de euros.
Estado de desarrollo
Apostamos por compañías en etapas iniciales, principalmente en fase de transferencia de tecnología. En el caso de las empresas biotecnológicas, buscamos que tengan una sólida prueba de concepto en modelos animales; y en el de compañías de dispositivos médicos o salud digital, que dispongan de un prototipo cercano al mercado.
Foco geográfico
Invertimos en España una cantidad significativa de los fondos recaudados, y un porcentaje menor en empresas de otros países europeos.
Sector
Queremos diversificar los riesgos invirtiendo en compañías en diferentes etapas y subsectores dentro del área biomédica, como biotecnología, dispositivos médicos y salud digital.
Healthequity es una sociedad de capital riesgo especializada en proyectos early-stage del sector salud. Es un fondo promovido por el Colegio Oficial de Médicos de Barcelona y el grupo financiero Riva y Garcia. Healthequity fue registrado en la CNMV y fundado en el año 2012.
Terminó su período de inversión a principios 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
Fondo financiado por FEDER:
