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Celladon is funded by high-quality venture investors in life sciences including Pfizer Venture Investments, Lundbeckfond Ventures, Novartis Venture Funds, H&Q Healthcare/Life Sciences Investors, and GBS Venture Partners, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, and Venrock Associates.
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Pfizer Venture Investments (PVI), the venture capital arm of Pfizer Inc, was founded in 2004 and invests for return in areas of current or future strategic interest to Pfizer. PVI seeks to remain at the forefront of life science advances, looking to identify and invest in emerging companies that are developing compounds and technologies that have the potential to enhance Pfizer's pipeline and shape the future of our industry. In addition to Celladon, PVI's portfolio includes: Ablexis, Aquinox, Avid, Clovis Oncology, DVS, Evolution Benefits, Flexion, Genomic Health, Handylab, HD Biosciences, M2S, Merus, Neuronetics, NeuroTherapeutics Pharma, Nodality, NovoCure, and TetraLogic
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Lundbeckfond Ventures is an evergreen life science venture fund established and wholly owned by the Lundbeck Foundation in the autumn of 2009. The structure as an open evergreen fund allows flexibility in the investment approach and the possibility, when appropriate, to take a long-term perspective in the investments. On an annual basis, Lundbeckfond Ventures invests in the order of € 30-50 million but will from time to time engage in larger investments through additional financial resources from the Lundbeck Foundation. The firm makes both venture and growth equity investments in both private and public companies and takes an active role in the companies invested in, typically taking board seats. Lundbeckfond Ventures invests mainly in Europe but also in the US and is a financially driven fund operating independently from the Lundbeck Foundation's controlling ownerships in H. Lundbeck, ALK-Abelló and Falck.
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Novartis Venture Funds is one of the world's most active corporate investment funds with over $700MM under management. We seek out investments in innovative life science concepts for patient benefit creating attractive returns for entrepreneurs and investors. Our primary focus is on tnimal health. We enhance the therapeutic focus with investments in medical devices, diagnostics or drug delivery systems. In our investments we look for unmet need and clinical impact, novel proprietary science and understanding of mechanism, management and board experience and capital efficiency in the program. We prefer to have our initial investment at the early stage to builhe development of novel therapeutics, and platforms for human health and we have recently extended our reach into ad the company and follow with additional investment in pace with the company's progress. We continue our approach of larger focused investments and anticipate total investments up to USD 15 – 20 mio per company over its life, but it can be as little as 100'000 USD to get started. We lead or co-lead deals and remain open to participate in larger syndicates
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Hambrecht & Quist Capital Management, LLC ("HQCM"), a registered investment adviser based in Boston, Massachusetts, is currently the investment adviser for two closed-end equity funds, H&Q Healthcare Investors and H&Q Life Sciences Investors. The Funds invest in growth equities, both public and private, in the healthcare and life sciences industries.
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GBS Venture Partners (GBS) is a leading life science venture capital firm. Founded in 1996, GBS invests in young businesses which will make a significant difference to patients' lives and deliver financial returns for our investors. Our areas of particular interest and expertise include human healthcare, biotechnology product development and life science start-ups. GBS invests in private or public companies whether at start-up or later stages of company development. Our investors include major Australian superannuation funds. |
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Founded in 1985 in Southern California, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital invests in early stage technology companies in the life sciences, networks, semiconductors and computing, and software and services. The firm is currently investing its sixth fund and manages over $1.0 billion in capital. and follow the firm on Twitter at @venrock. |
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Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation. Organized in 1973, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) is the venture capital subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. JJDC makes private equity investments in venture funded health care companies. Portfolio companies include those in the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics and consumer products. JJDC also leads and manages internal investments in selected promising technologies. |
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Venrock is a leading venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, CA; New York, NY; and Cambridge, MA. Originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, Venrock continues an eight-decade tradition of partnering with entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies. With a primary focus on technology, healthcare, and energy, portfolio companies have included Adify, Adnexus Therapeutics, Apple Computer, Athenahealth, Centocor, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, Gilead Sciences, Idec Pharmaceuticals, Illumina, Intel, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Sirna Therapeutics, StrataCom, and Vontu. For more information, please visit Venrock’s website at www.venrock.com and follow the firm on Twitter at @venrock. |
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