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Novartis Venture Fund

Our primary focus is on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms. We balance 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 build 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 will increase our activities to lead or co-lead deals further and remain open to participate in larger syndicates.

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New therapeutics & platforms Medical devices/implants Diagnostics/biomarkers Drug delivery/biopolymers Geography

USA/Canada Europe Switzerland Asia/Pacific

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Oxagen 11/09Series C$26.7M9
Cellerix 11/09Unattributed$40.5M6
Nabriva Therapeutics 10/09Unattributed$22M4
GlycoMimetics 10/09Unattributed$38M4
PharmAbcine 9/09Series A$6M4
Akebia Therapeutics 9/09Series A$16M5
Opsona 6/09Series B$4.6M6
Tokai Pharmaceuticals 6/09Series D$22M2
NovImmune 5/09Series D$54.8M7
Visiogen 5/09Series D$40M7
Intradigm Corporation 1/09Series B$21.4M8
FORMA Therapeutics 1/09Unattributed$25M2
NovImmune 5/00Series A$14M2

Videos

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  1. Oxagen rounds up $26.7M in VC (fiercebiotech.com) [edit]
  2. PRNewswire (sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com) [edit]
  3. Nabriva hauls in $22M in fresh VC funds (fiercebiotech.com) [edit]
  4. GlycoMimetics lands $38M round to fund new trials (fiercebiotech.com) [edit]
  5. PharmAbcine Closes USD $6 Million Series A Financing (bio-medicine.org) [edit]
  6. Akebia Therapeutics, Inc.: Series A $16M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  7. Opsona Therapeutics, Ltd.: Series B $4.6M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  8. Tokai Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Series D $22M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  9. NovImmune, SA: Series C $54.8M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  10. Visiogen, Inc.: Series D $40M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  11. Intradigm Corporation Closes Final Tranche of $21.4 Million Series B Financing; Philip Haworth, Ph.D. Appointed Chief Executive (fiercebiotech.com) [edit]
  12. Forma Therapeutics bucks trend, raises $25m from investors (boston.com) [edit]
  13. Company History (novimmune.com) [edit]
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