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List of 3 large HealthTech venture capital investors
The healthcare sector consist of businesses that offer medical services, equipment, and treatment. The healthtech sector is striving towards facilitating the provision of healthcare to patients around the world and improving current standards and situations. This article describes three interesting VC funds that aim to support the healthcare and digital health industry by investing in innovative startups.
1. HealthX Ventures (USA)
HealthX Ventures funds early-stage businesses that want to make healthcare more efficient and affordable, as well as safe and easy-to-use. A portfolio company, for example, is DotCom Therapy, who provide pediatric therapy, such as speech therapy, behavioral therapy, and occupational therapy, online. Another example is Moving Analytics, a virtual and remote cardiac rehab program.
2. Bionova Capital (Portugal)
Bionova Capital is a VC that was founded in 2015 with their headquarters in Lisbon. They are a healthcare-focused company that invests in early-stage startups across Europe. Specifically, they fund therapeutics, medtech and digital health applications. Adapttech is part of their portfolio. This UK-based project developed a new prosthetics fitting solution for lower limbs using a 3D scanner.
3. eHealth Ventures (Israel)
eHealth Ventures is an Israeli VC fund that focuses on digital health technology companies. They have reviewed 1400 companies and backed 15 portfolio companies in the process. One of them is TrainPain, a digital application for the pain management of chronic pain. Another portfolio company is SensoGenic, who are developing a biosensor that detects food allergens.
The increasingly important role of HealthTech startups in healthcare
Health tech startups have been playing an increasingly important role in the healthcare industry for several years. On the one hand, this is due to the possibility of increasing efficiencies and saving costs through digital services. On the other hand, health tech startups also offer completely new services that are only possible through the use of artificial intelligence and other data-driven methods. Venture capital investors who are interested in digital health startups partly come from the biotech environment and partly have a classical software background.
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Included information in our technology investor list
Our keyword analysis-based list includes the following general columns:
- Name of the VC fund
- Country of origin
- URL
- E-mail (general)
- Investment focus (if data available)
- Corporate VC (yes/no)
The following columns are based on the keyword crawler, which is a Python-based, in-house developed tool that crawls every page for at least 45 seconds to find the respective keywords.
- total_frequency (e.g.: 456) – total counted occurrences of keywords on the VC website
- average_keyword_rate (e.g. 0.014) – average rate of keyword occurrences per subpage in relation with total number of words
- most_common_keyword (e.g. „digital health“) – keyword that was counted the most often on respective VC website
- most_common_keyword_frequency (e.g. 428) – number of times the most common keyword was counted
- sub_url_highest_rate (e.g. https://www.sparrow-ventures.com/portfolio) – sub url with the highest number of found keywords
- highest_rate (e.g. 0.05) – highest keyword rate per subpage
- frequency_per_keyword: {‘digital health’: 216, ‘mobile health’: 1, ‘health apps’: 0, ‘digital healthcare’: 136} – dictionary of number of keyword occurrences per keyword
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Results of our keyword analysis
In the next paragraph, we are focusing on insights derived from our keyword research, which was based on our list of the 2,500 largest VC investors worldwide.
Percentage of VC funds that invest in start-ups in the healthcare sector
Our keyword crawler analyzed more than 2,500 venture capital funds regarding healthtech investment keywords. We found out that 19.9 % of the global VC funds mention digital health.
Focus on digital health
This bar chart shows the most important keywords from our keyword search, however most companies use the keyword digital health to describe their vc company focus. Additionally, the term digital healthcare is used, whereas mobile health and health apps are not used as frequently.
Countries of digital health startup investors
The most common country digital health startup investors are located in is the USA. For instance, the previously presented investor HealthX Ventures is located in Madison, Wiskonsin. Also, a lot of healthtech investors are located in Germany, the UK, Switzerland, and Israel. As a result, these countries are home to many successful digital health startups and are popular destinations for investors looking to invest in the healthtechsector.
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