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Fresh Money 2013-Q4 http://jaycaplan.com/ Date VC/PE Website Headline Location Techrockies Reports that Boulder Ventures Is To Raise $100M 12/26/13 Boulder Ventures http://www.boulderventures.com/ Sixth Fund Boulder, CO Boston-based private equity firm Mansa Capital Management Raises $50M to invest in healthcare information technology (HCIT) and services companies that help to contain healthcare 12/21/13 Mansa Capital Management http://www.mansacapital.com/ costs and improve clinical outcomes Boston PE Firn Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe Raising $3B 12th PE Fund for growth-oriented companies in the healthcare and 12/13/13 Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe http://www.welshcarson.com/ information/business services industries New York 12/21/13 Economic Development Corp. http://www.nycedc.com/press-release/deputy-mayor-steel-and-nycedc-announce-two-new-initiatives-dramatically-grow-citysWSJ: New York City to Start $50M Venture Fund for Biotech New York Growth PE Firm Great Point Partners closes $215M health care 12/21/13 Great Point Partners http://www.gppfunds.com/ investment Fund II Greenwich, CT 12/13/13 Investor AB http://www.investorgrowthcapital.com/ Investor Growth Capital Ends Venture Investing New York Biomark Capital Forms $200M VC fund by Splitting Off from 12/3/13 Biomark Capital http://biomarkcapital.com/ Burrill Capital Greenwich, CT 12/3/13 5AM Venture Management http://5amventures.com/ 5AM Ventures Raises $250M Fourth Life Science Venture Fund Menlo Park CA, Boston MA Gilde Healthcare closes €145 million ($200 million) Utrecht, The Netherlands, 11/26/13 Gilde Healthcare http://www.gildehealthcare.com/ transatlantic growth capital fund Cambridge, MA Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners Closes 4th €192M 11/4/13 Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partnershttp://www.edmond-de-rothschild.fr/En/edrip/Pages/default.aspxEuropean Life Science Fund Paris, France Palo Alto, CA, Boston, MA, Venture Debt Leader Hercules Technology Growth Capital Westminster, CO, McLean, VA, 11/4/13 Hercules Technology Growth Capital, http://www.htgc.com/Inc. Continues to Expand Team with Three New Senior Hires New York, NY OrbiMed closes $735M Fund V focused on biopharmaceutical, New York, NY, San Francisco, medical device, and diagnostics companies located in North CA, Mumbai, India, Shanghai 11/1/13 OrbiMed http://www.orbimed.com/ America and Europe China, Herzliya, Israel NovaQuest Capital Management Raises $459M to fund structured finance investments in late-stage clinical and 10/31/13 NovaQuest Capital Management http://www.novaquest.com/ commercialized biopharmaceutical products Raleigh, NC 3x5 Special Opportunity Fund, L.P. begins investing a St. Louis and Portland-based, $80M fund (closed in early 2013) for direct investments in about six later-stage healthcare and 10/29/13 3x5 Special Opportunity Fund, L.P. http://3x5fund.com/ clean-tech companies St. Louis and Portland According to Term Sheet, regulatory filing indicates that Menlo Park, CA, Newport Versant Ventures is Raising $250M fifth fund, down from prior Beach, CA, San Francisco, CA, 10/18/13 Versant Ventures http://www.versantventures.com/ $500M fund Basel, Switzerland Venture Capital Journal reports that Mohr Davidow Ventures will soon begin raising 10th fund at ~$300M, but is moving 10/11/13 Mohr Davidow Ventures http://www.mdv.com/ away from healthcare investing Menlo Park, CA VentureWire reports that Peter Thiels Mithril Capital Management closes $540M First Fund for late stage 10/11/13 Mithril Capital Management http://www.mithril.com/ investments in technology, clean energy and biotech San Francisco London, UK, Menlo Park, CA, 10/9/13 Abingworth Bioventures http://www.abingworth.com/ Abingworth Bioventures Raises GBP205.5M Sixth Fund Waltham, MA Singapore’s Bio*One Capital, the corporate investment arm of Singapore’s Economic Deve lopment Board (EDB), invests in life sciences firms that leverage on Singapore’s unique position as a regional hub in sustainable R&D , Manufacturing and business operations to re ach out to regional and global Singapore and San Francisco, 10/7/13 Bio*One Capital http://www.edbi.com/investment-themes.aspxmarkets CA Palo Alto, CA, New York, NY, The Woodlands, TX, 10/3/13 Essex Woodlands https://www.ewhv.com/ Essex Woodlands Seeks $750 Mln For Ninth Fund London,UK, Shanghai, China 10/1/13 Pitango http://www.pitango.com/ Israel's Pitango Venture Capital Raises $270M Seventh Fund Palo Alto, CA, Herzliy, Israel Frazier Healthcare Closes $377M Seventh Fund for growth buyout and venture capital to emerging healthcare service and 9/30/13 Frazier Healthcare http://www.frazierhealthcare.com/ biopharma companies Seattle, WA, Menlo Park, CA 9/29/13 Revolution Ventures http://revolution.com/revolution-ventures Revolution Ventures Closes $200 Million Fund Washington, DC Eastward Capital Partners Raises $36M of $100M (sixth) 9/27/13 Eastward Capital http://www.eastwardcp.com/ Venture Debt Fund Newton, MA With Demand for Venture Debt Approaching All-Time Highs, Palo Alto, CA, Boston, MA, Financing Pioneer and Leader Hercules Technology Growth Westminster, CO, McLean, VA, 9/25/13 Hercules Technology Growth Capital, http://www.htgc.com/Inc. Capital Expands Operations New York, NY Rock Health Partners with AngelList To Help Fund Its V5 9/25/13 Rock Health http://rockhealth.com/ Graduate Class San Francisco, CA Global Health Investment Fund Launches with $94M to advance the development of medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and other life-saving technologies for diseases that 9/23/13 Global Health Investment Fund http://ghif.com/ disproportionately affect developing countries London BDC Venture Capital receives C$135M to invest in Canadian companies developing therapeutics, medical technology, 9/18/13 BDC Venture Capital http://www.bdc.ca/en/solutions/venture_capital/pages/venture_capital.aspx#.UlC0i45i6i0healthcare IT, diagnostics and healthcare services Montreal, Quebec Portugal Ventures expects to invest up to 20 million Euros per Oporto, Portugal, Lisbon, 9/17/13 Portugal Ventures http://www.portugalventures.pt/ year in its Ignition Programme Portugal Benu BioVentures to Finance Early Biopharmaceutical Clinical 9/16/13 Benu BioVentures http://www.benubio.com/bioventures.html Development Boston Emergent Medical Partners Raises $37M of 2nd Fund ($50M 9/16/13 Emergent Medical Partners http://www.emvllp.com/ target) Portola Valley, CA 9/9/13 DRI Capital http://www.dricapital.com/ DRI Capital Raises U.S. $1.45 Billion for Drug Royalty III Toronto, ON StartX, Stanford University and Stanford Hospital & Clinics 9/8/13 Startx http://startx.stanford.edu/ announce $3.6M grant and venture fund Mountain View, CA French PE/VC firm Omnes Capital (formerly Crédit Agricole Private Equity) Continues to Invest From 2012-Vintage VC Paris, France, Lyon, France, Tel 9/5/13 Omnes Capital http://www.omnescapital.com/ Fund Aviv, Israel Copyright 2014 Jay Caplan 1 of 10 http://jaycaplan.com/ Fresh Money 2013-Q4 http://jaycaplan.com/ Date VC/PE Website Headline Location New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Mumbai, India, Shanghai 8/19/13 OrbiMed http://www.orbimed.com/ OrbiMed Plans $300M Biotech VC fund in Asia China, Herzliya, Israel Sequoia Capital Raises More than $1V for (mostly tech) 8/15/13 Sequoia Capital http://www.sequoiacap.com/ Startups West Menlo Park, CA SightLine Partners Closes Second $107M Fund, dedicated to 8/8/13 SightLine Partners http://www.sightlinepartners.com/ secondary direct investments in medical technology companies Minneapolis, MN White Plains, NY, Greenwich, Fifth Street Management LLC Launches Venture Lending CT, Chicago, IL, Calabasas, CA, 8/6/13 Fifth Street Finance LLC/Fifth Street Technologyhttp://www.fifthstreetfinance.com/ Partners Business Palo Alto, CA, Irving, TX Aperture Venture Partners Raising Up to $100M for 3rd early- 8/5/13 Aperture Venture Partners http://www.aperturevp.com/ stage healthcare VC fund New York CincyTech Closes $10.9M third seed fund for companies focused on information technology and bioscience that are 8/1/13 CincyTech http://cincytechusa.com/ based in or willing to move to Southwest Ohio Cincinatti, OH Telegraph Hill Partners Raises $310M Fund for New 7/29/13 Telegraph Hill Partners http://www.thpartners.net/ Investments in Life Science and Healthcare Companies San Francisco, CA Termsheet reports that PE Firm QuestMark Partners is raising 7/12/13 QuestMark http://www.questm.com/ $250M 4th fund Baltimore, MD 6/26/13 Allied Minds, Inc. http://www.alliedminds.com/ Allied Minds Raises $100M fund Boston, MA State of Connecticut Launches $200M Connecticut Innovations 6/24/13 Conneticut Innovations http://www.ctinnovations.com/ to Fund BioScience R&D In CT Rocky Hill, CT Kurma Life Sciences Partners Launches EU44M Kurma Biofund II), the first venture capital fund dedicated to financing innovation with a diversified strategy and significant exposure to rare diseases, sponsored by Idinvest Partners alongside 6/20/13 Kurma Life Sciences http://www.kls-partners.com/en/index.htmlCDC Entreprises (BPIfrance), GSK and NEA. Paris, France 6/20/13 Kurma Biofund II http://www.kls-partners.com/en/kurma-biofund2.phpGSK Links with French Venture Firm to Target Rare Diseases ** 6/20/13 BioStar Ventures http://www.biostarventures.com/ BioStar Ventures Is Raising $100M third fund Petoskey, MI Hyde Park VC Raises First $25M Fund for early-stage Midwest software-as-a-service or health care information technology 6/13/13 Hyde Park Venture Partners http://www.hydeparkvp.com/ companies Chicago, IL Austin-based S3 Ventures Launches $75M fund for software,