Top 5 Life Science Startup Investors in Hong Kong in October 2023

Proxima Ventures is focused on the management of investment portfolios for its customers. It offers them with financial products and consulting services. Proxima Ventures was acquired by Soluto in October 2013. Proxima Ventures was founded by Chaim Venezia and Uri Ra'anan and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, Israel

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VerImmune — Located in Baltimore, Maryland, VerImmune is an Immuno-Oncology company developing a first-in-class cancer therapy known as Anti-tumor Immune Redirection. This strategy utilizes a proprietary tumor-specific, tumor type agnostic, virus-inspired platform termed Anti-tumor Immune Redirection Virus-inspired Particles (AIR-ViPs) that redirectspre-existing pathogenic or childhood vaccine immune memory towards tumors.
Yidianling — Yidianling is a psychological counselling platform that provides free mental health services such as free questions and answers, psychological tests, expert services, and training lectures.
Great Bay Bio — Great Bay Bio Ltd. is a high-tech company that develops blue ocean biopharmaceuticals with a digital platform. It has a long history of biomedical research and development and rich experience in product development. Adhering to the national strategic concept of scientific and technological innovation and coordinated development of the Greater BayArea, Dawan Biotechnology brings together high-quality resources from Europe, the United States, Singapore, and Hong Kong to build a biopharmaceutical development platform centered on AI technology, big data, and Internet of Things technology, which greatly shortens The drug development cycle significantly reduces development costs and has great industry competitive advantages.

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Hillhouse Capital Group is an investment management firm that invests with a long-term time horizon. Hillhouse owns companies across equity stages, spanning the range from new start-ups to the world’s most established public companies. It may invest in a company as a start-up and continue to hold it in the portfolio as a public equity investment.This stage-agnostic investment style allows them to focus on multi-year results, rather than on quarterly earnings.Hillhouse Capital Group invests globally, with a particular focus on Asia. Independent, proprietary research lies at the heart of our investment process. Our team members are sector experts in consumer, Internet, media, and healthcare. Hillhouse Capital Group was founded in 2005 and is based in Beijing, China.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, India

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Immorna — Immorna specializes in the production of RNA-based therapeutics.
Xingmai Innovation — Xingmai Innovation creates, develops, and sells intelligent swimming pool cleaning robots.
Deep Vision Intelligence — Deep Vision Intelligence is a developer of embedded machine vision products.

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Proxima Ventures focuses in the healthcare industry, supporting outstanding enterprises with innovative technologies or service models that have tremendous potential.They manage multiple funds in RMB and US dollar, covering from seed to growth stages. Their team members with multidisciplinary backgrounds and resourceful networks, have many yearsof remarkable venture capital experience and achievements. They believe that active and effective collaboration with entrepreneurs will make substantial economic returns while bring meaningful improvements in public health.

Investment focus

Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
China, United States, United Kingdom

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VerImmune — Located in Baltimore, Maryland, VerImmune is an Immuno-Oncology company developing a first-in-class cancer therapy known as Anti-tumor Immune Redirection. This strategy utilizes a proprietary tumor-specific, tumor type agnostic, virus-inspired platform termed Anti-tumor Immune Redirection Virus-inspired Particles (AIR-ViPs) that redirectspre-existing pathogenic or childhood vaccine immune memory towards tumors.
VacV Biotech — VacV Biotherapeutics develops an oncolytic virus platform based on the vaccinia virus. The platform genetically modifies the oncolytic virus, which improves its specificity to tumors, reduces neurotoxicity, enhances the therapeutic effect, and greatly increases the production of extracellular enveloped virus (EEV). It has higher safety andefficiency and can be administered by intravenous injection.
HROCT LITT Medtech — HROCT LITT Medtech has developed the unique SNP(Smart Needle Probe) needle imaging, assembled as a catheter, which OD is smaller than 1/5 of the traditional invasive OCT catheter, while the depth and resolution are all multiple times of the traditional invasive OCT catheter, achieving 1um level to supply the histopathology needed microimaging.The fiber could be compatible with different kinds of biopsy needles to access the targets, and also could be coupled with a specific laser to achieve OCT situ diagnosis and laser ablation. Its technology provides revolutionary solutions to neurosurgery, interventional pulmonology, neurovascular, nephropathy, mammary gland, cardiac, GI, and other fields.

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Vectr is a venture firm based in Hong Kong. They combine investment, creation and growth to deliver game-changing impact to teams ready to tackle global issues, transform industries and improve the lives of millions.That combines capital, creation and partnership to deliver game-changing impact. We strive to be the ideal partner for founders thatare building transformation products and looking to expand their businesses into asia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

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Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
MasterExchange — Trading platform for music rights leveraging emerging technology to create friction free and compliant investment opportunities to everyone.

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