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Biotech Startups

 

Viva Ventures Biotech Fund

 

We are a corporate VC fund that focuses on investments in global first-in-class, discovery-stage biotech startups with significant growth potential. Viva Ventures is one of very few biotech VCs that have extensive expertise and industry know-how for early stage investments.

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Supporting Biotech Startups since 2008

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Viva Ventures Biotech Fund is backed by the founders of top biotech startups and chief scientists of incubator centers, giving us access to the top startups around the world including Viva Biotech incubators in China, Boston CIC, and Hong Kong Science Park. Viva Ventures Fund I is purely financed by Dr.  Mao Jun.

Our Strategies

 

Our Investment Thesis:

Early Stage = Achieve Superior Return

How to Achieve Higher Success Rate:

Genetic Linkage, Biomarkers and SBDD

Phase 2a/2 Clinical Success Rates

Impact of Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD)

*Source: Nature Review, Volume 13, June 2014

  • Projects that showed greater confidence in target validation through human genetic target linkage to the disease were less likely to fail owing to a lack of efficacy

  • 73% of projects with some genetic linkage of the target to the disease were active or successful in Phase II compared with 43% of projects without such data, also that of projects with biomarkers could exceed 80%

Deal Flow Funnel

Global Ecosystem for Deal Sourcing and Exiting

Global Pharmas and Biotech Companies Include:

Our Track Record

 

Viva Ventures Fund I Track Record 

Disclaimer: This page is intended for qualified investors and no one should construe the contents of this page as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.

Diversified Portfolio Overview

* Including all the projects invested by Fund I, Fund II and Fund III

Our Team

 

Fund Management

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Jun Mao, PhD

Founder and Chairwoman

 

  • Founding Director of Viva Biotech, a HK listed company with 100X+ investment return

  • Active biotech investor since 2008, invested 13 biotech and drug discovery startups

  • Working at top tier IB in City of London 1996-2009 after Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (UK)

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Lou Tartaglia, PhD

Partner

  • Former Partner at Third Rock Ventures, CEO of Solstice Biologics, General Manager at GeneLogic, and Vice President of Metabolic Diseases at Millennium Pharmaceuticals 

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About 30 Top GP Advisory Partners

  • 20+ years top biotech VC and/or drug discovery businesses   

Our partners have extensive experience & track record:

GP Advisory Partners’ Role

  • Deal Sourcing

  • Deal Evaluation

  • DD & Negotiation

  • Exit Support

GP Advisory Partners’ Profile

  • Inventors of listed/ clinical stage drugs

  • 20+ years of experience in drug discovery

  • Diversified expertise

  • Carry sharing

  • None compete

  • Right of first to know

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     JMCR Partners

 

     Sprout BioVentures

 

     Viva Biotech 

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