Exited SVLSF investments
Please see below a list of our exited investments
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SV Life Sciences Fund I (SVLSFI)
Allos Therapeutics: US - Exited
First investment: 1998 - Early Stage
Allos Therapeutics was developing and commercializing innovative small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer.
Axys Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 1994 - Early Stage
Axys developed a protease-inhibitor based products for cancer & inflammatory diseases.
Cerebrus: UK - Exited
First investment: 1995 - Start Up
Cerebrus CNS drug discovery (Acquired by Nigra, which was then bought by Vernalis)
Coral Therapeutics: US - Exited
First investment: 1994 - Start Up
Coral was a provision of blood handling services to hospitals.
Cytomed: US - Exited
First investment: 1997 - Early Stage
Cytomed was a leukotriene inhibitors for asthma (Acquired by LeukoSite Inc and then by Millenium).
Euro Dentalversand: Germany - Exited
First investment: 2000 - Buyout
Euro was mail order dental consumables.
Geltex Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 1995 - Early Stage
Further investment: 1998 - Expansion
Geltex developed novel non-absorbed pharmaceuticals.
Geltex was acquired by Genzyme Corporation after our exit.
General Surgical Innovations: US - Exited
First investment: 1995 - Early Stage
General Surgical Innovations is a minimally invasive approach to hernia repair and incontinence (purchased by United States Surgical).
Genosis: UK - Exited
First investment: 1999 - Start Up
Genosis has developed home use diagnostic devices to assess fertility in couples of
childbearing age. Genosis’ products - Fertell, which provide both male and female tests, are
available over the counter in the UK and the US and provide couples with the tools required to
assess their fertility in the privacy of their homes.
Heritage Health Systems: US - Exited
First investment: 1995 - Early Stage
Heritage was a physician practice.
Incyte Pharmaceuticals: UK - Exited
First investment: 1996 - Start Up
Functional genomics (Acquired by Incyte).
JC Nationwide: US - Exited
First investment: 1995 - Buyout
JC Nationwide was a physician recruitment agency.
Kinetix Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 1999 - Start Up
Kinase targeted drug discovery (Acquired by Amgen).
Leica Microsystems: Germany - Exited
First investment: 1998 - Buyout
Leica Manufactured and marketed microscopes and neurosurgical equipment.
LeukoSite: US - Exited
First investment: 1994 - Start Up
LeukoSite was a treatment of Inflammatory diseases and cancer (Acquired by Millenium).
MedNova: Ireland - Exited
First investment: 1996 - Start Up
MedNova was a device for interventional radiology and cardiology.
Metris Therapeutics: UK - Exited
First investment SVLSF I: 1998 - Start Up
First investment SVLSF II: 2000 - Start Up
Metris is a women’s healthcare company that is developing drugs for the treatment of chronic gynecological and menstrual conditions.
Micromass: UK - Exited
First investment: 1996 - Buyout
Micromass was a minimally invasive approach to hernia repair and incontinence (purchased by Waters).
MicroMed: US - Exited
First investment: 1998 - Early Stage
MicroMed based in Houston, TX, has developed an implantable pump for use as a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) to aid the heart’s pumping action in patients suffering from
congestive heart failure.
Nexan: UK - Exited
First investment: 1996 - Start Up
Nexan was a remote telemonitoring devices.
OMS Foundations: US - Exited
First investment: 1998 - Early Stage
OMS Foundations was an oral maxillofacial physician practice management.
Orthovita: US - Exited
First investment: 1997 - Early Stage
Orthovita was a novel bone substitute materials company.
Pelton & Crane: US - Exited
First investment: 1997 - Buyout
Pelton & Crane developed sterilization equipment.
Shire Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 1994 - Early Stage
Shire Pharmaceuticals - osteoporosis and Alzheimer's disease.
Sirona Dental Systems: Germany - Exited
First investment: 1997 - Buyout
Sirona was a dental equipment manufacturer.
Strides Arcolab: India - Exited
First investment: 1997 - Expansion
Strides Arcolab was a manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals.
TLC Vision: US - Exited
First investment: 1995 - Expansion
TLC Vision was a service provider for laser-based ophthalmic surgery. Formerly known as Laservision.
Triangle Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 1995 - Start Up
Triangle Pharmaceuticals was an antiviral and anticancer drug development company (Acquired by Gilead).
Vanguard Medica (Vernalis): UK - Exited
First investment: 1995 - Early Stage
Vanguard Medica was an antiviral and anticancer drug development company. (Acquired by Vernalis)
Vintage BioMed: US - Exited
First investment: 1996 - Seed
Vintage BioMed was a capital equipment leasing and maintenance company.
SV Life Sciences Fund II (SVLSFII)
Aderis Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 2001 - Expansion
Aderis Pharmaceuticals was a Cardiovascular, renal and neurological disease focused therapeutics focused upon making a significant difference to people living with cardiovascular, renal and neurological diseases.
Affibody: Sweden - Exited
First investment: 2001 - Early Stage
Affibody is a biotech company that uses unique affinity ligands to develop products for molecular imaging, targeted therapy and biotechnology applications. The lead product is a Her2 affibody for clinical imaging in breast cancer, and its pipeline includes other oncology imaging affibodies. In addition, affibodies are sold as research reagents and for use in protein separations.
Argonaut Technologies: US - Exited
First investment: 1999 - Expansion
Argonaut developed a chemistry instrumentation for accelerated synthesis of novel organic molecules. Bought by Biotage after our exit.
Auxilium Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 2001 - Early Stage
Auxilium developed a male hormone replacement therapy.
Cardiac Support Systems: US - Exited
First investment: 2000 - Seed
Cardiac Support Systems was an innovation factory company.
Celldex/Lorantis: UK - Exited
First investment SVLSF II: 2000 - Start Up
First investment SVLSF III: 2003 - Early Stage
Celldex merged with the quoted company Avant Immunotherapeutics (ticker:'AVAN') in March 2008. Celldex, formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Medarex Inc., merged with Lorantis Ltd in 2005. Celldex pursues immunological approaches to the treatment of cancers, infectious disease and immunological disorders.
Cerebral Vascular Applications: US - Exited
First investment: 2000 - Seed
Cerebral Vascular Applications incubated by TIF) developed a set of minimally invasive tools for atrial appendage sealing for stroke prevention. Licensed to Epitek.
Funded through the innovation factory
Confluent Surgical: US - Exited
First investment: 1999 - Early Stage
Confluent Surgical was a biomaterials for adhesion prevention and vascular embolics.
EasyChem: US - Exited
First investment: 2000 - Seed
EasyChem was a B2B chemical e-commerce electronic marketplace.
eMed Technologies: US - Exited
First investment: 2000 - Expansion
eMed Delivered medical images over the internet.
Expand Sante: France - Exited
First investment: 2000 - Seed
Expand Sante was a French pharmaceutical contract sales organisation.
Eyetech Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 2000 - Early Stage
Eyetech was bought by OSI Pharmaceuticals after our exit. Opthalmolological drug development.
IHG Holdings: US - Exited
First investment: 2001 - Buyout
IHG was a preferred provider organization. (Formerly known as Interplan).
Ingenium: Germany - Exited
First investment: 2000 - Early Stage
Ingenium was a functional genomics and drug development company.
Insulet: US - Exited
First investment SVLSF II: 2001 - Start Up
Insulet based in Bedford, MA, Insulet is designing and developing products that provide superior treatment for people with diabetes. The Company’s first commercial product is a wireless 3-day insulin pump.
KuDOS Pharmaceuticals: UK - Exited
First investment: 1999 - Start Up
KuDOS was an oncology drug development company.
LipoSonix: US - Exited
First investment SVLSF II: 2001 - Seed
First investment SVLSF III: 2003 - Seed
LipoSonix based in Bothell, WA, was developing a product to use non-invasive, high intensity focused ultrasound to ablate unwanted subcutaneous cells as a non-invasive alternative to liposuction for body sculpting.
Funded through the innovation factory.
Mdeverywhere: US - Exited
First investment: 2001 - Early Stage
Mdeverywhere based in Hauppauge, NY with operations in New Dehli, India, is an outsourced physician billing company.
Metris Therapeutics: UK - Exited
First investment SVLSF I: 1998 - Start Up
First investment SVLSF II: 2000 - Start Up
Metris is a women’s healthcare company that is developing drugs for the treatment of chronic gynecological and menstrual conditions.
Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals: India - Exited
Private investment in Public Equity
First investment: 1999 - Expansion
Orchid manufactured bulk generic pharmaceuticals.
Phase Forward: US - Exited
First investment: 1999 - Expansion
Phase Forward was a web-based information technology for clinical trials management.
Physicians Dialysis: US - Exited
First investment: 2001 - Buyout
Physicians Dialysis was a consolidator of renal dialysis centers (Purchased by DaVita).
Quantum Dot: US - Exited
First investment: 2000 - Early Stage
Quantum Dot developed nanocrystal biological reagents.
Solexa: UK - Exited
First investment: 2001 - Start Up
Solexa used ultra high throughput DNA sequencing.
Third Wave Technologies: US - Exited
First investment: 1999 - Expansion
Third Wave developed products for analysing genetic variations.
Trine Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 2001 - Expansion
Trine, formerly Essential Therapeutics Inc., in-licenses, develops and plans to commercialize new classes of pharmaceutical products focused on renal, metabolic and GI clinical areas.
Versicor: US - Exited
First investment: 1999 - Expansion
Versicor was a drug development company for infectious diseases (Changed name to Vicurion Pharmaceuticals in 2003)
SV Life Sciences Fund III (SVLSFIII)
Alantos Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 2003 - Early Stage
Alantos was a chemistry-driven company seeking to discover and develop drugs targeted at osteoarthritis and inflammatory processes. The company attempts to fast follow others to reduce risk.
Allegiance Hospice Group: US - Exited
First investment: 2005 - Start Up
Allegiance Hospice is based in Lowell, MA, focused on providing hospice services to patients primarily in long- term care facilities within the New England market.
Avera Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 2004 - Early Stage
Avera is based in San Diego, CA and focused on the development of small molecule drugs for the treatment of diseases affecting the central nervous system (CNS). Key programs are Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia associated cognition deficits, IBS, and OAB, and developing an ultra-short acting anaesthesia compound.
Celldex/Lorantis: UK - Exited
First investment SVLSF II: 2001 - Seed
First investment SVLSF III: 2003 - Seed
Celldex merged with the quoted company Avant Immunotherapeutics (ticker:'AVAN') in March 2008. Celldex, formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Medarex Inc., merged with Lorantis Ltd in 2005. Celldex pursues immunological approaches to the treatment of cancers, infectious disease and immunological disorders.
Cellutions: US - Exited
First investment: 2004 - Seed
Cellutions is based in Duluth, GA, (TIF)is developing a minimally invasive approach for addressing cellulite and its appearance on the skin.
Dynogen Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 2004 - Early Stage
Dynogen is a neuroscience-based company focused on genito-urinary (GU) and gastro-intestinal (GI) disorders. The company is using its knowledge of neurology and GU/GI disorders to build a pipeline of clinical candidates.
Eunoe: US - Exited
First investment: 2003 - Expansion
Eunoe was a treatment of neurological disorders through cerebrospinal fluid management (CSF).
GlycoFi: US - Exited
First investment: 2002 - Start Up
GlycoFi was a production and engineering of therapeutics proteins.
Gyros: Sweden - Exited
First investment: 2002 - Start Up
Gyros, located in Uppsala, Sweden, has developed a proprietary microfluidics technology for processing and analysis of proteins and blood samples. Laboratory processes are integrated into a client specific disc (CD) format. The CD is processed and its contents analysed on software controlled instrumentation.
Insulet: US - Exited
First investment SVLSF III: 2004 - Late Stage
Insulet based in Bedford, MA, Insulet is designing and developing products that provide superior treatment for people with diabetes. The Company’s first commercial product is a wireless 3-day insulin pump.
LipoSonix: US - Exited
First investment SVLSF II: 2001 - Seed
First investment SVLSF III: 2003 - Seed
LipoSonix based in Bothell, WA, was developing a product to use non-invasive, high intensity focused ultrasound to ablate unwanted subcutaneous cells as a non-invasive alternative to liposuction for body sculpting.
Funded through the innovation factory.
Patient Care: US - Exited
First investment: 2002 - Buyout
Patient Care based in Orange, NJ, is one of the largest independent home health agencies.
PowderMed: UK - Exited
First investment: 2004 - Early Stage
PowderMed developed therapeutic DNA vaccines in the areas of chronic viral diseases and cancer.
Rinat Neuroscience: US - Exited
First investment: 2003 - Early Stage
Rinat developed proteins for the treatment of diseases and disorders of the nervous system.
Sapphire Pharmaceuticals: US - Exited
First investment: 2004 - Early Stage
Helsinn is developing small molecule drugs based on the biology of ghrelin,a gut peptide known to stimulate appetite. The lead compound is in Ph II for cancer cachexia; a second compound has completed an initial clinical study and is moving toward Ph II for post-operative ileus. Additional indications are being explored for follow-on compounds.
Formerly known as Rejuvenon.
Synarc: US - Exited
First investment: 2004 - Late Stage
Synarc provides centralized medical imaging services and international subject-recruitment facilities dedicated exclusively to global clinical trials.
SV Life Sciences Fund IV (SVLSFIV)
RespiVert: UK - Exited
First Investment: 2007 - Start Up
RespiVert is a discovery company focused on Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ('COPD') and severe asthma. The company’s goal is to develop novel inhaled and intranasal drugs for respiratory disorders with high unmet medical need and high commercial potential based on novel insights on biology and chemistry.
X2-Pharma: Germany - Exited
First investment: 2008 - Seed
X2-Pharma is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of small molecule pharmaceuticals for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
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