Industry: Focus on companies that provide products and services for life science research in fields such as academic research, healthcare, agriculture, energy and consumer products
Stage: Concentrate on investments in seed and early stage companies, but will invest in later stage companies with attractive growth prospects
Investment Size: No minimum investment, and will consider initial investments of up to $5 million per company
Criteria: Some of the key areas on which the Rose Ventures investment team focuses its analysis include:
- Team
- Market opportunity (customer need and market size)
- Nature of product or service offering
- Business model
- Competitive positioning
- Product development plan
- Commercial development plan
- Intellectual property
- Financial projections
- Financing needs and proposed use of fund