SV Health Investors

Specialist healthcare fund management is the business of SV Health Investors, which invests across stages and sectors, from early-stage biotechnology to growth equity and public markets. Its stated aim is to change healthcare one investment at a time, and it does so by backing varied entrepreneurs who build breakthrough companies and treatments. The firm has teams in Boston and London and says it has operated in the United States and United Kingdom for 28 years, which it counts among the longest-tenured healthcare investment managers in the world.

Strategies

The firm organizes its work into separate strategies, each led by its own team:

• Therapeutics and biotech: backing teams that seek breakthroughs capable of changing how disease is treated.
• Dementia: a specialist team funding new drug developers working on dementia.
• Healthcare growth: expansion funding and liquidity for established companies changing how healthcare is delivered.
• Medtech: compelling teams and technologies that have the power to change medicine.
• Public equities: active management of a diversified portfolio of biopharma companies, aimed at risk-adjusted returns.

It describes itself as a global private equity and venture capital platform with specialized and diversified healthcare funds, and it lists its core biotech funds alongside a listed investment trust focused on biotechnology.

Track record and team

The firm cites 75 IPOs and mergers or acquisitions among its portfolio companies, which it sees as evidence that it backs innovators who go on to attract strategic acquirers and public investors. Its team numbers over fifty-five people, a mix of investment professionals and operating partners, drawn from investing and from healthcare industry veterans who help build value in breakthrough life sciences companies. Its funds range from core biotech vehicles to a listed trust, so investors can reach the sector through different structures.

Why diversity matters to it

The firm states that it strongly holds the view that diversity, including under-represented groups, adds to success, and it invites entrepreneurs who want a partner in building their business to get in touch.