Lancet Capital

Lancet Capital was founded in 1998 as the first SBIC affiliated with an academic medical centre, created to build value for both investors and the founders and management of early-stage biomedical portfolio companies. The firm invests in researchers, clinicians and entrepreneurs working to commercialise technologies in the biomedical field, and says it offers value-adding human capital to portfolio companies throughout the venture-building process, including access to key resources and expertise. Its focus remains squarely on early-stage biomedical businesses rather than spreading more broadly across healthcare or technology sectors, reflecting its origins as a fund built specifically around an academic medical centre's research and clinical networks rather than a general life-sciences mandate.