Oklahoma Life Science Fund

The Oklahoma Life Science Fund, trading as OLSF Ventures, is a venture capital firm that invests only in healthcare. Its healthcare investing began in 2000.

The fund supports early companies at seed and Series A based in cities outside the main coastal capital hubs, an area it calls Middle America.

What Oklahoma Life Science Fund does

• Seed and Series A investment: early funding for healthcare startups.
• Healthcare specialism: draws on more than two decades of experience scaling healthcare businesses.
• Support to exit: the firm says it has helped founders and managers grow their companies, build markets and reach an exit or a stock market listing.

Customers and markets

Founders of healthcare startups outside the traditional investment centres. The firm reports that its portfolio companies have delivered a large number of treatments and patient engagements and created hundreds of jobs in the region.

Key facts

• Active since: 2000
• Stages: seed and Series A
• Region: Middle America