Catalyst Health Ventures
VC Fund
Braintree, United States
Catalyst Health Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm targeting technology solutions applied within the health care and life science industries. At the core of this strategy is a committed, hands-on approach to working with management and syndicate partners to build successful companies. Their disciplined investment process leverages bothintellectual and financial capital to originate deals, cultivate opportunities, and realize the full potential of emerging ventures in the health care and life science marketplace. We seek to invest in companies addressing major global unmet clinical needs in areas such as oncology, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and women’s health. We invest in pioneering and proprietary technological solutions fundamentally designed to reduce treatment costs and improve patient outcomes. By investing in solutions which have a technological foundation of engineering and development such as medical devices, diagnostic tools and instrumentation and consumer healthcare, we minimize the risks related to uncertain scientific experimentation.
- Total investments:
- 36
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
- Fund size:
- $61M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Catalyst Health Ventures invests in
Stages Catalyst Health Ventures invests in
Countries Catalyst Health Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $1.4M–$19M
- Series B
- $2.3M–$26M
- Series C
- $1.3M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 12 (33%)
- Medical Device 12 (33%)
- Medical 8 (22%)
- Biotechnology 8 (22%)
- Wellness 2 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 11 (31%)
- Series B 11 (31%)
- Series C 3 (8%)
- Seed 2 (6%)
- Funding Round 2 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Darshana Zaveri
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 24 | Find email | |
David Mackey
Chief Financial Officer
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Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Dianne Letzelter
Senior Vice President of Finance & Investor Relations
|
Senior Vice President of Finance & Investor Relations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Joshua Phillips
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Joshua S. Phillips
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avive Solutions develops a next-generation Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and software solutions. Avive's AED enables anyone to positively impact the outcome of a Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) rescue by building a more robust solution that addresses the problem of SCA in its entirety. The AED will remove barriers to respond to a SCAscenario. It will be easy to purchase, easy to access in an emergency, easy to keep maintained, and most importantly easy to use effectively when it matters most.Avive Solutions is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $22M / Series A / Mar 16, 2022 | ||
| Epitel is a digital health company developing a wearable, wireless EEG monitoring platform to provide accessible, affordable, and reliable for seizure detection. | $12.5M / Series A / Feb 16, 2022 | ||
| PanTher Therapeutics is on a mission to revolutionize cancer care with a proprietary treatment platform designed to enhance therapeutic response with minimal side effects. PanTher’s highly adaptable platform empowers oncologists to treat patients with life-threatening cancer by unlocking a drug’s full potential through direct, sustained treatmentat the tumor site. This distinctive targeting capability uniquely positions PanTher to take on the deadliest and most difficult to treat cancers with a lead investigational candidate in pancreatic cancer. | $5.4M / Series A / May 19, 2021 | ||
| Instylla’s focus is to leverage hydrogel technology . | $25.4M / Series B / Oct 14, 2020 | ||
| AtaCor Medical Inc., is a San Clemente-based medical device maker. It designs innovative solutions to deliver temporary, interim, and permanent cardiac pacing when, and where it matters most. | $25M / Series B / Apr 28, 2020 | ||
| Aria CV was founded in 2010 by Drs. John Scandurra and Karl Vollmers, formerly Fellows at the University of Minnesota’s Medical Devices Center. Aria has an exclusive license to certain patents from the University of Minnesota. Aria CV’s device has the potential to improve outcomes by reducing the workload on the right side of the heart. | $31M / Series B / Feb 25, 2020 | ||
| Conformal Medical is an early stage medical device company developing devices to prevent stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. The company's proprietary technology will help left atrial appendage closure to meet its true potential. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire. | $8.2M / Series B / Dec 03, 2018 | ||
| Lantos Technologies is the only FDA-cleared 3D ear scanning system that enables custom, in-ear products with superior comfort, sound quality, and performance. Our technology enables the efficient and effective delivery of customized hearing aids and other hearing-related products. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 21, 2018 | ||
| Saphena Medical is a medical device company that specializes in cardiovascular space. It offers Venapax, an all-in-one system that provides dissection and simultaneous branch ligation. It delivers a minimal-touch experience with a focus on specimen quality. | $1.3M / Series C / Sep 01, 2017 | ||
| Cruzar Medsystems Inc. operates in the healthcare industry manufacturing medical device designed to access peripheral vasculature. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Braintree, Massachusetts. | $2.3M / Series B / Jun 01, 2017 | ||
| See all 36 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Catalyst Health Ventures invest in?
Catalyst Health Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Medical Device and Medical startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 36 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Catalyst Health Ventures invest in?
Catalyst Health Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$19M at Series A, $2.3M–$26M at Series B and $1.3M–$40M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Catalyst Health Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Catalyst Health Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Catalyst Health Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Catalyst Health Ventures?
The team at Catalyst Health Ventures includes Darshana Zaveri (Managing Partner), David Mackey (Chief Financial Officer) and Dianne Letzelter (Senior Vice President of Finance & Investor Relations). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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