Vitalife - Life Sciences Venture

Vitalife generally focuses on investing in the early stage of the company's development, typically as a lead investor in the first round of investment by professional VCs. However, Vitalife is flexible and given the right business circumstances can invest in companies in various stages.

2. Generally speaking, what is the size of initial investment?

Investments range in size from $500K to $5M.

3. How should I approach Vitalife?

For starters, just send us an e-mail with an executive summary that briefly outlines your project and any public references (i.e. web-site/CD or Power Point presentation).
If we like your idea, we'll invite you for a one-on-one meeting to further discuss possibilities.

4. What supporting materials do you require?

a. For the first meeting?
We recommend a Power Point presentation of up to 20 slides which details your project, management/development group, intellectual property report and market.
b. For subsequent meetings?
If we decide to go ahead, we will tell you specifically, but in general we will need a detailed business plan including financial statements, patent documentation, competitive analysis etc.

5. What procedures do you follow before deciding to invest?

We first assess the viability of your project and how it matches Vitalife's mandate. We also generally examine the potential connections we have within our existing network of colleagues, associates and business partners to see what possibilities exist for promptly matching you with a strategic alliance.
Following a series of internal management meetings wherein all of your project's details are reviewed, we will decide whether or not to invest in your company - and if we decide to invest, what our proposal will be.
Once you have reviewed our proposal, and once we have come to general agreement, we continue with due diligence validation of the information provided to us.
At this stage, though we are serious in investing in you, until final validation is complete no deal has formally been made and the terms are not binding.
We wish to make it clear that Vitalife is a 'hands-on' venture capital fund. Our management team will be actively involved in the company and entrepreneurs with whom we have partnered. We see this as being beneficial to the short and long-term success of the company. Vitalife has years of experience, knowledge and international connections which will be used in your service - and this alone is often worth more than the actual value of the funds invested.

6. Do you invest in competing companies?

7. What kind of assistance will you offer my company?

Knowledge, experience and international connections. Insight,expert medical opinions, business development expertise, a vast overview of global trends in the field of healthcare and relatively 'easy' access to potential strategic alliances. In addition, we will work closely with you in developing an operating plan and helping you to stay on track in our joint quest to build a great company.