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"We've noticed that there are a wide variety of investment opportunities that can truly be transformative for women's and children's health and have confirmed, time and time again, that without impact investors at the table, the most transformative health technologies that address our needs struggle to raise capital," Annie Th ? riault, managing partner at Cross Border Impact Ventures, tellsPulse 2.0 in an interview.
That's why the Canadian venture capital firm is investing in a new fund that aims to invest in "transformative health technology companies" that have the "potential to save lives or transform healthcare in traditional markets but also reaching the world's most underserved populations who are not typically offered the best medical solutions," Th ? riault says.
The fund, called Cross Border Impact Partners II, will invest in companies based in North America, Europe, and the UK, as well as in countries around the world where women, children, and adolescents lack access to medical care, Business Insider reports.
"We aim to invest in health technology companies at the early commercialization stage, but one of the changes we've observed in the market over the past five years is that the nomenclature around investment rounds and the sizes of rounds relative to the growth stage has moved around quite a lot Read the Entire Article
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