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May 30 Hyde Park Venture Partners

Hyde Park Venture Partners (HPVP) is an early stage venture fund focused on software startups in the Midwest. HPVP focuses its investment activity on B2B software and consumer marketplace startups raising their first or second round of capital. The investment team is a combination of experienced operators, strategists, and investors and helps its portfolio companies […]


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May 30 BioStar Capital

To benefit patients and investors alike BioStar unites leading medical minds and financial experts to identify promising and necessary technologies that BioStar funds, steers through development, and helps bring to market. BioStar’s unique Medical Venture Partner (MVP) model maximizes fund performance through unparalleled relationships with renowned physicians who are investors and partners in the fund’s […]


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May 30 Tamarind Hill

Tamarind Hill is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on backing high-growth technology businesses that are deploying or working towards deploying B2B software models in the Healthcare IT and Supply Chain sectors. Tamarind Hill seeks investment opportunities in businesses that have found product market fit and can benefit from our operating expertise and network to […]


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May 30 Frazier Healthcare Partners

Founded in 1991, Frazier Healthcare Partners is a leading provider of growth and venture capital to healthcare companies. With nearly $3.0 billion total capital raised, Frazier has invested in over 170 companies, with investment types ranging from company creation and venture capital to buyouts of profitable lower-middle market companies. The Life Sciences team invests in […]


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May 30 MadDog Ventures

MadDog Ventures is a venture operator and early stage investor. In addition to investing, the company partners with venture capital firms and entrepreneurs to immediately complete the full team required to elevate each venture to expansion-round funding or the next level. MadDog Technology specializes in advanced technology and mobile device development.


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May 30 M25

M25 Group is a Midwest, seed-stage micro-VC firm. Our mission statement is: M25 Group seeks to responsibly steward our investors’ capital by sourcing alternative investments with substantial potential to multiply.


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May 30 EDF Ventures

EDF Ventures is a leading venture capital firm investing in early-stage healthcare companies. The firm focuses on young companies that are developing breakthrough technologies to address large, well-recognized problems or transform existing markets. The individuals pioneering these kinds of solutions require far more than just capital; they need venture investors who are committed for the […]


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May 30 WMU Biosciences Research and Commercialization Center (BRCC)

WMU Biosciences Research & Commercialization Center (BRCC) is based at West Michigan University and established in 2003 with a special $10 million appropriation from the Michigan Legislature as a nonprofit investor, designed to provide seed funding to early-stage companies focused on the life science sector. BRCC considers a wide range of life science technologies across […]


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May 30 Red Cedar Ventures (MSU)

Red Cedar Ventures, the venture investment arm of the Michigan State University Foundation, focuses on growing startup companies created by MSU faculty, staff, and students. Red Cedar Ventures manages two funds—a $3.5M Pre-Seed Fund and a $5M Opportunity Fund—and participates at any financing stage.


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