About Partners Innovation Fund
The Innovation Fund was created in 2007 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital to address a growing unmet need for funding emerging technology in the capital gap between invention and product development. The main objective of the fund is to accelerate to market technologies developed by Partners HealthCare investigators, thereby enhancing healthcare quality, cost and outcomes. Structured as a separate LLC entity, the $35M Fund is evergreen in design and will reinvest all gains from investments back into the Fund to create capital for additional investments. Investment decision oversight is provided by an independent external committee composed of experts from industry, venture capital and academia. The Fund operates on a venture capital model whereby opportunities are rigorously evaluated on the basis of scientific strength as well as potential for commercial success. The Fund has four major goals: * Capture more value from the PHS research portfolio by creating companies, technologies and solutions that advance and enhance healthcare. * Provide funding for technologies positioned in the capital gap between invention and clinical development. * By demonstrating institutional commitment, attract external capital that will leverage and encourage co-investment. * Generate a return on investment to refresh the fund and provide capital for additional technologies. Gap Funding Over the last five to seven years, the environment for early-stage investing has undergone significant change. As a result of these changes, there is a dearth of funding support for technologies/companies positioned between invention and clinical development. By focusing on this capital gap, the Fund can advance technologies of high commercial potential and medical benefit to a stage where larger, more traditional investment sources are attracted to underwrite the risk. Types of Fund Investments The Partners Innovation Fund will make two types o