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What does Cardinal Partners invest in?
Cardinal Partners invests most often at Series C and Series B (58% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Well-being, Ehealth and Health.
Cardinal Partners highlights
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24 rounds on record
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Mostly Series C and Series B: 58% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 1 rounds, median $12M
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5 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Since 1996, Cardinal Partners has been investing in disruptive healthcare technology-enabled services and life sciences companies providing top quartile returns.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- Well-beingEhealthHealth
- Based in
- Princeton, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first24 appearances
- 2013
5 rounds
- Oct
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- Mar
- 2012
1 round
- Jun
- 2011
8 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jan
- Jan
- 2010
3 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Feb
- 2009
2 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- 2007
1 round
- Apr
- 2006
1 round
- Mar
- 2005
2 rounds
- Mar
- Jan
- 2004
1 round
- Dec
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration5 named
JTJames TraweekDirectoriFiling they signed
JBJohn BatemanPresidentiFiling they signed
JJJohn Joseph ParkTreasurer & CFOiForm ADV
JKJohn Kennedy ClarkePresidentiForm ADV
RMRichard McGaughyDirectoriFiling they signed
We also hold 5 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$10Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- CHP Management, Inc.
- SEC number
- CRD 162054
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Cardinal Partners's funds
- Committed
- $10M
- Funds
- 1
- Vintages
- 1985
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Jun 2026.
Minnesota State Board of Investments1 fund$10MFund Vintage Committed DSV Partners IV 1985 $10M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
10 of 14 we have independently watched raise
Alkermes plcLifeimagePrivia HealthQpidhealthTeladocThe HIPAA secureThe premier outsourceVerastemVividionaTyr PharmaAlnylamMomentapharmaPrealize HealthSapphire-digital
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed5 in all
VerastemListed$52MJul 2013
CodeRyteBought by 3MUndisclosedApr 2012
Inspired TechnologiesBought by Evo Medical SolutionsUndisclosedDec 2010
Sirtris PharmaceuticalsBought by GlaxoSmithKline$720MApr 2008
Roving PlanetBought by 3ComUndisclosedDec 2006
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.