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What does HealthCap invest in?
HealthCap invests most often at Series B and Series A (62% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Life Science, Therapeutics and Rare Diseases.
HealthCap highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series B and Series A: 62% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 1 rounds, median $6.8M
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5 exits from the portfolio
What they do
HealthCap is a life science investor and company creator.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $5.0M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- Life ScienceTherapeuticsRare Diseases
- Based in
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first32 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Oct
- 2023
1 round
- Feb
- 2019
2 rounds
- Aug
- Apr
- 2018
4 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- May
- 2015
3 rounds
- Jul
- Feb
- Jan
- 2014
2 rounds
- Oct
- Apr
- 2008
1 round
- Nov
- 2007
3 rounds
- Sept
- Jul
- Mar
- 2005
2 rounds
- Feb
- Jan
- 2004
5 rounds
- Sept
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- Jan
- 2003
4 rounds
- Aug
- Jul
- Mar
- Jan
- 2002
1 round
- Dec
- 2001
2 rounds
- Dec
- Sept
- 2000
1 round
- Jun
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 registration20 named
AOAlex Ovidiu ValcuPrincipaliForm ADV
AFAnki ForsbergEmployee and Director of the Investment AdvisoriFiling they signed
ACAnn Christine ForsbergDirectoriForm ADV
BOBjorn OdlanderEmployee and Director of the Investment AdvisoriFiling they signed
CKCarl KilanderShareholderiForm ADV
DRDag RichterMember of the Board of DirectorsiFiling they signed
DSDaniel SchaferDirector of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
FBFabrice BernhardMember of the board of directorsiFiling they signed
FKFrancois KaiserMember of the Board of DirectorsiFiling they signed
GBGeorg BeiskeShareholderiForm ADV
HIHealthCap IX Holding ABSole ShareholderiFiling they signed
JGJacob GunterbergEmployee and Director of the Investment AdvisoriFiling they signed
JCJohan ChristensonEmployee and Director of the Investment AdvisoriFiling they signed
KEKristina EkbergDirectoriForm ADV
MSMarile SchiessPrincipaliForm ADV
MSMarten SteenEmployee and Director of the Investment AdvisoriFiling they signed
MOMax OdlanderShareholderiForm ADV
POPer Olof ErikssonDirectoriForm ADV
PSPer SamuelssonEmployee and Director of the Investment AdvisoriFiling they signed
SLStaffan LindstrandEmployee and Director of the Investment AdvisoriFiling they signed
We also hold 31 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
$266Mgross assets of its funds, 2 advisers combinedOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Healthcap VIII Advisor AB
- SEC number
- CRD 305750
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
17 of 24 we have independently watched raise
Adcendo ApSAltay TherapeuticsAprea TherapeuticsAriceum TherapeuticsCurifyLabsDoctrinFusionpharmaGesynta PharmaHelloBetterHemab TherapeuticsIncardatherapeuticsKivu BioscienceMahzi TherapeuticsOncorenaPositrigoPriotheraSpruce BiosciencesAMRA Medical ABBonesupport ABElsa Science ABIntervaccNeobiomicsOncopeptides ABSynOx Therapeutics Ltd
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
Immune Targeting SystemsBought by VaxinUndisclosedFeb 2015
PTC TherapeuticsListed$125MJun 2013
TengionListedUndisclosedApr 2010
BiolipoxBought by OrexoUndisclosedNov 2007
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.