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Fresenius Medical Care Ventures was established to invest in start-ups and early-stage companies in the healthcare sector. The investments are targeted to support Fresenius Medical Care’s corporate strategy to grow continuously in our core business and to expand into new business areas. Fresenius Medical Care Ventures is complementing the corporate activities in external innovation.
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Our Mission
Fresenius Medical Care Ventures invests in early stage companies that develop products, technologies and therapies which will have a significant value for the patient and for the healthcare system.
Sectors of Interest
Products and technologies of interest include medical devices, patient monitoring, eHealth solutions, regenerative medicine and pharmaceuticals which provide innovative and potentially transformative approaches in the following therapeutic sectors:
Chronic Kidney Disease and Dialysis
Intensive Care Medicine
Cardiovascular Disease
Diabetes
Extracorporeal Therapies
Our Portfolio
Corvidia
Corvidia Therapeutics Inc. is a clinical stage biotechnology company based in Waltham, Massachusetts pioneering the next generation of cardiovascular and cardio-renal therapies.
ExThera Medical is developing revolutionary medical devices that address unmet clinical needs in the treatment of bloodstream infections and pathogen-reduction in blood banking.
Modulated Imaging is developing and marketing devices for determining oxygenation levels in superficial tissues for patients with potential circulatory compromise.
SafeRide Health is a venture-backed startup founded in 2016 with the mission of improving access to care for the nation’s underserved populations. The SafeRide platform fulfills over 1 million rides per year by managing transportation programs for healthcare systems and states. SafeRide simplifies health system operations, improves patient outcomes, and reduces costs for some of the nation’s leading healthcare systems.
Tridiuum’s behavioral health solution accelerates identifying, treating and managing behavioral health across the continuum of care. Its cloud-based platform, Tridiuum1, delivers improvements in access, management and outcomes– for patients, providers, and health systems.
Vectorious Medical Technologies has developed an implantable microcomputer-based system that enables optimal management of heart failure patients using direct, daily left-atrial pressure (LAP) measurements.
SafeRide Health Announces Series A Funding Round Led by Fresenius Medical Care Ventures
SafeRide, Inc. (“SafeRide Health;” “SafeRide”), a Los Angeles area-based healthcare logistics provider, announced that it has raised an undisclosed Series A equity financing round. Fresenius Medical Care Ventures led the round, with additional contributions from Amplify.LA, Bonfire Ventures, FCA Venture Partners, and Meridian Street Capital.
Digital Health Company Tridiuum Secures $9.5 Million in Series B Financing to Advance its Solution for Integrating Behavioral Health into Total Health
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 18, 2018 – Digital health company Tridiuum has secured $9.5 million in Series B financing, which includes equity capital from lead investor Sopris Capital and strategic co-investor Fresenius Medical Care Ventures, and debt funding from Silicon Valley Bank. Series A investors Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania and Martinson Ventures participated as well.
Fresenius Medical Care Ventures invests in Israeli medical device company
Fresenius Medical Care Ventures, the venture capital unit of Fresenius Medical Care, announced today that it has invested $2 million in the Series B financing round for Vectorious Medical Technologies (“Vectorious”). The Israeli medical device company raised more than $10 million in this financing round, including a recent grant from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 flagship research and development program.
Vectorious has developed the V-LAP, a first of its kind in-heart microcomputer for left-atrial pressure monitoring. Data from this device is transmitted wirelessly to clinicians, enabling heart failure patients to be managed effectively before their disease advances.
The Series B financing will accelerate Vectorious’ ongoing R&D programs, as well as CE Mark and FDA regulatory approval initiatives.
Corvidia Therapeutics Secures $60 Million in Series B Funding to Accelerate Clinical Work
Waltham, MA, April 25, 2018 — Corvidia Therapeutics Inc., a leading clinical stage biotechnology company, today announced the close of a $60 million USD Series B funding round. The financing will accelerate growth of Corvidia’s ongoing clinical programs, expand scientific and market access capabilities and explore new treatment areas.
Venrock led the Series B financing and was joined by five additional new investors: Andera (formerly Edmond de Rothschild), Cormorant Asset Management, HBM Healthcare Investments, Fresenius Medical Care Ventures GmbH and Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners (VHCP). Series A investors Apple Tree Partners, MedImmune, the global biologics Research and Development arm of AstraZeneca, and Sofinnova Partners, the founding seed investor, also participated in this round.
Irvine, CA – November 15, 2017 – Modulated Imaging, Inc., announced today that it has closed a $2.86 million Series A financing round to support growing market interest and demand for its innovative light-based imaging technology. This represents the medical device company’s second financing round since July of last year. The round was led by Grey Sky Venture Partners. Also participating was Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co, Ltd, Fresenius Medical Care Ventures GmbH and, making a second investment in the company, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. through its wholly-owned subsidiary Photonics Management Corporation.
ExThera Medical Closes Financing Led by Fresenius Medical Care Ventures to Support Commercialization of Innovative Technology to Remove Pathogens from Whole Blood
Martinez, Calif. – June 2, 2016 – ExThera Medical Corporation, the leading developer of innovative blood filtering technology to address major global health problems, today announced that the company has closed a Series B financing round with an equity investment led by new investor Fresenius Medical Care Ventures GmbH. The round included existing investors, and the conversion of the company’s convertible note, for a total of $15.3 million. Other terms were not disclosed.
