About Us
Angel Physicians Fund is a seed stage investor group of physicians and healthcare entrepreneurs exclusively focused on life science and healthcare investments. Our mission is to bring more clinical tools to the marketplace, while attaining superior returns for our investors. To do this, we provide financing and mentoring to early-stage life-science companies so that they can obtain further funding, reach positive cash-flows or get acquired. Members are carefully vetted for their deep expertise around the health sciences and have exited from prior healthcare ventures. They bring a willingness to support early stage companies to further our mission. In addition, we draw on our deep relationships with local and regional healthcare institutions and funders, to help bring leading healthcare innovation center in the world. Our partners provide additional resources, including deal flow, expertise and advisors for the companies we work with.
Angel Physicians Fund provides early stage funding to companies looking to raise between $100,000 to approximately $5MM. Depending on the size of the investment, we are willing to provide all or part of a round. We are willing to work closely with other angel groups or venture funds to ensure that the round is closed and a company adequately capitalized. We are looking for companies that are extremely capital efficient and where our funds will lead to significant step-ups in valuation (in part to avoid unfavorable future funding rounds). Our aim is to help utilize our clinical expertise and network to help startups accelerate their product development. We tend to fund startups in their clinical development, rather than technology development. Academic or university backing of the startup is looked upon favorably in our deal evaluation.
We invest in medical devices, therapeutics, diagnostics, health services, health information technologies, and relevant research-related tools including laboratory equipment. Entities that may have a global impact via their product or service are preferred, along with startups that seek to get our members on their board and/or scientific advisory panel. Additionally, our members may provide board level leadership or valuable input on scientific advisory panels, depending on the needs of the company.
The Angel Physicians Fund has turbo charged our clinical development program. They have opened our trials in their centers in record time, introduced us to other academic trial sites, introduced us to strategic manufacturers and functioned as a key board member on our company board. They have given us valuable clinical advice and helped us in new product development, along with obtaining FDA BREAKTHROUGH DEVICE STATUS. We are indeed very thankful to them, as they have helped us beyond capital in our endeavor to enhance cancer care.
Vedang Kothari
CEO/Founder of MuReva Photodynamic TherapyThe Angel Physicians Fund and its clinical advisory team have been instrumental in our product development. They are a great partner.
Saar Mahna
Founder/CEO of Banjo HealthAngel Physicians Fund is more than an investor in Kurome Therapeutics. Their members serve as trusted technical advisors and also bring the much needed clinical perspective to our development program. We highly value their contributions.
Jan S. Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
President, CEO, & CSO, Kurome Therapeutics, Inc.Angel Physician Fund has provided significant value to Enable in our mission to become the standard of care alternative to intravenous drug administration and we greatly appreciate their support.
Michael Hooven
President and CEO, Enable Injections, Inc.Angel Physicians Fund has provided a significant value-add to Foldax in accelerating our product and clinical development. Their physician-based expertise and experience have been instrumental in the Company’s progress.
Ken Charhut
Executive Chairman, Foldax, Inc.