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Bridging the gap between innovation and capital

  • April 17, 2025
  • 1pm ET / 12pm CT / 10am PT
Online

Purelite Ventures

Focus on Biotech Therapeutics, Healthcare AI and SaMD

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Purelite Ventures is a healthcare-focused venture capital firm based in New York, specializing in seed-stage investments across the USA. The firm takes an agnostic approach within healthcare, funding innovative startups in life sciences, biotechnology, healthcare AI, and software as a medical device (SaMD). With a mission to support groundbreaking advancements in the industry, Purelite partners with visionary founders to accelerate the development of transformative healthcare solutions.

Event

LaunchBio, Browne Consulting, and Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank, are pleased to announce their next Investor Connect virtual event with Purelite Ventures.

Purelite’s Managing Partner, NanaYaa Mensah-Thomas, has two decades of experience in research, clinical laboratory science, and quality control/assurance, including leadership at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Her passion for venture capital was sparked during her MBA at Columbia Business School, and she also serves as a mentor at Techstars Chicago and Nucleate where she helps emerging founders develop successful strategies for their startups.

Applications will be selected based on meeting the following criteria:

Geography:
Open to investments globally

Company type:
Pre-Seed and Seed stage only

Areas of Interest:

  • Biologics, Biosimilars
  • Therapies (Cell, CRISPR, Gene, Microbiome, Protein, RNA)
  • Regenerative Medicine
  • Small Modilecules
  • Vaccines
  • Healthcare AI
  • SAMD – Software as a Medical Device


Therapeutic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Agnostic within healthcare, so open to all organ systems


Stage:
Companies seeking funding exclusively for Pre-Seed and Seed (<500k) stage

 

Qualifying start-ups can apply here today.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more about LaunchBio’s Investor Connect series, in partnership with Browne Consulting and Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank.

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