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Skyline Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in healthcare companies. It typically invests in small molecule and protein therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and technologies that facilitate drug discovery and life science research. The firm primarily invests in companies developing breakthrough medicines that are in or nearing clinical trials; medical devices, where it seeks to fund product development and not research; and startups having intangibles such as proprietary science or engineering or a scientific approach, established leaders, and innovators in the field. It prefers to invest $15 million or more in a portfolio company over the life an investment...

Skyline Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in healthcare companies. It typically invests in small molecule and protein therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and technologies that facilitate drug discovery and life science research. The firm primarily invests in companies developing breakthrough medicines that are in or nearing clinical trials; medical devices, where it seeks to fund product development and not research; and startups having intangibles such as proprietary science or engineering or a scientific approach, established leaders, and innovators in the field. It prefers to invest $15 million or more in a portfolio company over the life an investment. The firm initially invests between $10 million and $15 million, depending on the number of follow-on rounds it forecast for that company before an IPO or sale. It targets investments between $15 million and $35 million per portfolio company over the life of the company. The firm prefers to lead or co-lead a company's first or second institutional venture round. It typically takes a board seat in its portfolio company. Skyline Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Stamford, Connecticut.

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