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Vivo Capital
Vivo Capital ("Vivo") is an American investment firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It is focused on making public and private investments in the healthcare and biotechnology industries. Background The firm was originally founded in 1996 as BioAsia Investments (due to its former association with Asian investors) by Frank Kung and Edgar G. Engleman. The two had previously founded Genelabs Technologies, a biopharmaceutical company that was acquired by GSK plc in 2008. Vivo has three strategies, Private equity, Public equity and Venture capital. Vivo historically has invested 70% of its capital into biotechnology companies and 30% into medical device companies. Originally it started investing in early stage companies but later on more towards growth stage companies and buyout deals. In the early 2000s, it started investing in Asia, mainly in China due to the opportunities provided. The biotech firms that Vivo invests in tend to already have new treatments in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |