Peppermint VenturePartners (PVP) is a private Venture Capital firm based in Berlin, Germany. Grown out of Peppermint Holding, a mid-sized industry group, we are dedicated to supporting outstanding entrepreneurs and innovative scientists in transforming healthcare.
Along the continuum of care, we invest in disruptive and novel solutions that bring increased efficiency, improved accessibility, cost containment, and digitization of the healthcare system and the life science industry.
Our Mission
Investments in top tier transformative medtech, digital health and biotech companies bridging market boundaries.
Our Vision
Improving healthcare by bringing medical innovations to patients in local and international markets.
Our Values
We firmly believe that investing in healthcare is much more than just providing funding for start-ups. Integrity, commitment and social responsibility are therefore strong pillars of our investment decisions.
Our Approach
We love working with dedicated founders and management teams in a collaborative way, supporting them with our unique experience and our strong network of relevant stakeholders in the healthcare sector.
Our Focus
We invest in early-stage healthcare companies along the continuum of care. Our focus is on disruptive innovations in ophthalmic and cardiovascular diseases.
This is us
A multinational team with many years of expertise in funding, mentoring and developing transformative healthcare companies.
Venture Team
Management
The combination of complementary skills and interdisciplinary technical expertise together with comprehensive national and international networks in the healthcare sector, allows PVP to support its portfolio companies in their development. Since the year 2000, PVP team members have worked in various constellations on several investments and exits.
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
The PVP Advisory Board supports the team as a discussion partner on questions regarding the strategic development of the portfolio. It consists of experienced managers in the healthcare field, clinical experts and successful companies.
Partnerships
Partnerships
PVP has established longstanding relationships with leading research centers in Germany to support them in validating and translating their disruptive scientific ideas into medical solutions.
Since 2010 PVP has been collaborating with the Charité, one of the leading university clinics in Europe. PVP utilizes this relationship for its Peppermint Charité Biomedical Fund (CBF 1), which helps to promote translation of medical research into start-up ideas as well as provide access to a unique clinical research network for its portfolio companies.
In 2011 we started working with the Helmholtz Association, Germany’s largest research organization comprised of 18 centers with more than 43,000 employees and an annual budget of over € 5 billion.
Our sister company, PVP Advisors, carries out the external management of the Helmholtz Validation Fund (HVF), which funded 50 internal projects that bridge the gap between research results and their marketable applications.
In addition, PVP team members are deeply embedded as judges, mentors and coaches in a variety of relevant international start-ups initiatives, business plan competitions and funding networks like TechTour, EIT Health, EIC, etc.
Funds
VC 1
VC 1 was launched in 2000 by entrepreneurial Limited Partner with an industry background. With a volume of € 21 million, VC 1 built a portfolio of eight companies in ICT, industrial technologies and life sciences.
Within this portfolio, four investments were made in Life Sciences companies ranging from drug development to tools and services. Two of these companies were successfully exited.
One of these, Scienion AG, yielded a return of >13x for the fund.
VC 1 achieved a total return of >1.7x.
Investment Details
- Size: € 21 million
- Closing/ (Vintage): 2000
- Intervention: Early Stage
- Sectors: ICT, Industrial Technologies, Life Sciences
- Geography: Germany
- 8 investments
- Overall return: >1.7x
CBF 1
CBF 1 was launched in 2010 within the scope of the cooperation with Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. With a volume of 30 million €, CBF 1 has built a portfolio of eight companies in the Healthcare sector. The focus of investments has been in the areas of ophthalmology and cardiology with four portfolio companies.
One company - Humedics GmbH - was created together with the Charité and three had clinical or business relationships during their development and validation.
The portfolio companies have attracted 185 million € from co-investors from all around the world leveraging CBF 1 investments by a factor of 9.4x.
Investment Details
- Size: € 30 million
- Closing/ (Vintage): 2011
- Intervention: Early Stage
- Sectors: MedTech, Digital Health, Pharma Platforms
- Geography: Europe with a focus on DACH
- 9 investments
- 8 active portfolio companies
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