Video Interview: Canaan Partners' Bloch Outlines Funding Priorities
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Executive Summary
After raising its 10th fund in 2014, Canaan Partners has been actively investing in early stage US biopharm, medtech and digital health opportunities. Having already committed about a quarter of the fund to six companies, with plans in place to invest in up to another 12 businesses, Dr. Stephen Bloch, a partner at the VC, tells Mike Ward how assets that are ready for commercial development fall into his company's sweet spot.
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