Care Capital: VC Post-2001
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Care Capital's focus on later-stage programs--driven by its ex-Big Pharma partners' own expertise in more advanced development and marketing--happily coincided with the lower-risk, closer-to-market models which have become fashionable with private and public investors since the 2001 downturn. Does this VC firm have the right model at the right time?
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