HealthCap
healthcap.eu Direct investor
HealthCap is a European venture capital firm investing globally in life sciences, focusing on breakthrough therapies for high unmet medical needs. It has raised nine funds since 1996 and backed over 130 companies.
HealthCap is a venture capital firm headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 1996. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. 136 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“HealthCap is looking to back companies developing targeted therapies for rare diseases, cancers, and genetic diseases.”
— HealthCap, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- global
- Founded
- 1996
- Portfolio
- 136 companies
Team, as HealthCap publishes it
- Björn Odlander Managing Partner | MD PhD
- Mårten Steen Managing Partner | MD PhD
- Kristina Ekberg Partner | LLM
- Carl Kilander Partner | MD PhD
- Johan Christenson Partner | MD PhD
- Staffan Lindstrand Partner | MSc
- Per Samuelsson Partner | MSc
- Max Odlander Partner | MSc
- Alex Valcu Partner | MSc
- Daniel Karsberg Partner | MSc
- Anki Forsberg Partner and Chairman | LLM MBA
- Carl-Johan Dalsgaard Venture Partner | MD PhD
Names and roles exactly as listed on healthcap.eu. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 77 co-investors found.
- Swedish Industrial Development Fund 4 shared companies: bonesupport.com, gesynta.se, oncopeptides.com, tribunetx.com
- RA Capital Management 2 shared companies: hemab.com, adcendo.com
- KDventures 2 shared companies: oncopeptides.com, aprea.com
- Savory Fund 2 shared companies: wordpress.org, sharepoint.com
- Avoro Capital Advisors LLC 1 shared company: hemab.com
- Maj Invest 1 shared company: hemab.com
- Sofinnova 1 shared company: hemab.com
- INKEF Capital 1 shared company: precirix.com
- V-Bio Ventures 1 shared company: precirix.com
- Amboy Street Ventures, LLC 1 shared company: gesynta.se
and 67 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page HealthCap publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.healthcap.eu/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.healthcap.eu/about-healthcap/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.healthcap.eu/team/people
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Record 1193 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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