Following Peregrine’s consecutive win of the Israel Innovation Authority’s incubators tender, the consortium will jointly develop and invest over NIS 300 million in medical startups. Shaare Zedek will also serve as a clinical hub for the consortium’s innovative investments.
Peregrine Ventures, Israel’s leading investment firm dedicated to supporting life changing healthcare opportunities, today announced the establishment of a consortium of leading companies and research institutes that have joined its award-winning Incentive Technology Incubator. The new members of Peregrine’s Incentive Incubator include global pharmaceutical leader Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), medical devices and diagnostics company BD (Becton Dickinson and Company), international high technology company Elbit Systems, and esteemed institutional leaders Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Shaare Zedek Medical Center. The consortium will jointly develop and invest over NIS 300 million in startups operating in and graduates of Peregrine’s technology incubator which was established following the firm’s consecutive win of the Israel Innovation Authority’s incubators tender.
Founded in 2002, Peregrine’s Incentive Incubator is one of Israel’s most successful technological incubators and a leader in global life sciences. Utilized as an anchor for developing new ventures and supporting pre-seed, seed, and early-stage investments, the incubator leverages Peregrine’s decades of experience and substantial investments to guide young life science companies through the early phases of development. This growth is fed by Peregrine’s various dedicated investment vehicles designed to support life sciences technologies in different stages of development, from pre-seed to late growth to pre-IPO companies and everything in between.
The incubator’s unique model has yielded extraordinary results to date. Notably, of the 60 companies that were established in the incubator, 34 of them remain active companies. The aggregate value of companies that have graduated from Incentive Incubator has reached the $5 billion mark. Peregrine and the incubator have achieved an impressive number of exits. Some of the partnership’s most noteworthy include Valtech Cardio which was sold to Edwards Lifesciences for $690 million, CartiHeal, which was acquired by Bioventus for $500 million, Cardiovalve, which was recently sold to Venus, Eximo Medical which was sold to AngioDynamics and Neovasc.
Eyal Lifschitz, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Peregrine Ventures said, “The establishment of this consortium will enrich and diversify our ability to lead young life sciences ventures, support them financially in every phase of their lifecycle including follow-on investments in their growth stages, and lead them to success in the global market. This is an integrated, global, and elite team that has the confidence in the ability of Israeli entrepreneurs to develop the next generation of successful medical companies. All the while improving patients’ quality of life and lowering global mortality. Besides the extensive capital that is available as a result of this consortium, all parties will harness their professional networks, industry know-how, and business relations to ensure the success of these important medical technology startups.”
Peregrine’s Incentive Incubator will focus on the disciplines of targeted medical therapeutics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, advanced diagnostics (innovative sensors, omics analysis, algorithmics) for identification, monitoring, and personalized medication, alongside breakthrough medical devices, such as AI-integrated robotics and sense-based specific therapies, among others.
Dr. Daniel Katz, General Manager at BMS Israel, stated: “BMS is extending its direct investments in early-stage companies in Israel through the collaboration with Peregrine’s Incentive Incubator. This monumental collaboration creates a synergy that will maximize the great potential of Israeli life sciences startups and will help them grow and become leading companies in the international scene.”
“Part of BD’s innovation strategy is to enter into strategic collaborations with external parties to ensure we benefit from the best minds inside and outside of BD,” said Ofir Klein, Country General Manager, BD Israel. “Israel is a great innovation hub, and we are excited to participate in this promising consortium. We believe the synergy of the groups could help advance innovation in smart connected care, bioanalytic technologies, molecular diagnostics and interventional devices that will help enable new care settings and improve outcomes in chronic disease.”
Lior Shahory, General Partner at Peregrine Ventures and CEO of Incentive Incubator stated, “The integration of all the strategic shareholders, research institutes, and technological partners will lead to a substantial leap forward in the initiation of global medical technology companies and their success.”
Main photo: Peregrine Ventures’ leading team. Credit – Peregrine Ventures
