Dutch health insurer VGZ invests €6M in NLC Health Ventures: Here’s why | Silicon Canals

Dutch well being insurer VGZ, on Monday introduced that it has invested €6M in NLC Well being Ventures (NLC), which is devoted to supporting early-stage healthcare improvements.

This funding marks the primary time a well being insurer has invested in NLC.

With this transfer, VGZ and NLC enter right into a strategic partnership to develop and develop impactful, progressive firms in healthcare.

This capital injection will allow NLC to increase to quite a few startups every year.

Since 2015, NLC has been bringing impactful improvements to sufferers on a big scale, with over 100 startups, 4 funds, and actions in 16 nations, all geared toward bettering the standard of healthcare.

One such instance is Nicolab.

Nicolab considerably improves time-sensitive stroke remedies by AI-supported data change between medical doctors and hospitals.

With this innovation, sufferers have a greater probability of emergency remedy to take away dangerous clots and are 1.8 instances extra prone to reside independently after a stroke.

This results in a greater high quality of life and vital price financial savings for hospitals and society.

NLC performed a key function in making Nicolab’s stroke care resolution accessible.

NLC Well being Ventures: Energetic well being know-how investor

Primarily based out of Amsterdam, NLC Well being Ventures is essentially the most lively well being know-how investor in Europe and the world’s largest healthtech enterprise builder.

NLC finds, builds, and scales transformative well being improvements to offer extra sufferers with high quality care.

NLC is ‘BCorp,’ its funds adjust to SFDR9 tips, they usually contribute to ESG 3, 9, and 17.

“VGZ sees main challenges in healthcare, for which NLC can discover appropriate improvements, from around the globe and construct them into full-fledged firms. The funding from and cooperation with VGZ will make it attainable to get these improvements to sufferers quicker,” stated Bert-Arjan Millenaar, CEO and founding father of NLC Well being Ventures.

VGZ: A driver of healthcare innovation

VGZ is devoted to contributing to the way forward for healthcare and goals to be a frontrunner in sustainable funding. The “Voorop in Zorg” fund is a part of Coöperatie VGZ.

The fund invests 60 million in progressive firms that concentrate on holding healthcare accessible and reasonably priced.

It primarily targets (pre)seed and early-stage firms concerned in Medtech, Healthtech, Digital Well being Providers, and information change.

Along with offering early-stage capital, VGZ additionally utilises its healthcare information and experience to expedite the event of those firms, with the shared ambition of enhancing healthcare.

Kees Hamster, CFO of VGZ says, “VGZ can leverage its information and experience to assist firms which might be about to enter the market or are within the technique of additional scaling up within the Netherlands, by providing entry to know-how on reimbursements, market measurement, present care pathways, contracting, and income fashions.”