Our criteria

We believe in trusted partnerships

CMS Ventures provides patient capital for ambitious Biotech and Life Sciences startups in the 4Ds (Drugs, Devices, Diagnostics and Digital), interested in entering the Chinese market with a trusted partner of choice.

What we do

We offer 3 types of investment:

£20–50K investment

Convertible loans
NUMBER OF INVESTMENTS FUNDED PER YEAR ~8

£50K–1M investment

Usually first round of investment for the start-up
NUMBER OF INVESTMENTS FUNDED PER YEAR 3-4

£1–2M investment

Usually second round of investment for the start-up
NUMBER OF INVESTMENTS FUNDED PER YEAR 1-2

Total ~£5M of funding per year

About CMS

China Medical System Holdings Limited (“CMS” or the “Group”) is a well-established, innovation-driven specialty pharma with a focus on sales and marketing in China. CMS concentrates on the innovative products that are global first-in-class or with the best efficacy or best cost-effectiveness in the same class due to their innovative formulations or drug delivery systems, and has built up an innovative pipeline including products with great market potential and competitive differentiation advantages at relatively high innovation level, covering various therapeutic fields. Meanwhile, the Group has proven and successful experience in drug promotion for over two decades, and established a professional, compliant and efficient academic promotion system. Combined with its timely, refined, transparent and efficient internal management system, CMS has become one of the most efficient companies in China pharmaceutical industry.
CMS has grown an impressive promotion team, totalling roughly 3,100 professional academic promotion staff as of December 31, 2019; coupled with an expansive promotion network, which covers approximately 57,000 hospitals and medical institutions in China since June 30, 2020 (displayed above).

CMS' therapeutic focuses are:

CVD
Dermatology
CNS
Opthalmology
GI
Paediatrics
Oncology
Gynaecology

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