Bull Market Bodes Well for #BIF18

The rapid pace of scientific discovery, FDA approvals, commercialization of medicines held long in pipelines, and numerous IPOs during 2018 are driving interest in the smaller private companies with the resulting investment on pace to set a record for venture capital investing in healthcare. According to Forbes, the amount of venture capital raised from January through July 2018 was $15 billion—the total amount raised by healthcare companies in all of 2017 (also a good year). The tota