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SKIA Capital

Unlocking Value in Dislocated Healthcare Markets

Led by a Unique Group of Proven Operators and Investors in Healthcare

About SKIA Capital

Market Background

Our team has been involved in the biotechnology sector as investors, senior executives, directors and strategic advisors since its inception in the late 1980's. As such we have seen, worked and prospered through its innumerable cycles of relative attractiveness to investors. The recent period of historically low interest rates and easy access to capital, resulted in an extraordinary number of early-stage healthcare companies being formed as well as a subsequent wave of immature IPOs. Recently, however, there has been a significant downturn in the sector, with an estimated minimum of 25% of NASDAQ listed biotech companies trading below cash-on-hand* and well over a third expecting to run out of cash within 12 months.** In general, venture capital firms, expecting liquidity though public markets, have not seen those events occur, while M&A and strategic partnerships are always difficult to execute. Many of the public healthcare specialist funds are underwater, and many have become forced sellers of attractive assets. Additionally, many either lack fresh capital, for new or existing investments, or have taken a "wait and see" approach to new capital deployment. As a result, the ability for many early-stage healthcare companies to access new capital has essentially dried up.

Despite recent market improvements, this combination of macro-economic volatility and investor risk aversion creates an opportunity to invest transformational capital into significantly undervalued companies, many of which are unable to scale or continue to develop their pipeline assets.

Our Approach and Experience

Our focus is to identify clear value dislocations in today's healthcare markets and to then turn those into value creating opportunities. We do this by finding paradigm shifting biology, providing capital to develop that biology to its next meaningful value inflection point and then actively acting as directors or advisors.

 

This could be by investing directly into undervalued  companies, by acquiring a novel asset and then building a company around it, by aggregating assets into existing companies or by taking advantage of unique situations that may present themselves.

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Each investment will be through individual special purpose investment vehicles (SPVs), utilizing bespoke structures that provide the potential for maximal investment returns while removing the overhangs related to the need for additional capital. 

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We expect initial investments to be $10 - 50M per deal.

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Our Team of proven C-suite executives, directors, investors and bankers, in healthcare, have a history of strong pattern recognition that has led to several  successful transactions and exits.

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Our Vision

Create venture-like returns in a medium - term horizon by turning existing dislocations in healthcare investing into value creating opportunities.***

* Adegbesan A. (2025). Biotech Stocks Trading Under Water Pose a

   Conundrum for Bargain-Hunters. Bloomberg Markets.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-08/biotech-stocks-xbi-ibb-trading-under-water-pose-a-dilemma-for-bargain-hunters

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** Ernst & Young. (2025). Biotech Beyond Borders Report 2025.

https://www.ey.com/en_us/life-sciences/biotech-outlook

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*** See Disclaimer

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Information herein regarding SKIA Capital’s investment process is for guideline purposes only and should not be construed in as absolute restrictions or requirements. Certain statements included on this website constitute “forward-looking statements.” Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of funds or accounts managed by SKIA Capital to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. For additional information, refer to the Disclaimer.

About Us

Who We Are

Our 
Advisors

Fred Craves PhD

Founder of Bay City Capital. 35 plus years of investment and company formation experience. Director of Madrigal and several private companies. Trustee of the Gladstone Institute. 

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Amy Wechsler MD, MBA

Board certified Dermatologist  and Psychiatrist in private practice. Advisor to Chanel Skin Care for 14 years. Board member, Bausch Health (BHC), Galecto (GLTO). ​​

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