Fu­ji­film stays hot, launch­es $60M in­vest­ment fund for new deals

When it rains, it pours. And when things go well for Fu­ji­film, they go very well.

Fu­ji­film is launch­ing a strate­gic in­vest­ment fund man­aged by a new group with­in the com­pa­ny kick­ing off with $60 mil­lion in fund­ing, a com­pa­ny spokesper­son said. The news comes on the heels of a string of in­vest­ments and merg­ers set to start the year.

The fund will tar­get part­ner­ships with ear­ly-stage biotech and phar­ma com­pa­nies around the world, the com­pa­ny said in a re­lease. The new­ly es­tab­lished group — dubbed the Life Sci­ences Cor­po­rate Ven­ture Cap­i­tal — will take on the com­pa­ny’s pri­or in­vest­ment port­fo­lio, which has fo­cused on re­gen­er­a­tive med­i­cine, cell ther­a­peu­tics and drug dis­cov­ery re­search projects.

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