Health­care ven­ture cap­i­tal has al­ready blown away 2020 records, but does it have the juice to keep grow­ing?

With the wind of the pan­dem­ic at its back, the bio­phar­ma in­dus­try saw a surg­ing tide of fundrais­ing in 2020 that has on­ly ex­po­nen­tial­ly grown this year. But with VC dol­lars flow­ing like nev­er be­fore, are there some cracks show­ing in bio­phar­ma’s gold-tint­ed façade?

In the first half of 2021, to­tal health­care ven­ture spend­ing in the US has al­ready out­stripped 2020’s record-break­ing to­tals across biotech, healthtech and be­yond, putting the in­dus­try on a fund­ing pace that could be hard to match in com­ing years, ac­cord­ing to a new re­port from Sil­i­con Val­ley Bank re­leased Wednes­day.

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