Smart Capital
Fund: Coker Capital Partners
Posted by oriole on 2009-02-04
Our early stage technology company has made its initial pitch and begun discussions with Coker Capital. We have been impressed with the "smart capital" potential of Coker. That is, we believe that Coker's health care consulting business makes their potential investment to include expertise highly beneficial for a company involved in bioengineering R&D like ours. We have been impressed with Mark Reiboldt's ability to rapidly grasp our technology and business model. Coker appears to be an excellent fit for health sciences companies that need angel size investments with more value-added industry knowledge.
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Fund: Coker Capital Partners
Posted by shampton on 2008-08-25
We just closed our seed round with Coker. I have been quite happy working with Mark and with John. The fund is new, and TheraKine doesn't fit into the usual box, so it took about five months from pitch to close. If you are in the South East looking for early phase med-tech money, you should talk to them, they aren't part of the Secret Handshake Club that used to dominate Atlanta biotech. I like that they are willing to get in very early with smaller amounts: innovators with promising ideas should definitely give them a call.
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