Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund
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Fast Forward Medical Innovation

We create a critical pipeline between research and the biomedical innovation life cycle. 

The Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund (MBVF) invests in and supports life science startup companies with U-M licensed intellectual property – including therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and health IT. The MBVF is a collaborative effort between the U-M Medical School’s Fast Forward Medical Innovation (FFMI) program and the U-M College of Engineering’s Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE).

Founded based on an initial gift from the Monroe-Brown Foundation, MBVF makes seed-stage equity investments in U-M life science startup companies. This evergreen fund serves to drive the university’s world-class leadership by creating a critical pipeline between research and the biomedical innovation life cycle, resulting in broad clinical and economic impact through startups.

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Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund Team
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Manager
 FFMI Nimisha Nandankar Nimisha Nandankar, MS
Venture Fund Analyst
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OUR IMPACT
2024 was another record-breaking year of biomedical innovation at the University of Michigan, and Fast Forward Medical Innovation is thrilled to be part of the rich ecosystem of innovation resources that contributed to this impressive accomplishment.
View our 2024 Impact Report
19
startups funded since launch (1 exited)
32
investments since launch
40:1
$40 raised by startups for every $1 of MBVF investment
$250M+
in funding raised for all companies combined

"FFMI's fastPACE commercialization course helped us learn a lot of the basics and develop our first business model canvas. Several years later, the Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund provided investment and valuable connections, including introductions to potential collaborators. We are now exploring optimizing the timing of immunotherapy and other conditions with U-M researchers."

Olivia Walch, PhD
Adjunct Research Investigator, Neurology;, CEO, Arcascope
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Questions?
Contact Us
North Campus Research Complex (NCRC)
Building 520, 3rd Floor
2800 Plymouth Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2800
Phone: 734-615-5060
About Us
Fast Forward Medical Innovation is a unit of the Medical School Office of Research, where our mission is to foster an environment of innovation and efficiency that serves the Michigan Medicine research community and supports biomedical science from insight to impact.