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Investor Eye: Intuitive Surgical Hops, Skips, And Jumps Into VC

 
• By Barnaby Pickering

When a large medtech company sets up a venture fund, it typically invests in technologies that are adjacent to its pre-existing portfolio. Intuitive Surgical’s approach is different.

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Intuitive Ventures, a fund created with $100m from Intuitive Surgical in October 2020, makes “all bets in early-stage companies that are making headways to improve outcomes and lower costs,” according to managing director Oliver Keown.

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