EFTA00351818.pdf
PDF Source (No Download)
Extracted Text (OCR)
From: "David Carter"
To:'
<Ma>
Subject: FW: Investment Opportunities
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 15:28:30 +0000
Attachments: DaCart_Presentation_Mar_2_2015.pptx
From: David Carter [mailto:
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 11:09 AM
To: ben carter
Subject: Investment Opportunities
Dear Lesley,
Here is my email for Jeffery.
Thanks, David
Dear Jeffery,
James Meiskin suggested you might have an interest in what I am doing. Since you offered to look at what I am
up to, I have attached the full story. It is essentially the presentation I made in Moscow several years ago. I am
now working with Russian Venture on the first, of what we both think will be a series of investments.
As you can imagine, "the full story" is best told with a narrator, but maybe you can get an idea of what I am
doing by flipping through the slides. Hopefully, you will find something of enough interest that we might
arrange a face to face meeting.
I also thought you might want me to get to the point. I have no idea what your investment interests are, but some
of the things I have read about you suggest that you would like to do good with your money, as well as doing
well with your investments. This is just an impression, but if my impression is correct, I think I have some
interesting things for you to consider. I will highlight the first three investment opportunities:
MAJI Therapeutics: MAJI is focused on solving the major unmet medical need to reduce the 45% failure
rate of coronary artery by-pass grafts. This is a major unmet medical need in both Russia and the United
States. Russian Venture Capital has agreed to provide approximately half of the capital ($3.0M) to
launch MAJI in its Series A Round. I need to find the matching approximate $3.5M. I have a
commitment for $1.5M, so I am looking for the final $2.0M piece to close the round in "early summer".
EFTA00351818
I consider MAJI to be a rock solid investment, and an investment with a good chance to generate a 12X
return in 4.5 years.
Prediction Biosciences: Prediction has developed a diagnostic that accurately predicts (in a timely
fashion) which stroke victims are safe to receive t-PA. A significant percent (30%-50%) of stroke victims
have severe adverse reactions to t-PA, and knowing (in a timely fashion) which patients will respond
well, and which will respond badly, would be a major advance in the treatment of stroke patients.
(6%-11% of these "adverse responses" will be fatal.) Prediction is well along in its development. They
just need about $1.5M to get into the clinic, and generate the data for product approval. With the clinical
data in hand the balance of Prediction's financing should be relatively easy.
OvationBio: OvationBio is super early. It will be a challenge to find investors, sensitive to risk and
return, to provide OvationBio the capital it needs to do its early work. Somehow OvationBio is what I
thought you would find most interesting. Producing polyclonal antibodies from genetically modified
chickens could solve one of the biggest medical problems in the world—hospital based infections, i.e.
MRSA. In addition, OvationBio' s technology could produce human enzymes, in modified chickens, on
a super cost effective basis. OvationBio needs to do proof of concept studies, and develop its intellectual
property, before it starts to raise real money. OvationBio needs $1.5M to complete this early work. In
olden days this would be something the NIH would fund, but there is no more real NIH money, so I am
looking for private investors with a "civic minded interest". (The Russians Love OvationBio, but we
need to show them "proof of concept", before they can/will invest.)
ConcentRx: I like ConcentRx. It is personalized cancer therapy. We will only beat cancer when we
learn to treat it individually, and one patient at a time.
I am pretty sue I have the money for this one, but depending on your interest we can discuss it.
So, for your consideration, you could pick a project that you liked, and dedicate a $1.5M ($2.0M in the case of
MAJI) investment toward it. If you liked all three projects, you could invest $5.0M, and take the portfolio
approach.
As I have confessed, I am shooting in the dark here, but James has assured me you have at least the potential to
find an idea you like among this things I am doing.
Thank you for your consideration.
Kind regards, David
David W. Carter
EFTA00351819
President—DaCart Capital LLC
1485 Main St Suite 301
St Helena, CA 94574
(510) 205-3175 Cell
(707) 967-0556 Fax
EFTA00351820
Document Preview
PDF source document
This document was extracted from a PDF. No image preview is available. The OCR text is shown on the left.
This document was extracted from a PDF. No image preview is available. The OCR text is shown on the left.
Document Details
| Filename | EFTA00351818.pdf |
| File Size | 149.5 KB |
| OCR Confidence | 85.0% |
| Has Readable Text | Yes |
| Text Length | 4,581 characters |
| Indexed | 2026-02-11T16:04:50.769803 |