James Toone

CFO at BPGbio | Investor (Biotech, Healthcare, Tech, and Search Funds) | Search Fund Mentor | Former Searcher

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023
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Aug 2022
Fantuan was founded in Vancouver, Canada in 2014. With a mission of “life made easier”, we are a technology company that provides a one-stop platform connecting people and their local community. Fantuan operates in major cities across Canada, the United States, Australia, and the UK. As the world’s leading life service platform, we enable our users to unlock access to the richness of their neighbourhood and the city. From food and grocery delivery to convenience and daily deals, Fantuan is bringing communities closer together than ever before. For more information, please visit: www.fantuan.ca.
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Jul 2019
Masterprep Academy is a premier provider of after-school classes and tutoring services. We specialize in preparing students to score well on standardized tests (ACT, SAT, SSAT, PSAT, SAT Subject, ISEE, USABO, USNCO, AP Tests), but we also aid students academic progress by offering GPA Management and College Prep Counseling services. The secret to our success is largely due to the following: - Small class sizes! We cap our class size at 6 students to ensure individualized attention and assistance for each student. - Proprietary curriculum. We develop our own teaching materials for many of our courses, ensuring instruction is keeping up with changes to standardized test structure and content. - Track record of success. We only hire teachers who have demonstrated an ability to do well on standardized tests, along with a track record of successfully teaching students how to score well on the tests
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2023
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Jan 2023
BPGbio is a leading biology-first AI-powered clinical stage biopharma focused on mitochondrial biology and protein homeostasis. The company has a deep pipeline of AI-developed therapeutics spanning oncology, rare disease and neurology, including several in late-stage clinical trials. BPGbio’s novel approach is underpinned by NAi, its proprietary Interrogative Biology Platform, protected by over 400 US and international patents; one of the world’s largest clinically annotated non-governmental biobanks with longitudinal samples; and exclusive access to the most powerful supercomputer in the world. With these tools, BPGbio is redefining how patient biology can be modeled using bespoke Bayesian AI specifically designed for solving large-scale biology challenges. Headquartered in greater Boston, the company is at the forefront of a new era in medicine, combining biology, multi-modal data, and AI to transform the way we understand, diagnose, and treat disease.
2022
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Aug 2022
Fantuan was founded in Vancouver, Canada in 2014. With a mission of “life made easier”, we are a technology company that provides a one-stop platform connecting people and their local community. Fantuan operates in major cities across Canada, the United States, Australia, and the UK. As the world’s leading life service platform, we enable our users to unlock access to the richness of their neighbourhood and the city. From food and grocery delivery to convenience and daily deals, Fantuan is bringing communities closer together than ever before. For more information, please visit: www.fantuan.ca.
2019
Investor
Jul 2019
Masterprep Academy is a premier provider of after-school classes and tutoring services. We specialize in preparing students to score well on standardized tests (ACT, SAT, SSAT, PSAT, SAT Subject, ISEE, USABO, USNCO, AP Tests), but we also aid students academic progress by offering GPA Management and College Prep Counseling services. The secret to our success is largely due to the following: - Small class sizes! We cap our class size at 6 students to ensure individualized attention and assistance for each student. - Proprietary curriculum. We develop our own teaching materials for many of our courses, ensuring instruction is keeping up with changes to standardized test structure and content. - Track record of success. We only hire teachers who have demonstrated an ability to do well on standardized tests, along with a track record of successfully teaching students how to score well on the tests
2018
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Jun 2018
Absolute Health Care has been providing professional home care and elder support services for over 20 years. Our caregiving services include hourly care and live-in care. We know that every client’s health care needs are unique and we are committed to creating a positive experience by developing a Personal Plan of Care with each client. Our service area includes: Orange County South Los Angeles County North San Diego County Riverside County
2017
Managing Partner
Jun 2017
We are growth investors focused on North American middle market companies, investing in healthcare, business services, and real estate opportunities. We take a long-term approach to value investing, focusing on macro-economic trends that support long-term, sustainable value-creation for our investors, managers, deal teams, and for the employees of the companies we acquire. We invest in tomorrows opportunities today! EXPERIENCE: The Vega Ventures team is a combination of successful investment professionals, entrepreneurs and business executives. Together we have developed a disciplined investment process drawing upon our collective experience and time-tested investment judgement. We leverage our network of current and former portfolio company executives, board members, and investment partners to augment our unique sourcing model and to serve as a valuable resource for our portfolio companies. PARTNERSHIP: Vega Ventures is committed to partnering with and aligning incentives between our investors, managers, and deal teams in order to produce long-term, sustainable value. We collaborate with our business managers to identify key value-creation opportunities and then ensure that our portfolio companies are provided with the resources necessary to pursue these opportunities. VALUE CREATION: Our value-creation mindset permeates how we evaluate opportunities and dictates how we manage portfolio investments. Our investment success is based on the disciplined application of our established value-creation methodology. With patience, expertise, and strategic allocation of resources, we guide our portfolio companies to identify and develop the value-creation opportunities of tomorrow. DISCIPLINE: Vega Ventures focuses on sectors and business models where we maintain extensive domain expertise and investment experience. We maintain a data-driven approach to decision making that includes a rigorous risk vs reward assessment, and which also supports strict risk management.
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