Gilde is deploying its Philips-backed healthcare fund, which the corporate venturing unit backed in 2010. Philips' Janke Dittmer [pictured] joined Gilde as a partner last year.

The Dutch private equity firm is looking to deploy more of its third healthcare fund backed by Royal Dutch Philips’s corporate venturing unit, after it sealed its first investment in November last year.

Gilde backed Inova Labs, a medical device company focused on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease,  in the first investment of its third healthcare fund in November, as part of a $17.5m series B round. Geoff Pardo of Gilde Healthcare Partners has joined the board at Inova Labs. The…