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Evotec

Founders Charles Weissmann Freimut Leidenberger Heinrich M. Schulte Karsten Henco Manfred Eigen Rudolf Rigler Ulrich Aldag

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Total investments 25
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$49M
Portfolio companies 19
Rounds per year 0.81
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Therapeutics
  • Life Science
Summary

In 1993 was created Evotec, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Hamburg. The company was established in Europe in Germany.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Evotec, startups are often financed by Tech Coast Angels, Frontier IP Group plc, CARB-X. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Alexandria Venture, venBio Partners, Woodford Investment Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GT Healthcare Capital Partners, Celgene, CARB-X.

This organization was formed by Manfred Eigen.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Artificial Intelligence. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Carrick Therapeutics, Eternygen, Forge Therapeutics

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tubulis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$151M14 Mar 2024 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Carrick Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$60M01 Dec 2022 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Cajal Neuroscience

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$96M29 Nov 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

Tubulis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$70M03 May 2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Centauri Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$32M16 Feb 2022 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Topas Therapeutics

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
$21M29 Jul 2021 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

OxVax

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
21 Apr 2021 Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Exscientia

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$40M04 Mar 2021 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Blacksmith Medicines

Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
08 Jan 2021 San Diego, California, United States
News
Immunitas Therapeutics Closes $58M in Series B Financing

– Immunitas Therapeutics, a Waltham, MA-based single cell genomics-based therapeutics company, closed a $58m Series B financing.
– The round was led by Agent Capital with participation from Medical Excellence Capital (MEC), 120 Capital, Solasta Ventures, Mirae Asset, Ono Venture Investment, The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, NS Investment, BrightEdge (American Cancer Society), and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society . Existing investors Alexandria Venture Investments, Evotec, Leaps by Bayer, M Ventures, Novartis Venture Fund (NVF), and founding investor Longwood Fund also joined the round.
– The company intends to use the funds to advance its lead program, IMT-009, a CD161 inhibitor, into the clinic to treat both solid tumors and hematological malignancies.

Exscientia Closes $100M in Series C Financing

– Exscientia is a clinical stage pharmatech company pioneering the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to design new drugs.
– Company raised 100m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by BlackRock with participation from Novo Holdings, Evotec, Bristol Myers Squibb, and GT Healthcare Capital.
– The company intends to use the funds for platform development towards autonomous drug design, extension of its proprietary pipeline into clinical trials and expansion of existing capabilities in biological analytics that support target selection and portfolio development.

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Total investments 25
Average round size 49M
Rounds per year 0.81
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tubulis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$151M14 Mar 2024 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Carrick Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$60M01 Dec 2022 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Cajal Neuroscience

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$96M29 Nov 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

Tubulis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$70M03 May 2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Centauri Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$32M16 Feb 2022 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Topas Therapeutics

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
$21M29 Jul 2021 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

OxVax

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
21 Apr 2021 Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Exscientia

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$40M04 Mar 2021 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Blacksmith Medicines

Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
08 Jan 2021 San Diego, California, United States
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