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Helsinn Investment Fund

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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 19
Rounds per year 3.75
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 3
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Therapeutics
  • Health Care
  • Biopharma
  • Medical
Summary

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Biometrics. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline OncoResponse, On Target Laboratories, Personal Genome Diagnostics (PGD) Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Helsinn Investment Fund performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Helsinn Investment Fund, startups are often financed by VI Partners AG, High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds, Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Windham Venture Partners, VI Partners AG, Schroder Adveq. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VI Partners AG, Schroder Adveq, RiverVest.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NeoPhore

Biotechnology
Simulation
Therapeutics
Translation Service
$13M01 Feb 2024 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

On Target Laboratories

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
$30M16 Nov 2023 Illinois, United States

Geneos Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$5M12 Apr 2023 Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, United States

NeoPhore

Biotechnology
Simulation
Therapeutics
Translation Service
$8M19 Jan 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Sibylla Biotech

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$27M04 Oct 2022 Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

Roca Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
22 Sep 2022 Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France

Domain Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$46M10 May 2022 France, Grand Est, France

Kither Biotech

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$21M16 Mar 2022 Turin, Piemont, Italy

IGEM Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Therapeutics
$42M02 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom
News
On Target Laboratories Secures $21 Million for Development and Commercialization of Pafolacianine Sodium Injection

– On Target Laboratories secured $21m in an expanded Series B funding round.
– The funds will support the continued development and commercialization of the company’s novel compound, pafolacianine sodium injection.
– The funding was wholly backed by existing investors Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc., H.I.G. Capital, Elevate Ventures, The Hurvis Group, and 3B Future Health Fund (formally Helsinn Investment Fund).
– The funds will drive the commercialization of the company’s first indication in ovarian cancer.
– The funding will also be used to complete the ELUCIDATE Trial, a Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating the use of pafolacianine sodium injection to intraoperatively identify lung cancer in real-time.

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Total investments 30
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 3.75
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NeoPhore

Biotechnology
Simulation
Therapeutics
Translation Service
$13M01 Feb 2024 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

On Target Laboratories

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
$30M16 Nov 2023 Illinois, United States

Geneos Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$5M12 Apr 2023 Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, United States

NeoPhore

Biotechnology
Simulation
Therapeutics
Translation Service
$8M19 Jan 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Sibylla Biotech

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$27M04 Oct 2022 Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

Roca Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
22 Sep 2022 Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France

Domain Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$46M10 May 2022 France, Grand Est, France

Kither Biotech

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$21M16 Mar 2022 Turin, Piemont, Italy

IGEM Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Therapeutics
$42M02 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom
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