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The Column Group

Founders Adriana Tajonar Peter Svennilson

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Total investments 118
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$61M
Portfolio companies 43
Rounds per year 6.56
Lead investments 22
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.64
Exits 15
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
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Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
  • Pharmaceutical
Summary

In 2006 was created The Column Group, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the The Column Group, startups are often financed by Topspin Partners, OrbiMed, OUP (Osage University Partners). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OUP (Osage University Partners), Celgene, Versant Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, Foresite Capital, Venrock.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Comparing to the other companies, this The Column Group performs on 10 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

This organization was formed by Adriana Tajonar, Peter Svennilson. The overall number of key employees were 6.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Medical Device. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Flexus Biosciences, NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Surrozen The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ryne Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$82M29 Feb 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Accent Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$75M23 Jan 2024 Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Tr1x

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$75M17 Jan 2024 La Jolla, California, United States

Kimia Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$55M19 Dec 2023 Berkeley, California, United States

Synthekine

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$100M06 Jan 2023 California, United States

Cajal Neuroscience

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

Escient Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$120M28 Nov 2022 San Diego, California, United States

Casma Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$46M15 Nov 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Hexagon Bio

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$77M11 Oct 2022 California, United States
News
Hexagon Bio Raises $61 Million to Advance Novel Small-Molecule Medicines Mined from Microbial Genomes

– Hexagon Bio, a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery of medicines encoded in the global metagenome, announced that it has raised $61 million to fuel the continued development of its platform to design and develop new therapeutics mined from microbial genomes.
Nextech Invest led the financing, with participation from new investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2* and Casdin Capital, as well as existing investors The Column Group, 8VC, and Two Sigma Ventures.
– Hexagon’s interdisciplinary platform combines technological advances and proprietary insights across machine learning, genomics, synthetic biology and automation to systematically discover new chemical compounds linked to known protein targets.
– Hexagon has built a database of microbial genomes that is more than twice the size of all public databases and is adding thousands of additional genomes per month.

Atavistik Bio Announces $60 Million Series A Financing to Advance Genetically-Validated Targets in Metabolic Diseases and Cancer

– Atavistik Bio, a pre-clinical biotechnology company pioneering the identification of metabolite-protein interactions that have the potential to lead to the discovery and development of first-in-class drug candidates powered by distinct allosteric control mechanisms, announced that the closing of a $60 million Series A financing round.
– The financing was led by The Column Group and joined by Lux Capital, and Nextech Invest.
– The new financing will support development of Atavistik’s drug discovery platform, and future identification of select drug candidates based on deep knowledge of disease relevant pathways that have evolved over millions of years by nature to be allosterically regulated by metabolites.

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Total investments 118
Average round size 61M
Rounds per year 6.56
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.64
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ryne Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$82M29 Feb 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Accent Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$75M23 Jan 2024 Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Tr1x

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$75M17 Jan 2024 La Jolla, California, United States

Kimia Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$55M19 Dec 2023 Berkeley, California, United States

Synthekine

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$100M06 Jan 2023 California, United States

Cajal Neuroscience

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

Escient Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$120M28 Nov 2022 San Diego, California, United States

Casma Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$46M15 Nov 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Hexagon Bio

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$77M11 Oct 2022 California, United States
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