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Total investments 819
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$26M
Portfolio companies 429
Rounds per year 14.89
Lead investments 124
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.48
Exits 253
Key employees 15
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Software
  • Medical
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 1969 was created Venrock, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund is constantly included in 25-48 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Venrock is 100-500 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Venrock works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Venrock, startups are often financed by Third Rock Ventures, OrbiMed, Lux Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Trellis Partners, Sequoia Capital, Investor Growth Capital Limited. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MPM Capital, Investor Growth Capital Limited, Sequoia Capital.

The overall number of key employees were 14.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Juno Therapeutics, AveXis, Receptos. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Information Technology.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Accompany Health

Health Care
Home Health Care
Wellness
$56M30 Jan 2024 Bethesda, Maryland, United States

SmithRx

Health Care
Information Technology
$60M23 Jan 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Zero Networks

Cyber Security
Data Center Automation
Information Technology
Network Security
$20M13 Dec 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

MBrace Therapeutics

Biotechnology
$85M14 Nov 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Scope3

$20M12 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

Moment

Analytics
Financial Services
FinTech
Risk Management
$17M14 Sep 2023 New York, New York, United States

Tisento Therapeutics

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$81M31 Jul 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

SQLite Cloud

$4M11 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Airspeed

Information Services
Internet
SaaS
$5M04 May 2023 Vancouver, Washington, United States
News
Interos Raises $100M in Series C Financing

– Interos is an Arlington, VA-based supply chain risk management and operational resilience technology company.
– The company raised $100m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by NightDragon with participation from current investors Kleiner Perkins and Venrock.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

Element Biosciences Raises $276M in Series C Financing

– Element Biosciences from San Diego develops DNA sequencing platform.
– The company closed a $276m Series C financing.
– Backers included new investors Janus Henderson Investors, Logos Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), and T. Rowe Price and existing investors Fidelity Management & Research Company, Foresite Capital, JS Capital Management LLC, RA Capital Advisors, and Venrock.
– The new investment will be used to scale commercial organization in anticipation of the launch of its next-generation sequencing solution.

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Total investments 819
Average round size 26M
Rounds per year 14.89
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 124
Follow on index 0.48
Exits 253
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Accompany Health

Health Care
Home Health Care
Wellness
$56M30 Jan 2024 Bethesda, Maryland, United States

SmithRx

Health Care
Information Technology
$60M23 Jan 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Zero Networks

Cyber Security
Data Center Automation
Information Technology
Network Security
$20M13 Dec 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

MBrace Therapeutics

Biotechnology
$85M14 Nov 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Scope3

$20M12 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

Moment

Analytics
Financial Services
FinTech
Risk Management
$17M14 Sep 2023 New York, New York, United States

Tisento Therapeutics

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$81M31 Jul 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

SQLite Cloud

$4M11 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Airspeed

Information Services
Internet
SaaS
$5M04 May 2023 Vancouver, Washington, United States
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