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SB Life Science

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$179M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.38
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 3
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Health Care
  • Genetics
  • Therapeutics
Summary

In 2001 was created SB Life Science, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Redwood City.

The top activity for fund was in 2005. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this SB Life Science performs on 14 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the SB Life Science, startups are often financed by Unilever Ventures, Maverick Ventures, CSK Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Unilever Ventures, Maverick Ventures, Zesiger Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Zesiger Capital, Unilever Ventures, Sano Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Genetics, Health Care. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Perlegen Sciences, Kadmus Pharmaceuticals, Optimer Pharmaceuticals

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gemin X Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$38M03 Jul 2008 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

CircuLite

Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
$5M23 Apr 2007 Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

Kadmus Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$15M10 Feb 2004 California, United States

Perlegen Sciences

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$30M28 Jan 2003 Mountain View, California, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 179M
Rounds per year 0.38
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gemin X Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$38M03 Jul 2008 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

CircuLite

Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
$5M23 Apr 2007 Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

Kadmus Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$15M10 Feb 2004 California, United States

Perlegen Sciences

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$30M28 Jan 2003 Mountain View, California, United States
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