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Sofinnova Partners

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Total investments 340
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$26M
Portfolio companies 189
Rounds per year 6.54
Lead investments 110
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.44
Exits 60
Key employees 11
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

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

Sofinnova Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1972. The company was established in Europe in France. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Medical Device. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Addex Therapeutics, DBV Technologies, MedDay. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

Besides them, we counted 11 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Sofinnova Partners, startups are often financed by Gimv, Idinvest Partners, Bpifrance. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Seventure Partners, Idinvest Partners, Auriga Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Gimv, Andera Partners, Venrock.

This Sofinnova Partners works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The average startup value when the investment from Sofinnova Partners is 10-50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Purespring Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
09 Oct 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Genespire

Biotechnology
Life Science
$54M24 Sep 2024 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Arzeda

Biotechnology
Information Services
Information Technology
$38M17 Sep 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

NOVAMEAT

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$20M12 Sep 2024 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Micropep Technologies

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Chemical
Lead Generation
$31M25 Jul 2024 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Asceneuron

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$100M16 Jul 2024 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

EndoRon Medical

Health Care
Medical Device
$10M09 Jul 2024 Kfar Saba, HaMerkaz, Israel

Myricx Pharma

Biotechnology
Life Science
$123M08 Jul 2024 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

AblaCare

Health Care
Medical Device
$27M13 May 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
News
Founded last year, Mozart Therapeutics lands $55M to develop therapies for celiac and other diseases

– Mozart Therapeutics, a Seattle-based biotech startup, raised $55m funding.
– The round was led by ARCH Venture Partners along with Sofinnova Partners.
– Other backers include MRL Ventures Fund from Merck, Leaps by Bayer, and Eli Lilly & Company.

Tissium Raises €50M in Series C Financing

– Tissium is a medtech company developing biomorphic programmable polymers for tissue reconstruction.
– Company raised €50M in Series C financing.
– The round was led by Cathay Health, affiliated to global investment firm Cathay Capital, with participation from existing shareholders Sofinnova Partners, and others.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to execute on its development plan, up to the commercialization of its nerve repair, hernia repair and cardiovascular sealant products.

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Total investments 340
Average round size 26M
Rounds per year 6.54
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 110
Follow on index 0.44
Exits 60
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Purespring Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
09 Oct 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Genespire

Biotechnology
Life Science
$54M24 Sep 2024 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Arzeda

Biotechnology
Information Services
Information Technology
$38M17 Sep 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

NOVAMEAT

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$20M12 Sep 2024 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Micropep Technologies

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Chemical
Lead Generation
$31M25 Jul 2024 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Asceneuron

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$100M16 Jul 2024 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

EndoRon Medical

Health Care
Medical Device
$10M09 Jul 2024 Kfar Saba, HaMerkaz, Israel

Myricx Pharma

Biotechnology
Life Science
$123M08 Jul 2024 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

AblaCare

Health Care
Medical Device
$27M13 May 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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