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Sunstone Life Science Ventures

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Total investments 61
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$26M
Portfolio companies 34
Rounds per year 3.59
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.44
Exits 11
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

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

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Copenhagen. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Denmark.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline F2G, Anergis, OxThera Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Denmark. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Electronics, Medical. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Sunstone Life Science Ventures performs on 2 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Sunstone Life Science Ventures, startups are often financed by Novo Seeds, Novo Holdings, Novartis Venture Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Novo Holdings, Forbion Capital Partners, Omega Funds. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Novo Holdings, Atlas Venture, Aescap Venture.

The overall number of key employees were 6.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Resalis Therapeutics

$11M04 Jan 2024 Torino, Piemonte, Italy

Kynexis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$67M07 Nov 2023 -

DiogenX

Biotechnology
Life Science
$39M10 May 2023 Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Teitur Trophics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
$33M14 Mar 2023 Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark

Rewind Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
25 Jan 2023 -

Minervax

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
Wellness
$25M15 Dec 2022 Denmark, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

TargED Biopharmaceuticals

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$46M19 Feb 2022 Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Step Pharma

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$41M24 Mar 2021 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

IO Biotech

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$149M13 Jan 2021 Capital Region of Denmark
News
Step Pharma Raises EUR35 Million in Series B Financing to Advance First in Class CTPS1 inhibitor into the Clinic in T Cell Malignancies

– Step Pharma, a biotech company developing novel drugs for oncology and autoimmune diseases, today announced the successful closing of a EUR35 million Series B financing.
– New investors Hadean Ventures and Sunstone Life Science Ventures co-led the round, joining existing investors Kurma Partners, Pontifax and Bpifrance, which reinvested through its Innovative Biotherapies and Rare Diseases fund and InnoBio 2 fund.
– As part of the financing, Jacob L Moresco from Sunstone Life Science Ventures and Walter Stockinger from Hadean Ventures will join the Step Pharma Board of Directors.

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Total investments 61
Average round size 26M
Rounds per year 3.59
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.44
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Resalis Therapeutics

$11M04 Jan 2024 Torino, Piemonte, Italy

Kynexis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$67M07 Nov 2023 -

DiogenX

Biotechnology
Life Science
$39M10 May 2023 Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Teitur Trophics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
$33M14 Mar 2023 Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark

Rewind Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
25 Jan 2023 -

Minervax

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
Wellness
$25M15 Dec 2022 Denmark, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

TargED Biopharmaceuticals

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$46M19 Feb 2022 Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Step Pharma

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$41M24 Mar 2021 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

IO Biotech

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$149M13 Jan 2021 Capital Region of Denmark
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