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HBM Healthcare Investments AG

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Total investments 247
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$44M
Portfolio companies 130
Rounds per year 10.74
Lead investments 31
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.47
Exits 60
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

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

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Zug. The company was established in Europe in Switzerland.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ARMO BioSciences, Harmony Biosciences, Vivoryon Therapeutics. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Medical Device. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The top activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The typical startup value when the investment from HBM Healthcare Investments AG is 100-500 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this HBM Healthcare Investments AG performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the HBM Healthcare Investments AG, startups are often financed by OrbiMed, Kleiner Perkins, Novo Holdings. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OUP (Osage University Partners), Novartis Venture Fund, Venrock. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SV Health Investors, Alta Partners, Maverick Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sphingotec GmbH

Biotechnology
$5M08 Aug 2024 Hohen Neuendorf, Brandenburg, Germany

Bluejay Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$182M09 May 2024 -

Karius

Biotechnology
Genetics
Information Technology
Life Science
$100M02 May 2024 Redwood City, California, United States

Esker Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$259M06 Mar 2024 -

Shape Memory Medical

Health Care
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$38M04 Mar 2024 San Jose, California, United States

Odyssey Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$101M05 Dec 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Upstream Bio

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$200M08 Jun 2023 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Numab

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
05 Dec 2022 Zurich, Switzerland

Farmalisto

E-Commerce
Health Care
Internet Retail
Laboratory Services (Healthcare)
Other Healthcare Services
Pharmaceuticals
28 Nov 2022 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
News
NiKang Therapeutics Announces Completion of $200 Million Series C Financing to Advance Highly Differentiated Small Molecules Addressing Difficult-to-Drug Targets

– NiKang Therapeutics Inc. announced the completion of an oversubscribed $200m series C financing led by Cormorant Asset Management, HBM Healthcare Investments and Octagon Capital Advisors with participations from a premier syndicate of funds including new investors EcoR1 Capital, Perceptive Advisors, Wellington Management, Ally Bridge Group, Pavilion Capital, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, RA Capital Management, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Samsara BioCapital, PFM Health Sciences, Invus, Janus Henderson Investors and Logos Capital.
– All existing investors including CBC Group, RTW Investments, LP, Lilly Asia Ventures, Matrix Partners China, and Casdin Capital participated in the financing.

Pyxis Oncology Raises $152M Series B Round

– Pyxis Oncology from Longwood Fund has closed a $152m Series B financing.
– The round was led by Arix Bioscience and co-led by RTW Investments, LP.
– New investors included Perceptive Advisors, RA Capital Management, Pfizer Ventures, BVF Partners, L.P., Janus Henderson Investors, Cormorant Asset Management, HBM Healthcare Investments, funds managed by Tekla Capital Management LLC, Acuta Capital Partners, Ridgeback Capital Investments, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Laurion Capital Management, Logos Capital and LifeSci Venture Partners.

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Total investments 247
Average round size 44M
Rounds per year 10.74
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 31
Follow on index 0.47
Exits 60
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sphingotec GmbH

Biotechnology
$5M08 Aug 2024 Hohen Neuendorf, Brandenburg, Germany

Bluejay Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$182M09 May 2024 -

Karius

Biotechnology
Genetics
Information Technology
Life Science
$100M02 May 2024 Redwood City, California, United States

Esker Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$259M06 Mar 2024 -

Shape Memory Medical

Health Care
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$38M04 Mar 2024 San Jose, California, United States

Odyssey Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$101M05 Dec 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Upstream Bio

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$200M08 Jun 2023 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Numab

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
05 Dec 2022 Zurich, Switzerland

Farmalisto

E-Commerce
Health Care
Internet Retail
Laboratory Services (Healthcare)
Other Healthcare Services
Pharmaceuticals
28 Nov 2022 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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