5AM Ventures

Summary

5AM Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2002. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Audentes Therapeutics, Ikaria, Relypsa We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Life Science, Therapeutics.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the 5AM Ventures, startups are often financed by Clarus Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, Sprout Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Roche Venture Fund, Frazier Healthcare Partners, Clarus Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ARCH Venture Partners, Roche Venture Fund, Aravis Ventures.

The current fund was established by Andrew Schwab, John Diekman. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. When the investment is from 5AM Ventures the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this 5AM Ventures works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.