Aberdare Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

74

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

38

Rounds per year

2.96

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

21

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsHospitalWellnessMedical DeviceMedicalPharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

In 1999 was created Aberdare Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Aberdare Ventures, startups are often financed by New Leaf Venture Partners, Versant Ventures, InterWest Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Leaf Venture Partners, Venrock, InterWest Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Novartis Venture Fund, New Enterprise Associates.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Aberdare Ventures works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2011. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Anacor Pharmaceutical, Pharmion, Omada Health. For fund there is a 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 Health Care, Biopharma. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

This organization was formed by Aaron McKethan, Paul Klingenstein. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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Analytics

Total investments
74
Lead investments
6
Exits
21
Rounds per year
2.96
Follow on index
0.49
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (41)
  • Biotechnology (40)
  • Pharmaceutical (24)
  • Medical (21)
  • Medical Device (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (71)
Peak activity year
2011
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
282M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
4.18
Strategy success index
0.70

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