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Aberdare Ventures

Founders Aaron McKethan Paul Klingenstein

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Total investments 74
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 38
Rounds per year 2.96
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.49
Exits 21
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
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Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Medical
  • Medical Device
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gravie

Health Care
Health Insurance
Hospital
Insurance
Marketplace
$14M19 Jul 2017 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Jiff

Health Care
Medical
Mobile
$23M21 May 2015 Mountain View, California, United States

Gravie

Health Care
Health Insurance
Hospital
Insurance
Marketplace
$12M17 Apr 2015 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

goBalto

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
SaaS
Software
$12M06 Jan 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Jiff

Health Care
Medical
Mobile
$18M23 Sep 2014 Mountain View, California, United States

Gravie

Health Care
Health Insurance
Hospital
Insurance
Marketplace
$10M17 Mar 2014 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Advance Medical

Health Care
Home Health Care
Hospital
$20M05 Sep 2013 Massachusetts, United States

Aviir

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Pharmaceutical
$10M21 Jun 2013 Irvine, California, United States

Aviir

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Pharmaceutical
$10M12 Feb 2013 Irvine, California, United States

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Total investments 74
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 2.96
Peak activity year 2011
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.49
Exits 21
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gravie

Health Care
Health Insurance
Hospital
Insurance
Marketplace
$14M19 Jul 2017 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Jiff

Health Care
Medical
Mobile
$23M21 May 2015 Mountain View, California, United States

Gravie

Health Care
Health Insurance
Hospital
Insurance
Marketplace
$12M17 Apr 2015 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

goBalto

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
SaaS
Software
$12M06 Jan 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Jiff

Health Care
Medical
Mobile
$18M23 Sep 2014 Mountain View, California, United States

Gravie

Health Care
Health Insurance
Hospital
Insurance
Marketplace
$10M17 Mar 2014 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Advance Medical

Health Care
Home Health Care
Hospital
$20M05 Sep 2013 Massachusetts, United States

Aviir

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Pharmaceutical
$10M21 Jun 2013 Irvine, California, United States

Aviir

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Pharmaceutical
$10M12 Feb 2013 Irvine, California, United States
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