Abingworth

Summary

Abingworth is the famous VC, which was founded in 1973. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

Besides them, we counted 12 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Pharmion, Algeta, Senseonics The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Life Science, Biopharma.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Comparing to the other companies, this Abingworth performs on 18 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Abingworth is 5-10 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2009. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Abingworth, startups are often financed by Versant Ventures, SR One, InterWest Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Atlas Venture, Wellcome Trust, Frazier Healthcare Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MPM Capital, InterWest Partners, Versant Ventures.