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Advent Life Sciences

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Total investments 65
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$34M
Portfolio companies 38
Rounds per year 4.33
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 13
Key employees 8

Areas of investment

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

In 2010 was created Advent Life Sciences, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Advent Life Sciences, startups are often financed by Advent Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Sofinnova Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OrbiMed, Sofinnova Investments, SR One. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Gilde Healthcare, Advent Venture Partners, OrbiMed.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biopharma, Medical. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Algeta, Acutus Medical, F2G. 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 country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Opposing the other organizations, this Advent Life Sciences works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2017. 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 fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Epitopea

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
24 Oct 2024 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Beacon Therapeutics

Health Care
Therapeutics
$170M03 Jun 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Curve Therapeutics

$55M27 Feb 2024 Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom

PIC Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$35M19 Oct 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Moximed

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$40M16 Aug 2022 Hayward, California, United States

MiroBio

Biotechnology
Life Science
$109M29 Jun 2022 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Wondr Medical

Health Care
Information Services
Information Technology
Medical
Social Network
$16M28 Jun 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Epitopea

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$14M25 Apr 2022 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

AviadoBio

$80M02 Dec 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Aura Biosciences Announces Oversubscribed $80 Million Financing

– Aura Biosciences closed an oversubscribed $80m financing.
– The financing was led by Matrix Capital Management and Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company) with participation from new investors, including Rock Springs Capital, Adage Capital Management LP and Velosity Capital.
– Existing investors Medicxi, Advent Life Sciences, Lundbeckfonden Ventures, Arix Bioscience, Chiesi Ventures, Ysios Capital and Columbus Venture Partners also participated in the round.

Amphista Therapeutics Raises $53M in Series B Funding

– Amphista Therapeutics from Glasgow, Scotland, UK, raised $53m in Series B funding.
– The round was co-led by Forbion and Gilde Healthcare with participation from Novartis Venture Fund, and Eli Lilly and Company, and existing investor BioMotiv and founding investor Advent Life Sciences.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s pipeline of potent and selective bifunctional molecules, known as ‘Amphistas’ to the clinic and to extend its proprietary TPD platform.

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Total investments 65
Average round size 34M
Rounds per year 4.33
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Epitopea

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
24 Oct 2024 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Beacon Therapeutics

Health Care
Therapeutics
$170M03 Jun 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Curve Therapeutics

$55M27 Feb 2024 Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom

PIC Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$35M19 Oct 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Moximed

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$40M16 Aug 2022 Hayward, California, United States

MiroBio

Biotechnology
Life Science
$109M29 Jun 2022 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Wondr Medical

Health Care
Information Services
Information Technology
Medical
Social Network
$16M28 Jun 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Epitopea

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$14M25 Apr 2022 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

AviadoBio

$80M02 Dec 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
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