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Alger

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$85M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.17
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 2
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Medical Device
  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Pharmaceutical
Summary

Alger appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1964. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

Opposing the other organizations, this Alger works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Alger is more than 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 55 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Alger, startups are often financed by Venrock, New Leaf Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RA Capital Management, Quadrille Capital, New Leaf Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Pritzker Organization, The Baupost Group, Silicon Valley Bank.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical Device, Advertising. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Intarcia Therapeutics, ChoiceStream, Tolero Pharmaceuticals.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tolero Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$8M05 Nov 2014 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Tolero Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$14M07 Aug 2014 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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Brand Marketing
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$7M28 Jul 2014 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 10
Average round size 85M
Rounds per year 0.17
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tolero Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$8M05 Nov 2014 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Tolero Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$14M07 Aug 2014 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Digital Marketing
$7M28 Jul 2014 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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