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Alta Partners

Founders Garrett Gruener Guy P. Nohra Jean Deleage

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Total investments 260
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$35M
Portfolio companies 131
Rounds per year 9.63
Lead investments 45
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.50
Exits 77
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

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

Alta Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1996. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Alta Partners the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. This Alta Partners works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Alta Partners, startups are often financed by Venrock, SV Health Investors, Atlas Venture. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RiverVest, OrbiMed, Bay City Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Venrock, HBM Healthcare Investments AG.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Kite Pharma, Intarcia Therapeutics, ZS Pharma The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The current fund was established by Garrett Gruener, Guy P. Nohra, Jean Deleage. We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BetterVet

Health Care
Veterinary
$40M16 Nov 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Novome Biotechnologies

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$43M13 Sep 2022 South San Francisco, California, United States

Everside Health

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
Personal Health
$164M25 Jul 2022 Denver, Colorado, United States

DEM BioPharma

Biotechnology
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
$70M23 Jun 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Kelonia Therapeutics

Genetics
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$50M28 Apr 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Free Market Health

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$13M19 Apr 2022 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Be Biopharma

Biotechnology
$130M14 Apr 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

ImmuneID

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$50M23 Jun 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Transcarent

Family
Health Care
Information Technology
$58M10 Jun 2021 San Francisco, California, United States
News
ImmuneID Announces Close of $50 Million Series A Financing to Develop Precision Immunology Therapeutics

– ImmuneID, Inc. has raised $50m in Series A financing.
– The round was led by new investor Alta Partners and included new investors Alexandria Venture Investments, Redwood Capital Investments, Section 32 and Tekla Capital Management.
– All existing investors participated in the financing, including Arch Venture Partners, Longwood Fund, Pitango HealthTech, In-Q-Tel, Xfund and others.
– Proceeds from the financing will be used to advance the development of therapeutic candidates to treat autoimmune diseases, severe allergies, cancer and infectious diseases.

Transcarent Raises $58 Million in Series B Funding to Accelerate Consumer-Directed Health and Care Experience for Self-Insured Employers

– Transcarent, a new and different consumer-directed health and care experience for employees of self-insured employers and their families, announced a $58m Series B investment led by General Catalyst and 7wireVentures, with participation from Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Leaps by Bayer, GreatPoint Ventures, and Threshold Ventures along with existing investors Alta Partners and Jove Equity Partners.
– This round brings Transcarent’s total funding to $98m and will allow the company to respond to the demand for rapid expansion of its innovative risk-based offering for self-insured employers.

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Total investments 260
Average round size 35M
Rounds per year 9.63
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 45
Follow on index 0.50
Exits 77
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BetterVet

Health Care
Veterinary
$40M16 Nov 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Novome Biotechnologies

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$43M13 Sep 2022 South San Francisco, California, United States

Everside Health

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
Personal Health
$164M25 Jul 2022 Denver, Colorado, United States

DEM BioPharma

Biotechnology
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
$70M23 Jun 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Kelonia Therapeutics

Genetics
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$50M28 Apr 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Free Market Health

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$13M19 Apr 2022 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Be Biopharma

Biotechnology
$130M14 Apr 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

ImmuneID

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$50M23 Jun 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Transcarent

Family
Health Care
Information Technology
$58M10 Jun 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

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