Altitude Life Science Ventures (ALSV)

Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Durango. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Altitude Life Science Ventures, startups are often financed by Venrock, OUP (Osage University Partners), Versant Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venrock, The Column Group, Versant Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Column Group, Venrock, Third Rock Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Life Science, Pharmaceutical. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Receptos, Vir Biotechnology, Kythera Biopharmaceuticals. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The current fund was established by Dave Maki, David Maki, Steve Johnson, Steve Johnson. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Altitude Life Science Ventures performs on 7 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.