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Altitude Life Science Ventures

Founders Dave Maki David Maki Steve Johnson Steve Johnson

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Total investments 42
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$92M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 2.33
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 9
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
  • Biopharma
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ring Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$86M09 Mar 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Neumora Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$112M11 Oct 2022 Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

Tessera Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$300M19 Apr 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Generate Biomedicines

Biotechnology
$370M18 Nov 2021 Pennsylvania, United States

Mozart Therapeutics

Biotechnology
$55M26 Oct 2021 -

Ring Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$117M28 Jul 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Tessera Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$230M12 Jan 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Sana Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Product Research
$700M23 Jun 2020 Seattle, Washington, United States

Cero Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$40M18 Mar 2020 South San Francisco, California, United States
News
Ring Therapeutics Raises $117M in Series B Funding

– Ring Therapeutics is a Cambridge, Mass.-based life sciences company.
– The company raised $117m in Series B funding.
– Backers included Invus, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Partners Investment, UPMC Enterprises, alongside Flagship Pioneering.
– The new investment will be used for the continued development and expansion of its novel vector Anellogy™ platform.

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Total investments 42
Average round size 92M
Rounds per year 2.33
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ring Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$86M09 Mar 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Neumora Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$112M11 Oct 2022 Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

Tessera Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$300M19 Apr 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Generate Biomedicines

Biotechnology
$370M18 Nov 2021 Pennsylvania, United States

Mozart Therapeutics

Biotechnology
$55M26 Oct 2021 -

Ring Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$117M28 Jul 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Tessera Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$230M12 Jan 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Sana Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Product Research
$700M23 Jun 2020 Seattle, Washington, United States

Cero Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$40M18 Mar 2020 South San Francisco, California, United States
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