Amgen Ventures

Summary

In 2004 was created Amgen Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund was created by Leroy Hood, Marvin Caruthers. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Biopharma. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Alector, TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals, Senti Biosciences. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Amgen Ventures, startups are often financed by Alta Partners, SV Health Investors, ARCH Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OVP Venture Partners, HealthCare Ventures, Alta Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by HealthCare Ventures, Alta Partners, Remeditex Ventures.

This Amgen Ventures works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Amgen Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.