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Aphelion Capital

Founders Ned Scheetz

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Total investments 37
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 1.95
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 8
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Medical Device
  • Medical
  • Biotechnology
  • Software
Summary

In 2005 was created Aphelion Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Mill Valley.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Aphelion Capital, startups are often financed by Stanmore Medical Investments, TL Ventures, Research Corporation Technologies. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are California Technology Ventures, River Cities Capital Funds, Research Corporation Technologies. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ameritas Life Insurance, Tallwood Venture Capital, Synopsys.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2011. Comparing to the other companies, this Aphelion Capital performs on 7 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The fund was created by Ned Scheetz. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CytoPherx, Providence Medical Technology, VasoNova We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Pharmaceutical. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Venova Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$30M04 Sep 2024 Los Gatos, California, United States

Moving Analytics

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
mHealth
$20M08 Jul 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Moving Analytics

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
mHealth
$6M19 Apr 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

MIVI Neuroscience

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Neuroscience
$35M21 Jan 2021 Minnesota, United States

Koya Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Internet
Pharmaceutical
$11M14 Jan 2021 Oakland, California, United States

Orpyx Medical Technologies

Diabetes
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Personal Health
Wearables
$7M08 Jul 2020 Canada

Zeto

Hardware
Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
Product Design
Software
$7M01 Feb 2020 San Jose, California, United States

ExplORer Surgical

Clinical Trials
Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
Software
$5M18 Apr 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Bardy Diagnostics

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
$35M16 Apr 2019 Seattle, Washington, United States

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Total investments 37
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 1.95
Peak activity year 2024
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Venova Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$30M04 Sep 2024 Los Gatos, California, United States

Moving Analytics

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
mHealth
$20M08 Jul 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Moving Analytics

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
mHealth
$6M19 Apr 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

MIVI Neuroscience

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Neuroscience
$35M21 Jan 2021 Minnesota, United States

Koya Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Internet
Pharmaceutical
$11M14 Jan 2021 Oakland, California, United States

Orpyx Medical Technologies

Diabetes
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Personal Health
Wearables
$7M08 Jul 2020 Canada

Zeto

Hardware
Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
Product Design
Software
$7M01 Feb 2020 San Jose, California, United States

ExplORer Surgical

Clinical Trials
Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
Software
$5M18 Apr 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Bardy Diagnostics

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
$35M16 Apr 2019 Seattle, Washington, United States
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