Apjohn ventures

Summary

In 2003 was created Apjohn ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Kalamazoo. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Donald Parfet, Mina Patel Sooch. The overall number of key employees were 6.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Therapeutics, Medical. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CytoPherx, Svelte Medical Systems, Asterand. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The high activity for fund was in 2009. Opposing the other organizations, this Apjohn ventures works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Apjohn ventures, startups are often financed by Lurie Investment Fund, Grand Angels, Biosciences Research and Commercialization Center (BRCC). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lurie Investment Fund, North Coast Technology Investors, Fort Washington Capital Partners Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lurie Investment Fund, Capital Midwest Fund, Orchard Venture Partners.