Aravis Ventures

Total investments

32

Average round size

21M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

1.45

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.41

Exits

10

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyFood and BeverageHealth CareWellnessMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsConsultingBiopharma

Summary

In 2001 was created Aravis Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Zu00fcrich. The company was established in Europe in Switzerland.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Pharmaceutical. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ikaria, Kalypsys, MerLion Pharma.

The high activity for fund was in 2009. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Aravis Ventures works on 3 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Aravis Ventures, startups are often financed by Novartis Venture Fund, 5AM Ventures, Versant Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Versant Ventures, M Ventures, Dansk Innovation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Novartis Venture Fund, Dansk Innovation, 5AM Ventures.

This organization was formed by Jean-Philippe Tripet, Simon Nebel. The overall number of key employees were 5.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
32
Lead investments
7
Exits
10
Rounds per year
1.45
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (32)
  • Health Care (15)
  • Therapeutics (15)
  • Medical (10)
  • Pharmaceutical (9)
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Investments by region
  • Switzerland (14)
  • United States (12)
  • Singapore (3)
  • Denmark (1)
  • Germany (1)
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Peak activity year
2009
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
156M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
3.59
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Evolva 11 Dec 2009 Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness, Consulting Early Stage Venture 17M Switzerland, Aargau
30 Oct 2002 Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 13M Singapore, Singapore

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