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Ascent Biomedical Ventures

Founders Geoffrey W. Smith

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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 12
Lead investments 3
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 6
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
  • Wellness
Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Ascent Biomedical Ventures, startups are often financed by Ventech, Novartis Venture Fund, MP Healthcare Venture Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, Prism Venture Management, MVM Life Science Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, Scale Venture Partners, SV Health Investors.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Covagen, Entigo, eCaring. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Pharmaceutical. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Ascent Biomedical Ventures works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

This organization was formed by Geoffrey W. Smith. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CuraSeal Inc.

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
$3M01 May 2015 Santa Clara, California, United States

eCaring

Elderly
Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
Software
Telecommunications
$3M16 Apr 2014 New York, United States

Covagen

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$64M09 Dec 2013 Zurich, Switzerland

Xlumena

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$25M03 Dec 2013 Mountain View, California, United States

Coferon

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$12M16 Jul 2012 New York, United States

Xlumena

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$7M29 Apr 2011 Mountain View, California, United States

TargAnox

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$5M14 Mar 2009 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cara Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$12M25 Jul 2008 Connecticut, United States

Ouroboros

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Product Design
$1M18 Jul 2007 San Diego, California, United States

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Total investments 16
Average round size 16M
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CuraSeal Inc.

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
$3M01 May 2015 Santa Clara, California, United States

eCaring

Elderly
Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
Software
Telecommunications
$3M16 Apr 2014 New York, United States

Covagen

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$64M09 Dec 2013 Zurich, Switzerland

Xlumena

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$25M03 Dec 2013 Mountain View, California, United States

Coferon

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$12M16 Jul 2012 New York, United States

Xlumena

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$7M29 Apr 2011 Mountain View, California, United States

TargAnox

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$5M14 Mar 2009 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cara Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$12M25 Jul 2008 Connecticut, United States

Ouroboros

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Product Design
$1M18 Jul 2007 San Diego, California, United States
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