Astellas Pharma

Total investments

10

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

0.53

Lead investments

4

Exits

4

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareGeneticsEducationRoboticsMedical DeviceMedicalLife ScienceTherapeutics

Summary

Astellas Pharma is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2005. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Diagnostics, Life Science. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight FibroGen, CoMentis, Catalia Health.

The fund was created by Erik Karrer.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Astellas Pharma, startups are often financed by Khosla Ventures, Wellington Partners, Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The House Fund, Shibuya Kogyo, Shanda Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tony Ling, SMBC Venture Capital, SBI Investment.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Astellas Pharma works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
10
Lead investments
4
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.53
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (6)
  • Health Care (5)
  • Medical (2)
  • Life Science (2)
  • Therapeutics (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (9)
  • Japan (1)
Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
139M
Group Appearance index
0.60
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
2.32

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Mitobridge 04 Oct 2013 Biotechnology, Life Science, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 5M United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
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