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Bayer

Founders Friedrich Bayer Johann Friedrich Weskott

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Total investments 27
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$35M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 0.17
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 1
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Life Science
  • Agriculture
Summary

Bayer is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1863. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Leverkusen. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BlueRock Therapeutics, OneDrop, Arvegenix. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, Agriculture. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Bayer, startups are often financed by Launch Fund, The Yield Lab, St. Louis Arch Angels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Viking Global Investors, Ginkgo Bioworks, ARCH Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Viking Global Investors, Ginkgo Bioworks.

Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 38 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from Bayer the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Bayer performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

This organization was formed by Friedrich Bayer, Johann Friedrich Weskott.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OME Health

Analytics
Health Care
Wellness
20 Jun 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

OneDrop

Apps
Health Care
Medical Device
$34M24 Aug 2020 New York, United States

Okko Health

Health Care
SaaS
Software
$394K01 Jan 2020 England

Immunitas Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$39M21 Nov 2019 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Litesprite

Big Data
Health Care
Mobile
10 Nov 2019 Bellevue, Washington, United States

EGenesis

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
Medical
$100M07 Nov 2019 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Huma

Big Data
Biotechnology
Health Care
Information Technology
Insurance
Management Information Systems
mHealth
Pharmaceutical
Sports
Wearables
Wellness
$50M05 Nov 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Upside Health

Health Care
Software
Wellness
$200K10 Oct 2019 New York, New York, United States

OneDrop

Apps
Health Care
Medical Device
$40M17 Sep 2019 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 27
Average round size 35M
Rounds per year 0.17
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.63

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OME Health

Analytics
Health Care
Wellness
20 Jun 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

OneDrop

Apps
Health Care
Medical Device
$34M24 Aug 2020 New York, United States

Okko Health

Health Care
SaaS
Software
$394K01 Jan 2020 England

Immunitas Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$39M21 Nov 2019 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Litesprite

Big Data
Health Care
Mobile
10 Nov 2019 Bellevue, Washington, United States

EGenesis

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
Medical
$100M07 Nov 2019 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Huma

Big Data
Biotechnology
Health Care
Information Technology
Insurance
Management Information Systems
mHealth
Pharmaceutical
Sports
Wearables
Wellness
$50M05 Nov 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Upside Health

Health Care
Software
Wellness
$200K10 Oct 2019 New York, New York, United States

OneDrop

Apps
Health Care
Medical Device
$40M17 Sep 2019 New York, New York, United States
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