Bio-Techne

Type

Other

Status

Active

Location

Minneapolis, United States

Total investments

5

Average round size

65M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.12

Exits

3

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyAnalyticsHealth CareAppsDocument ManagementMedical DeviceLife ScienceTherapeuticsBiopharmaClinical Trials

Summary

In 1981 was created Bio-Techne, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Minneapolis. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CyVek, ChemoCentryx Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Diagnostics, Medical Device. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Bio-Techne, startups are often financed by OrbiMed, MPM Capital, Kaiser Permanente Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OrbiMed, Jennison Associates, HBM Healthcare Investments AG. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by HBM Healthcare Investments AG, Glaxo Group, Alta Partners.

The fund was created by Roger C. Lucas Ph.D..

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2006. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Bio-Techne performs on 71 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Analytics

Total investments
5
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (5)
  • Health Care (2)
  • Biopharma (1)
  • Life Science (1)
  • Medical Device (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (4)
  • China (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
239M
Group Appearance index
0.20
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.78
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ChemoCentryx 24 Aug 2006 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device Late Stage Venture 17M United States, California, Mountain View
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