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Biotechnology Value Fund

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Total investments 55
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$68M
Portfolio companies 44
Rounds per year 1.77
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 32
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
  • Pharmaceutical
Summary

Biotechnology Value Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 1993. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Biotechnology Value Fund, startups are often financed by Third Rock Ventures, The Column Group, Celgene. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are EcoR1 Capital, RA Capital Management, Nextech Invest. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EcoR1 Capital, Surveyor Capital, RA Capital Management.

We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Medical. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Relay Therapeutics, Merus, Vividion Therapeutics

Comparing to the other companies, this Biotechnology Value Fund performs on 30 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AltruBio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$225M21 May 2024 California, United States

Crossbow Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$80M11 Jul 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Exo Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$78M05 Oct 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Biotechnology
Life Science
$100M08 Apr 2021 Massachusetts, United States

Pyxis Oncology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$152M30 Mar 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Olema Oncology

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$54M22 Jul 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Autobahn Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Therapeutics
$76M11 Jun 2020 San Diego, California, United States

Kymera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$102M12 Mar 2020 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Repare Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$82M04 Sep 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Total investments 55
Average round size 68M
Rounds per year 1.77
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 32
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AltruBio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$225M21 May 2024 California, United States

Crossbow Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$80M11 Jul 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Exo Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$78M05 Oct 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Biotechnology
Life Science
$100M08 Apr 2021 Massachusetts, United States

Pyxis Oncology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$152M30 Mar 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Olema Oncology

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$54M22 Jul 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Autobahn Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Therapeutics
$76M11 Jun 2020 San Diego, California, United States

Kymera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$102M12 Mar 2020 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Repare Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$82M04 Sep 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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