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BrightEdge Fund

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$36M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 3.33
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
  • Health Diagnostics
Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Atlanta. The venture was found in North America in United States. BrightEdge Fund appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the BrightEdge Fund, startups are often financed by Lilly Asia Ventures, Founders Fund, Data Collective DCVC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Andreessen Horowitz, Westlake Village BioPartners, Verily.

For fund there is a 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 Personal Health, Health Care. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Freenome, Navigating Cancer, Castle Biosciences.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this BrightEdge Fund performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Clasp Therapeutics

$150M20 Mar 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Modifi Bio

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$4M16 Oct 2023 New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Thatch

FinTech
Health Care
$400K15 Feb 2023 -

Paradigm

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Hospital
Life Science
$203M25 Jan 2023 New York, New York, United States

Alpheus Medical

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
$14M10 Nov 2022 Oakdale, Pennsylvania, United States

Vincere Health

Fitness
Health Care
Software
Wearables
Wellness
$1M05 Oct 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Meliora Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$11M29 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Naveris

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$33M19 Sep 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Auron Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$48M20 Jul 2022 Massachusetts, United States
News
Immunitas Therapeutics Closes $58M in Series B Financing

– Immunitas Therapeutics, a Waltham, MA-based single cell genomics-based therapeutics company, closed a $58m Series B financing.
– The round was led by Agent Capital with participation from Medical Excellence Capital (MEC), 120 Capital, Solasta Ventures, Mirae Asset, Ono Venture Investment, The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, NS Investment, BrightEdge (American Cancer Society), and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society . Existing investors Alexandria Venture Investments, Evotec, Leaps by Bayer, M Ventures, Novartis Venture Fund (NVF), and founding investor Longwood Fund also joined the round.
– The company intends to use the funds to advance its lead program, IMT-009, a CD161 inhibitor, into the clinic to treat both solid tumors and hematological malignancies.

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Total investments 20
Average round size 36M
Rounds per year 3.33
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Clasp Therapeutics

$150M20 Mar 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Modifi Bio

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$4M16 Oct 2023 New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Thatch

FinTech
Health Care
$400K15 Feb 2023 -

Paradigm

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Hospital
Life Science
$203M25 Jan 2023 New York, New York, United States

Alpheus Medical

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
$14M10 Nov 2022 Oakdale, Pennsylvania, United States

Vincere Health

Fitness
Health Care
Software
Wearables
Wellness
$1M05 Oct 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Meliora Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$11M29 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Naveris

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$33M19 Sep 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Auron Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$48M20 Jul 2022 Massachusetts, United States
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