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Catalyst Health Ventures

Founders Kevin McCafferty

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Total investments 43
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 1.87
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.51
Exits 10
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Medical Device
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Hospital
Summary

In 1998 was created Catalyst Health Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Braintree. The company was established in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Catalyst Health Ventures, startups are often financed by Versant Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Rainfall Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Domain Associates, Tribeca Venture Partners, Rainfall Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Domain Associates, Upstart Capital, Tribeca Venture Partners.

The current fund was established by Kevin McCafferty. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Maxwell Health, Sera Prognostics, Novazyme Pharmaceuticals. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, Education. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2011. Opposing the other organizations, this Catalyst Health Ventures works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PanTher Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$5M19 May 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Instylla

Biotechnology
Commercial
Medical Device
$25M14 Oct 2020 Massachusetts, United States

AtaCor Medical

Health Care
Medical Device
$25M28 Apr 2020 San Clemente, California, United States

Aria CV

Health Care
Medical Device
Wellness
$31M25 Feb 2020 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Conformal Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$9M03 Dec 2018 Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

Saphena Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$1M01 Sep 2017 Massachusetts, United States

Cruzar Medsystems

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$2M01 Jun 2017 Massachusetts, United States

nVision Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$12M21 Jul 2016 California, United States

Maxwell Health

Enterprise Software
Health Care
Information Technology
Marketplace
Mobile
SaaS
$22M21 Mar 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
News
PanTher Therapeutics Closes Oversubscribed $5.4M Series A Round, Expands Board of Directors, As Company Prepares to Initiate First Clinical Trial of Novel Localized Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

– PanTher Therapeutics announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $5.4M Series A round led by Catalyst Health Ventures, with participation by Angel Physicians Fund and other notable investors.
– The Series A round brings the total amount raised by the company to $7.4M.
– Proceeds from the funding will go toward the company’s first-in-human clinical trial.
– The company also announced the additions of Darshana Zaveri, Managing Partner at CHV, Manish Bhandari, Managing Partner at APF, and Maria Palasis, President and CEO of Lyra Therapeutics, to its board of directors.

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Total investments 43
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 1.87
Peak activity year 2011
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.51
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PanTher Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$5M19 May 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Instylla

Biotechnology
Commercial
Medical Device
$25M14 Oct 2020 Massachusetts, United States

AtaCor Medical

Health Care
Medical Device
$25M28 Apr 2020 San Clemente, California, United States

Aria CV

Health Care
Medical Device
Wellness
$31M25 Feb 2020 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Conformal Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$9M03 Dec 2018 Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

Saphena Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$1M01 Sep 2017 Massachusetts, United States

Cruzar Medsystems

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$2M01 Jun 2017 Massachusetts, United States

nVision Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$12M21 Jul 2016 California, United States

Maxwell Health

Enterprise Software
Health Care
Information Technology
Marketplace
Mobile
SaaS
$22M21 Mar 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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