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Charter Life Sciences

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Total investments 24
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 16
Lead investments 4
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 7
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Medical
  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical Device
  • Therapeutics
Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Santa Clara. The venture was found in North America in United States.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical Device, Medical. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 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 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline APT Pharmaceuticals, CoMentis, Corepair

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Charter Life Sciences, startups are often financed by Versant Ventures, Venrock, Rev1 Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Versant Ventures, MB Venture Partners, EDBI. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rev1 Ventures, Radius Ventures, Canaan Partners.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The high activity for fund was in 2013. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Charter Life Sciences performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xlumena

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$25M03 Dec 2013 Mountain View, California, United States

Amaranth Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$20M08 Oct 2013 Mountain View, California, United States

Minimally invasive devices

Enterprise Software
Medical
Medical Device
$2M17 Jun 2013 Columbus, Ohio, United States

Minimally invasive devices

Enterprise Software
Medical
Medical Device
$9M25 Mar 2013 Columbus, Ohio, United States

Xlumena

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$7M29 Apr 2011 Mountain View, California, United States

Prevacept Infection Control

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
$3M23 Aug 2010 Colorado, United States

Corepair

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$4M30 Apr 2010 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Inviragen

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$15M06 Oct 2009 Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Revascular Therapeutics

Health Care
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$3M11 May 2009 Sunnyvale, California, United States

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Total investments 24
Average round size 12M
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xlumena

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$25M03 Dec 2013 Mountain View, California, United States

Amaranth Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$20M08 Oct 2013 Mountain View, California, United States

Minimally invasive devices

Enterprise Software
Medical
Medical Device
$2M17 Jun 2013 Columbus, Ohio, United States

Minimally invasive devices

Enterprise Software
Medical
Medical Device
$9M25 Mar 2013 Columbus, Ohio, United States

Xlumena

Health Care
Medical
Wellness
$7M29 Apr 2011 Mountain View, California, United States

Prevacept Infection Control

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
$3M23 Aug 2010 Colorado, United States

Corepair

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$4M30 Apr 2010 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Inviragen

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$15M06 Oct 2009 Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Revascular Therapeutics

Health Care
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$3M11 May 2009 Sunnyvale, California, United States
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