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CW Ventures

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 5
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
Exits 4
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Biopharma
  • Business/Productivity Software
  • Other Software
Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

The top activity for fund was in 2001. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this CW Ventures performs on 21 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the CW Ventures, startups are often financed by ARCH Venture Partners, Venrock, Tredegar Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ARCH Venture Partners, Venrock, HBM Healthcare Investments AG. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ARCH Venture Partners, Venrock, MPM Capital.

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. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Clinical Trials. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fast Track, Amphora Discovery, Surface Logix.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Plexxikon

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceuticals
$46M26 May 2004 Berkeley, California, United States

Surface Logix

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$25M27 Nov 2002 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Nanosys

Advanced Materials
Computer
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
TV
$15M11 Feb 2002 Milpitas, California, United States

Amphora Discovery

Biotechnology
Data Integration
Pharmaceutical
$35M27 Sep 2001 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Fast Track

Business/Productivity Software
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Information Technology
Other Software
$15M05 Apr 2000 California, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 24M
Peak activity year 2002
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.38
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Plexxikon

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceuticals
$46M26 May 2004 Berkeley, California, United States

Surface Logix

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$25M27 Nov 2002 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Nanosys

Advanced Materials
Computer
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
TV
$15M11 Feb 2002 Milpitas, California, United States

Amphora Discovery

Biotechnology
Data Integration
Pharmaceutical
$35M27 Sep 2001 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Fast Track

Business/Productivity Software
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Information Technology
Other Software
$15M05 Apr 2000 California, United States
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