Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Total investments

61

Average round size

15M

Portfolio companies

44

Rounds per year

0.88

Lead investments

16

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

14

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyDrug DiscoveryInformation TechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsGeneticsMedicalPharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1955. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Bethesda. The company was established in North America in United States.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 26 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2006. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Cystic Fibrosis Foundation works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, startups are often financed by Epidarex Capital, Imperial Innovations, Versant Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Aligo Innovation, Shionogi, RSJ Investments SICAV a.s.. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), RBC Capital Markets, Novo Holdings.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Pharmaceutical, Biopharma. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline 4D Molecular Therapeutics, Laurent Pharmaceuticals, Parion Sciences

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
61
Lead investments
16
Exits
14
Rounds per year
0.88
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (51)
  • Health Care (30)
  • Pharmaceutical (29)
  • Therapeutics (19)
  • Medical (11)
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Investments by region
  • United States (43)
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • Israel (4)
  • Canada (8)
  • Switzerland (1)
Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
42M
Group Appearance index
0.31
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.60
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
4D Molecular Therapeutics 16 Jun 2020 Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Genetics Late Stage Venture 75M United States, California
Sionna Therapeutics 06 Mar 2024 Health Care, Genetics, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics Late Stage Venture 182M United States, Massachusetts, Natick
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