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Deerfield

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Total investments 173
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$68M
Portfolio companies 145
Rounds per year 5.77
Lead investments 37
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 76
Key employees 15
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Therapeutics
Summary

Deerfield is the famous VC, which was founded in 1994. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

Besides them, we counted 15 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. When the investment is from Deerfield the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Deerfield performs on 20 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 26 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Deerfield, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Third Rock Ventures, OrbiMed. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RA Capital Management, OrbiMed, T. Rowe Price. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Deerfield Capital Management, OrbiMed, Venrock.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biopharma, Medical. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 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 AveXis, TESARO, Spark Therapeutics. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MMI

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Robotics
$110M21 Feb 2024 Italy, Tuscany, Italy

Octave Bioscience

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$32M26 Jul 2023 California, United States

Presidio Medical

Developer Platform
Information Technology
Medical
Software
$72M26 Jun 2023 South San Francisco, California, United States

Bitterroot Bio

Biotechnology
Emergency Medicine
Medical
$145M07 Jun 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Ray Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$100M16 May 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Pleno

Biotechnology
$40M12 Oct 2022 San Diego, California, United States

Innervace

Health Care
Medical
Neuroscience
$40M08 Sep 2022 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Vicinitas Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$65M28 Jul 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

MMI

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Robotics
$75M20 Jul 2022 Italy, Tuscany, Italy

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Total investments 173
Average round size 68M
Rounds per year 5.77
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 37
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 76
Group Appearance index 0.69

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MMI

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Robotics
$110M21 Feb 2024 Italy, Tuscany, Italy

Octave Bioscience

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$32M26 Jul 2023 California, United States

Presidio Medical

Developer Platform
Information Technology
Medical
Software
$72M26 Jun 2023 South San Francisco, California, United States

Bitterroot Bio

Biotechnology
Emergency Medicine
Medical
$145M07 Jun 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Ray Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$100M16 May 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Pleno

Biotechnology
$40M12 Oct 2022 San Diego, California, United States

Innervace

Health Care
Medical
Neuroscience
$40M08 Sep 2022 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Vicinitas Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$65M28 Jul 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

MMI

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Robotics
$75M20 Jul 2022 Italy, Tuscany, Italy
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