Dementia Discovery Fund

Total investments

42

Average round size

21M

Portfolio companies

23

Rounds per year

4.67

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.43

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsGeneticsMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsmHealth

Summary

In 2015 was created Dementia Discovery Fund, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Dementia Discovery Fund works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Life Science. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Alector, MedaRed, Mitoconix Bio. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Dementia Discovery Fund, startups are often financed by SV Health Investors, Polaris Partners, OrbiMed. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are AbbVie Biotech Ventures, Amgen Ventures, SV Health Investors. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Illumina Ventures, Amgen Ventures, AbbVie Biotech Ventures.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
42
Lead investments
7
Exits
2
Rounds per year
4.67
Follow on index
0.43
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (32)
  • Health Care (18)
  • Therapeutics (17)
  • Life Science (13)
  • Pharmaceutical (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (23)
  • United Kingdom (17)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2020

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.81

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AstronauTx 08 Oct 2023 Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 65M England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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