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Dementia Discovery Fund

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Total investments 42
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$21M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 4.67
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 2
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Life Science
  • Pharmaceutical
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AstronauTx

Pharmaceutical
$65M08 Oct 2023 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Violet Therapeutics

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$10M05 May 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Therini Bio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$36M27 Apr 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Cerevance

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$51M13 Feb 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Amphista Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
13 Dec 2022 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

Transine Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$6M31 May 2022 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

AviadoBio

$80M02 Dec 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

LOQUS23 THERAPEUTICS

Biotechnology
$9M23 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Nitrome Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$7M02 Nov 2021 Jackson, Mississippi, United States
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Alchemab Therapeutics Raises £60M in Series A Financing

– Alchemab Therapeutics from Cambridge, England, UK develops a platform that enables the identification of novel drug targets and therapeutics on the basis of patient B-cell antibody repertoires.
– The company raised £60m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by RA Capital Management, with participation from Lightstone Ventures, Data Collective VC (DCVC), DHVC, SV Health Investors and the Dementia Discovery Fund.
– The new investment will be used to advance the company’s target-agnostic drug discovery platform.

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Total investments 42
Average round size 21M
Rounds per year 4.67
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AstronauTx

Pharmaceutical
$65M08 Oct 2023 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Violet Therapeutics

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$10M05 May 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Therini Bio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$36M27 Apr 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Cerevance

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$51M13 Feb 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Amphista Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
13 Dec 2022 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

Transine Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$6M31 May 2022 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

AviadoBio

$80M02 Dec 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

LOQUS23 THERAPEUTICS

Biotechnology
$9M23 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Nitrome Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$7M02 Nov 2021 Jackson, Mississippi, United States
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