Domain Associates

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Diego, United States

Total investments

308

Average round size

25M

Portfolio companies

153

Rounds per year

7.90

Lead investments

46

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

85

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyDrug DiscoveryHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalPharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

Domain Associates appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1985. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Diego. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Besides them, we counted 9 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Diagnostics, Biotechnology. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pharmion, Santarus, Tobira Therapeutics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Domain Associates performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from Domain Associates the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Domain Associates, startups are often financed by Montreux Equity Partners, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, Venrock. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Morgenthaler Ventures, Venrock, MPM Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, Canaan Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Biotech/Life SciencesMedtechHealthcare
Stage focus
GeneralistPre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries B Show 1 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
308
Lead investments
46
Exits
85
Rounds per year
7.90
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (236)
  • Health Care (229)
  • Medical (139)
  • Pharmaceutical (81)
  • Medical Device (76)
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Investments by region
  • United States (292)
  • Canada (5)
  • Ireland (1)
  • China (1)
  • Estonia (1)
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Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
128M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.89
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Loco Adventures 10 Jul 2019 Internet, Augmented Reality, Location Based Services, Gamification Seed 158K Berlin, Germany
Orexigen Therapeutics 01 Apr 2005 Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 35M United States, California, San Diego
Singular Genomics 01 Jan 2020 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Early Stage Venture 45M United States, California, San Diego

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