DROIA

Total investments

28

Average round size

50M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

2.15

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

1

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareMedicalPersonal HealthLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBusiness DevelopmentBiopharma

Summary

DROIA appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Luxembourg. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Luxembourg.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Therapeutics, Business Development. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Frontier Medicines, Cyteir Therapeutics, OCTIMET Oncology.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the DROIA, startups are often financed by Celgene, The Column Group, Venrock. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Celgene, Venrock, The Column Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Celgene, Wellington Management, Venrock.

This organization was formed by Luc Verelst. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This DROIA works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
28
Lead investments
4
Exits
1
Rounds per year
2.15
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (24)
  • Medical (14)
  • Pharmaceutical (14)
  • Therapeutics (8)
  • Health Care (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (20)
  • Netherlands (3)
  • Denmark (1)
  • Belgium (3)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
3
Strategy success index
0.40

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