EcoR1 Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

113

Average round size

105M

Portfolio companies

86

Rounds per year

9.42

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

63

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsGeneticsMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

EcoR1 Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. 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 San Francisco.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the EcoR1 Capital, startups are often financed by ARCH Venture Partners, Third Rock Ventures, The Column Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Fidelity Management and Research Company, Cormorant Asset Management, Samsara BioCapital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Polaris Partners, Fidelity Management and Research Company, Cormorant Asset Management.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Clementia Pharmaceuticals, Relay Therapeutics, Codiak Biosciences. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Genetics, Medical Device. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This EcoR1 Capital works on 22 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Biotech/Life Sciences

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
113
Lead investments
10
Exits
63
Rounds per year
9.42
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (106)
  • Therapeutics (58)
  • Health Care (57)
  • Medical (43)
  • Pharmaceutical (33)
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Investments by region
  • United States (102)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Canada (4)
  • Austria (1)
  • Netherlands (1)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
9

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
69M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
1.30
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ajax Therapeutics 13 May 2024 Biotechnology, Medical, Life Science Late Stage Venture 95M United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Arcus Biosciences 13 Nov 2017 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics Late Stage Venture 107M United States, California, Hayward

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