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EMBL Ventures

Founders Jan Adams Stefan Herr

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 0.95
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 6
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
  • Pharmaceutical
Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Heidelberg. The venture was found in Europe in Germany.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this EMBL Ventures performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2013. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biopharma, Medical. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Germany. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vasopharm, Opsona, Crescendo Biologics.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the EMBL Ventures, startups are often financed by Sofinnova Partners, Seroba Life Sciences, Inventages Venture Capital Investment Inc.. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Andera Partners, Wellington Partners, Sunstone Life Science Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wellington Partners, dievini Hopp Biotech Holding, Entrepreneurs Fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Topas Therapeutics

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
$21M29 Jul 2021 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Topas Therapeutics

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
$25M19 Oct 2020 Germany, Baden-Württemberg

Crescendo Biologics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$70M30 Apr 2018 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Luxendo

Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Manufacturing
$9M12 Jan 2017 Baden-Württemberg

Allecra Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$25M15 Jun 2016 Baden-Württemberg

Topas Therapeutics

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
$16M22 Mar 2016 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Luxendo

Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Manufacturing
$7M14 Oct 2015 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Vira Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$4M24 Jun 2015 Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

ImevaX

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$8M28 Oct 2014 Bavaria

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Total investments 19
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 0.95
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Topas Therapeutics

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
$21M29 Jul 2021 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Topas Therapeutics

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
$25M19 Oct 2020 Germany, Baden-Württemberg

Crescendo Biologics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$70M30 Apr 2018 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Luxendo

Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Manufacturing
$9M12 Jan 2017 Baden-Württemberg

Allecra Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$25M15 Jun 2016 Baden-Württemberg

Topas Therapeutics

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
$16M22 Mar 2016 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Luxendo

Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Manufacturing
$7M14 Oct 2015 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Vira Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$4M24 Jun 2015 Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

ImevaX

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$8M28 Oct 2014 Bavaria
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