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Enso Ventures

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 1.25
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 7
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Therapeutics
  • Biopharma
  • Health Care
  • Software
Summary

In 2010 was created Enso Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2017. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Enso Ventures is 5-10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Enso Ventures works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Enso Ventures, startups are often financed by The FSE Group, Novartis Venture Fund, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Novartis Venture Fund, Flagship Pioneering, The FSE Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Flagship Pioneering, Oxford Capital Partners, Octopus Ventures.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Oil and Gas, Pharmaceutical. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cellectar Biosciences, NeuroVia, Seres Health.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cognitive Geology

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Oil and Gas
Software
$2M06 Oct 2017 Scotland

NeuroVia

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Medical
Therapeutics
$14M20 Jul 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Cavion

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$26M06 Jan 2017 Virginia, United States

Galera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$5M03 Feb 2016 Pennsylvania, United States

Seres Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$10M23 May 2014 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Axcella

Biotechnology
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
11 Dec 2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Seres Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$10M21 Nov 2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Egalet

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$14M07 May 2012 Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, United States

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Total investments 15
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 1.25
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.60

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cognitive Geology

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Oil and Gas
Software
$2M06 Oct 2017 Scotland

NeuroVia

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Medical
Therapeutics
$14M20 Jul 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Cavion

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$26M06 Jan 2017 Virginia, United States

Galera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$5M03 Feb 2016 Pennsylvania, United States

Seres Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$10M23 May 2014 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Axcella

Biotechnology
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
11 Dec 2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Seres Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$10M21 Nov 2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Egalet

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$14M07 May 2012 Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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