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Epidarex Capital

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Total investments 43
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 3.07
Lead investments 14
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 3
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Therapeutics
  • Health Care
  • Health Diagnostics
  • Medical
Summary

Epidarex Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Bethesda.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Epidarex Capital, startups are often financed by Mercury Fund, Kei Aar, Imperial Innovations. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Scottish Investment Bank, venBio Partners, Imperial Innovations. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pitch@Palace, Innovate UK, Imperial Innovations.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Clyde Biosciences, Sirakoss, Mironid. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical, Health Diagnostics. The fund has exact preference in some 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.

The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Epidarex Capital performs on 19 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Curve Therapeutics

$55M27 Feb 2024 Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Enterprise Therapeutics

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Therapeutics
$35M29 Jan 2024 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Mironid

Ad Network
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Therapeutics
$42M13 Sep 2023 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

MitraPlug

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$20M18 Nov 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

RapidPulse

Health Care
Medical Device
$10M31 Aug 2022 Miami, Florida, United States

Transine Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$6M31 May 2022 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Kynos Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$8M07 Apr 2022 -

IGEM Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Therapeutics
$42M02 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Dunad Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$24M02 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Macomics, the Macrophage-based Drug Discovery company, secures £4.24m expansion financing, and appoints CEO, CSO and VP Immunology

– Macomics Ltd has closed a follow-on financing of £4.24m from its 2020 Seed round, bringing the total amount raised to £7.44m.
– The additional investment brings in new investor Caribou Property Limited alongside existing investors Epidarex Capital, who led the round, and Scottish Enterprise.
– It will be used to accelerate the company’s growth, including expansion of the team.
– Macomics is developing precision medicines to modulate macrophages for the treatment of cancer.
– The company was co-founded in 2019 by Prof Jeffrey Pollard and Dr Luca Cassetta, University of Edinburgh, internationally recognised leaders in macrophage biology.
– It is progressing a diversified portfolio of therapies targeting disease specific tumour associated macrophages (‘TAMs’) towards the clinic.

Theolytics Expands Series A Funding Round

– Theolytics, an Oxford, UK-based developer of a library of potential adenovirus product candidates and breakthrough bioselection systems, raised new funding from M Ventures.
– Funding was joined by Epidarex Capital and Taiho Ventures in an extension to the Series A financing.
– The expanded Series A funding will support the progress of internal programmes in ovarian cancer, and a second cancer indication in addition to further advancing the company’s technology platforms.

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Total investments 43
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 3.07
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 14
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Curve Therapeutics

$55M27 Feb 2024 Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Enterprise Therapeutics

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Therapeutics
$35M29 Jan 2024 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Mironid

Ad Network
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Therapeutics
$42M13 Sep 2023 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

MitraPlug

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$20M18 Nov 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

RapidPulse

Health Care
Medical Device
$10M31 Aug 2022 Miami, Florida, United States

Transine Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$6M31 May 2022 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Kynos Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$8M07 Apr 2022 -

IGEM Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Therapeutics
$42M02 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Dunad Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$24M02 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
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