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Farallon Capital Management

Founders Tom Steyer

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Total investments 79
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$167M
Portfolio companies 66
Rounds per year 2.08
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 28
Key employees 10
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Medical Device
  • Health Diagnostics
Summary

Farallon Capital Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1986. 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.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Farallon Capital Management, startups are often financed by Venrock, New Leaf Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sutter Hill Ventures, Chengwei Capital, Hillhouse Capital Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sutter Hill Ventures, Chengwei Capital, Tencent Holdings.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Go-Jek, Manbang Group, Intarcia Therapeutics We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Media and Entertainment.

This organization was formed by Tom Steyer. We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Farallon Capital Management is more than 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Farallon Capital Management performs on 1 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cardurion Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$260M16 Jul 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Beta Bionics

Biotechnology
Diabetes
Medical Device
$57M17 Feb 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ada Health

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Medical
mHealth
$30M10 Feb 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

DNA Script

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$165M26 Oct 2021 France, Ile-de-France, France

Zentera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$75M04 Aug 2021 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Biotechnology
Health Care
Information Technology
Pharmaceutical
Travel
$100M13 Apr 2021 New York, New York, United States

Inivata

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical Device
$35M04 Feb 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Fog Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$107M11 Jan 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Ikena Oncology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$120M05 Jan 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
News
Zepz, Formerly WorldRemit Group, the Leading Digital Cross-border Payments Platform, Has Raised $292 Million in New Primary Series E Financing, Achieving a Valuation of $5 Billion

– Zepz, formerly WorldRemit, a digital cross-border payments platform operating two market-leading brands (WorldRemit and Sendwave, acquired in 2021), with over 11 million users1 across 150 countries, announces it has raised $292m in new financing, achieving a valuation of $5bn.
– The round includes new equity investors Farallon Capital among others, as well as backing from existing investors Leapfrog, TCV and Accel.
– Zepz is revolutionizing the P2P cross-border payments market, an estimated $1tn market opportunity which continues to be predominantly offline and is characterised by high prices and poor customer experience.

Zentera Therapeutics Raises $75M in Series b Funding

– Zentera Therapeutics, a Shanghai, China-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, raised $75M in Series B funding.
– The round was led by OrbiMed Advisors Asia and Tybourne Capital Management with participation from Avidity Partners, Casdin Capital, Surveyor Capital, Farallon Capital Management, Lilly Asia Ventures, Logos Capital, Perceptive Advisors, Redmile Group and Viking Global Investors.
– The company intends to use the funds to advance the development of three Zentalis-discovered oncology clinical candidates as well as business development for future pipeline additions in China.

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Total investments 79
Average round size 167M
Rounds per year 2.08
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 28
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cardurion Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$260M16 Jul 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Beta Bionics

Biotechnology
Diabetes
Medical Device
$57M17 Feb 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ada Health

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Medical
mHealth
$30M10 Feb 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

DNA Script

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$165M26 Oct 2021 France, Ile-de-France, France

Zentera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$75M04 Aug 2021 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Biotechnology
Health Care
Information Technology
Pharmaceutical
Travel
$100M13 Apr 2021 New York, New York, United States

Inivata

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical Device
$35M04 Feb 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Fog Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$107M11 Jan 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Ikena Oncology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$120M05 Jan 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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