In 2011 was created Foresite Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.
The current fund was established by Jim Tananbaum. The overall number of key employees were 11.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Foresite Capital, startups are often financed by Venrock, Third Rock Ventures, Paladin Capital Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Cormorant Asset Management, ARCH Venture Partners, Paladin Capital Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Paladin Capital Group, Merieux Developpement, EcoR1 Capital.
The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Foresite Capital is more than 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Foresite Capital works on 12 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.
Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline AveXis, Intarcia Therapeutics, Audentes Therapeutics Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite 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. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Genetics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
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Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Seaport Therapeutics | 21 Oct 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | |||
Foresight Diagnostics | $33M | 30 Jul 2024 | Denver, Colorado, United States | ||
Spear Bio | $45M | 29 Jul 2024 | Weston, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Third Arc Bio | $165M | 23 Jul 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Thyme Care | $55M | 16 Jul 2024 | Nashville, Tennessee, United States | ||
Esker Therapeutics | $259M | 06 Mar 2024 | - | ||
Latigo Biotherapeutics | $135M | 14 Feb 2024 | - | ||
Genomics | $47M | 08 Jan 2024 | Oxford, England, United Kingdom | ||
Thyme Care | $60M | 21 Aug 2023 | Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
– XinThera, a company focused on building a small molecule oncology and immunology pipeline, announced that the company has raised $50M in Series B financing.
– New investor Orbimed Advisors, LLC joined existing investors Foresite Capital and TTM Capital, bringing the total financing raised to $80M.
– The funds will be used to support the firm’s recruiting efforts and build its product pipeline.
– XinThera brings together a founder and investors that previously worked together to incubate, fund and launch Kinnate Biopharma, a company that progressed from idea to IPO in less than three years.
– Stephen Kaldor, Ph.D., co-founder and chairman of XinThera has more than 25 years of experience in creating meaningful medicines and shareholder value.
– Kriya closed a $100m Series B financing to support its mission of transforming the design, development and manufacturing of gene therapies.
– The financing was led by Patient Square Capital with participation from new investors Woodline Partners LP, CAM Capital, Hongkou, Alumni Ventures and others.
– All existing institutional investors also participated in this round, including QVT, Dexcel Pharma, Foresite Capital, Bluebird Ventures, Transhuman Capital, Narya Capital, Amplo and JDRF T1D Fund.
– Proceeds from the financing will be used to further develop Kriya’s core technology platforms, expand its therapeutic pipeline and advance its current programs in metabolic disease, ophthalmology and oncology.
– Jim Momtazee, Managing Partner of Patient Square Capital, will join Kriya’s Board of Directors.
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Latest deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Seaport Therapeutics | 21 Oct 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | |||
Foresight Diagnostics | $33M | 30 Jul 2024 | Denver, Colorado, United States | ||
Spear Bio | $45M | 29 Jul 2024 | Weston, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Third Arc Bio | $165M | 23 Jul 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Thyme Care | $55M | 16 Jul 2024 | Nashville, Tennessee, United States | ||
Esker Therapeutics | $259M | 06 Mar 2024 | - | ||
Latigo Biotherapeutics | $135M | 14 Feb 2024 | - | ||
Genomics | $47M | 08 Jan 2024 | Oxford, England, United Kingdom | ||
Thyme Care | $60M | 21 Aug 2023 | Nashville, Tennessee, United States |