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Foresite Capital

Founders Jim Tananbaum

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Total investments 156
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$90M
Portfolio companies 102
Rounds per year 12.00
Lead investments 25
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 41
Key employees 11
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Life Science
  • Medical
Summary

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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Esker Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$259M06 Mar 2024 -

Latigo Biotherapeutics

$135M14 Feb 2024 -

Genomics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$47M08 Jan 2024 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Thyme Care

Health Care
Medical
$60M21 Aug 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Foresight Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$58M27 Apr 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

Cerevance

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$51M13 Feb 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

evonetix

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$27M07 Feb 2023 Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom

Detect

Health Care
Medical
Personal Health
15 Nov 2022 Guilford, Connecticut, United States

Pleno

Biotechnology
$40M12 Oct 2022 San Diego, California, United States
News
XinThera Closes $50M Series B Financing

– 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 Therapeutics Completes $100 Million Series B Financing to Advance Its Fully Integrated Platform for Designing, Developing and Manufacturing Transformative Gene Therapies

– 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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Total investments 156
Average round size 90M
Rounds per year 12.00
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 25
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 41
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Esker Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$259M06 Mar 2024 -

Latigo Biotherapeutics

$135M14 Feb 2024 -

Genomics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$47M08 Jan 2024 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Thyme Care

Health Care
Medical
$60M21 Aug 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Foresight Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$58M27 Apr 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

Cerevance

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$51M13 Feb 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

evonetix

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$27M07 Feb 2023 Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom

Detect

Health Care
Medical
Personal Health
15 Nov 2022 Guilford, Connecticut, United States

Pleno

Biotechnology
$40M12 Oct 2022 San Diego, California, United States
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