Franklin Advisors

Total investments

5

Average round size

441M

Portfolio companies

4

Rounds per year

0.13

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareAerospaceMedicalLife ScienceTravelChemicalBiopharmaAir Transportation

Summary

Franklin Advisors is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1985. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Farmington Hills. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Aduro BioTech, Edge Therapeutics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Biopharma.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7 partakers. Despite the Franklin Advisors, startups are often financed by Morningside Group, Maxim Group, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Janus Capital Group, Venrock, Sofinnova Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Novartis.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
5
Lead investments
0
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.13
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (4)
  • Biopharma (3)
  • Chemical (2)
  • Health Care (1)
  • Medical (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (5)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Edge Therapeutics 09 Apr 2015 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Late Stage Venture 56M United States, New Jersey

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