Frontline BioVentures

Total investments

15

Average round size

66M

Portfolio companies

12

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

3

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyDrug DiscoveryPharmaceuticalsHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalBiopharma

Summary

The venture was found in Asia in China. The main department of described VC is located in the Shanghai.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Medical. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Innovent Biologics, Ultivue, TenNor Therapeutics. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. This Frontline BioVentures works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Frontline BioVentures, startups are often financed by F-Prime Capital, Lilly Asia Ventures, Hansjoerg Wyss. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yonghua Capital, WuXi Healthcare Ventures, Temasek Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Temasek Holdings, Taikang Life Insurance, Legend Capital.

The current fund was established by Lianyong Chen. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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Analytics

Total investments
15
Lead investments
4
Exits
3
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (8)
  • Biotechnology (5)
  • Medical (4)
  • Manufacturing (4)
  • Pharmaceutical (3)
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Investments by region
  • China (12)
  • United States (3)
Peak activity year
2014

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
70M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Coherent Biopharma 01 Feb 2016 Early Stage Venture 8M Jiangsu, Suzhou, China
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