GeneChem

Total investments

33

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

1.22

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

2

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareMedical DeviceMedicalPharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharmaClinical Trials

Summary

GeneChem is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. The venture was found in North America in Canada. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Montru00e9al.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cytochroma, LymphoSign, Osprey Pharmaceuticals USA. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Pharmaceutical, Medical. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2001. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this GeneChem works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the GeneChem, startups are often financed by Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund, VentureLink LP, The Still River Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund, Gimv, Yasuda Enterprise Development. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Novo Holdings, VenGrowth Asset Management, VentureLink LP.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
33
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.22
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (5)
  • Pharmaceutical (2)
  • Medical (2)
  • Health Care (2)
  • Therapeutics (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (6)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
1999

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
25
Avg. company exit year
12

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Avalon Pharmaceuticals 17 Dec 2001 Biotechnology, Health Care, Clinical Trials Early Stage Venture 70M United States, Maryland, Germantown
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