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GeneChem

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Total investments 33
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 1.22
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 2
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Medical
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Idun Pharmaceuticals

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$22M09 Dec 2002 San Diego, California, United States

Avalon Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
$70M17 Dec 2001 Germantown, Maryland, United States

Viron Therapeutics

$7M19 Jan 2000 London, Ontario, Canada

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Total investments 33
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 1.22
Peak activity year 1999
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 2

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Idun Pharmaceuticals

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$22M09 Dec 2002 San Diego, California, United States

Avalon Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
$70M17 Dec 2001 Germantown, Maryland, United States

Viron Therapeutics

$7M19 Jan 2000 London, Ontario, Canada
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