Genoa Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

33

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

3.30

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharmaBioinformatics

Summary

In 2014 was created Genoa Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The fund was created by Jenny Rooke.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Genoa Ventures works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zymergen, Caribou Biosciences, Akadeum Life Sciences. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Pharmaceutical, Biopharma. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 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 - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Genoa Ventures, startups are often financed by Cultivation Capital, Serra Ventures, Novartis. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Jenny Rooke, True Ventures, Shu Duan. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Threshold, Innovation Endeavors, Data Collective DCVC.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AgricultureConsumer/RetailMedtechManufacturing
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Check size
1M — 5M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 84000000
Fund raised date
2022-07-28

Analytics

Total investments
33
Lead investments
9
Exits
3
Rounds per year
3.30
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (30)
  • Health Care (15)
  • Life Science (7)
  • Medical (6)
  • Health Diagnostics (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (31)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • France (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
76M
Group Appearance index
0.82
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

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