Helix Ventures

Total investments

8

Average round size

24M

Portfolio companies

3

Rounds per year

0.62

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.62

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalTherapeutics

Summary

In 2008 was created Helix Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

This organization was formed by Evgeny Zaytsev, Philip Sawyer. The overall number of key employees were 4.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Manufacturing. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight iScience Interventional, Invuity, Coherus Biosciences. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Helix Ventures, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Wexford Capital, Valence Life Sciences. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kleiner Perkins, Valence Life Sciences, Medpace. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Valence Life Sciences, Kleiner Perkins, InterWest Partners.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This Helix Ventures works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The high activity for fund was in 2012.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
8
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.62
Follow on index
0.62
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (8)
  • Health Care (8)
  • Manufacturing (4)
  • Medical (4)
  • Therapeutics (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (8)
Peak activity year
2012

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
63M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
1.73

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Coherus Biosciences 19 May 2014 Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical, Therapeutics Late Stage Venture 54M United States, California, Redwood City

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