Illumina

Total investments

21

Average round size

80M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

0.81

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsGeneticsMedical DeviceMedicalLife ScienceBiopharmaBioinformaticsNanotechnology

Summary

Illumina is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1998. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the San Diego.

The fund was created by David R. Walt, John Stuelpnagel, Larry Bock, Satnam Alag.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Illumina, startups are often financed by IP Group Plc, MVI Finance, HBM Healthcare Investments AG. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sutter Hill Ventures, Yaletown Partners, Warburg Pincus. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IP Group Plc, Lansdowne Partners, Invesco.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. This Illumina works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2016.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GRAIL, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Human Longevity. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Wellness, Genetics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
21
Lead investments
4
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.81
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (18)
  • Health Care (10)
  • Health Diagnostics (9)
  • Genetics (8)
  • Biopharma (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (13)
  • United Kingdom (6)
  • Canada (2)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.71
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cache 07 May 2024 Biotechnology, Information Technology, Biopharma Seed United States, California, Foster City
Human Longevity 04 Mar 2014 Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Genetics Early Stage Venture 80M United States, California, San Diego

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