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Illumina Accelerator

Founders Amanda Cashin Mostafa Ronaghi

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Total investments 43
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$208K
Portfolio companies 39
Rounds per year 4.78
Lead investments 8
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Medical
Summary

Illumina Accelerator is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This Illumina Accelerator works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Illumina Accelerator, startups are often financed by Viking Global Investors, Refactor Capital, Mehdi Maghsoodnia. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Viking Global Investors, Refactor Capital, Fall Line Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Viking Global Investors, SVG Ventures, Matrix Capital Management.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Encoded Therapeutics, Inc., Biome Makers, Vitagene Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Personalization, Machine Learning. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Amanda Cashin, Mostafa Ronaghi.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Viridian Seeds

Agriculture
Biotechnology
14 Sep 2022 Cork, Cork, Ireland

Bixbio

Biotechnology
15 Sep 2021 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
08 Feb 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Algen Biotechnologies

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Therapeutics
04 Oct 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Biome Makers

Agriculture
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Genetics
Wine And Spirits
$2M19 Oct 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Trace Genomics

Agriculture
AgTech
Biotechnology
Farming
$4M13 Jul 2016 California, United States

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Total investments 43
Average round size 208K
Rounds per year 4.78
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.12

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Viridian Seeds

Agriculture
Biotechnology
14 Sep 2022 Cork, Cork, Ireland

Bixbio

Biotechnology
15 Sep 2021 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
08 Feb 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Algen Biotechnologies

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Therapeutics
04 Oct 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Biome Makers

Agriculture
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Genetics
Wine And Spirits
$2M19 Oct 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Trace Genomics

Agriculture
AgTech
Biotechnology
Farming
$4M13 Jul 2016 California, United States
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