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Initiative Capital

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Total investments 4
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$25M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.16
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Therapeutics
  • Surgical Devices
  • Medical Device
Summary

Initiative Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1997. The venture was found in Europe in France. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Sausheim.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2004. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Initiative Capital works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Biopharma. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Addex Therapeutics, Dartfish, Xigen For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Switzerland. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Initiative Capital, startups are often financed by Neomed Management, Ysios Capital, VI Partners AG. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VI Partners AG, Ysios Capital, Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ysios Capital, Varuma AG, VI Partners AG.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Endosense

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Surgical Devices
Therapeutics
$40M27 Nov 2012 Geneva, Switzerland

Xigen

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$21M06 Sep 2005 Vaud, Switzerland

Addex Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$38M17 May 2004 Geneva, Switzerland

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Total investments 4
Average round size 25M
Rounds per year 0.16
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Endosense

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Surgical Devices
Therapeutics
$40M27 Nov 2012 Geneva, Switzerland

Xigen

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$21M06 Sep 2005 Vaud, Switzerland

Addex Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$38M17 May 2004 Geneva, Switzerland
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