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INKEF Capital

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Total investments 82
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 50
Rounds per year 5.86
Lead investments 33
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Exits 8
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Medical
  • Therapeutics
Summary

In 2010 was created INKEF Capital, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Amsterdam. The company was established in Europe in The Netherlands.

The overall number of key employees were 7.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the INKEF Capital, startups are often financed by Union Square Ventures, Life Sciences Partners, Index Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Life Sciences Partners, Healthinnovations, Gilde Healthcare. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Keen Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures, Rabobank.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 48 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this INKEF Capital performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Biopharma. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - The Netherlands. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight NMD Pharma, Rainier Therapeutics, Shapeways.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Silverflow

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Software
$17M16 Nov 2023 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

NMD Pharma

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$88M15 Nov 2023 Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark

Anavo Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$10M02 May 2023 Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands

QurAlis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$88M09 Mar 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Quantum Motion Technologies

Quantum Computing
$57M21 Feb 2023 Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Happeo

Cloud Computing
Google
Human Resources
Online Portals
SaaS
$26M07 Jul 2022 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Baserow

$5M06 Jul 2022 -

Precirix

Biotechnology
$94M16 Mar 2022 City of Brussels, Belgium

ChannelEngine

Advertising
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Marketplace
Retail Technology
SaaS
Software
$53M15 Mar 2022 Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
News
Cardior Raises €64M in Series B Funding

– Cardior Pharmaceuticals from Hanover develops non-coding RNA (ncRNA)-based therapeutics for patients with cardiac diseases.
– The company closed a €64m ($76m) Series B financing round.
– The round was led by Inkef Capital, supported by fellow new investors Fund+, Sunstone, Hadean Ventures and Coparion with participation from existing investors including LSP, BioMedPartners, Bristol Myers Squibb and High-Tech Gründerfonds.
– The new investment will be used for the late-stage clinical development of its lead program and the expansion of its earlier-stage pipeline.

Castor Raises $45M Series B to Modernize the Clinical Trial Process and Maximize the Impact of Research Data on Patient Lives

– Castor, a leading provider of clinical trial software, announced the closing of a $45m Series B financing round.
– The round, led by Eight Roads Ventures and F-Prime Capital with participation from existing investors Two Sigma Ventures and Inkef Capital, will fuel continued product development with a particular focus on scaling direct-to-patient trials globally.
– Most clinical trials today require a long set-up time and are conducted at brick-and-mortar research sites which make trial participation inconvenient for patients and leave researchers in the dark about patient data in-between site visits.

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Total investments 82
Average round size 24M
Rounds per year 5.86
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 33
Follow on index 0.39
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Silverflow

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Software
$17M16 Nov 2023 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

NMD Pharma

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$88M15 Nov 2023 Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark

Anavo Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$10M02 May 2023 Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands

QurAlis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$88M09 Mar 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Quantum Motion Technologies

Quantum Computing
$57M21 Feb 2023 Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Happeo

Cloud Computing
Google
Human Resources
Online Portals
SaaS
$26M07 Jul 2022 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Baserow

$5M06 Jul 2022 -

Precirix

Biotechnology
$94M16 Mar 2022 City of Brussels, Belgium

ChannelEngine

Advertising
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Marketplace
Retail Technology
SaaS
Software
$53M15 Mar 2022 Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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