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Kansas Bioscience Authority

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.76
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Medical Device
  • Pharmaceutical
Summary

In 2004 was created Kansas Bioscience Authority, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Olathe. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. Opposing the other organizations, this Kansas Bioscience Authority works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2014.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Metactive Medical, Flow Forward Medical, Innara Health. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Pharmaceutical. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Kansas Bioscience Authority, startups are often financed by Novartis Venture Fund, Intersouth Partners, MPM Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Open Prairie, Middleland Capital, MPM Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Serra Ventures, Middleland Capital, Mid-America Angels.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Flow Forward Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$1M18 May 2015 Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Innara Health

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$3M27 Apr 2015 Olathe, Kansas, United States

Artio Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$2M23 Feb 2015 Olathe, Kansas, United States

Advanced Animal Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Veterinary
$15M08 Dec 2014 North Carolina, United States

Health Outcomes Sciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$12M12 Mar 2014 Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Flow Forward Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$4M03 Jan 2014 Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Aratana Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$12M31 Jan 2013 Kansas, United States

Aratana Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$20M07 Jan 2011 Kansas, United States

IGXBio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Information Technology
$470K31 Dec 2010 Lenexa, Kansas, United States

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Total investments 13
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 0.76
Peak activity year 2010
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.62

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Flow Forward Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$1M18 May 2015 Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Innara Health

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$3M27 Apr 2015 Olathe, Kansas, United States

Artio Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$2M23 Feb 2015 Olathe, Kansas, United States

Advanced Animal Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Veterinary
$15M08 Dec 2014 North Carolina, United States

Health Outcomes Sciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$12M12 Mar 2014 Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Flow Forward Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$4M03 Jan 2014 Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Aratana Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$12M31 Jan 2013 Kansas, United States

Aratana Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$20M07 Jan 2011 Kansas, United States

IGXBio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Information Technology
$470K31 Dec 2010 Lenexa, Kansas, United States
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