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Kenson Ventures

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.29
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 5
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Health Care
  • Health Diagnostics
  • Therapeutics
Summary

Kenson Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1999. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Therapeutics, Health Diagnostics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Turning Point Therapeutics, Advanced Cell Diagnostics. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Kenson Ventures, startups are often financed by Morningside Group, New Leaf Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are venBio Partners, Summit Partners, SR One.

The top activity for fund was in 2015. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Advanced Cell Diagnostics

Biometrics
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$22M18 Jun 2015 Hayward, California, United States

System Biosciences

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
01 Jan 2004 Palo Alto, California, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 0.29
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.57

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Advanced Cell Diagnostics

Biometrics
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$22M18 Jun 2015 Hayward, California, United States

System Biosciences

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
01 Jan 2004 Palo Alto, California, United States
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