Life Sciences Partners

Total investments

168

Average round size

35M

Portfolio companies

102

Rounds per year

6.46

Lead investments

44

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

44

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

The venture was found in Europe in The Netherlands. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Amsterdam.

The fund was created by Clemens Van Blitterswijk, Rudy Dekeyser. The overall number of key employees were 10.

Opposing the other organizations, this Life Sciences Partners works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Life Sciences Partners, startups are often financed by Kurma Partners, Idinvest Partners, VI Partners AG. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ysios Capital, Idinvest Partners, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Novartis Venture Fund, LSP BioVentures, Gimv.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of 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 Therapeutics, Biopharma. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Santarus, Hyperion Therapeutics, Merus Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
168
Lead investments
44
Exits
44
Rounds per year
6.46
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (122)
  • Health Care (101)
  • Therapeutics (66)
  • Medical (58)
  • Medical Device (43)
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Investments by region
  • United States (49)
  • Netherlands (28)
  • France (11)
  • Switzerland (18)
  • Germany (16)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
60M
Group Appearance index
0.99
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
3.67
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Evommune 26 Apr 2023 Biotechnology, Life Science Early Stage Venture 50M United States, California
Tubulis 14 Mar 2024 Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 151M Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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