LifeArc

Total investments

17

Average round size

27M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

0.53

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

1

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsCollaborationMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsmHealthBiopharma

Summary

LifeArc appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1992. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this LifeArc works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biopharma, Therapeutics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline AMR Centre, Caldan Therapeutics For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the LifeArc, startups are often financed by Scottish Investment Bank, Scottish Enterprise, Science Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pfizer Venture Investments, OrbiMed, SciTech. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Samsara BioCapital, Pfizer Venture Investments, Perceptive Advisors.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
3
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.53
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (11)
  • Health Care (8)
  • Therapeutics (6)
  • Pharmaceutical (6)
  • Biopharma (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (3)
  • United Kingdom (13)
  • Sweden (1)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
885K
Group Appearance index
0.82
Avg. company exit year
3
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
DJS Antibodies 22 Dec 2020 Biotechnology, Health Care Seed 8M England, Oxford, United Kingdom
Grexter 11 Jan 2019 Real Estate Seed 1M Karnataka, India, Bengaluru
Ordr 26 Feb 2019 Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Network Security, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things Early Stage Venture 16M United States, California, San Jose
SpringWorks Therapeutics 01 Apr 2019 Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Biopharma Early Stage Venture 125M United States, Connecticut, Stamford
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