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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$28M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 0.52
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 1
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Biopharma
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OxCan

Biotechnology
$4M10 Jan 2023 Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

AviadoBio

$80M02 Dec 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Closed Loop Medicine

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$17M03 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Eliem Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$60M24 May 2021 Washington, United States

PolyProx

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$1M02 Mar 2020 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Ikarovec

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$3M05 Feb 2020 United Kingdom, England

AviadoBio

$16M01 Jan 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

SpringWorks Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$125M01 Apr 2019 Stamford, Connecticut, United States

AMR Centre

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$3M25 Mar 2019 England
News
Eliem Therapeutics Announces $60 Million Series B Financing

– Eliem Therapeutics, Inc. announced the closing of a $60m Series B financing.
– The round was led by ICG and included participation from Access Biotechnology, Samlyn Capital, Acorn Bioventures and LifeArc.
– Eliem plans to use the proceeds to advance its two lead clinical-stage product candidates, ETX-810 and ETX-155, through topline data across four different indications in patients with chronic pain, depressive disorders, and epilepsy, as well as to advance its two preclinical-stage programs to selection of clinical development candidates.

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Total investments 16
Average round size 28M
Rounds per year 0.52
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OxCan

Biotechnology
$4M10 Jan 2023 Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

AviadoBio

$80M02 Dec 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Closed Loop Medicine

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$17M03 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Eliem Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$60M24 May 2021 Washington, United States

PolyProx

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$1M02 Mar 2020 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Ikarovec

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$3M05 Feb 2020 United Kingdom, England

AviadoBio

$16M01 Jan 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

SpringWorks Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$125M01 Apr 2019 Stamford, Connecticut, United States

AMR Centre

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$3M25 Mar 2019 England
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