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LifeForce Capital

Founders John Noonan

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Total investments 53
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$36M
Portfolio companies 35
Rounds per year 5.89
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 4
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
  • Software
Summary

In 2015 was created LifeForce Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the LifeForce Capital, startups are often financed by First Round Capital, Oak Investment Partners, Nexus Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Threshold, Joel Ayala, Oak HC/FT. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SR One, Kaszek Ventures, Y Combinator.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from LifeForce Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. This LifeForce Capital works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The fund was created by John Noonan. The overall number of key employees were 2.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Clover Health, HeartFlow, One Medical. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Health Diagnostics. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ochre Bio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$30M10 Oct 2022 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Transition Bio

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$50M02 Jun 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

MindRight Health

Health Care
Psychology
SMS
$1M24 May 2022 Newark, New Jersey, United States

Clover Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$18M17 May 2022 Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Aspen Neuroscience

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$147M09 May 2022 San Diego, California, United States

Vivante Health

Health Care
Medical Device
Wellness
$16M08 Mar 2022 Houston, Texas, United States

Synapticure

Health Care
Medical
Neuroscience
Wellness
$6M02 Feb 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

64-x

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Product Research
$55M19 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

PostEra

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Machine Learning
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$24M11 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Fauna Bio Raises $9M in Seed Funding

– Fauna Bio is an Emeryville, California-based biotechnology company leveraging animal genomics to improve human health.
– The company raised $9m in Seed funding.
– The round was led by LifeForce Capital with participation from True Ventures, Boom Capital, Pacific 8 Ventures, BioMed Ventures, Vibe Capital and Arcadia Science.
– The new investment will be used to expand its drug discovery platform Convergence while accelerating the discovery of new therapeutic targets for human diseases across a broad range of indications.

Enveda Biosciences Closes $51M Series A Financing Led by Lux Capital

– Enveda Biosciences announced an oversubscribed $51M Series A funding round.
– The financing was led by Lux Capital with participation from Two Sigma Ventures, Hummingbird VC, Catalio Capital, Lifeforce Capital, and Matthew De Silva of Notable Labs along with existing investors True Ventures, Wireframe Ventures, Village Global, and Chris Gibson of Recursion.
– Nature is the greatest source of therapeutics we know, yet 95 percent of the natural world is a chemical mystery. Enveda is systematically exploring this unknown space to unlock its potential for new medicines with the first high-resolution chemical map of the natural world.
– This new investment will further power Enveda’s data-driven approach to screening, validating, and developing high-potential natural compounds into first-in-class clinical candidates.

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Total investments 53
Average round size 36M
Rounds per year 5.89
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ochre Bio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$30M10 Oct 2022 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Transition Bio

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$50M02 Jun 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

MindRight Health

Health Care
Psychology
SMS
$1M24 May 2022 Newark, New Jersey, United States

Clover Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
$18M17 May 2022 Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Aspen Neuroscience

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$147M09 May 2022 San Diego, California, United States

Vivante Health

Health Care
Medical Device
Wellness
$16M08 Mar 2022 Houston, Texas, United States

Synapticure

Health Care
Medical
Neuroscience
Wellness
$6M02 Feb 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

64-x

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Product Research
$55M19 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

PostEra

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Machine Learning
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$24M11 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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