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Lightstone Ventures

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Total investments 67
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$49M
Portfolio companies 37
Rounds per year 5.58
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.45
Exits 9
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
  • Medical Device
Summary

In 2012 was created Lightstone Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Earlens Corporation, Bold Penguin, Locana. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Pharmaceutical, Medical Device. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. 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 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Lightstone Ventures, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Advanced Technology Ventures, Vertex Ventures HC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vertex Ventures HC, Atlas Venture, Windham Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Vertex Ventures HC, Windham Venture Partners.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Lightstone Ventures performs on 13 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Amber Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$109M10 Jun 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Cerevance

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$47M25 Apr 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Reprieve Cardiovascular

Health Care
Medical Device
Wellness
$42M20 Feb 2024 Massachusetts, United States

Tagworks Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$65M22 Jun 2023 Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands

Cerevance

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$51M13 Feb 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Volta Medical

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Medical Device
Software
$42M05 Jan 2023 Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Carrick Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$60M01 Dec 2022 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

ProVerum Medical

Health Care
Medical Device
$35M11 Jan 2022 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Vigil Neuroscience

Biotechnology
$90M18 Aug 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
News
Vigil Neuroscience Completes $90 million Series B Financing to Advance a Pipeline of Microglia-targeted Medicines to Treat Rare and Common Neurodegenerative Diseases

– Vigil Neuroscience, a biotechnology company harnessing the power of microglia for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, announced the completion of a $90m Series B financing to further advance Vigil’s proprietary pipeline of microglia-targeted medicines for the treatment of neurodegeneration.
– The financing was led by Vida Ventures with participation from existing investors Atlas Venture, Northpond Ventures and Hatteras Venture Partners as well as new investors including Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Cormorant Asset Management, Invus, OrbiMed, Rock Springs Capital, Deep Track Capital, Logos Capital, Pivotal bioVenture Partners, and Lightstone Ventures.

Alchemab Therapeutics Raises £60M in Series A Financing

– Alchemab Therapeutics from Cambridge, England, UK develops a platform that enables the identification of novel drug targets and therapeutics on the basis of patient B-cell antibody repertoires.
– The company raised £60m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by RA Capital Management, with participation from Lightstone Ventures, Data Collective VC (DCVC), DHVC, SV Health Investors and the Dementia Discovery Fund.
– The new investment will be used to advance the company’s target-agnostic drug discovery platform.

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Total investments 67
Average round size 49M
Rounds per year 5.58
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.45
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.99

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Amber Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$109M10 Jun 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Cerevance

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$47M25 Apr 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Reprieve Cardiovascular

Health Care
Medical Device
Wellness
$42M20 Feb 2024 Massachusetts, United States

Tagworks Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$65M22 Jun 2023 Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands

Cerevance

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$51M13 Feb 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Volta Medical

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Medical Device
Software
$42M05 Jan 2023 Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Carrick Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$60M01 Dec 2022 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

ProVerum Medical

Health Care
Medical Device
$35M11 Jan 2022 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Vigil Neuroscience

Biotechnology
$90M18 Aug 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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