Lilly Ventures

Total investments

70

Average round size

27M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

3.04

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

25

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyDrug DiscoveryInformation TechnologyHealth CareMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharma

Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Indianapolis. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. Lilly Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

This organization was formed by Ron Laufer. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a 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. In case when startup counts 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Receptos, Viracta Therapeutics, Serenex.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Lilly Ventures, startups are often financed by Polaris Partners, SV Health Investors, Atlas Venture. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SR One, Polaris Partners, Atlas Venture. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Novartis Venture Fund, Venrock, SR One.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The high activity for fund was in 2009. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Lilly Ventures works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
70
Lead investments
13
Exits
25
Rounds per year
3.04
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (58)
  • Health Care (39)
  • Therapeutics (28)
  • Medical (22)
  • Pharmaceutical (19)
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Investments by region
  • United States (62)
  • Israel (2)
  • Australia (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2009
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
38M
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.97
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Lysosomal Therapeutics 03 Feb 2015 Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 20M United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
ONtheGO Platforms 01 Jan 2014 Software, Mobile, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, Wearables, Human Computer Interaction, Google Glass Seed 713K United States, Oregon, Portland
Serenex 06 Oct 2005 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Late Stage Venture 30M United States, North Carolina, Durham
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