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Lilly Ventures

Founders Ron Laufer

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Total investments 70
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$27M
Portfolio companies 37
Rounds per year 3.04
Lead investments 13
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.47
Exits 25
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

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

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

IpiNovyx Bio

Biotechnology
$10M05 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

Kymera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$65M13 Nov 2018 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Nimbus Therapeutics

Alternative Medicine
Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$65M05 Jun 2018 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Kymera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$30M30 Oct 2017 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cavion

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$26M06 Jan 2017 Virginia, United States

Symic Biomedical

Biotechnology
Business Intelligence
Health Care
$25M01 Dec 2015 California, United States

Aeglea BioTherapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$44M23 Mar 2015 Austin, Texas, United States

Nimbus Therapeutics

Alternative Medicine
Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$43M19 Mar 2015 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Lysosomal Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$20M03 Feb 2015 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 70
Average round size 27M
Rounds per year 3.04
Peak activity year 2009
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.47
Exits 25
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

IpiNovyx Bio

Biotechnology
$10M05 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

Kymera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$65M13 Nov 2018 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Nimbus Therapeutics

Alternative Medicine
Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$65M05 Jun 2018 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Kymera Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$30M30 Oct 2017 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cavion

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$26M06 Jan 2017 Virginia, United States

Symic Biomedical

Biotechnology
Business Intelligence
Health Care
$25M01 Dec 2015 California, United States

Aeglea BioTherapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$44M23 Mar 2015 Austin, Texas, United States

Nimbus Therapeutics

Alternative Medicine
Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$43M19 Mar 2015 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Lysosomal Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$20M03 Feb 2015 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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