Longwood Fund

Summary

In 2010 was created Longwood Founders Fund, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

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 needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TScan Therapeutics, Colorescience, Channel Medsystems. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Life Science. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The current fund was established by Christoph Westphal, Michelle Dipp, Richard Aldrich.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Longwood Founders Fund performs on 17 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Longwood Founders Fund, startups are often financed by SV Health Investors, MPM Capital, Delphi Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MPM Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Novartis Venture Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MPM Capital, Vertex Ventures, Cardinal Partners.