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.
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| Fund Name | Location |
| Animal Capital | California, Los Angeles, United States |
| Apollo Technology Partners | - |
| Beneventure Capital | Alabama, Birmingham, United States |
| Big Block Media | - |
| Breakwater Investment Management | California, Los Angeles, United States |
| Burwell Investments | - |
| California Clean Energy Fund | California, Oakland, United States |
| CRiF | Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Digital Pioneers | Limburg, Maastricht, Netherlands |
| Heliocentris | Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| Juyuan Capital | - |
| Lenovo | Beijing, Beijing, China |
| Nire Capital | - |
| Pacific Venture Group | California, Encino, United States |
| Resolute Investment Managers | Irving, Texas, United States |
| Snapdragon Capital Partners | - |
| SunGate Capital | Florida, United States, Winter Park |
| Tierra Del Oro | Florida, Naples, United States |
Notable deals
| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Progentos Therapeutics | $65M | 20 May 2024 | Watertown, Massachusetts, United States | ||
OWL | $157M | 19 Mar 2024 | Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany | ||
Tome Biosciences | $213M | 12 Dec 2023 | Watertown, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Sitryx Therapeutics | $39M | 27 Sep 2023 | Oxford, England, United Kingdom | ||
Solu Therapeutics | $31M | 01 Aug 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | ||
AAVantgarde Bio | $71M | 06 Jun 2023 | Milano, Lombardia, Italy | ||
Pulmocide | $52M | 06 Dec 2022 | London, England, United Kingdom | ||
Photys Therapeutics | $75M | 08 Sep 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | ||
DEM BioPharma | $70M | 23 Jun 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
– ImmuneID, Inc. has raised $50m in Series A financing.
– The round was led by new investor Alta Partners and included new investors Alexandria Venture Investments, Redwood Capital Investments, Section 32 and Tekla Capital Management.
– All existing investors participated in the financing, including Arch Venture Partners, Longwood Fund, Pitango HealthTech, In-Q-Tel, Xfund and others.
– Proceeds from the financing will be used to advance the development of therapeutic candidates to treat autoimmune diseases, severe allergies, cancer and infectious diseases.
– Interius BioTherapeutics, a Philadelphia, PA-based preclinical stage gene therapy company developing a paradigm-shifting platform for in vivo cell-specific gene delivery, raised $76m in Series A financing.
– The round was co-led by Cormorant Asset Management and Fairmount Funds, and joined by Bain Capital Life Sciences, Pfizer Ventures, RA Capital Management, Longwood Fund, Logos Capital, Osage University Partners and Quan Capital.
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| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Progentos Therapeutics | $65M | 20 May 2024 | Watertown, Massachusetts, United States | ||
OWL | $157M | 19 Mar 2024 | Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany | ||
Tome Biosciences | $213M | 12 Dec 2023 | Watertown, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Sitryx Therapeutics | $39M | 27 Sep 2023 | Oxford, England, United Kingdom | ||
Solu Therapeutics | $31M | 01 Aug 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | ||
AAVantgarde Bio | $71M | 06 Jun 2023 | Milano, Lombardia, Italy | ||
Pulmocide | $52M | 06 Dec 2022 | London, England, United Kingdom | ||
Photys Therapeutics | $75M | 08 Sep 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | ||
DEM BioPharma | $70M | 23 Jun 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
