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Lurie Investment Fund

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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$23M
Portfolio companies 11
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 6
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical Device
  • Manufacturing
  • Video
Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago. The venture was found in North America in United States.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Semiconductor, Manufacturing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CytoPherx, Viamet Pharmaceuticals, Cernium. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Lurie Investment Fund, startups are often financed by Ardesta, Partech, 3i Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Apjohn ventures, North Coast Technology Investors, Deutsche Bank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Apjohn ventures, Scale Venture Partners, QVT Financial.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. When the investment is from Lurie Investment Fund the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2007. This Lurie Investment Fund works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CytoPherx

Health Care
Life Science
Medical Device
$34M04 Jan 2012 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

CytoPherx

Health Care
Life Science
Medical Device
$11M17 Jun 2010 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Viamet Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceuticals
$25M07 Jul 2009 North Carolina, United States

Aperion Biologics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$12M24 Jun 2008 San Antonio, Texas, United States

CytoPherx

Health Care
Life Science
Medical Device
$2M22 Oct 2007 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Nanosphere

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical
$5M06 Jan 2003 Northbrook, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 16
Average round size 23M
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CytoPherx

Health Care
Life Science
Medical Device
$34M04 Jan 2012 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

CytoPherx

Health Care
Life Science
Medical Device
$11M17 Jun 2010 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Viamet Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceuticals
$25M07 Jul 2009 North Carolina, United States

Aperion Biologics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$12M24 Jun 2008 San Antonio, Texas, United States

CytoPherx

Health Care
Life Science
Medical Device
$2M22 Oct 2007 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Nanosphere

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical
$5M06 Jan 2003 Northbrook, Illinois, United States
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