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Merlin Biomed

Founders Stuart T. Weisbrod

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Total investments 18
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$30M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 0.75
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 11
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Medical
Summary

Merlin Biomed appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1998. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Biopharma. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, FibroGen, Calypso Medical. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The average startup value when the investment from Merlin Biomed is 10-50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Merlin Biomed works on 36 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2003. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The fund was created by Stuart T. Weisbrod.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the Merlin Biomed, startups are often financed by Bay City Capital, Versant Ventures, Venrock. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Versant Ventures, VantagePoint Capital Partners, OrbiMed. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by OrbiMed, MPM Capital, Sanderling Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gemin X Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$38M03 Jul 2008 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Ventaira Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$22M20 Feb 2003 Columbus, Ohio, United States

ARYx Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$25M01 Jul 2002 Fremont, California, United States

Confluent Surgical

Health Care
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$20M25 Jun 2002 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

De Novo Pharmaceuticals

Life Science
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$23M26 Jul 2001 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 18
Average round size 30M
Rounds per year 0.75
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gemin X Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$38M03 Jul 2008 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Ventaira Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$22M20 Feb 2003 Columbus, Ohio, United States

ARYx Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$25M01 Jul 2002 Fremont, California, United States

Confluent Surgical

Health Care
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$20M25 Jun 2002 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

De Novo Pharmaceuticals

Life Science
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$23M26 Jul 2001 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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