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MPM Capital

Founders Ansbert Gadicke Luke Evnin

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Total investments 299
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$40M
Portfolio companies 155
Rounds per year 10.68
Lead investments 60
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.48
Exits 92
Key employees 23
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

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

MPM Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1996. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Cambridge.

We also calculated 24 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the MPM Capital, startups are often financed by HealthCare Ventures, Domain Associates, Abingworth. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Astellas Venture Management, Venrock, Oxford Bioscience Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wellcome Trust, Venrock, HealthCare Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Pharmaceutical, Medical. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline 23andMe, EndoGastric Solutions, Repare Therapeutics

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2003. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The average startup value when the investment from MPM Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this MPM Capital performs on 1 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Frontier Medicines

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$80M22 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Firefly Bio

Biotechnology
Medical
$94M15 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

NextPoint Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Therapeutics
$42M14 Feb 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

AstronauTx

Pharmaceutical
$65M08 Oct 2023 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Deka Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
$20M28 Sep 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

ReCode Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Wellness
$50M19 Sep 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

Arialys Therapeutics

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$58M12 Sep 2023 La Jolla, California, United States

Crossbow Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$80M11 Jul 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

ReNAgade Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$300M23 May 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
News
ReCode Therapeutics Raises Oversubscribed Series B Financing Round of $80 Million

– ReCode Therapeutics announced the closing of an $80m Series B financing round co-led by Pfizer Ventures and EcoR1 Capital.
– The round was led by Pfizer Ventures and EcoR1 Capital.
– New investors include Sanofi Ventures, funds managed by Tekla Capital Management, Superstring Capital and NS Investment.
– Existing investors who participated included OrbiMed, Vida Ventures, MPM Capital, Colt Ventures, Hunt Technology Ventures, and Osage University Partners.

Immunotherapy startup Umoja lands $210M, less than a year after raising $53M

– Umoja Biopharma, a Seattle-based immunotherapy company, raised $210m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Cormorant Asset Management.
– New investors included RTW Investments, LP, Temasek, Presight Capital, Caas Capital and SVB Leerink.
– Funds also came from existing investors: MPM Capital, DCVC Bio, Qiming Venture Partners USA, Casdin Capital, The Emerson Collective and Alexandria Venture Investments.

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Total investments 299
Average round size 40M
Rounds per year 10.68
Peak activity year 2003
Lead investments 60
Follow on index 0.48
Exits 92
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Frontier Medicines

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$80M22 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Firefly Bio

Biotechnology
Medical
$94M15 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

NextPoint Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Therapeutics
$42M14 Feb 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

AstronauTx

Pharmaceutical
$65M08 Oct 2023 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Deka Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
$20M28 Sep 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

ReCode Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Wellness
$50M19 Sep 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

Arialys Therapeutics

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$58M12 Sep 2023 La Jolla, California, United States

Crossbow Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$80M11 Jul 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

ReNAgade Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Therapeutics
$300M23 May 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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