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Nextech Invest

Founders Alfred Scheidegger

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Total investments 93
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$92M
Portfolio companies 59
Rounds per year 3.58
Lead investments 19
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 29
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

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

Nextech Invest appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Switzerland. The main department of described VC is located in the Zu00fcrich.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Nextech Invest, startups are often financed by Third Rock Ventures, OrbiMed, 5AM Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OrbiMed, Casdin Capital, The Column Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Future Capital, Wellington Management, The Column Group.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Vividion Therapeutics, TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals, Kura Oncology Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Clinical Trials, Medical Device. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Comparing to the other companies, this Nextech Invest performs on 35 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Alpha9 Theranostics

Biotechnology
Medical
Product Research
23 Oct 2024 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Idrx

Biotechnology
Life Science
Product Research
$120M07 Aug 2024 -

Scorpion Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$150M16 Jul 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Delphia Therapeutics

$67M02 May 2024 -

Alterome Therapeutics

Biopharma
Pharmaceutical
$132M03 Apr 2024 San Diego, California, United States

Tubulis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$151M14 Mar 2024 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Esker Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$259M06 Mar 2024 -

ProfoundBio

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$112M13 Feb 2024 Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Synnovation Therapeutics

Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$102M14 Dec 2023 Wilmington, Delaware, United States
News
Hexagon Bio Raises $61 Million to Advance Novel Small-Molecule Medicines Mined from Microbial Genomes

– Hexagon Bio, a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery of medicines encoded in the global metagenome, announced that it has raised $61 million to fuel the continued development of its platform to design and develop new therapeutics mined from microbial genomes.
Nextech Invest led the financing, with participation from new investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2* and Casdin Capital, as well as existing investors The Column Group, 8VC, and Two Sigma Ventures.
– Hexagon’s interdisciplinary platform combines technological advances and proprietary insights across machine learning, genomics, synthetic biology and automation to systematically discover new chemical compounds linked to known protein targets.
– Hexagon has built a database of microbial genomes that is more than twice the size of all public databases and is adding thousands of additional genomes per month.

Atavistik Bio Announces $60 Million Series A Financing to Advance Genetically-Validated Targets in Metabolic Diseases and Cancer

– Atavistik Bio, a pre-clinical biotechnology company pioneering the identification of metabolite-protein interactions that have the potential to lead to the discovery and development of first-in-class drug candidates powered by distinct allosteric control mechanisms, announced that the closing of a $60 million Series A financing round.
– The financing was led by The Column Group and joined by Lux Capital, and Nextech Invest.
– The new financing will support development of Atavistik’s drug discovery platform, and future identification of select drug candidates based on deep knowledge of disease relevant pathways that have evolved over millions of years by nature to be allosterically regulated by metabolites.

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Total investments 93
Average round size 92M
Rounds per year 3.58
Peak activity year 2024
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 29
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Alpha9 Theranostics

Biotechnology
Medical
Product Research
23 Oct 2024 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Idrx

Biotechnology
Life Science
Product Research
$120M07 Aug 2024 -

Scorpion Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$150M16 Jul 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Delphia Therapeutics

$67M02 May 2024 -

Alterome Therapeutics

Biopharma
Pharmaceutical
$132M03 Apr 2024 San Diego, California, United States

Tubulis

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$151M14 Mar 2024 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Esker Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Life Science
$259M06 Mar 2024 -

ProfoundBio

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$112M13 Feb 2024 Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Synnovation Therapeutics

Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$102M14 Dec 2023 Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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