NovaQuest

Total investments

10

Average round size

49M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.24

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHospitalMedicalPharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharmaDiabetes

Summary

NovaQuest appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1982. The main department of described VC is located in the Durham. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the NovaQuest, startups are often financed by Vivo Capital, Technology Partners, Essex Woodlands Healthcare Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Roche Venture Fund, Radius Ventures, OrbiMed. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Aisling Capital, Roche Venture Fund, Radius Ventures.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 Arvelle Therapeutics, Artisan Pharma, Sirion Therapeutics. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biopharma, Therapeutics.

Besides them, we counted 11 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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 fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this NovaQuest performs on 7 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
10
Lead investments
1
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.24
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (8)
  • Therapeutics (5)
  • Health Care (5)
  • Pharmaceutical (3)
  • Biopharma (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • New Zealand (1)
Peak activity year
2006
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
212M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
2
Avg. multiplicator
4.02
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Protemix 04 Apr 2007 Medical, Pharmaceutical, Diabetes Early Stage Venture 14M Auckland, New Zealand

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