Novaquest Capital Management

Total investments

16

Average round size

59M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

1.23

Lead investments

4

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Debt
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsMobile DevicesBiopharmaClinical Trials

Summary

Novaquest Capital Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Raleigh.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Novaquest Capital Management is more than 1 billion dollars. This Novaquest Capital Management works on 11 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Roivant Sciences, PreCision Dermatology, Clinical Ink. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Health Care.

We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Novaquest Capital Management, startups are often financed by FCA Venture Partners, Viking Global Investors, SoftBank Investment Advisers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Viking Global Investors, TT Capital Partners, SoftBank Investment Advisers. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Silicon Valley Bank, RTI International, CIBC.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
4
Exits
8
Rounds per year
1.23
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (15)
  • Health Care (10)
  • Pharmaceutical (6)
  • Medical (3)
  • Clinical Trials (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
  • Switzerland (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Sweden (1)
  • Australia (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
485M
Group Appearance index
0.56
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
2.09

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Applied LifeSciences & Systems 25 May 2022 Biotechnology, Aquaculture, Life Science, Innovation Management Late Stage Venture 35M United States, North Carolina

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