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Novartis

Founders Alexander Clavel Joerg Reinhardt Johann Rudolf

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Total investments 75
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$76M
Portfolio companies 57
Rounds per year 2.68
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 18
Key employees 46

Areas of investment

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

In 1996 was created Novartis, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Europe in Switzerland. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Basel.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Novartis, startups are often financed by 5AM Ventures, UPMC, Threshold. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MPM Capital, GV, Atlas Venture. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GV, Temasek Holdings, Pontifax AgTech.

This organization was formed by Joerg Reinhardt. The overall number of key employees were 44.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Novartis works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

For fund there is no 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 Proteus Digital Health, Cota Healthcare, Caribou Biosciences. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Therapeutics. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Northern Yiheng

Advanced Materials
Manufacturing
25 Sep 2023 Daxing, Beijing, China

Octave Bioscience

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$32M26 Jul 2023 California, United States

RxLightning

Information Services
Information Technology
Productivity Tools
Software
$17M06 Jun 2023 Indiana, United States

YUWEITEK

Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
10 Apr 2023 Hefei, Anhui, China

Flare Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$123M22 Mar 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Holmusk

Analytics
Biotechnology
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Health Care
mHealth
Personal Health
Wellness
$45M09 Jan 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Orionis Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$55M19 Oct 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Aktis Oncology

Biotechnology
Life Science
$84M25 Aug 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cleerly

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Education
Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$223M25 Jul 2022 New York, New York, United States
News
Flywheel Raises $22M in Series C Funding

– Flywheel announces a $22m Series C funding round.
– The round was led by 8VC and includes iSelect, Argonautic Ventures, Beringea, Novartis, HPE Pathfinder, Spike Ventures, Key Investments, Seraph, Great North Labs and others.
– Flywheel’s cloud-based data management platform enables researchers to accelerate discovery through streamlined data curation and management, automated pipelines for machine learning and analysis, and tools to ensure secure collaboration.
– With Flywheel’s platform in place, researchers across academic, clinical and life sciences organizations can transform productivity and accelerate innovation in imaging research, multicenter studies, AI development and clinical trials.

Aktis Oncology Announces $72M Series A Financing To Advance Breakthrough Radiopharmaceuticals To Treat Solid Tumors

– Aktis Oncology completed a $72m Series A financing.
– The round was led by MPM Capital, EcoR1 Capital and Vida Ventures, with participation from Octagon Capital, TCG Crossover, Novartis and Bristol Myers Squibb.
– Aktis Oncology is developing novel alpha radiotherapies to improve upon the efficacy of conventional solid tumor therapies, while limiting toxicity.
– The company has developed proprietary platforms to discover best-in-class tumor targeting agents designed with optimal pharmacology for delivering alpha radiotherapy.
– Aktis Oncology targeting agents are highly tumor penetrant but clear from other areas of the body quickly, to maximize tumor elimination while minimizing potential side effects of treatment.

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Total investments 75
Average round size 76M
Rounds per year 2.68
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 18
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Northern Yiheng

Advanced Materials
Manufacturing
25 Sep 2023 Daxing, Beijing, China

Octave Bioscience

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$32M26 Jul 2023 California, United States

RxLightning

Information Services
Information Technology
Productivity Tools
Software
$17M06 Jun 2023 Indiana, United States

YUWEITEK

Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
10 Apr 2023 Hefei, Anhui, China

Flare Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$123M22 Mar 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Holmusk

Analytics
Biotechnology
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Health Care
mHealth
Personal Health
Wellness
$45M09 Jan 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Orionis Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$55M19 Oct 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Aktis Oncology

Biotechnology
Life Science
$84M25 Aug 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cleerly

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Education
Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$223M25 Jul 2022 New York, New York, United States
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